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

Giorgi Kobaidze5d ago • 25 min read

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...

#community#discuss#showdev#writing

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Jessica Doering5d ago • 4 min read

I Built a New Tab Extension for DEV

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

#showdev#webdev#opensource#javascript

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Building an Open-Source Support Tool That Turns Your Docs into Reusable Knowledge

Nathan Tarbert3d ago • 7 min read

Building an Open-Source Support Tool That Turns Your Docs into Reusable Knowledge

I spend a good part of my day working with the community at CopilotKit, answering questions in...

#ai#webdev#programming#showdev

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leoOct 16, 2026 • 5 min read

I Built Graffitizer — A Free Browser-Based Graffiti Lettering Studio with SVG & Transparent PNG Export (No AI, No Signup)

If you have ever tried to create custom street-art lettering or a stylized wordmark for a poster,...

#webdev#showdev

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Ledger Room: I built a local invoice sorter, then measured exactly what the privacy costs

Talha Tahir4d ago • 13 min read

Ledger Room: I built a local invoice sorter, then measured exactly what the privacy costs

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

#devchallenge#hf26challenge#nextjs#showdev

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Fast account switching in Flutter without a sign-in round trip

Frank Milvus6d ago • 7 min read

Fast account switching in Flutter without a sign-in round trip

How a Flutter messenger remembers accounts on-device, switches sessions in one tap, and keeps each a...

#flutter#dart#showdev#languageexchange

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They Charge Me to Export My Own WhatsApp Contacts. I Shipped a Free Alternative in One Day 🔓

MD. HABIBULLAH SHARIF4d ago • 7 min read

They Charge Me to Export My Own WhatsApp Contacts. I Shipped a Free Alternative in One Day 🔓

Most WhatsApp export extensions stop at 10 to 30 contacts on the free plan. WAVault is free, open so...

#javascript#opensource#showdev#webdev

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#HackAVP CV FORGE, L'USINE A CV BOOSTÉE PAR IA LOCALE

Florian DOUDOUTE3d ago • 10 min read

#HackAVP CV FORGE, L'USINE A CV BOOSTÉE PAR IA LOCALE

HackAVP : CV Forge, l’usine à CV boostée par une IA locale Transformer des CV en profils...

#ai#showdev#hackavp#python

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A tale of a medical aspirant who ended up being an engineer

Rohan Sharma3d ago • 18 min read

A tale of a medical aspirant who ended up being an engineer

Ugh! Another LEGENDARY title from me. Wait, wait, wait. You don't know me, right? Alas. I knew it....

#career#showdev#learning#story

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How I built at-most-once sends for my AI companion's ChatGPT tab: a durable send ledger, and receipts that survive a crash

Krish VermaOct 16, 2026 • 4 min read

How I built at-most-once sends for my AI companion's ChatGPT tab: a durable send ledger, and receipts that survive a crash

How I built at-most-once sends for my AI companion's ChatGPT tab: a durable send ledger, and...

#opensource#ai#showdev#architecture

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I'm 13. I Spent 101 Days Building a Secure Social Network with Node.js 👨🏻‍💻

Seif Ahmed6d ago • 2 min read

I'm 13. I Spent 101 Days Building a Secure Social Network with Node.js 👨🏻‍💻

Hey dev community! 👋🏻 I'm Seif, a software engineer with 4 years of experience who absolutely hat...

#backend#javascript#node#showdev

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I built a React library to generate editable Google Docs with JSX

Janos BreuerOct 16, 2026 • 2 min read

I built a React library to generate editable Google Docs with JSX

I was building a contract-generation system when we reached a point where half the document lived in...

#opensource#react#typescript#showdev

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Peter Vivo5d ago • 62 min read

The Bell of Greystone

Role-Playing Games I must confess, when I was young, I got completely hooked on...

#rollplaygame#showdev#llm#gamedev

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I built a 3D game that shows the exact hop where your AWS design fails. Help me break it.

Vivek Padia2d ago • 3 min read

I built a 3D game that shows the exact hop where your AWS design fails. Help me break it.

Every AWS practice exam I took had the same ending: "Incorrect." Sometimes there was an explanation...

#aws#cloud#showdev#learning

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My AI Agent Leaked a Secret Across Two Sessions. Every Guard Said “Fine.”

Aaditya Rawat4d ago • 12 min read

My AI Agent Leaked a Secret Across Two Sessions. Every Guard Said “Fine.”

How I used FalkorDB's algo.maxFlow to decide whether to block an AI agent's tool call or redact a...

