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A new era of Hacktoberfest starts tomorrow! Join us for the livestream where we’ll share what’s new, how to take part in a Fest or online all month, and how to start collecting stickers. Tune in at dev.to

Hacktoberfest 2026. Join the livestream. Thursday October 1. 3pm UTC, 11AM ET, 8:30PM IST. On dev.to

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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/

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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...

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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.

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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.

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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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DEV Community @dev.to · 04/09/2026

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

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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...

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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...

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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.

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DEV Community @dev.to · 22/05/2026

What is something you're proud of this week?

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DEV Community @dev.to · 18/02/2026

DEV is joining the @mlhacks.bsky.social family! Watch Ben, Jess, and Peter talk about the acquisition, and why we're excited for this new chapter of the community. #MLH #DEVCommunity

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DEV Community @dev.to · 28/12/2025

Journalism was disrupted by the internet in the 90s. Is software engineering next with AI? A deep reflection on career survival, the loss of expertise, and what "democratization" really means for the quality of our tools. { author: @annaspies.dev } dev.to/annaspies/on...

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DEV Community @dev.to · 27/12/2025

Staging environments are often a bottleneck. Here is how to replace them with MCP servers to give your AI tools instant, safe access to preview environments. { author: Mike Solomon } dev.to/mikesol/how-...

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DEV Community @dev.to · 25/12/2025

'Tis the season for CSS art. Here is how to build "Ugly Sweater" style droids using only HTML and CSS. A festive deep dive into gradients and patterns. { author: Chris Jarvis } dev.to/jarvisscript...

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DEV Community @dev.to · 23/12/2025

Pre-commit hooks are the 20-year-old tool you are sleeping on. Stop breaking the build and let git format your code automatically. { author: Mr. 0x1 } dev.to/copyleftdev/...

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DEV Community @dev.to · 21/12/2025

Your app feels fast because you are cheating. 0ms localhost latency is a lie. Here is why `time.sleep()` fails to simulate real network lag and how to properly test the "Spinner of Death" using Chrome DevTools Protocol. { author: Ilya Ploskovitov } dev.to/aragossa/the...

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DEV Community @dev.to · 20/12/2025

Stop right-clicking to create folders. From "mkdir -p" for instant project structures to "grep -r" for finding that one variable, here are 5 terminal commands that will save you hours of clicking. dev.to/maame-codes/...

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DEV Community @dev.to · 14/12/2025

Are the old rules of open-source engagement no longer working? Ayu Adiati explores why contributor engagement is dropping and opens up a discussion for maintainers and contributors to share what's working now. Join the discussion: dev.to/adiatiayu/op...

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DEV Community @dev.to · 13/12/2025

Tired of spending more time hunting for bugs than writing code? Eleftheria Batsou offers a practical guide, sharing the mindset shifts and debugging strategies that cut her debugging time in half. Read on: dev.to/eleftheriaba...

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DEV Community @dev.to · 12/12/2025

Three days left in the Xano AI-Powered Backend Challenge! 🔷 Build scalable, production-ready backends with AI 🔶 Two categories: Full-Stack App & Public API 🔷 $3,000 prize pool #XanoChallenge #AI #NoCode

DEV Challenges. Xano AI-Powered Backend Challenge. Three-thousand dollars in prizes! November 26 through December 14.

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DEV Community @dev.to · 12/12/2025

3 days left in the AI Agents Intensive Course Writing Challenge with Google and Kaggle! If you participated in the 5-Day AI Agents Intensive Course with Google and Kaggle, now's your chance to share your project with the DEV community. #AIAgentsWritingChallenge #machinelearning #ai

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DEV Community @dev.to · 11/12/2025

How do you stop your LLM from confidently making things up? Jakob Sandström walks you through building a practical "bullshit detector" using NodeJS and pgvector to ground your AI's responses in facts. Read on: dev.to/the_nortern_...

