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Translating Windows system audio in real time — driverless, with no virtual cable
Dev.to · Davut Akça 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 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,...
OpenAI-Compatible APIs Are Great Until Streaming Breaks: What I Check Before Switching Providers
Dev.to · plasma 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 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...
I Spent Hours Parsing Logs Until I Tried This AI Approach
Dev.to · zhongqiyue 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 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...
Vertex AI 'Resource exhausted' (429) API Rate Limit on a Single VM
Dev.to · 박준희 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 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
Sync a mailbox into your own database with Nylas
Dev.to · Qasim 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 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
Velra vs Lovable: Which AI Builder Ships Stripe?
Dev.to · Jacob Gargaro 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 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.
Three GPU affiliate programs I wired into an AI tool directory
Dev.to · MORINAGA 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 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.
I got nervous about installing MCP servers, so I built a scanner for them
Dev.to · Thandv 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 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...
How I Built a Carbon Footprint Tracker with Django + NVIDIA NIM
Dev.to · Divyansh 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 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...
I Built an AI Presentation Platform That Generates Real PowerPoint Files
Dev.to · Izhan 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 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...
ChatGPT and Claude flatly disagree about which developer tools to recommend. I have the receipts.
Dev.to · Gissur Runarsson 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 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.
We Had 6 Features. 2 Were Eating Our Budget
Dev.to · Arpit Gupta 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 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...
AI Automation Platforms in 2026: Lessons Learned After Comparing Zapier, Make, n8n, UiPath and Power Automate
Dev.to · Neural CoreTech 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 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...
I Built a Free Passport Photo Tool. Then the US Banned the AI It Relied On.
Dev.to · Elena Dev 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 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.
Die Forschungszulage: wie der deutsche Staat eure KI- und Software-Entwicklung mitfinanziert (2026)
Dev.to · azena.ai 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 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...
How to Access DeepSeek API from Outside China (2026 Guide)
Dev.to · Zhouxia Qian 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 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
How I Built a Free ACS Citation Generator for Chemistry Papers
Dev.to · David Flores Flores 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 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...
Migrating reCAPTCHA solving off 2Captcha: the one-line swap (and what changes at volume)
Dev.to · Bassem Shahin 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 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
How to Integrate Zerodha Kite Connect with MCP Servers
Dev.to · Momin Saad Ahemar 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
How to Integrate Zerodha Kite Connect with MCP Servers
Artificial Intelligence is transforming the way traders and developers interact with financial data....
Eclipse mechanics for programmers: turning ephemeris data into a "next eclipse from here" countdown
Dev.to · Furiosa Studio 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 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...
I Built a Python Bot That Applies to LinkedIn Jobs While I Sleep
Dev.to · MI Srabon 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 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...
MetaMask, Wallets, and Why Ownership Actually Matters
Dev.to · Srashti 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 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...
10 Best Free AI Tools With No Signup Required in 2026
Dev.to · Jakub 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 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 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 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
GPU Scarcity Isn't the Problem Anymore. GPU Allocation Governance Is.
Dev.to · NTCTech 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 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...
Humanizing Artificial Intelligence for Platform Engineering: Helping Internal Developer Platforms Become Easier to Use
Dev.to · James Joyner 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 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...
Rotifer v0.9.0: Open Mesh — your first P2P gene node
Dev.to · Rotifer Protocol 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 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...
Claude Is Powerful, but Outages and Limits Are Part of the Deal
Dev.to · Jenuel Oras Ganawed 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 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
AI in Testing: The Future is Here
Dev.to · Fabio Sarmento 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 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....
Arabic OCR with an API: Make Scanned Arabic PDFs Searchable (Python)
Dev.to · Hani Amro 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 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...
How to Add AI to an Existing Product Without Rewriting It
Dev.to · Iurii Rogulia 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 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.
AINAScan v1.1.1 — Web UI Live, 48 Patterns, Auto-fix (Thank You for the Traffic)
Dev.to · Moon sehwan 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 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...
An AI Built My WordPress Theme. Then I Found the Performance Bugs It Left Behind.
Dev.to · Marinnov Nikola 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 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...
How We Built Safe LinkedIn Automation at Scale — Technical Breakdown
Dev.to · Sendcopy 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 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...
SPF, DKIM, and DMARC in Phishing Detection: Useful Signals, Not Magic Answers
Dev.to · Omobolaji Adeyan 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 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.
The Ultimate Guide to AI-Powered Resume Building: Create Your Standout Resume Today
Dev.to · vicente san silvestre chacon 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 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.
Five overlooked packages running my AI directory stack
Dev.to · MORINAGA 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 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.
Five things that caught my attention this week in AI tools and open-source models
Dev.to · MORINAGA 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 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.
AI slop and the content treadmill every developer is on
Dev.to · Russell Jones 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 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.
Astrophysics & AI with Python: Unlocking the Secrets of Spectral Lines and Redshift
Dev.to · Programming Central 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 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....
Swiss Ephemeris Returns 6 Floats. Your App Needs a Chart.
Dev.to · Xalen Technologies 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 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...
Your AI writes the logic. Studio tunes the UI. They don't compete.
Dev.to · Jack Lee 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 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,...
I built 128 things with AI in 4 months. Then I made an AI dissect all of it.
Dev.to · greymoth 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 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.
How I Connected x402 Payments to a Real API on Algorand
Dev.to · Tim Kepler 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 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...
How I Stopped Duplicating AI Skills Across Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, Gemini CLI, and Other Tools
Dev.to · Moataz Mohamed 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 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,...
5 AI Patterns That Actually Save You Time (Not Just Hype)
Dev.to · Learn AI Resource 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 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....
How to Use DeepSeek Models Without a Chinese Phone Number — A Guide for Non-Chinese Developers
Dev.to · Alex Chen 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 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...
I Built a Tool That Turns YouTube Videos Into Notion Pages — Here’s How
Dev.to · IbnH 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 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...