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DEV Community @dev.to · 28/09/2026

Hacktoberfest starts this week and there are 60+ events happening across the globe. Find yours and register today: hacktoberfest.com/fests/

DEV Community @dev.to · 25/09/2026

What is something you're proud of this week? dev.to/devteam/what...

What was your win this week?!

👋👋👋👋 Looking back on your week -- what was something you're proud of? All wins count -- big or small...

DEV Community @dev.to · 24/09/2026

Join the Kaggle Benchmarking Challenge! 🔵 Build a benchmark on Kaggle 🔵 Run it against the models you care about 🔵 $2,500 prize pool across 5 winners dev.to/devteam/join...

DEV Community @dev.to · 21/09/2026

Two new Gemini models built for voice first apps: 3.8 Live for real time conversational reasoning, and 3.5 Transcribe for streaming speech to text across 85+ languages. This dev covers deploying both. { author: @thorweb.dev } dev.to/googleai/bui...

Build real-time voice applications with Gemini 3.8 Live and 3.5 Transcribe

Yesterday, we released new Gemini Live models in the Gemini API and Google AI Studio, expanding our...

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Sanity @sanity.io · 18/09/2026

Sanity has some fun new features and we'd love to see you build with them. Build an agent with a Knowledge Base, or vibe-code something cool. Sanity Challenge on @dev.to, live through Oct 4. $2,500 in prizes. We want to see your most creative build! dev.to/challenges/s...

Global Sanity Hackathon. Two paths. Two weeks. $2,500 in prizes. Sept 18 - Oct 6.

DEV Community @dev.to · 18/09/2026

Join the Sanity Challenge! 🔴 Build an AI agent on structured content 🔴 Or vibe-code an app with Sanity behind it 🔴 $2,500 across 5 winners dev.to/devteam/join... ❤️ @sanity.io

DEV Challenges. The Sanity Challenge. Happening now. September eighteenth through October fourth. Two-thousand five hundred dollars in prizes.

DEV Community @dev.to · 17/09/2026

Google Play's rules for sensitive permissions like contacts and calendar access are getting stricter, squeezing small apps. This dev breaks down dangerous vs sensitive permissions using a real calendar app as case study. { author: @tkuenneth.dev } dev.to/tkuenneth/de...

Dealing with sensitive permissions on Android

Right now the developer community seems fascinated (if not outright obsessed) with agentic coding....

DEV Community @dev.to · 11/09/2026

Congrats to the winners of our Frontend Challenge: Comfort Food Edition!! We had so many awesome submissions. Here a few of the highlights. 🥘 Can you guess which ones were the winners? See who here: dev.to/devteam/cong...

A web page of a cartoon hamburger with lettuce tomato cheese and other toppings.

A cartoon pot of buldak noodles with eggs green onions and chopsticks.

A website snapshot featuring a round table modeled after an ancient Vietnamese drum with 7 different bowls of food around the rim.

A cartoon CSS rendering of a cat cafe where all the pastires are cat themed.

DEV Community @dev.to · 11/09/2026

What was the highlight of your week? Share it with us: dev.to/devteam/what...

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Thomas Künneth @tkuenneth.dev · 05/09/2026

Dangerous on the device. Sensitive in the store. Just published on @dev.to: Call Log, Contacts, then who may ship at all. Sensitive permissions were never only a Play Console form. They are a stress test for whether we use Android, or merely rent it. dev.to/tkuenneth/de...

Dealing with sensitive permissions on Android

Right now the developer community seems fascinated (if not outright obsessed) with agentic coding....

DEV Community @dev.to · 04/09/2026

Let us know the best part of your week! dev.to/devteam/what...

DEV Community @dev.to · 04/09/2026

Our Weekend Challenge: Generosity Edition is live! 🟣 Build something in the spirit of generosity 🟣 $1,000 across FIVE winners 🟣 4 different ways to win Submissions due Sept 7 at 6:59 AM UTC dev.to/devteam/join...

DEV Community @dev.to · 03/09/2026

Rakudo's next release (2026.09) makes the new RakuAST backend the default for compiling Raku code, with the old backend still around for now. Macros are cut in 6.e, and slang authors have testing ahead. { author: Elizabeth Mattijsen } dev.to/lizmat/mains...

