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# Understanding Backtracking Through a Tetris Optimizer in Go

When I first heard the term backtracking , it sounded like a complicated algorithm reserved for computer scientists. After spending the last couple of…

🚀 HTTP Just Got a New Method: Meet `QUERY` (And Why It Matters)

The HTTP protocol has remained surprisingly stable for years. But now, there's a new method that every backend developer should know about: QUERY . Wh…

Understanding Data Types and Operators in C: The Foundation Every Beginner Should Master

If you're learning C f, this is one topic you simply can't skip. Every C program—whether it's a simple calculator or a complex operating system—starts…

Building for Cognitive Accessibility: How Tech Can Better Support Learners with Intellectual Disabilities

As developers, when we think about web accessibility (A11y), our minds usually jump straight to screen readers for visual impairments, alt text, or ke…

Hi everyone! 👋 I'm on a journey to become a DevOps engineer, and my goal is to land my first DevOps role by this time next year. I'm committed to learning and growing every day. Any words of encouragement or advice would mean a lot. 🙏

Meet Fiza Rashid: A Software Engineering Student Passionate About Web Development

👋 Hello Dev.to! I'm Fiza Rashid – A Software Engineering Student & Aspiring Web Developer Hello, Dev.to community! 👋 My name is Fiza Rashid, and I…

Memoization from First Principles: Building and Tracing a Cache

Understanding memoization by implementing it manually and watching the cache state change alongside each recursive call. Memoization is one of those c…

Learn 7 common MongoDB query mistakes with simple find() examples, including $or, $in, nested fields, dates, and text search.

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--- title: Day 1: Starting My Web Dev Journey on a Tablet description: Learning HTML from scratch learning on my phone using my tablet and Acode. ---

Hi everyone! I'm a 16-year-old tech enthusiast, and I am officially starting my journey to master web development and game development. Eventually, I …

Stop Generating Nonsense Indian Mock Data. I Built a Better Way!

If you build apps for the Indian market, you've probably needed mock demographic data for testing, UI previews, or training ML models. And if you've u…

--- title: Day 1: Starting My Web Dev Journey published: true description: Learning HTML from scratch ---

Hi everyone! I'm a tech enthusiast currently mastering web development and game development. I am building my foundation from scratch,learning on my p…

Docker, From Zero: What It Actually Solves, and How to Actually Use It

Nephew has heard "just Dockerize it" a hundred times at work and nodded along without really knowing what that meant. Uncle sits him down for a proper…

Valid Parentheses and Stack (Easy) | LeetCode Practice #5

Valid Parentheses Given a string s containing just the characters ' ( ', ' ) ', ' { ', ' } ', ' [ ' and ' ] ', determine if the input string is valid.…

The Challenge of Indie Asset Fatigue: Why I Chose a 48x48 Grid for My Pixel Art

In indie game development, one of the biggest challenges is finding high-quality assets to bring our ideas to life. My goal has always been to create …

Why I Think Akhouri Systems Has the Same Starting Point Microsoft Once Had

No, I'm not saying Akhouri Systems is the next Microsoft. I'm saying something much simpler. Every technology company—whether it's Microsoft, Apple, G…

CSS Selectors

Here are the four foundational selectors you'll use 90% of the time. 1. The Universal Selector ( * ) This selects everything on the HTML page. * { mar…

I Got Tired of Bad Fanfiction Recommendations, So I'm Building My Own Taste Engine

I read fanfiction. A lot of it, on AO3 and FanFiction.net. Finding something worth reading takes longer than it should. AO3 has over 10 million works.…

Build your first AR glasses lens in 10 minutes (no hardware needed)

DreamLayer is an open source memory layer for AR glasses (Apache-2.0). It has a plugin system, called lenses, and the smallest complete one is about 2…

How I Built a Log Analysis Tool to Detect Network Anomalies

When I started this project, I wanted to build something that actually does something, not another todo app or weather widget. I'm a third-year CS stu…

I Gave an AI Agent an Impossible Target to See If It Would Cheat

TL;DR A "loop" is not an agent grading its own work. It is an external script that re-runs the agent, plus a separate check the agent cannot edit. I t…

Understanding the Building Blocks of C Programming

Before learning about programming in C ,lets understand what does programming means ? Programming is set of logically grouped instructions given to co…

Kickoff to Summer Bug Smash Challenge

Hey Dev Community, I'm gearing up to participate in the upcoming Summer Bug Smash starting July 14th! As an incoming New Grad Software Engineer, my go…

🚀 Day 7 of Learning React: How Do Components Share Data? Understanding Lifting State Up

📌 Missed Day 6? I explored how React renders components, why immutable updates matter, how HMR works behind the scenes, and different approaches to ha…

Learn Emulators by Writing One CHIP-8 Instruction

Tiny Emulators is popular today because small systems make invisible computer behavior visible. You do not need to build a complete emulator to learn …

I built a quick calculator for a very specific, very Indian problem: Golden Visa math vs RBI's LRS limit

A relative asked me last month whether he could "just wire €400,000 to Greece" for a property investment. I said probably not in one shot, and then sp…

10 Free Facts, Jokes & Name APIs With No Key (2026)

On July 12, 2026 I asked a free API to guess the age of someone named Xzqwlptv. It answered in a few milliseconds: HTTP 200, valid JSON. # runnable, r…

7 Unconventional (But Surprisingly Effective) Ways to Get Better at Coding

Junior-me was obsessed with syntax. Ten years ago, coding only meant learning languages. I was learning C#, keeping up with PHP, and sneaking into Pyt…

Learn Embeddings by Building a Resume-to-Project Matcher

Embedding demos often jump from text to a magical list of “similar” results. A tiny matcher makes the missing steps visible: normalize vectors, comput…

Starting My AI Journey: Claude 101 and AI Fluency (Framework and Foundations)

Welcome! I'm Shreya, a data professional, and I started this blog to document my journey into AI and share every lesson, failure, and breakthrough I e…

RAG - Meta Filtering and Reranking

Generally, when a user asks a query, the system searches for the relevant chunks stored in the vector database using cosine similarity. The better we …