#ai#security#database#showdev

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Your API Gateway Rate Limit Can't See the Agent Looping Your Search Tool

hao li2d ago • 3 min read

Your API Gateway Rate Limit Can't See the Agent Looping Your Search Tool

Your API Gateway Rate Limit Can't See the Agent Looping Your Search Tool Here's the...

#python#showdev#opensource

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I Turned a $50 Pocket Computer Into an Occult Operating System Because Modern Computing Has Lost Its Mind

v. Splicer1d ago • 14 min read

I Turned a $50 Pocket Computer Into an Occult Operating System Because Modern Computing Has Lost Its Mind

16 applications. A Daedric interface. Generative synthesis, wireless reconnaissance, experimental...

#showdev#programming#cardputer#esp32

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Your web app has no public API. Your browser already knows how to talk to it.

날다람쥐1d ago • 3 min read

Your web app has no public API. Your browser already knows how to talk to it.

You want your coding agent to look something up in a web app. The app has a search box and an orders...

#showdev#mcp#ai#typescript

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I Let an LLM Art-Direct Lyric Videos. Then I Took Most of the Job Away.

Dearest1d ago • 7 min read

I Let an LLM Art-Direct Lyric Videos. Then I Took Most of the Job Away.

I've been building LyricVideoGenerator, a tool that takes a song and its lyrics and renders a lyric....

#ai#typescript#webdev#showdev

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TenderLens: Turning WhatsApp & Gemma into an Autonomous Bid Assistant for Contractors

Anthony4d ago • 5 min read

TenderLens: Turning WhatsApp & Gemma into an Autonomous Bid Assistant for Contractors

This article is submitted for the **Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge: Week 2 (Side...

#hf26challenge#opensource#ai#showdev

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Your AI Shipped the App. Did It Leave the Keys in the Repo?

hao li6d ago • 3 min read

Your AI Shipped the App. Did It Leave the Keys in the Repo?

Your AI Shipped the App. Did It Leave the Keys in the Repo? Last month, security firm...

#python#showdev#opensource

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ShellCheck Passed Every File. The Pipeline Was Still Broken.

hao li2d ago • 3 min read

ShellCheck Passed Every File. The Pipeline Was Still Broken.

ShellCheck Passed Every File. The Pipeline Was Still Broken. ShellCheck is great at what...

#python#showdev#opensource

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Every test was green. Then I deployed it.

Onkar Deokate2d ago • 4 min read

Every test was green. Then I deployed it.

For five weeks, ParkEase lived on my laptop. Thousands of unit tests. More than a thousand...

#devops#typescript#testing#showdev

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I put a tiny zoo on my desktop — 8 free desk pets, each with its own focus timer

DeskZooOct 16, 2026 • 2 min read

I put a tiny zoo on my desktop — 8 free desk pets, each with its own focus timer

I got tired of pomodoro timers that feel like spreadsheets, so I built DeskZoo: a tiny zoo that live...

#buildinpublic#productivity#showdev#software

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Tech Articles

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

I Built a New Tab Extension for DEV

Building an Open-Source Support Tool That Turns Your Docs into Reusable Knowledge

I Built Graffitizer — A Free Browser-Based Graffiti Lettering Studio with SVG & Transparent PNG Export (No AI, No Signup)

Ledger Room: I built a local invoice sorter, then measured exactly what the privacy costs

Fast account switching in Flutter without a sign-in round trip

They Charge Me to Export My Own WhatsApp Contacts. I Shipped a Free Alternative in One Day 🔓

#HackAVP CV FORGE, L'USINE A CV BOOSTÉE PAR IA LOCALE

A tale of a medical aspirant who ended up being an engineer

How I built at-most-once sends for my AI companion's ChatGPT tab: a durable send ledger, and receipts that survive a crash

I'm 13. I Spent 101 Days Building a Secure Social Network with Node.js 👨🏻‍💻

I built a React library to generate editable Google Docs with JSX

The Bell of Greystone

I built a 3D game that shows the exact hop where your AWS design fails. Help me break it.

My AI Agent Leaked a Secret Across Two Sessions. Every Guard Said “Fine.”

Your API Gateway Rate Limit Can't See the Agent Looping Your Search Tool

I Turned a $50 Pocket Computer Into an Occult Operating System Because Modern Computing Has Lost Its Mind

Your web app has no public API. Your browser already knows how to talk to it.

I Let an LLM Art-Direct Lyric Videos. Then I Took Most of the Job Away.

TenderLens: Turning WhatsApp & Gemma into an Autonomous Bid Assistant for Contractors

Your AI Shipped the App. Did It Leave the Keys in the Repo?

ShellCheck Passed Every File. The Pipeline Was Still Broken.

Every test was green. Then I deployed it.

I put a tiny zoo on my desktop — 8 free desk pets, each with its own focus timer