Mainstreaming RakuAST

Yes, it looks like the next release of Rakudo (2026.09, tentatively planned for 26 September) will be...

DEV Community @dev.to · 02/09/2026

Germany runs on paper invoices, and typing an IBAN twice to be sure gets old. This dev pointed Codex at the EPC QR standard, wrapped qrencode in Go, then paid a real bill with it. The TUI looks like a 90s post office. { author: Viorel PETCU } dev.to/realvorl/so-...

So, I Vibe Coded A Way Out, Again.

A while ago I wrote an article asking When Is 100% Vibe Coding OK?. My conclusion was that it works...

DEV Community @dev.to · 02/09/2026

150,000 tickets for The Odyssey in 70mm IMAX sold out almost instantly. This dev talks to the builder of a service watching every US showing: durable execution, debounced alerts, serverless workers on Cloud Run. { author: @annthurium.bsky.social } dev.to/googleai/bui...

Building a viral Imax ticketing app that never crashes

When 150,000 tickets went on sale for The Odyssey in 70mm IMAX, they sold out almost instantly. But...

DEV Community @dev.to · 28/08/2026

What was the best part of your week? dev.to/devteam/what...

What was your win this week?!

👋👋👋👋 Looking back on your week -- what was something you're proud of? All wins count -- big or small...

DEV Community @dev.to · 27/08/2026

Same 2021 article, same detector, a year apart: 97% AI, then 8.6%. This dev separates Anthropic's watermark from third-party detectors from platform badges, and argues the real question is who thought it through. { author: Pascal CESCATO } dev.to/pascal_cesca...

The "AI" Badge Doesn't Measure What You Think It Does

Anthropic signed the EU AI Act's Code of Practice on Transparency of AI-Generated Content, and...

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Major League Hacking @mlh.com · 25/08/2026

We're hiring MLH Coaches! We think being an MLH Coach is an awesome opportunity, but don't just take it from us — watch our current Coaches share what it's like to mentor hackers and support organizers at hackathons worldwide. Apply now: careers.mlh.io/o/coach-even...

DEV Community @dev.to · 14/08/2026

The DEV Weekend Challenge: Dog Days Edition is live! 🐕 Build something for, about, or inspired by dogs 🦴 $1,000 prize pool across five winners 🐾 Submissions due Aug 17 at 6:59 AM UTC dev.to/devteam/join...

DEV Community @dev.to · 14/08/2026

What was the highlight of your week? dev.to/devteam/what...

What was your win this week??

👋👋👋👋 Looking back on your week -- what was something you're proud of? All wins count -- big or small...

DEV Community @dev.to · 11/08/2026

Nvidia, Anthropic, DeepMind and Meta published very different answers to who gets to run powerful models. This dev reads the manifestos past open versus closed, then scales the question down to your own agents. { author: @@reidmarlow.com } dev.to/reidmarlow/o...

Open Weights Are Now a Policy Fight

Open Weights Are Now a Policy Fight Silicon Valley spent the last few weeks publishing AI...

DEV Community @dev.to · 07/08/2026

Not a password hiding behind your fingerprint. The private key never leaves the secure chip, and only a signature crosses the network. Phishing fails by design rather than by luck. { author: @thomasbnt.dev } dev.to/thomasbnt/pa...

Passkeys Explained Simply

You’ve probably seen that little prompt that says “Sign in with Face ID” or “Use a passkey” instead...

DEV Community @dev.to · 07/08/2026

15,000 GitHub stars in, the hard part became keeping quality consistent as teams piled in. Linters, link checks and weekly evals hold the bar. { author: @rsamborski.bsky.social } dev.to/googleai/beh...

Behind the scenes: How we build, test, and scale Google Agent Skills

AI agents are only as good as the instructions and context you give them. When we launched Google...

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Major League Hacking @mlh.com · 05/08/2026

Attending @renderatl.com next week? We're hosting Hack RenderATL: build projects that benefit your community, flex your skills with Atlanta Open Data, win prizes, and get hands-on support from tech mentors. Wednesday the 12th at 11:30 AM luma.com/RenderATLHack

Hack RenderATL · Luma

Build tech that makes a real-world impact! You have 24 hours at RenderATL to build something that makes the world a better place. Hosted by Major League…

DEV Community @dev.to · 30/07/2026

What a token actually is, how retrieval-augmented generation fits in, why context windows keep growing, and whether burning more tokens really means more productivity. Spoiler on that last one: no. { author: @annthurium.bsky.social } dev.to/googleai/ai-...