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DEV Community @dev.to · 11/12/2025

🚀 4 days left to win big! The Xano AI-Powered Backend Challenge is closing soon, and there’s $3,000 in prizes on the table. Stuck on what to build? We’ve got you covered. Here are 4 beginner-friendly backend ideas to get you started 👇 #XanoChallenge #NoCode

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DEV Community @dev.to · 09/12/2025

Eliminate the tedious parts of coding with local LLMs. 🤖✨ Seena Sabti shares how to use Ollama and Qwen 2.5 to automate daily tasks: 🔹 Auto-generating Git commit messages 🔹 Writing instant PR descriptions Get the Python scripts here: dev.to/seenasabti/h... #AI #Ollama #Productivity

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DEV Community @dev.to · 07/12/2025

Is English the only way to write clean code? David Duymelinck explores the "language dilemma" in development: 🔹 Global standards vs. local expressiveness 🔹 How Domain-Driven Design (DDD) benefits from native terms 🔹 Can AI bridge the gap? Join the discussion: dev.to/xwero/other-...

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DEV Community @dev.to · 06/12/2025

Building a pixel-perfect Windows 95 MS Paint clone using React and Kiro. With a few twists: 🔹 AI Text-to-Image generation 🔹 Real-time Art Critique 🔹 5 "Smart" Clippy personalities 📎 See how it was built: dev.to/annu12340/bu... #Typescript #AI #React #OpenSource

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DEV Community @dev.to · 05/12/2025

The clock is ticking on the AI Challenge for Cross-Platform Apps! ⏰ You have just 3 DAYS left to build with Uno Platform and submit your entry. 💜 $3,000 prize pool 💜 Build native cross-platform apps with .NET 💜 Don't miss the deadline! #UnoPlatformChallenge #dotnet #AI

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DEV Community @dev.to · 05/12/2025

The AI Agents Intensive Course Writing Challenge with Google and Kaggle has been extended! You now have until December 14th to share your takeaways from the course!

DEV Challenges. Google and Kaggle AI Agents Intensive Course Writing Challenge. Registration Open. Starts November 10.

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DEV Community @dev.to · 01/12/2025

Blessed be the chart makers... Happy #MemeMonday

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DEV Community @dev.to · 01/12/2025

Have you checked out the Xano AI-Powered Backend Challenge? ⚡ Build scalable, production-ready backends using Xano's No-Code AI tools. Three winners will be awarded $1,000 USD 🏅 #XanoChallenge #NoCode #AI #Backend

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DEV Community @dev.to · 01/12/2025

Want to enter the AI Challenge for Cross-Platform Apps but feeling crunched for time? We've got you covered. Here are 3 simple submission ideas you can build in under a week. 🧵 #UnoPlatformChallenge #dotnet #AI

DEV Challenges. AI Challenge for Cross-Platform Apps with Uno Platform. Three thousand dollars in prizes. November nineteenth through December seventh.

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DEV Community @dev.to · 30/11/2025

Ever overengineered what could have been a simple build? Dann Waneri dissects their flawed initial build of an AI chatbot and reveals key lessons learned about Cloudflare's AI search capabilities. Read it here: dev.to/dannwaneri/i...

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DEV Community @dev.to · 29/11/2025

Are AI code reviews drowning your pull requests in low-quality noise? @angiejones.tech reveals how she tuned GitHub Copilot to stop speculating and start reviewing like a human maintainer. Read it here: dev.to/techgirl1908...

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DEV Community @dev.to · 23/11/2025

Can an AI agent successfully migrate your app? Rizèl Scarlett lays out the specific prompting process for a successful migration, from defining the scope to iterating on the results. Read on: dev.to/blockopensou...

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DEV Community @dev.to · 22/11/2025

What's the best way to transcribe a collection of poems locked away in screenshots? WizSebastian shares their clever Python script that uses LLM vision to automate the transcription of 91 poems from Instagram screenshots. Read on: dev.to/wizsebastian...

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DEV Community @dev.to · 20/11/2025

Frustrated with the lack of guardrails on how AI uses our data? Subhadip Mitra outlines the urgent need for a universal consent layer for AI and details an ambitious open-source plan to build one. Read on: dev.to/bassrehab/we...

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