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An orange background with the DEV profile handle “@annaspies”. A speech bubble from their profile picture features the blog title “On Facing Extinction (Again)” and quote: “I'm facing the dilemma of being in yet another industry facing extinction. My fear is that just like with journalism, it will be to the detriment of society as a whole.”.
A purple background with the DEV profile handle “@mikesol”. A speech bubble from their profile picture features the blog title “How I replaced my staging environment with MCP” and quote: “Building software is messy, people make choices that don't fit neatly into a single coherent stack, and even the projects that tried to have per-PR ephemeral environments hit rough corners that made these previews tough to use and maintain.”.
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A blue background with the DEV profile handle “@copyleftdev”. A speech bubble from their profile picture features the blog title “The Most Underrated Tool in Your Dev Toolbox: Pre-Commit Hooks (Yes, That 20-Year-Old Git Feature)” and quote: “We're all sleeping on pre-commit hooks because they're old, boring, and don't have a SaaS dashboard with pretty graphs. But they work. They've always worked.”.
A green background with the DEV profile handle “@aragossa”. A speech bubble from their profile picture features the blog title “The "Spinner of Death": Why Localhost Latency is Lying to You” and quote: “Stop trusting Localhost. It hides your worst bugs.”.
A red background with the DEV profile handle “@maame-codes”. A speech bubble from their profile picture features the blog title “5 Terminal Commands That Saved Me Hours of Clicking” and quote: “Getting comfortable with these basics changed my relationship with my computer. I stopped feeling like a "user" navigating a system someone else built, and started feeling like an "engineer" controlling the system directly.”.
A blue background with the DEV profile handle “@adiatiayu”. A speech bubble from their profile picture features the blog title “Open Source Engagement: What's Working Now?” and quote: “I’ve been wondering, why are contributors fading away, and what strategies can we use to keep contributors coming back for the long run?”.
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DEV Challenges. Xano AI-Powered Backend Challenge. Three-thousand dollars in prizes! November 26 through December 14.
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DEV Challenges. Google and Kaggle AI Agents Intensive Course Writing Challenge. Registration Open. Starts November 10.
DEV Challenges. AI Challenge for Cross-Platform Apps with Uno Platform. Three thousand dollars in prizes. November nineteenth through December seventh.
A green background with the DEV profile handle “@dannwaneri”. A speech bubble from their profile picture features the blog title “I Built an AI Chatbot Wrong (And What I Learned About Cloudflare's AI Search)” and quote: “I spent 4 hours building a sophisticated RAG system when a 15-minute AI Search implementation would have worked perfectly. The client got what he needed, but I could have saved both of us time and money.”.
A blue background with the DEV profile handle “@techgirl1908”. A speech bubble from their profile picture features the blog title “How I Taught GitHub Copilot Code Review to Think Like a Maintainer” and quote: “Here's what I know from helping engineers work with AI: you don’t throw in the towel. You don’t disable. You tune.”.
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A green background with the DEV profile handle “@blackgirlbytes”. A speech bubble from their profile picture features the blog title “How to Successfully Migrate Your App with an AI Agent” and quote: “I shared my messy, tedious conversation with goose (using Claude Sonnet 4.5) so that readers can confidently ditch one-shot prompts for complex tasks and work incrementally with agents. ”.
A purple background with the DEV profile handle “@wizsebastian”. A speech bubble from their profile picture features the blog title “How I Automated the Transcription of 91 Instagram (screenshots) Poems Using Python + LLM Vision (Real Case Study)” and quote: “Sometimes the best use of your skills is saving a friend from manually typing 91 poems.”.
A red background with the DEV profile handle “@bassrehab”. A speech bubble from their profile picture features the blog title “We Need a Consent Layer for AI (And I'm Trying to Build One)” and quote: “This post is basically an RFC. I want your feedback. I want you to poke holes in it. And if you think it's useful, I want your help building it”.
A blue background with the DEV profile handle “@varshithvhegde”. A speech bubble from their profile picture features the blog title “Unit Tests: The Greatest Lie We Tell Ourselves?” and quote: “Here's the controversial take that'll get me ratio'd on Twitter: Unit tests are absolutely necessary, but they're not a silver bullet. They're more like a bulletproof vest that only covers your torso”.
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A blue background with the DEV profile handle “@madsendev”. A speech bubble from their profile picture features the blog title “I use AI when I code. And sometimes it makes me feel like I’m cheating.” and quote: “I used to believe that the value of programming was in how hard it was. That the more I struggled, the more it “counted.” That if something came easily, it didn’t mean anything”.
A green background with the DEV profile handle “@asafaeirad”. A speech bubble from their profile picture features the blog title “Why CSS Is So Hard for Generative AIs to Understand?” and quote: “By design, it's impossible to look at a single part of a CSS file and predict exactly what you'll see in the browser.”
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A red background with the DEV profile handle “@sylwia-lask”. A speech bubble from their profile picture features the blog title “jQuery Will Outlive Half of Today’s JavaScript Frameworks - Here's Why” and quote: “fixing the past is way more expensive than building the future.”.
A purple background with the DEV profile handle “@bibimbop123”. A speech bubble from their profile picture features the blog title “We think we’re building connection. But maybe we’re just engineering loneliness.” and quote: “Most products aren’t intentionally designed to make people lonelier. But algorithms don’t have morality — they have metrics.”.
A green background with the DEV profile handle “@alexiskroberson”. A speech bubble from their profile picture features the blog title “From DevOps to Developer Advocacy: Finding My Path in the Age of AI ” and quote: “For me, DevRel was the perfect marriage of my computer science background and my original desire to study English. I could code and communicate. I could build and teach.”.
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A red background with the DEV profile handle @samuelfaure. A speech bubble from their profile picture features the blog title “The AI development trap that wastes your time” and quote: “The real productivity gains of AI come from cognitive load reduction: because you are using your brain less, you can do much more during your day of work. But this is a delicate balance. How much thinking should you really be doing?”.
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