AI builder essentials: tokens, context windows and RAG 101

Tokens are an important foundational concept that underlie how we interact with LLMs. @greggyb and...

DEV Community @dev.to · 24/07/2026

We had such a blast at #DevRelCon! Were you there? What was your favorite part?

DEV founders Peter Kim Frank, Ben Halpern and Jess Lee all wear DevRelCon lanyards and smile at the camera.

DEV Community @dev.to · 24/07/2026

Happy Friday! What is something you're proud of this week? dev.to/devteam/what...

What was your win this week??

👋👋👋👋 Looking back on your week -- what was something you're proud of? All wins count -- big or small...

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Major League Hacking @mlh.com · 21/07/2026

DevRelCon NYC starts tomorrow! Let us give you a tour of the wonderfully eclectic space at Industry City in Brooklyn. We can’t wait to see you tomorrow. 🌇   Don’t have a tickets yet? You can still grab them here: ti.to/mlh/devrelco...

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Thomas Bnt @thomasbnt.dev · 17/07/2026

RES, my personal safeguard against #AI, on @dev.to dev.to/thomasbnt/re...

RES, my personal safeguard against AI

The Problem The more I use AI in my daily life, the longer my conversations get. And the...

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Major League Hacking @mlh.com · 20/07/2026

We're hiring MLH Coaches! Get paid to attend hackathons, mentor hackers, and support organizers at events. Apply today: careers.mlh.io/o/coach-even...

A group of MLH Coaches and students in blue shirts stand in a circle and speak enthusiastically in a school science hall.

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Major League Hacking @mlh.com · 16/07/2026

Meet Hear2Help: A hackathon project giving a voice to the deaf, non-verbal, and anyone in crisis. Triple-tap to trigger SOS, get real-time AI speech via ElevenLabs, and instantly find nearby help. Check out the build: devpost.com/software/hea...

DEV Community @dev.to · 10/07/2026

Twenty years of posts, 2,630 of them, moved into one monorepo with full git history intact. This dev shares the stack and the weird bugs. { author: @matty.wtf } dev.to/mattstratton...

I Contain Multitudes (and Also Three Git Repos)

A tour of the stack behind mattstratton.com and speaking.mattstratton.com: a monorepo holding two Astro sites and a dev.to sync tool, twenty years of blog posts, and the pipeline that crossposts posts...

DEV Community @dev.to · 10/07/2026

Bots reviewing, bots replying, humans exhausted. This dev's team learned skilled attention is the scarce resource worth guarding. { author: @christine-seeman.com } dev.to/cseeman/retu...

Return on Attention: Why AI Code Reviews Are Wearing Us Out

PR volume went up, ticket quality didn't, and the gap got filled with LLMs on both sides of the review: bots reviewing, bots replying, bots occasionally arguing with bots about priorities that only ex...

DEV Community @dev.to · 10/07/2026

The DEV Weekend Challenge: Passion Edition is live! ❤️‍🔥 Build something inspired by passion — rivalries, fandoms, side project love, any interpretation is fair game ❤️‍🔥 FIVE winners across unique categories ❤️‍🔥 Submissions due July 13 at 6:59 AM UTC dev.to/devteam/join...

Join our DEV Weekend Challenge: Passion Edition — $1,000 in Prizes Across FIVE Winners! Submissions Due July 13 at 6:59 AM UTC.

Hello! We're kicking off another DEV Weekend Challenge, a short bite-sized challenge planned to fit...

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Paulo H @phalkmin.me · 07/07/2026

Got some swag from @dev.to and @mlhacks.bsky.social

stickers and other cool things

DEV Community @dev.to · 03/07/2026

Is a secret cabal of veteran engineers rebranding good software practices as hot new AI skills? Spoiler: probably not. @mcscoot.bsky.social investigates for The Daily Context. dev.to/dailycontext...

The Conspiracy Big Software Engineering Doesn't Want You to Know

Buckle up, gang — it's conspiracy theory time. I've had this theory percolating in the back of my...

DEV Community @dev.to · 03/07/2026

Loops on trial at the World's Fair: Geoff Huntley calls them inevitable, Dex Horthy urges a more measured approach. @iainthomson.bsky.social reports for The Daily Context. dev.to/dailycontext...

