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I Found a Free Domain Platform Built by an 18-Year-Old — and It Actually Works

Adithyan GMay 28, 2026 • 4 min read

I Found a Free Domain Platform Built by an 18-Year-Old — and It Actually Works

For most developers, buying a domain is treated as a normal part of building something online. But....

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I built 70+ free browser tools in plain HTML/CSS/JS — here's what I learned

Raja Mashood Elahi May 25, 2026 • 6 min read

I built 70+ free browser tools in plain HTML/CSS/JS — here's what I learned

I built 70+ free browser tools in plain HTML, CSS and JS — here's what I learned A few...

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Why I Built a Scientific Calculator in Pure C for Terminal Environments

ember_seedMay 30, 2026 • 3 min read

Why I Built a Scientific Calculator in Pure C for Terminal Environments

For most people, opening a calculator means launching a GUI application or typing a quick expression...

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Gilson Leite Siqueira JuniorMay 26, 2026 • 5 min read

Dubweave, for Aline

I built dubweave for my wife, Aline. She speaks Portuguese, and I kept finding these videos (essays,...

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How Tall Tales Got Designed (in Letters)

Stalefish LabsMay 30, 2026 • 8 min read

How Tall Tales Got Designed (in Letters)

The two letters I mailed to my brother in early 2002 are the

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Manan SantokiMay 26, 2026 • 18 min read

The Paywall Was a Painted Door

How a $300 plane ticket turned into a free flight-search tool, a responsible-disclosure report, a...

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Your AI agent reports 80% task completion. It fabricated it.

MVPBuilder_ioMay 25, 2026 • 5 min read

Your AI agent reports 80% task completion. It fabricated it.

There is an old idea in economics called Goodhart's Law: when a measure becomes the target, it cease...

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I gave an AI a sleep schedule, dreams, and a personal blog

米饭May 26, 2026 • 2 min read

I gave an AI a sleep schedule, dreams, and a personal blog

I gave an AI a sleep schedule, dreams, and a personal blog I built nan — an AI character...

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🤫 I Built CodeMoji: A VS Code Extension That Turns Code Into Emojis

VIGNESH KMay 31, 2026 • 4 min read

🤫 I Built CodeMoji: A VS Code Extension That Turns Code Into Emojis

Have you ever wanted to share a piece of code with someone but make it look completely unreadable at...

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Building a Side Project with AI Pair Programming: Lessons Learned with Sharebox

Odilon HUGONNOTMay 28, 2026 • 5 min read

Building a Side Project with AI Pair Programming: Lessons Learned with Sharebox

What it really looks like to develop a project from scratch with an AI as a permanent pair — archite...

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"I Built a Developer-Only Social Platform — Meet Devand 🛠️"

Nandan DasMay 31, 2026 • 2 min read

"I Built a Developer-Only Social Platform — Meet Devand 🛠️"

published: true description: "Devand is a social platform built exclusively for developers. Share...

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I gave Claude the full spec. It gave me 47 files. I shipped nothing for 3 months.

MVPBuilder_ioMay 25, 2026 • 5 min read

I gave Claude the full spec. It gave me 47 files. I shipped nothing for 3 months.

The plan was perfect. I had a full spec. Clean architecture. Claude had generated a 47-file scaffol...

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Building a Mac-native Subaru ECU tuning tool in Rust

Andrey SazonovMay 26, 2026 • 6 min read

Building a Mac-native Subaru ECU tuning tool in Rust

If you want to tune a Subaru ECU on a Mac in 2026, you have three options: Run a Windows VM with.....

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CI/CD for Side Projects: 3 Pragmatic Design Choices

Mustafa ERBAYMay 27, 2026 • 11 min read

CI/CD for Side Projects: 3 Pragmatic Design Choices

Side projects are both a learning ground and a platform for testing new ideas for many of us. I, too...

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I built 100+ free client-side developer tools — here's what I learned after 2 weeks

Shishir RahmanMay 29, 2026 • 2 min read

I built 100+ free client-side developer tools — here's what I learned after 2 weeks

The Problem Every time I needed to decode a JWT or generate a bcrypt hash, I had to use...

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What I Learned Building My First Chrome Extension for Google Calendar

James BrownMay 28, 2026 • 6 min read

What I Learned Building My First Chrome Extension for Google Calendar

Recently I launched my first Chrome extension: Tint Calendar, a small tool that adds more color...

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I got tired of bloated reminder apps, so I built one in Java

bloodSUCKERMay 28, 2026 • 1 min read

I got tired of bloated reminder apps, so I built one in Java

I got tired of bloated reminder apps, so I built my own I only wanted this: “Remind me about X at....

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GitHub Suspended My 2-Year Developer Account — Here’s What I Learned

Kelvin Agyare Yeboah May 28, 2026 • 2 min read

GitHub Suspended My 2-Year Developer Account — Here’s What I Learned

𝗚𝗶𝘁𝗛𝘂𝗯 𝗦𝘂𝘀𝗽𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗱 𝗠𝘆 𝟮‑𝗬𝗲𝗮𝗿 𝗗𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗹𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗿 𝗔𝗰𝗰𝗼𝘂𝗻𝘁 — 𝗛𝗲𝗿𝗲’𝘀 𝗪�...

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SiradjMay 28, 2026 • 2 min read

I Built a Fully Private QR Code Generator with Logo Art, Scanner, Bulk Export, and PDF Support

Hey, For the past few weeks I’ve been very deep in a redesign of the QR Code Generator on my site,....

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I built a privacy-first PDF merger in 7 hours — here's the stack and the lessons

swapfileioMay 24, 2026 • 4 min read

I built a privacy-first PDF merger in 7 hours — here's the stack and the lessons

Day 8 of building SwapFile.io in public. How pdfunite beats rasterization, why my conversion_jobs ta...

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#DAY1: The story of unemployment peak for a software engineer

Ali AmerMay 31, 2026 • 1 min read

#DAY1: The story of unemployment peak for a software engineer

𝗗𝗮𝘆 𝟭 𝗼𝗳 𝗨𝗻𝗲𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗼𝘆𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗣𝗲𝗮𝗸 I've been thinking what can I actually build that ...

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PDFemMay 28, 2026 • 3 min read

Building a no-signup PDF toolkit with 32 small file tools

I recently built PDFem, a no-signup toolkit for small PDF, image, and document tasks. The idea came...

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Mathieu May 27, 2026 • 1 min read

First personal project: Quartzine

Just recently, I started a new project alongside my studies. Here at school, we plug USB drives in.....

#linux#security#showdev#sideprojects

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I Built 7 SaaS Products From Scratch Here's What I Learned (And What I'm Building For Founders Now)

Muhammad Tanveer AbbasMay 29, 2026 • 5 min read

I Built 7 SaaS Products From Scratch Here's What I Learned (And What I'm Building For Founders Now)

By Muhammad Tanveer Abbas | The MVP Guy Most developers talk about building SaaS. I actually did...

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