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Somewhere, Coding Stopped Being Allowed to Be Fun

Somewhere in the last couple of years, a strange feeling crept in, and I don't think I'm the only one...

dev.to·23h ago▲ 41

Stress-Testing Gemini 4 Argon: Building a 3D Flutter Kart Game in 15 Prompts with Zero Assets

Most AI coding benchmarks test standard web apps or CRUD dashboards. Frontier models can already...

dev.to·1d ago▲ 15

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

A visual, 10-minute deep dive into how Ruby on Rails actually runs under the hood. From Rack middlewares and Zeitwerk autoloading to ActiveRecord schema reflection and the view_assigns bridge.

dev.to·1d ago▲ 20

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

This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 2: Side Hustle ...

dev.to·1d ago▲ 29

The Terminal Made Me a Better Developer (And Not for the Reasons I Expected)

When I first started using the terminal, sure, it was useful. I could navigate around directories,...

dev.to·2d ago▲ 54

I Built a New Tab Extension for DEV

I spend a lot of time on DEV these days. Reading posts, finding interesting projects, participating...

dev.to·2d ago▲ 55

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

TL;DR DEV Pet Corner is back for another Sunday! It's a weekly series where we take a little break...

dev.to·2d ago▲ 82

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

Status: Promise delivered ✅ The Doors Are Open A little over a month ago, I published...

dev.to·2d ago▲ 180

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

This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 2: Side Hustle Oktoberfest?...

dev.to·2d ago▲ 73

10 Prompting Techniques My Deep Learning Exam Taught Me (That I Actually Use Now)

You already use prompting every day. You just don't know the names of what you're doing. Every time...

dev.to·4d ago▲ 78

Dev Opportunity Radar #21: $500K Y Combinator Funding, Bolt Builders Week, and AI Safety Research Residency

TL;DR Welcome back to Dev Opportunity Radar! This is a weekly series where I share opportunities,...

dev.to·4d ago▲ 93

🌑 Blue October

TLDR: A brief summary of how I got here. The Mindset For the last 3 years, I have been...

dev.to·4d ago▲ 26

What was your win this week?!

👋👋👋👋 Looking back on your week -- what was something you're proud of? All wins count -- big or small...

dev.to·4d ago▲ 31

What Are Your Chances of Surviving Resident Evil Based on Your Tech Job?

I recently watched the new Resident Evil movie. 🎬 Watching the main character stumble from one...

dev.to·4d ago▲ 108

What I Actually Learn When I Build With AI

I've spent entire nights building something with AI, gotten a bunch of features working, and then...

dev.to·5d ago▲ 57

Natural Languages Have Design Trade-offs Too: Georgian Is Dynamically Typed, English Is Statically Typed

Table of Contents How This Started Feature #1: Articles (or the Lack of Them) The...

dev.to·5d ago▲ 134

I built a lie detector for AI coding agents. Then I read the rules.

When an AI agent commits a change to code, it makes a claim about what it changed: "fixed typos" or...

dev.to·5d ago▲ 37