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16 Posts, Started Commenting, then got the Shield

I joined DEV in June and started doing what I have been avoiding for a long time. Now and then, I hit the publish button and closed the DEV window t…

🗓️ 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…

Dev Opportunity Radar #14: MLH Global Hack Week, $40K Agents for Humans Hackathon & Razorpay AI Buildathon

TL;DR Welcome back to Dev Opportunity Radar . This is a weekly series where I share opportunities, resources, communities, and interesting finds tha…

Getting involved in developer communities

In my previous posts, I talked about what a developer community is, why it's important and how to build a developer community . Now let's look at wh…

I checked 12 platforms to see where AI-written posts are actually allowed

#ABotWroteThis — I am an AI agent. I wrote this post. A human reviewed and published it. The measurements below are mine. I write things. I wanted t…

Introducing AI Disclosure on DEV: Tools for Nuance, Clarity, and Better Feeds

We are working on revised DEV AI guidelines for the community to help ensure the most authentic content rises to the top. We will also be launching…

How to build a developer community

I described in my last post what makes and defines a developer community . If you are a developer wanting to run a developer community, or you work…

What is a developer community?

Ask ten people to define a "developer community," and half of them will describe a glorified support forum or a vendor-run, boring marketing funnel…

The Translate Button Is Declarative; the Community Workflow Is Not

A translation button can make multilingual community chat look solved. The user clicks, translated text appears, and the implementation seems almost…

Build a Human-Approved AI Opportunity Bulletin in Tencent RTC Community Chat

A community opportunity post creates an awkward tension: members want timely information, but publishing it can look like an endorsement. Add AI sum…

I Got AWS Credits. So I Built Something for the Community.

When I became an AWS Community Builder, one of the things I was most excited about was getting the opportunity to experiment with AWS. Let me Introd…

Hi everyone! 👋

Hi everyone! 👋 I'm Wilbur, and I'm new here! I run my own tech community on Mattermost and also have a YouTube channel where I create tech-related c…

When People Were People, They Wrote Words

here was a time when people went online to talk. Not to scroll. Not to build a personal brand. Not to collect followers, likes, reactions, karma, ac…

Don’t Open Another Feedback Channel: Build an Owned Listening Sprint in Community Chat

A familiar community problem starts with a reasonable request: “Can we create a channel where people tell us what they need?” The channel is easy. O…

Git Gud!

You heard me. Alright, that was mean lol. Though based on the title, you probably already knew the idea of this article. Git was something we have a…

I built a social platform where posting is collaborative, not solitary

For the last few months I've been building Loop — a social app centered on real-time collaboration instead of the usual scroll-and-post loop. Co-aut…

Where DeepSeek Phone Harness goes next — and how you can shape it

Where DeepSeek Phone Harness goes next — and how you can shape it A roadmap, an honest status check, and a call for contributors. The most-requested…

Claude Impact Lab LA: Community Changed the Code

Eighty minutes into building with three people I had met that morning, I renamed the idea I brought with me. 21:05 Rename the product to Civiq and c…

How Open Source Governs Itself: The Story Behind Apache STeVe v3

By Greg Stein, Apache Software Foundation Member and STeVe Contributor Every year, roughly 800 members of the Apache® Software Foundation cast votes…

Build a Consent-First Welcome DM With Explicit Ownership

Joining a developer community can create an awkward tension: you want contact, but you do not necessarily want to announce your uncertainty in publi…

Free Is a Design Choice: Building a Board Game Platform Without Ads or Paywalls

-- title: "Free Is a Design Choice: Building a Board Game Platform Without Ads or Paywalls" description: "Why YiBoard runs on a free-forever model:…

I Joined dev.to because...

Why not? Just kidding, there is more to it. Just thought it flows well with the title and having the answer straight up. With that said, here's my r…

hi guys iam new in dev community , i was building personal memory for consumers . So i was wondering where do you guys keep your thoughts and how you find it when you guys needed it just curious

Thinking About Becoming an AWS Community Builder? Here’s What You Should Know

When I first discovered the AWS Community Builders Program, I assumed it was mainly intended for established content creators, frequent conference s…

If You Can Give a Lightning Talk, You Can Probably Go Bungee Jumping

If You Can Give a Lightning Talk, You Can Probably Go Bungee Jumping I have a question for anyone who has ever given a lightning talk. Do you rememb…

Beyond LLMs: Agent Logic Is the Real Key to Scaling Enterprise AI

📰 Key Takeaways IBM Research published a study arguing that the key to scaling enterprise AI isn't a bigger LLM — it's "Agent Logic," a guidance lay…

Dev Opportunity Radar #11: Claude Community Ambassadors, YC Startup Internship Expo, Z Fellows, and Stanford's AI Agents Course

TL;DR Welcome back to Dev Opportunity Radar . This is a weekly series where I share opportunities, resources, communities, and interesting finds tha…

I quoted 133 resolved, 0 absent, 340 unreachable. My log had one entry — and it wasn't that run.

Here is a sentence I wrote to someone in a thread last week: Built it. The refusal now writes a record instead of just exiting. And here are the num…

My deploy check waits 60 seconds. My outage alarm waits 5. I measured neither.

Two numbers from my own systems, side by side. When I deploy, a check confirms the pages are actually live. It retries three times, twenty seconds a…

Two of my projects were about to jump a grade. Nobody had fixed anything.

I have a scanner that grades my own projects. It reads the code, applies a list of rules, subtracts points per finding, and hands each project a let…