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Dev.to · Davut Akça
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1w ago
Translating Windows system audio in real time — driverless, with no virtual cable
I build Voxis, an open-source Windows app that translates whatever your system is playing — a video,...

Dev.to · plasma
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1w ago
OpenAI-Compatible APIs Are Great Until Streaming Breaks: What I Check Before Switching Providers
Swapping an AI provider looks easy on paper. Change the baseURL, keep the OpenAI SDK, point your app...

Dev.to · zhongqiyue
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1w ago
I Spent Hours Parsing Logs Until I Tried This AI Approach
Let me set the scene: I had just inherited a massive collection of log files from a dozen...

Dev.to · 박준희
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1w ago
Vertex AI 'Resource exhausted' (429) API Rate Limit on a Single VM
Running a full AI product on a single small VM presents unique challenges, especially when external APIs start throwing rate limit errors. This postmortem detai

Dev.to · Qasim
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1w ago
Sync a mailbox into your own database with Nylas
A real use case: keep a local copy of a mailbox for search and analytics. Backfill the history, then stay current with webhooks, using the Nylas Email API and C

Dev.to · Jacob Gargaro
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1w ago
Velra vs Lovable: Which AI Builder Ships Stripe?
Velra vs Lovable: which AI builder actually ships Stripe? Compare subscriptions, code ownership, and the path to a paid SaaS faster.

Dev.to · MORINAGA
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1w ago
Three GPU affiliate programs I wired into an AI tool directory
RunPod, Vast.ai, and Hetzner Cloud as contextual affiliate links on model pages — how I implemented them, which ones are actually clickable, and what converts.

Dev.to · Thandv
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1w ago
I got nervous about installing MCP servers, so I built a scanner for them
Every few days there's a new MCP server or Claude Code skill worth trying. And almost all of them you...

Dev.to · Divyansh
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1w ago
How I Built a Carbon Footprint Tracker with Django + NVIDIA NIM
I wanted to build something that mattered. Climate change is one of those topics where awareness is...

Dev.to · Izhan
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1w ago
I Built an AI Presentation Platform That Generates Real PowerPoint Files
A few weeks ago I started building a project that became ExDeck. The original idea was simple: Why...

Dev.to · Gissur Runarsson
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1w ago
ChatGPT and Claude flatly disagree about which developer tools to recommend. I have the receipts.
ChatGPT and Claude flatly disagree about which developer tools to recommend. Real scan receipts across Convex, Trigger.dev, Windmill, Zuplo, Infisical and Novu.

Dev.to · Arpit Gupta
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1w ago
We Had 6 Features. 2 Were Eating Our Budget
Twelve months ago we were burning $4,200/month on AI infrastructure and could not tell you which...

Dev.to · Neural CoreTech
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1w ago
AI Automation Platforms in 2026: Lessons Learned After Comparing Zapier, Make, n8n, UiPath and Power Automate
Developers love comparing AI models. But in production, AI models rarely fail because they're not...

Dev.to · Elena Dev
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1w ago
I Built a Free Passport Photo Tool. Then the US Banned the AI It Relied On.
Why I added a warning to my own free passport photo tool, and what it taught me about building products people trust.

Dev.to · azena.ai
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1w ago
Die Forschungszulage: wie der deutsche Staat eure KI- und Software-Entwicklung mitfinanziert (2026)
Es gibt in Deutschland eine Förderung für Softwareentwicklung, die erstaunlich viele Teams übersehen...

Dev.to · Zhouxia Qian
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1w ago
How to Access DeepSeek API from Outside China (2026 Guide)
A practical guide for overseas developers trying to use DeepSeek V4, DeepSeek-Coder, and other DeepSeek models via API — without a Chinese phone number or Alipa

Dev.to · David Flores Flores
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1w ago
How I Built a Free ACS Citation Generator for Chemistry Papers
If you have ever cleaned up references for a chemistry paper, you know the tiny formatting problems...

Dev.to · Bassem Shahin
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1w ago
Migrating reCAPTCHA solving off 2Captcha: the one-line swap (and what changes at volume)
If your reCAPTCHA solving already speaks the 2Captcha API, moving to a compatible provider is mostly a base-URL change. Here's the actual diff, what stays ident

Dev.to · Momin Saad Ahemar
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1w ago
How to Integrate Zerodha Kite Connect with MCP Servers
Artificial Intelligence is transforming the way traders and developers interact with financial data....

Dev.to · Furiosa Studio
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1w ago
Eclipse mechanics for programmers: turning ephemeris data into a "next eclipse from here" countdown
"When's the next eclipse visible from here?" sounds like a lookup. It's actually two hard problems...

Dev.to · MI Srabon
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1w ago
I Built a Python Bot That Applies to LinkedIn Jobs While I Sleep
Last month I was applying to jobs manually. Copy-paste the job title. Upload CV. Answer the same 5...

Dev.to · Srashti
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1w ago
MetaMask, Wallets, and Why Ownership Actually Matters
Up until this post, my entire DApp lived in a terminal. Tests passed. Contract compiled. Everything...

Dev.to · Jakub
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1w ago
10 Best Free AI Tools With No Signup Required in 2026
TL;DR: We tested dozens of free AI tools that work without creating an account. No email, no...
Simon Willison's Blog
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2w ago
OPFS + Pyodide test harness
Tool: OPFS + Pyodide test harness I've been pondering if Datasette Lite - the Python Datasette application run entirely in the browser using Pyodide and WebAsse

Dev.to · NTCTech
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2w ago
GPU Scarcity Isn't the Problem Anymore. GPU Allocation Governance Is.
GPU allocation governance is becoming the defining AI infrastructure challenge of 2026 — not because...

