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Hacktoberfest Week 3: Slow and Steady is live! 🦥 🐢 Build something with open-source AI that rewards laziness 🐢 $2,850 in prizes across 21 winners 🐢 Submissions due Oct 25 Join today: dev.to/devteam/join...

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Squishy LAB dev.to/danielecangi... @dev.to #interactve-playground #webgl #hf26challenge # devchallenge #squishy @jellycubes.bsky.social

My article on Node.js request cancellation has been featured in @dev.to Top 7 Featured Posts of the Week. Thank you to the DEV team and everyone who read and joined the discussion. I really appreciate it. ❤️ dev.to/devteam/top-...

In Llama Village, Pip's red scarf is missing and Mo knows how it got there. This dev uses EmbeddingGemma through llamadart to show what local embeddings can and cannot tell a game about who revealed a secret. { author: @leehack.com } dev.to/gde/local-em...

Discord now lets sites replace the default Open Graph link card with a custom preview featuring formatted text, an image gallery, and buttons. This dev tested it on a live blog and shares the setup, limits, and pitfalls. { author: @thomasbnt.dev } dev.to/thomasbnt/in...

Hacktoberfest Week 2: Side Hustle is live! 🟣 Build something someone would actually pay for 🟣 Tell us why open-source and open-models matter for the project 🟣 $2,550 in prizes across 18 winners dev.to/devteam/join...

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A 62-year-old dev with almost 30 years in the field says Claude handles about half the workload. This dev has Kiro rebuild Winamp, then weighs where taste and deep stack knowledge still matter in frontend work. { author: @erikch.bsky.social } dev.to/erikch/are-f...

A $10 vintage train case, an Arduino UNO Q, and a local Gemma LLM. This dev builds an offline field journal that identifies birdsong with Edge Impulse, syncs to GitHub PRs, and gets vintage sketches from Cloudinary. { author: @jenlooper.com } dev.to/cloudinary/b...

This week's Hacktoberfest Open Source AI Challenge is live! Time to Touch Grass 🌿 🟢 Build something with open-weight models or open-source AI at its core 🟢 Get people off the screen and into the world 🟢 $2,450 in prizes across 17 winners dev.to/devteam/join...

3 days left in the @sanity.io Challenge. ⚫ Build an agent on a Sanity Context Knowledge Base ⚫ Or prompt your way to a working app ⚫ 5 winners take $500 each Submit by Sunday! dev.to/devteam/join...

$2,500 in prizes up for grabs! The Sanity Challenge on @dev.to is live through Oct 4. We can't wait to see what you build! dev.to/challenges/s...

Meldr once offered one keystroke from an approved brief to a full draft. This dev deleted that button and rebuilt the tool around research, review and claim checks, so the author still does the writing. { author: @mikachu97.bsky.social } dev.to/mikachu/how-...

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Join the Hacktoberfest Weekend Challenge! 🎃 Build with open-source AI at the core 🎃 This weekend's theme: Build for a Friend 🎃 17 cash prize winners Submissions due Oct 5! dev.to/devteam/join...

A new era of Hacktoberfest starts tomorrow! Join us for the livestream where we’ll share what’s new, how to take part in a Fest or online all month, and how to start collecting stickers. Tune in at dev.to

Hacktoberfest starts this week and there are 60+ events happening across the globe. Find yours and register today: hacktoberfest.com/fests/

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Join the Kaggle Benchmarking Challenge! 🔵 Build a benchmark on Kaggle 🔵 Run it against the models you care about 🔵 $2,500 prize pool across 5 winners dev.to/devteam/join...

Two new Gemini models built for voice first apps: 3.8 Live for real time conversational reasoning, and 3.5 Transcribe for streaming speech to text across 85+ languages. This dev covers deploying both. { author: @thorweb.dev } dev.to/googleai/bui...

Sanity has some fun new features and we'd love to see you build with them. Build an agent with a Knowledge Base, or vibe-code something cool. Sanity Challenge on @dev.to, live through Oct 4. $2,500 in prizes. We want to see your most creative build! dev.to/challenges/s...

