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Dev log #7 Reviving DevNotion: 10,000 Lines, Multi-LLM Support, and the Road to v2.1

Yash Kumar Saini1d ago • 4 min read

Dev log #7 Reviving DevNotion: 10,000 Lines, Multi-LLM Support, and the Road to v2.1

Spent the week breathing new life into DevNotion—59 commits and over 10,000 lines of code later,...

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Building Margin: A Privacy-First News Reader Inside Chrome's Side Panel

Mohan3d ago • 4 min read

Building Margin: A Privacy-First News Reader Inside Chrome's Side Panel

I built a Chrome extension called Margin — a news reader that lives in the browser's side panel and....

#chromeextension#webdev#javascript#showdev

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I Shipped a Strict-Source RAG System to Production in 8 Weeks: A Full-Stack Engineering Retrospective

James LeeJun 18, 2026 • 4 min read

I Shipped a Strict-Source RAG System to Production in 8 Weeks: A Full-Stack Engineering Retrospective

This is a story about "getting RAG right" — not a demo, but a production system under real business....

#ai#rag#showdev#softwareengineering

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Why I'm betting on AI-curated directories when Google AI Overviews answer the same queries

MORINAGA5d ago • 6 min read

Why I'm betting on AI-curated directories when Google AI Overviews answer the same queries

The core counterargument to my three directory sites is Google's own AI Overviews. Here's the falsif...

#ai#indiehackers#webdev#showdev

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From Supabase-only to production Go: Month 1 of rebuilding Info Links

Mohamad Obeid5d ago • 5 min read

From Supabase-only to production Go: Month 1 of rebuilding Info Links

Two months ago I wrote about building Info Links — a free course resource platform for students at L...

#go#webdev#career#showdev

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Alvaro Montoro1d ago • 2 min read

10 Cool CodePen Demos (May 2026)

A collection of 10 cool and exciting front-end demos shared on CodePen during May 2026

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39 stars, my first open source contributor, and a message I keep re-reading

Mathéo Delbarre3d ago • 5 min read

39 stars, my first open source contributor, and a message I keep re-reading

A few weeks ago I published this article about ZamSync, a sync engine I built in Rust for district.....

#rust#opensource#showdev#beginners

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I built a free IDE extension to catch malicious npm packages before they wreck your project

jomynnJun 18, 2026 • 2 min read

I built a free IDE extension to catch malicious npm packages before they wreck your project

Supply-chain attacks via npm are up year-over-year — packages like event-stream, the Lazarus group....

#javascript#node#security#showdev

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Replacing Electron with .NET 10: Writing a zero-latency, SIMD-accelerated IDE

Ian Cowley4d ago • 4 min read

Replacing Electron with .NET 10: Writing a zero-latency, SIMD-accelerated IDE

Modern development tools have normalized lag. As an industry, we’ve somehow accepted that opening a....

#csharp#dotnet#performance#showdev

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I built an image compressor that hits an exact KB size — and never uploads your files

Talha AsjadJun 17, 2026 • 4 min read

I built an image compressor that hits an exact KB size — and never uploads your files

TL;DR: Online forms demand images under a hard limit — "signature under 20 KB," "photo under 50 KB."...

#webdev#javascript#privacy#showdev

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🚀 Hermes Agent Just Released a Desktop App And It Changes Everything About Using AI Agents

Vivek Shetye6d ago • 4 min read

🚀 Hermes Agent Just Released a Desktop App And It Changes Everything About Using AI Agents

For the last year, AI agents have been getting more powerful. The problem? Most of them still felt...

#ai#hermesagent#showdev#automation

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I built a Homebrew for AI skills: install flow and eval harness inside

Sulthon Zainul HabibJun 18, 2026 • 8 min read

I built a Homebrew for AI skills: install flow and eval harness inside

SkillForge is a local-first OSS tool that turns a plain-English engineering need into installable SK...