Dev.to · James Joyner
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2w ago
Humanizing Artificial Intelligence for Platform Engineering: Helping Internal Developer Platforms Become Easier to Use
The Developer Who Just Wanted to Ship a Service A backend developer on my team pinged me...

Dev.to · Rotifer Protocol
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2w ago
Rotifer v0.9.0: Open Mesh — your first P2P gene node
v0.9.0 gives the rotifer CLI an embedded libp2p node. Two machines on the same LAN can now exchange...

Dev.to · Jenuel Oras Ganawed
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2w ago
Claude Is Powerful, but Outages and Limits Are Part of the Deal
A practical reflection on Claude's current reliability problem: fast-draining limits, server-side 500 errors, and why developers need backup workflows when AI t

Dev.to · Fabio Sarmento
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2w ago
AI in Testing: The Future is Here
Why not leverage AI to optimize testing? It can help identify edge cases and reduce manual efforts....

Dev.to · Hani Amro
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2w ago
Arabic OCR with an API: Make Scanned Arabic PDFs Searchable (Python)
If you've ever tried to extract text from a scanned Arabic document, you already know the pain. Most...

Dev.to · Iurii Rogulia
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2w ago
How to Add AI to an Existing Product Without Rewriting It
Add AI to an existing product without a rebuild. Three integration patterns, how to pick the right one, and what production-ready AI actually demands.

Dev.to · Moon sehwan
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2w ago
AINAScan v1.1.1 — Web UI Live, 48 Patterns, Auto-fix (Thank You for the Traffic)
We've been absolutely blown away by the real-world usage over the last 48 hours. Watching developers...

Dev.to · Marinnov Nikola
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2w ago
An AI Built My WordPress Theme. Then I Found the Performance Bugs It Left Behind.
I’m what you’d call a “wannabe developer.” My main focus is SEO, but I like trying new things and...

Dev.to · Sendcopy
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2w ago
How We Built Safe LinkedIn Automation at Scale — Technical Breakdown
LinkedIn automation has a trust problem. Not with users — with LinkedIn itself. Most automation tools...

Dev.to · Omobolaji Adeyan
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2w ago
SPF, DKIM, and DMARC in Phishing Detection: Useful Signals, Not Magic Answers
How PhishGuard AI treats email authentication failures as explainable evidence without turning them into automatic phishing verdicts.

Dev.to · vicente san silvestre chacon
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2w ago
The Ultimate Guide to AI-Powered Resume Building: Create Your Standout Resume Today
Unlock the secrets of effective resume building with our comprehensive guide on AI-powered tools. Create ATS-optimized resumes in minutes.

Dev.to · MORINAGA
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2w ago
Five overlooked packages running my AI directory stack
A curated look at tsx, Pagefind, Crawlee, eemeli/yaml, and @libsql/client — the unsexy dependencies doing most of the actual work.

Dev.to · MORINAGA
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2w ago
Five things that caught my attention this week in AI tools and open-source models
Claude Code Agent View, ZAYA1-8B on AMD hardware, Harness productivity data, ServiceNow in every IDE, and a personal lesson from removing MCP servers.

Dev.to · Russell Jones
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2w ago
AI slop and the content treadmill every developer is on
Why I automated my own content pipeline, what it costs, and how developers can share their work without adding to the AI slop.

Dev.to · Programming Central
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2w ago
Astrophysics & AI with Python: Unlocking the Secrets of Spectral Lines and Redshift
The universe is a symphony of light, but to the naked eye, it often looks like a static painting....

Dev.to · Xalen Technologies
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2w ago
Swiss Ephemeris Returns 6 Floats. Your App Needs a Chart.
Every astrology backend on earth runs on Swiss Ephemeris. It is accurate to the arcsecond and has...

Dev.to · Jack Lee
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2w ago
Your AI writes the logic. Studio tunes the UI. They don't compete.
I was building a dashboard. The card layout was almost right — just needed a bit more breathing room,...

Dev.to · greymoth
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2w ago
I built 128 things with AI in 4 months. Then I made an AI dissect all of it.
A 19-year-old's cold-honest build autopsy: 128 projects, 5 shipped, $0 revenue — and what the asymmetry actually taught me.

Dev.to · Tim Kepler
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2w ago
How I Connected x402 Payments to a Real API on Algorand
How I Connected x402 Payments to a Real API on Algorand Over the past few weeks I decided...

Dev.to · Moataz Mohamed
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2w ago
How I Stopped Duplicating AI Skills Across Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, Gemini CLI, and Other Tools
Has anyone else ended up maintaining the same AI skill in multiple places? I use Claude Code, Codex,...

Dev.to · Learn AI Resource
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2w ago
5 AI Patterns That Actually Save You Time (Not Just Hype)
Look, I get it. Every week there's another "revolutionary AI tool" that's gonna change your life....

Dev.to · Alex Chen
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2w ago
How to Use DeepSeek Models Without a Chinese Phone Number — A Guide for Non-Chinese Developers
You've heard DeepSeek is cheap and performs well. You go to platform.deepseek.com to sign up. Step...

Dev.to · IbnH
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2w ago
I Built a Tool That Turns YouTube Videos Into Notion Pages — Here’s How
I often finish a YouTube video and realize I've already forgotten the key points. My usual fix: grab...
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