Welcome to this week's Top 7, where the DEV editorial team handpicks their favorite posts from the previous week (Saturday-Friday).
Congrats to all the authors that made it onto the list 👏
@kimmaida walks us through building a live raffle agent for RSAC 2026 with real IAM authentication, policy enforcement, and human-in-the-loop approvals. It gets interesting when she puts the system to the test by attempting to rig the raffle, revealing exactly how their governance model holds the line.
@phalkmin challenges us to reconsider the everyday design decisions we make as developers, arguing that exclusion is often less about malice and more about not thinking broadly enough. From a "Plus Size" navigation category to form fields that reject accented names, the post makes a compelling case for building inclusion into the architecture from day one.
@snewhouse shares the personal account of building AA-MA Forge — an advanced memory architecture for AI coding agents — born out of the very real frustration of living with MS and having to re-explain context every session. The result is a structured five-file system with milestone gates, adversarial plan verification, and compaction hooks that keeps agents on track across sessions.
@thegdsks introduces profClaw, an open-source AI agent runtime that runs entirely on your own hardware with support for 35 AI providers, 72 built-in tools, and 22 chat platforms. The post makes a strong case for self-hosted agent infrastructure as a meaningful alternative to cloud-only tools for teams with privacy or compliance constraints.
@vivek-aws documents the painful journey of making AWS's new S3 Files service mountable on macOS (a platform it was never designed to support) surviving five kernel panics, three "access denied" errors, and a proxy crash loop along the way. The post delivers a working two-command solution using Docker, efs-proxy, an NLB, and WebDAV, along with benchmarks showing WebDAV is up to 54x faster than SMB on macOS.
@maria_from_mlh makes a refreshingly grounded case for AI-powered "vibe coding" by sharing how Google AI Studio helped build a custom FFXIV bingo app for a 48-person gaming group in less than three hours for under a dollar. The post frames AI not as a replacement for expert developers, but as a way to make small, joyful, hyper-specific tools possible for people who otherwise wouldn't have built them at all.
@hubedav opens up about the reality of job hunting as a brain cancer survivor in a market that keeps demanding in-office work without engaging in the ADA accommodation process. It's a candid post that serves as a reminder that the systems we build, and the workplaces behind them, have very real human consequences.
And that's a wrap for this week's Top 7 roundup! 🎬 We hope you enjoyed this eclectic mix of insights, stories, and tips from our talented authors. Keep coding, keep learning, and stay tuned to DEV for more captivating content and make sure you’re opted in to our Weekly Newsletter 📩 for all the best articles, discussions, and updates.