Is looping ready to roll? Experts split on the future of coding

On the closing day of the AI Engineer World's Fair, industry leaders debated whether loops are ready...

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Major League Hacking @mlh.com · 03/07/2026

The AI Engineer World's Fair has been a blast! Until next year. ✌️

DEV Community @dev.to · 03/07/2026

What's something you're proud of this week? dev.to/devteam/what...

What was your win this week?!

👋👋👋👋 Looking back on your week -- what was something you're proud of? All wins count -- big or small...

DEV Community @dev.to · 02/07/2026

Open weights are not open source. From the World's Fair floor, @johncodes.com makes the case for why free software must reckon with frontier AI. In The Daily Context: dev.to/dailycontext...

Nearly half a century ago, the free software movement made a demand that was both technical and...

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Major League Hacking @mlh.com · 02/07/2026

The final print issue of The Daily Context is out today at the AI Engineer World's Fair! It's been a pleasure serving you. If you're there in person, find us to grab a copy. Otherwise, check out the web version at dev.to/aie 📸: Zac Borja (1,2), Matt Spinetta (3)

A person wearing a hijaab holds two copies of The Daily Context Newspaper at the AI Engineer World's Fair.

A person with short buzzed hair and red glasses hold us a copy of The Daily Context Newspaper.

A wide shot from across the room of a person with shoulder length gray hair reading The Daily Context newspaper.

DEV Community @dev.to · 01/07/2026

This dev went from zero Kotlin experience to a working native Android app in about five minutes using Google AI Studio. The video covers sideloading via USB-C with no Play Store needed, plus what happens when the AI gets something wrong. { author: @annthurium.bsky.social } dev.to/googleai/i-b...

I built a native Android app in an afternoon, and I've never written a line of Kotlin

I’ve always thought building a mobile app required climbing a massive learning curve just to get a...

DEV Community @dev.to · 01/07/2026

Cloudflare's @micahw.com has a sobering take amid the AI coding hype: models still are not ready for complex software. Kara Silverman reports for The Daily Context. dev.to/dailycontext...

AI Isn't Ready to Build Complex Software

In an industry currently swept up in the hype of AI coding agents, Micah Wylde, principal engineer at...

DEV Community @dev.to · 01/07/2026

"No amount of harness engineering or loops maxing can solve what is fundamentally a model training issue," HumanLayer's Dex Horthy told the World's Fair. @iainthomson.bsky.social reports for The Daily Context. dev.to/dailycontext...

It’s Time To Put Humans Back In The Software

Software engineers have become overreliant on models to build applications, and it’s time to put...

DEV Community @dev.to · 01/07/2026

Software's iPhone moment brought agents that need less human supervision than ever, and security has to start there. @mcscoot.bsky.social breaks down the layered defenses builders are using to keep an agent from turning adversary. Read it in The Daily Context: dev.to/dailycontext...

The Agentic, Ironclad Onion

As AI agents work under increasingly less human supervision, the need for a trustworthy, secure work...

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Juan Luis @juanlu.space · 30/06/2026

I wrote ✍️ A whirlwind tour of Python packaging on @dev.to dev.to/astrojuanlu/... #python

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Major League Hacking @mlh.com · 01/07/2026

We're at the AI Engineer World's Fair all week! Our CEO, Swift, explains what's so exciting about this event and why 2026 might be "the year of the harness". 💙 @aidotengineer.bsky.social

DEV Community @dev.to · 29/06/2026

Grab a copy of our newspaper at the AI Engineer World's Fair! 📰

DEV Community @dev.to · 29/06/2026

Early languages were tied to one target and platform. This dev traces how Scala, Kotlin, and Rust broadened their reach over time. { author: @frankel.ch } dev.to/nfrankel/on-...

On programming languages, targets, and platforms

I started as a Java developer, but for some time now, I have broadened my horizons. Recently, I...

DEV Community @dev.to · 29/06/2026

87 kids, ages 8 to 16, coded games and wired Arduino sensors at AI Engineering Kids Day in SF. One teacher's tip: make tech fun, skip the syntax. { author: @iainthomson.bsky.social } dev.to/dailycontext...

For AI coding, the kids are alright

The AI Engineer World's Fair has attracted a lot of adults, and they brought their kids too, for...