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How I Build and Ship Ten Roblox Games With a Shared Engine and Local AI
Ten Roblox games, a web app and a short-video pipeline, all built and run by one person from a single PC. The stack Text generation runs on Ollama w…
🎑September OSS Recap: 6 Months of "One Commit A Day"
September was a busy month, but I continued showing up and contributing at my own pace. It also marked 6 months of One Commit a Day! What I've Worke…
I Can Defend Every Design Decision. I Cannot Defend the Code.
Week four of i.c.stars produced four documents. A defect log. A peer review of somebody else's defect log. Three runbooks. A run of show. None of th…
(d+019) OpenGL
스팀, 프로그래밍 게임 축제 스팀을 오랜만에 켜보니 프로그래밍 게임 대축제를 하고 있다. 퍼즐게임을 워낙 좋아해서 한번 쭉 훑어봤지만 뭔가 구미가 당기지 않는다. 차라리 이럴꺼면 하던거 마저할까? 이런 생각이 들었다. TileMap, Atlas 며칠전부터 만들어온…
Weekly Dev Log 2026-W19
🗓️ This Week After all the hot weather we had up until last week, the days have suddenly turned much cooler. It finally feels like autumn is here🍂.…
Build the Sync Spine Before You Build a Single Screen
The first time a client asked me for "offline mode", it arrived three weeks before launch, in the same tone as "can we also have a dark theme". I sa…
The Reminder Queue Refills Only When You Open the App
The bug report was one line from someone testing Lifemaxxing AI : "why did it tell me I got nothing done today, I did everything." He was right, and…
Why I'm Migrating My Blog to Astro
I first joined the DEV community 8 years ago (as of writing) to jump-start my writing journey and get my name out there. Since then, my reading audi…
Week Two: I Take Over the Work and I Hold Back My Voice
Last week I wrote that when a project gets hard and progress feels slow, I take on more work instead of asking for help. I put that in public on a F…
Transcribing a Lecture and Transcribing a Caller Are Not the Same Problem
The first time I opened a Retell call transcript, I assumed I already knew this problem. I had shipped LectureNotes AI before that: a note-taking ap…
I just did something my AI agents couldn't
It is funny how things work out. You can let AI tools try to fix a code problem for days, but nothing works until you finally step in and do it your…
Valid JSON, Wrong Shape: Structured Output Across Three AI Backends
On March 3rd, 2026, a planning step in our content pipeline asked the model for a list of entities and got back exactly what it asked for. That was…
After the Sprint: A 72-Hour Build Retrospective - Spoiler: It Wasn't Secure
I built Charitas Clew for a 72-hour DEV Weekend Challenge. It worked. I submitted it. And then I did something slightly inconvenient: I kept poking…
Weekly Dev Log 2026-W18
🗓️ This Week We’ve still had plenty of hot days lately, but there have also been some cooler days when it rains. It’s starting to feel like summer i…
Bringing Data to Life with Power BI.
Week 3 of My Data Science Journey: Building Stories with Power BI Week 3 has been nothing short of exciting. I got the chance to work with one of th…
I measured what my 11 Actors cost to run. The 96x spread was mostly one config field.
I wrote this article twice. The first version was finished, proofread, and queued to publish. Then someone asked a question about one number in it,…
The Tea on Teamwork: Week One of My i.c.stars Tech Internship
I went into my first week at i.c.stars thinking about technology, code, and systems. The week turned out to be about the human layer instead, and th…
Four Ways a Batch Runner Can Believe It Already Finished
On 16 March 2026 the batch runner for our content pipeline landed in a single commit. That commit already contained a resume flag, a state log with…
The Stack Nobody Picks Might Be the One That Picks You
Nobody chooses .NET. Not as a student, at least. You hear "backend" and the room splits into Spring Boot and Django camps — maybe Express if someone…
🗓️ Monthly Dev Report: August 2026
Hey everyone! I bring you my development journey on what I have discovered, accomplishments for this month, and the goals for next month! Additional…
You Can Retry a Write. You Cannot Retry an Email.
I run Upwork Scout , a small SaaS that watches Upwork and emails you only the jobs that fit you. The whole product is one cron endpoint. It wakes up…
A user spent a day confirming an email that was already confirmed
A user spent a day confirming an email address that was already confirmed, because my API kept telling him to. He was right and my error message was…
Nobody Hacked It. The Lookup Tool Just Took a Phone Number.
The first time a client asked me "can someone hack this thing?", I gave a bad answer. I talked about the model: guardrails, refusals, how hard it is…
My Journey from Full-Stack Engineering to AI-First FDE
My Journey from Full-Stack Engineering to AI-First FDE Hi everyone! 👋 I’m Prakash Tank, a Full-Stack Architect and AI Tech Lead with 10+ years of ex…
Your RAG Demo Works Because Someone Picked the Documents
A RAG prototype takes an afternoon. Chunk some documents, embed them, stuff the top matches into a prompt, ship a chat box. It works. You demo it, e…
I Made My Onboarding Data-Driven. A Hardcoded List Ate Four of Six Answers.
Lifemaxxing AI is a habit app I build with a partner. You answer eight questions when you install it, and it hands you back a plan: a set of daily t…
Smashing the MCP + Skill Tradeoff: More Guidance, Better Agents?
This is a submission for DEV's Summer Bug Smash: Clear the Lineup powered by Sentry . Project Overview I've been working on a Tokyo public transit M…
Your Voice Agent Needs Three Exits, Not One
Most voice agent demos optimise the happy path. Caller asks for a booking, agent books it, everyone claps. I have shipped these into hospitals, vet…
My AI Content Journey
I apologize ahead of time, what follows has no tooling applied to it. No grammar checks, no AI, and no edit passes for flow. It might be a bit rough…