Join the Sanity Challenge! 🔴 Build an AI agent on structured content 🔴 Or vibe-code an app with Sanity behind it 🔴 $2,500 across 5 winners dev.to/devteam/join... ❤️ @sanity.io

Google Play's rules for sensitive permissions like contacts and calendar access are getting stricter, squeezing small apps. This dev breaks down dangerous vs sensitive permissions using a real calendar app as case study. { author: @tkuenneth.dev } dev.to/tkuenneth/de...

Congrats to the winners of our Frontend Challenge: Comfort Food Edition!! We had so many awesome submissions. Here a few of the highlights. 🥘 Can you guess which ones were the winners? See who here: dev.to/devteam/cong...

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Dangerous on the device. Sensitive in the store. Just published on @dev.to: Call Log, Contacts, then who may ship at all. Sensitive permissions were never only a Play Console form. They are a stress test for whether we use Android, or merely rent it. dev.to/tkuenneth/de...

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Our Weekend Challenge: Generosity Edition is live! 🟣 Build something in the spirit of generosity 🟣 $1,000 across FIVE winners 🟣 4 different ways to win Submissions due Sept 7 at 6:59 AM UTC dev.to/devteam/join...

Rakudo's next release (2026.09) makes the new RakuAST backend the default for compiling Raku code, with the old backend still around for now. Macros are cut in 6.e, and slang authors have testing ahead. { author: Elizabeth Mattijsen } dev.to/lizmat/mains...

Germany runs on paper invoices, and typing an IBAN twice to be sure gets old. This dev pointed Codex at the EPC QR standard, wrapped qrencode in Go, then paid a real bill with it. The TUI looks like a 90s post office. { author: Viorel PETCU } dev.to/realvorl/so-...

150,000 tickets for The Odyssey in 70mm IMAX sold out almost instantly. This dev talks to the builder of a service watching every US showing: durable execution, debounced alerts, serverless workers on Cloud Run. { author: @annthurium.bsky.social } dev.to/googleai/bui...

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Same 2021 article, same detector, a year apart: 97% AI, then 8.6%. This dev separates Anthropic's watermark from third-party detectors from platform badges, and argues the real question is who thought it through. { author: Pascal CESCATO } dev.to/pascal_cesca...

We're hiring MLH Coaches! We think being an MLH Coach is an awesome opportunity, but don't just take it from us — watch our current Coaches share what it's like to mentor hackers and support organizers at hackathons worldwide. Apply now: careers.mlh.io/o/coach-even...

The DEV Weekend Challenge: Dog Days Edition is live! 🐕 Build something for, about, or inspired by dogs 🦴 $1,000 prize pool across five winners 🐾 Submissions due Aug 17 at 6:59 AM UTC dev.to/devteam/join...

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Nvidia, Anthropic, DeepMind and Meta published very different answers to who gets to run powerful models. This dev reads the manifestos past open versus closed, then scales the question down to your own agents. { author: @@reidmarlow.com } dev.to/reidmarlow/o...

Not a password hiding behind your fingerprint. The private key never leaves the secure chip, and only a signature crosses the network. Phishing fails by design rather than by luck. { author: @thomasbnt.dev } dev.to/thomasbnt/pa...

15,000 GitHub stars in, the hard part became keeping quality consistent as teams piled in. Linters, link checks and weekly evals hold the bar. { author: @rsamborski.bsky.social } dev.to/googleai/beh...

Attending @renderatl.com next week? We're hosting Hack RenderATL: build projects that benefit your community, flex your skills with Atlanta Open Data, win prizes, and get hands-on support from tech mentors. Wednesday the 12th at 11:30 AM luma.com/RenderATLHack

What a token actually is, how retrieval-augmented generation fits in, why context windows keep growing, and whether burning more tokens really means more productivity. Spoiler on that last one: no. { author: @annthurium.bsky.social } dev.to/googleai/ai-...

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DevRelCon NYC starts tomorrow! Let us give you a tour of the wonderfully eclectic space at Industry City in Brooklyn. We can’t wait to see you tomorrow. 🌇

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Meet Hear2Help: A hackathon project giving a voice to the deaf, non-verbal, and anyone in crisis. Triple-tap to trigger SOS, get real-time AI speech via ElevenLabs, and instantly find nearby help. Check out the build: devpost.com/software/hea...