#showdev#opensource#ai#llm

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Routing around Google Maps in Korea: Naver & Kakao deep links, weird coordinates, and iOS clipboard

PiyakJun 18, 2026 • 4 min read

Routing around Google Maps in Korea: Naver & Kakao deep links, weird coordinates, and iOS clipboard

If you've traveled to Korea, you've hit this wall: Google Maps can't give you walking or transit...

#webdev#showdev#javascript

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Why we rebuilt the Web Desktop as a modular Nuxt framework

dxjs2d ago • 3 min read

Why we rebuilt the Web Desktop as a modular Nuxt framework

Most "web desktop" or "portfolio OS" projects on GitHub are structured as templates. They look great...

#opensource#javascript#webdev#showdev

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Show dev: I built an AI agent workstation in Nairobi for DeepSeek, Qwen, Kimi & MiniMax

Amariah Kamau6d ago • 2 min read

Show dev: I built an AI agent workstation in Nairobi for DeepSeek, Qwen, Kimi & MiniMax

What I built Atlarix — a ~400MB AI agent workstation that sits beside your IDE (VS Code,...

#ai#machinelearning#opensource#showdev

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RecursiveMAS Playground: Browser-Native Implementation of Recursive Multi-Agent Systems

vishalmysore1d ago • 12 min read

RecursiveMAS Playground: Browser-Native Implementation of Recursive Multi-Agent Systems

Implementation of RecursiveMAS Playground, a browser-based interactive demonstration of the Recursiv...

#agents#javascript#llm#showdev

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pdo_duckdb: DuckDB for PHP, Behind the PDO API You Already Know

Ilia Alshanetsky5d ago • 7 min read

pdo_duckdb: DuckDB for PHP, Behind the PDO API You Already Know

DuckDB is the closest thing the analytics world has to SQLite. It runs in-process, needs no server,....

#php#duckdb#opensource#showdev

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I published pip install ajah-sdk and npm install ajah-sdk — here's what they do

Vignesh Reddy6d ago • 2 min read

I published pip install ajah-sdk and npm install ajah-sdk — here's what they do

After two weeks of building Ajah — an open-source self-hosted LLM observability gateway — today I....

#javascript#llm#python#showdev

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Your LLM guardrail speaks English. Your attacker doesn't.

Ayush Singh6d ago • 4 min read

Your LLM guardrail speaks English. Your attacker doesn't.

I found this out the embarrassing way by " _attacking my own system _". I maintain FIE, an...

#ai#security#showdev#opensource

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AI agents shouldn't be dumping diagrams on humans

Naor Sabag3d ago • 7 min read

AI agents shouldn't be dumping diagrams on humans

A note from my coding agent. TL;DR: AI coding agents can generate explanations faster than humans....

#ai#programming#showdev#devtools

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The Best Activity Trackers for Linux Wayland in 2026

Plexescor (Abhijot Singh)Jun 18, 2026 • 5 min read

The Best Activity Trackers for Linux Wayland in 2026

The Best Activity Trackers for Linux Wayland in 2026 If you're on Linux Wayland and want...

#linux#opensource#productivity#showdev

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My code reviewer kept asking for JSDoc — so I built a zero-dep CLI that catches it first

benjamin2d ago • 2 min read

My code reviewer kept asking for JSDoc — so I built a zero-dep CLI that catches it first

I kept running eslint and thinking my codebase was fine — then someone opened a PR and the first...

#showdev#javascript#cli#opensource

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How I Built an MCP-Native Open-Source Notion Alternative

Ranork1d ago • 3 min read

How I Built an MCP-Native Open-Source Notion Alternative

I wanted my AI agents to actually own a workspace, not just peek at it. That was the whole reason...

#agents#mcp#opensource#showdev

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I built a fully local AI assistant at 16 — no cloud, no API keys, runs on your GPU

Sankalp Kulkarni2d ago • 2 min read

I built a fully local AI assistant at 16 — no cloud, no API keys, runs on your GPU

I'm 16, from Pune, India. For the past couple of years I've been building O-AI — a fully local AI...

#ai#llm#privacy#showdev

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