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Jem for The DEV Team

Sep 23

Join the Kaggle Benchmarking Challenge: $2,500 in Prizes for FIVE Winners!

#devchallenge #kagglechallenge #machinelearning #ai

4 min read

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Character traits revealed through coffee choices

xulingfeng

Oct 10

What Do You Drink While You Work?

#discuss #career #programming #webdev

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2 min read

Balancing strict LLM constraints with raw PR text

nyaomaru

Oct 10

How Do We Extract the “Why” from a PR into a CHANGELOG with Jev? 🤔

#opensource #githubactions #ai #typescript

6 min read

Relatable tech humor and shared grievances

Sylwia Laskowska

Oct 8

Every Software Developer Has Blamed…

#discuss

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4 min read

S M Tahosin

Oct 10

Git Isn't a Diff Tracker: How Blobs, Trees, DAG Commits, and the Index Actually Work Under the Hood

#git #programming #devops #webdev

11 min read

Readers share hackathon plans and career debates

Hemapriya Kanagala for The DEVengers

Oct 9

Dev Opportunity Radar #20: $2M AI Reasoning Challenge, PayPal AI Hackathon, and Coinbase Analytics Challenge

#discuss #community #resources #opportunities

10 min read

External state files prevent token loss

Randal L. Schwartz for Google Developer Experts

Oct 10

Surviving the 200k-Token Lobotomy: How Unix init.d and 'Memento' Made My AI Coding Agent Immune to Context Compaction

#ai #programming #architecture #unix

15 min read

Sam LABBE

Oct 10

A hash chain proves the ordering. Four attacks prove it's not enough.

#ai #security #python #testing

7 min read

AI speed exposes bad architectural habits

NorthernDev

Oct 9

AI Got Better While I Was Away. Software Didn't.

#ai #programming #webdev #softwareengineering

4 min read

Kaggle Benchmarking Challenge Submission

Sarvar Nadaf

Oct 10

AI agent benchmark: I gave 9 models a destroy button and a job that needed it

#devchallenge #kagglechallenge #ai #machinelearning

11 min read

Kaggle Benchmarking Challenge Submission

vigneshwar

Oct 10

12 of 13 AI models knew the new name and still wrote the old one

#devchallenge #kagglechallenge #ai #machinelearning

11 min read

Benchmarking reveals a 19x performance cost

Alex Georgiev

Oct 10

Node.js 26's default Temporal API fixes a one-hour DST drift that Date still has

#node #javascript #performance #webdev

7 min read

Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 1: Touch Grass Submission 🌿

Alex Georgiev

Oct 10

RevSofia, a Car Meetup app that people will love to use

#devchallenge #hf26challenge #ai #opensource

7 min read

Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 1: Touch Grass Submission 🌿

Soumyadeep Dey

Oct 10

I Distilled a 397B Model Into a 4B One for $1.60. It Now Catches 28 of 33 Park Alerts That Should Stop Your Hike.

#devchallenge #hf26challenge #ai #opensource

19 min read

Reframe boredom as productive mental space

James Anderson

Oct 7

I Think We're Forgetting How to Be Bored

#discuss #mentalhealth #productivity #ai

7 min read

Nikoloz Turazashvili (@axrisi)

Oct 10

I wanted to read more of DEV.to. So I built it into my New Tab

#showdev #google #ai #webdev

4 min read

Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 1: Touch Grass Submission 🌿

Souvik Biswas

Oct 10

Leaf Peep: an open model reads the trees, so you know where to walk this weekend

#devchallenge #hf26challenge #gemma #digitalocean

7 min read

Remdore

Oct 10

Temporal finished my workflow exactly once and ran its first step four times

#python #distributedsystems #devops #backend

8 min read

Navigating the notoriously strict compiler

Mo-Ibra

Oct 10

Why Learn Rust in 2026? A Developer's Guide

#rust #programming #productivity #career

7 min read