DEV Community - Top posts this week

Automate the chore you keep putting off.

Group chat summaries, inbox tidiers, fridge-to-grocery-list tools. Build it with open-weight models and you could win.

Jem for The DEV Team

Oct 19

Join the Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge: Slow and Steady! $2,850 in Prizes Across 21 Winners.

#devchallenge #hf26challenge #hacktoberfest #productivity

7 min read

Cover image for How to Become a Tech Conference Speaker (And Why You Might Regret It)

Real experiences from recent events like JS Poland

Sylwia Laskowska

Oct 21

How to Become a Tech Conference Speaker (And Why You Might Regret It)

#techtalks #career #speaking

188

11 min read

Over 10 hours of reading behind it

Giorgi Kobaidze

Oct 18

Promise Delivered: Welcome to the DEV Hall of Fame (65 Authors, 65 Masterpieces)

#discuss #community #showdev #writing

224

122

25 min read

Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 3: Slow and Steady Submission 🦥

Paul Horton

Oct 21

I Got Tired of Coming Into My Lab To Check the Pressure of My Cryocooler so I Built a Tool To Do It for Me

#devchallenge #hf26challenge #tigerdata #githubcopilot

5 min read

Harness Engineering 101 resource stands out

Hemapriya Kanagala for The DEVengers

Oct 23

Dev Opportunity Radar #22: $50K Basis Fellowship, Perplexity AI Research Fellowship, and FC Barcelona Analytics Hackathon

#discuss #community #opportunities #resources

11 min read

Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 3: Slow and Steady Submission 🦥

Thomas Bonnet

Oct 21

Stuck in the same dev.to topics? An open model fixed it.

#devchallenge #hf26challenge #ai #javascript

7 min read

Readers debate using AI as a communication shield

Adam - The Developer ✨

Oct 22

Don't Be a Proxy Between Me and Your AI

#discuss #ai #career #programming

7 min read

Heartwarming community pet photo thread

Hemapriya Kanagala

Oct 18

🐾 DEV Pet Corner #2: Show Us Your Pets!

#discuss #community #watercooler #pets

3 min read

Covers new APIs, Effect edge cases, and OSS usage

nyaomaru

Oct 21

is-kit Reached 100 Stars ⭐🎉 Here’s What Changed Since 50

#typescript #opensource #webdev #frontend

104

7 min read

Includes a Python script and curl examples

Julie

Oct 21

How to publish posts via the dev.to API

#python #automation #beginners #productivity

4 min read

Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 2: Side Hustle Submission 💸

Daniel Balcarek

Oct 18

Fine-Tuning Qwen3-8B with Tinker: From 50% to 76% Accuracy, and Burning Through My Budget

#devchallenge #hf26challenge #ai #machinelearning

10 min read

Comments compare coding to cooking and running

James Anderson

Oct 20

Somewhere, Coding Stopped Being Allowed to Be Fun

#discuss #career #ai #mentalhealth

103

6 min read

S M Tahosin

Oct 21

In Ruby, Objects Don't Have Methods. How Method Lookup Actually Works.

#ruby #programming #webdev #oop

7 min read

Code review is the new bottleneck

Harsh

Oct 21

AI Made Coding Cheaper. So Why Is Building Software Still So Expensive?

#ai #productivity #career #programming

4 min read

Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 2: Side Hustle Submission 💸

Daniel Nwaneri

Oct 19

Bank alerts to a day-book, with a local Gemma

#devchallenge #hf26challenge #gemma #opensource

6 min read

Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 3: Slow and Steady Submission 🦥

Dhruv Jani

Oct 21

I Built slothd: A Local-First, Offline-Capable AI Daemon That Patiently Organizes Your Messy Workspace

#devchallenge #hf26challenge #opensource #gemma

14 min read

Sanidhya Goel

Oct 23

5 Steps on How to not loose at a hackathon?

#ai #programming #majorleaguehacking #hackathon

6 min read

S M Tahosin

Oct 19

"Rails Magic" Isn't Magic. How a Request Actually Travels Through Rails.

#rails #ruby #webdev #architecture

10 min read

Includes tag filters and offline caching details

Jessica Doering

Oct 18

I Built a New Tab Extension for DEV

#showdev #webdev #opensource #javascript

4 min read