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Why "Available on All Platforms" Usually Means You're Excluded
Dev.to · Basavaraj SH 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 4w ago
Why "Available on All Platforms" Usually Means You're Excluded
AI tools keep promising to democratize access - but if your team runs Linux, you already know that...
Shopping with Claude: How to find quality brands, automate returns, and buy things that last 100 years | Nicole Ruiz
Lenny's Newsletter 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 4w ago
Shopping with Claude: How to find quality brands, automate returns, and buy things that last 100 years | Nicole Ruiz
Watch now | ️She uses Claude to shop for high-quality items that last, automate returns when products fail, and spend less time on administrative tasks and mor
I Checked the Free OpenAI API Key Myth. The Key Is Free. Usage Is Not.
Dev.to · tokenmixai 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
I Checked the Free OpenAI API Key Myth. The Key Is Free. Usage Is Not.
I kept seeing developers search for a free OpenAI API key. The misleading part is simple: key creation, credits, billing, model access, and rate limits are sepa
Introducing AI SQL Helpers, OAuth MCP, Performance Improvements, and More
Dev.to · Yos Riady 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
Introducing AI SQL Helpers, OAuth MCP, Performance Improvements, and More
Explore Formo’s May 2026 changelog: First-Seen Behavior Filters, Transaction Frequency, and SDK Updates, and more.
Skill, MCP, Plugin, or just a CLI: how I pick a Claude Code extension, lightest first
Dev.to · Rapls 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
Skill, MCP, Plugin, or just a CLI: how I pick a Claude Code extension, lightest first
I was building a plugin release with Claude Code, and the changelog draft came together nicely. Pull...
Use MentionFox tools directly inside ChatGPT
Dev.to · Saul Fleischman 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
Use MentionFox tools directly inside ChatGPT
Connect MentionFox to a Custom GPT via the OpenAPI actions schema. Once connected, the GPT can call...
Why Power Users Push Back on AI - and What That Tells You
Dev.to · Basavaraj SH 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
Why Power Users Push Back on AI - and What That Tells You
The loudest skeptics of AI tools are often the people who've used them the most. That's worth paying...
What Happens to Your Work When Your AI Tool Goes Down
Dev.to · Basavaraj SH 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
What Happens to Your Work When Your AI Tool Goes Down
One outage. One integration failure. Suddenly, half your workflow is frozen. This is the quiet risk...
AWS Kiro.: O que É?
Dev.to · rafaelbonilha 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
AWS Kiro.: O que É?
Com o advento da IA generativa e o uso cada vez maior de ferramentas como GitHub Copilot, Claude Code...
I Built 12 Products in 2 Days with AI — What I Learned
Dev.to · wei lu 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
I Built 12 Products in 2 Days with AI — What I Learned
12 products, 48 hours, $0 cost, $0 revenue. Lessons about distribution.
Building chematic: A Pure-Rust Cheminformatics Library for WebAssembly
Dev.to · kent-tokyo 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
Building chematic: A Pure-Rust Cheminformatics Library for WebAssembly
Many cheminformatics tools, including RDKit and Open Babel, are written in C or C++. When they are...
The AI personal brand stack — build your audience while building your product
Dev.to · Harsha Kumar 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
The AI personal brand stack — build your audience while building your product
Most founders treat personal brand and product as separate things. The ones growing fastest treat...
I read the 51-comment OpenClaw thread asking for a killer use case and the answer was way more practical than I expected
Dev.to · Lars Winstand 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
I read the 51-comment OpenClaw thread asking for a killer use case and the answer was way more practical than I expected
I read a 51-comment OpenClaw thread looking for a "killer use case" and the real answer was more practical: OpenClaw is strongest on recurring, messy
Slopper GitHub Action: Fighting AI Slop contributions on Open Source Projects
Dev.to · Miguel Álvarez 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
Slopper GitHub Action: Fighting AI Slop contributions on Open Source Projects
Open source maintainers are drowning in AI-generated PRs that look clean but add nothing. curl, the...
Claude Token Monitor 🚀 — Real-Time Claude Usage HUD for Your Windows Desktop
Dev.to · Kiell Tampubolon 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
Claude Token Monitor 🚀 — Real-Time Claude Usage HUD for Your Windows Desktop
A local-first floating HUD that monitors your Claude.ai quota and Claude Code CLI token usage in real-time — with a companion Chrome Extension and glassmorphism
Microsoft pulled internal Claude Code licenses — what their engineers' preference tells you about picking AI tools
Dev.to · Conor Dobbs 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
Microsoft pulled internal Claude Code licenses — what their engineers' preference tells you about picking AI tools
Microsoft canceled internal Claude Code licenses for thousands of devs in the Experiences and Devices group, June 30 cutoff. Not a customer-facing 365 Copilot c
How Senior Engineers Use AI Without Burning Through Token Limits - Reduce AI Token Usage by 60–90%
Dev.to · Parth Sarthi Sharma 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
How Senior Engineers Use AI Without Burning Through Token Limits - Reduce AI Token Usage by 60–90%
Last month I watched a developer exhaust their Claude usage limit in less than a week. They weren't...
What one week of new Ethereum contracts looks like through a scam-detection lens
Dev.to · Sanjeev Kumar 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
What one week of new Ethereum contracts looks like through a scam-detection lens
I pulled every top-level contract deployed on Ethereum mainnet in the week ending 2026-04-10. There...
Ideogram 4.0 is Good. Just Good.
Dev.to · Igor Gridel 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
Ideogram 4.0 is Good. Just Good.
240 images, 10 designers, blind test: Ideogram 4.0 wins text rendering at 47.9% but ties Gemini on overall quality. Open weights changes the economics.
Ideogram 4.0 is on 7 Platforms. Here's What It Actually Costs.
Dev.to · Igor Gridel 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
Ideogram 4.0 is on 7 Platforms. Here's What It Actually Costs.
Compare Ideogram 4.0 costs across fal.ai, Krea, ComfyUI, Leonardo, Replicate, FLORA, and Ideogram Direct. Find the cheapest path for your volume.
How to stop your AI bill from surprising you
Dev.to · Ravi Patel 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
How to stop your AI bill from surprising you
Budgets aren't about not spending. They're about predictability. Policy isn't about restricting. It's about consistency. v1.4 ships routing
How I stopped fighting with AI APIs and built a clean integration layer
Dev.to · zhongqiyue 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
How I stopped fighting with AI APIs and built a clean integration layer
I remember the day I hit the wall. I was building a feature that needed to summarize user-submitted...
I open-sourced the core of how we get clients cited by AI
Dev.to · Gregory Shevchenko 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
I open-sourced the core of how we get clients cited by AI
Four free, MIT-licensed CLI tools — and the four-step loop they came from — to measure and fix whether ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Gemini cite your pages.
How I stopped writing regex and let AI parse my messy data
Dev.to · zhongqiyue 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
How I stopped writing regex and let AI parse my messy data
I’ve been building a side project that aggregates job listings from dozens of niche websites. Each...
From Excel to AI: We Were Always Programmers
Dev.to · Brix Mavu 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
From Excel to AI: We Were Always Programmers
Times change. Tools change. But the fundamental question of software development never does: What are...
I Put ChatGPT Browser Inside My Terminal
Dev.to · Tomer Ben David 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
I Put ChatGPT Browser Inside My Terminal
RexIDE Now Features Built In ChatGPT Browser Sessions RexIDE now supports embedded browser panes,...
What a true AI-native company feels like (3 months at n8n)
Dev.to · Alexander Gekov 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
What a true AI-native company feels like (3 months at n8n)
The most AI-forward company I've worked at automates boring stuff first. I joined n8n three months...
AI-built websites score 96/100 for SEO. Google still cannot see them. We tested 93 sites.
Dev.to · Tair Khamitov 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
AI-built websites score 96/100 for SEO. Google still cannot see them. We tested 93 sites.
An AI builder ships a website in an evening, and Lighthouse hands it an average SEO score of 96 out...
Would you license your old/dead codebase as AI training data for $10k?
Dev.to · Hansel_hud_gtm_guy 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
Would you license your old/dead codebase as AI training data for $10k?
Quick disclosure up front: I work with HUD AI (YC W25). We license private (high-quality) codebases...
I had a tech background but couldn't build from scratch. AI changed that. Here's the full story.
Dev.to · Neo Gamers 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
I had a tech background but couldn't build from scratch. AI changed that. Here's the full story.
Let me give you the honest version of where I was starting from. I'm not someone who had zero tech...
How I stopped worrying about OpenAI rate limits (and costs)
Dev.to · zhongqiyue 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
How I stopped worrying about OpenAI rate limits (and costs)
A few months ago, I was building a feature that needed to generate summaries of user-uploaded...
How I Solved Naver Search Advisor Auto-Submission Using Playwright Cookie Re-use (2026)
Dev.to · 박준희 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
How I Solved Naver Search Advisor Auto-Submission Using Playwright Cookie Re-use (2026)
Naver doesn't have app password issuance like Google. Auto-login with ID/PW while 2-factor authentication is on is almost always blocked. This post covers the p
Fixed-price vs token-metered AI pods — what no one tells you before you sign
Dev.to · Sunil Kumar 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
Fixed-price vs token-metered AI pods — what no one tells you before you sign
Been watching a lot of SME engineering teams make the same mistake when budgeting their first serious...
Should AI Help Write the Tests, or Change What You Test?
Dev.to · Antoine Dubois 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
Should AI Help Write the Tests, or Change What You Test?
You just merged an AI-assisted feature branch, the code review looks clean, and the app works in your...
I built a tool that generates TypeScript fixtures from interfaces and Zod schemas
Dev.to · Wasef Hussain 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
I built a tool that generates TypeScript fixtures from interfaces and Zod schemas
Paste a TypeScript interface or Zod schema, get copy-ready export const mock fixtures. No setup, no backend, nothing leaves the browser.
I almost leaked a customer's data while screen-sharing ChatGPT — here's what I built to stop it
Dev.to · Mikhail Borodin 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
I almost leaked a customer's data while screen-sharing ChatGPT — here's what I built to stop it
A few weeks ago I was on a call sharing my screen, walking a teammate through a prompt I'd been...
How to design pricing for AI APIs and LLM-powered products
Dev.to · Arnon Shimoni 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
How to design pricing for AI APIs and LLM-powered products
AI API pricing comes down to six decisions, in order: what to meter, which primitive to charge for,...
What AI tool do you use every day that most people have never heard of, and why?
Dev.to · TuanPK Builds 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
What AI tool do you use every day that most people have never heard of, and why?
What AI tool do you use every day that most people have never heard of, and why? I’m interested in...
Simon Willison's Blog 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
Uber Caps Usage of AI Tools Like Claude Code to Manage Costs
Uber Caps Usage of AI Tools Like Claude Code to Manage Costs I wrote the other day about Uber blowing its 2026 AI budget in four months, and how that wasn't par
Mining for Gold: Using AI to Filter Playtest Feedback for Feature Requests and Balance Issues
Dev.to · Ken Deng 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
Mining for Gold: Using AI to Filter Playtest Feedback for Feature Requests and Balance Issues
Reading through hundreds of Discord messages after a playtest feels like panning for gold in a river...
AI Tools for Data Engineers in 2026: SQL, dbt, and Airflow Compared
Dev.to · Jovan Chan 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
AI Tools for Data Engineers in 2026: SQL, dbt, and Airflow Compared
Explore the rise of AI tools like SQL, dbt, and Airflow in data engineering, balancing 72% adoption for AI-assisted coding with 71% concerns over data
OpenAI modelleri AWS'de kullanılabilir hale geldi
Dev.to · Cansu Dut 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
OpenAI modelleri AWS'de kullanılabilir hale geldi
OpenAI AWS Bedrock’a Geldi: Altyapı Sadakati Bariyeri Yıkılıyor. OpenAI modelleri artık AWS...
Simon Willison's Blog 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
micropython-wasm 0.1a0
Release: micropython-wasm 0.1a0 My latest sandboxing experiment: This alpha package bundles a lightly customized WASM build of MicroPython with a wrapper to exe
Temporal AI Question Planetarium using Temporal Workflows
Dev.to · Shy Ruparel 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps 1mo ago
Temporal AI Question Planetarium using Temporal Workflows
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Tech Japanese untuk Programmer: 120 Kosakata & Frasa yang Sering Muncul di Dokumentasi, Ticket, dan Code Review
Dev.to · Mightyblue 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
Tech Japanese untuk Programmer: 120 Kosakata & Frasa yang Sering Muncul di Dokumentasi, Ticket, dan Code Review
Pernahkah Anda tiba-tiba harus memahami dokumentasi teknis yang masih setengah Jepang? Atau menemukan...
Ahrefs Blog 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
The 50 Most-Cited Websites in Google AI Overviews (June 2026)
AI Overviews are the AI-generated summaries that now sit above traditional Google results — and their scale is staggering. Google says they reach over 2 billion
Best AI IDEs for Claude Code and Codex Users (2026)
Dev.to · Karl Wirth 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
Best AI IDEs for Claude Code and Codex Users (2026)
If you already use Claude Code or Codex, picking an AI IDE is a different question than it was a year...
The Most Valuable QA Skill in the Age of AI Is Thinking
Dev.to · David Ingraham 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
The Most Valuable QA Skill in the Age of AI Is Thinking
A few years ago, AI in testing was a futuristic conversation. Now it's a daily one, the share of US...