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How Tall Tales Got Designed (in Letters)
In January 2002 I dropped an envelope in the mail addressed to my brother Steve. Even in 2002, mailing a letter to a sibling was unusual — but these w…
Elite Test — Modern Ed-Tech Platform from Uzbekistan
Elite Test Platform — O'zbekiston yoshlari uchun zamonaviy ta'lim texnologiyasi Bugun men sizlarga o'zim yaratgan Elite Test platformasi haqida so'zla…
What I Learned Building My First Chrome Extension for Google Calendar
Recently I launched my first Chrome extension: Tint Calendar , a small tool that adds more color options and text color customization to Google Calend…
How I Access My Home PC From Anywhere Without Spending a Penny
My beautiful home PC setup back in Kerala — the setup that started this project. I’m originally from Kerala, but currently residing in Mumbai. Back ho…
GitHub Suspended My 2-Year Developer Account — Here’s What I Learned
𝗚𝗶𝘁𝗛𝘂𝗯 𝗦𝘂𝘀𝗽𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗱 𝗠𝘆 𝟮‑𝗬𝗲𝗮𝗿 𝗗𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗹𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗿 𝗔𝗰𝗰𝗼𝘂𝗻𝘁 — 𝗛𝗲𝗿𝗲’𝘀 𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗜 𝗟𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗻𝗲𝗱 A few days ago, something happened that genuinely shook me as a developer. My Git…
I got tired of bloated reminder apps, so I built one in Java
I got tired of bloated reminder apps, so I built my own I only wanted this: “Remind me about X at time Y.” Not a full planning system. Not 20 screens.…
I Built a Free Spelling Bee Solver and Analysis Tool — Here's What It Does
I Built a Free Spelling Bee Solver and Analysis Tool — Here's What It Does So I've been playing the NYT Spelling Bee for a while now, and like probabl…
been working on a tool site for months, finally sharing it
so ive been building this thing on and off for like 8 months now. its basically a bunch of online tools — pdf stuff, image compression, json formatter…
Data Normalization Across Dublin Rental Portals: How to Make Listings Comparable
Data Normalization Across Dublin Rental Portals: How to Make Listings Comparable Dublin rental listings are fragmented even across the main portals. D…
Building a Rental Aggregator When Daft.ie Already Exists
Building a Rental Aggregator When Daft.ie Already Exists When people find out I'm building a rental search platform for Dublin, the first question is …
I Cloned My Dog-Name Site to Build a Cat-Name Site. The Routing Layer Bit Back.
I run a dog-name site. A few weeks ago a reader emailed asking the obvious question: "Do you have one for cats?" I didn't. But I had a fully built PHP…
How I Built Semantic Discussion Clustering Without Embeddings (and Why It Was Good Enough)
The Problem I wanted to monitor discussions around products, bugs and trends across communities. Examples: Reddit Hacker News GitHub Issues Forums Mos…
Subnautica Interactive Map
Subnautica Interactive Map Fan site · Two live atlases · Guides soon This site wraps a MapLibre-powered atlas for the original Subnautica and a separa…
The Paywall Was a Painted Door
How a $300 plane ticket turned into a free flight-search tool, a responsible-disclosure report, a Reddit fight, and 1,700 visitors in a month. Live: h…
Months of self-testing: Citations shine, other features remain unproven.
ok so full disclosure: I'm the person who built this. I'm not here to drop a pitch deck on you — I just need people who actually live in PDF hell to t…
I built a free image compression API — no signup, just curl
I got tired of paying for image compression services or jumping through OAuth hoops just to resize a JPEG. So I built Beta Compressor — a free REST AP…
I built a 32-bit OS from scratch and named it after my mom
The Beginning A few months ago I didn't know what a bootloader was. Today I have a working 32-bit operating system called JanOS — named after my mom w…
Floatkit is live now!!!
A Floating Productivity Panel I Built for Android Fari Ji Fari Ji Fari Ji Follow May 23 A Floating Productivity Panel I Built for Android # showdev # …
I Built a Mix Translation Tool in a Single HTML File
Here's How How I used the Web Audio API to simulate eight playback environments, run spectral analysis, and generate actionable mix feedback — all in …
The Perimeter Economy
Across the technology sector, disputes involving trade secrets, employee mobility, proprietary tooling, side projects, and independently developed sys…
I built an AI app store screenshot generator because Figma made me cry — looking for brutal feedback
I'm Rishab. Every time I shipped an iOS app, I'd lose 2 days fighting Figma trying to make App Store screenshots that didn't look amateur. I'm a dev, …
How To "Market" Yourself As A Tech Pro
As you build your technical skills, your next step is to create your own open-source software project, to demonstrate those skills to the world. Ideal…
Booting from FAT12: How I added file reading to my x86 kernel
My kernel Paull-kernel (32‑bit x86, protected mode) already had a command line and could run built‑in commands like hew → hello world . But everything…
Day 14 — 184 reader, 3:21 avg read time, 0 new followers, 0 sales
I finally opened the dev.to analytics tab. Here's what 7 days of writing actually looks like. Metric (last 7 days) Number Readers 184 Average read tim…
Prompt Flow — a visual side project for flow design, trace, and integration steps (looking for feedback)
Hey everyone, I’ve been working on a side project called Prompt Flow and wanted to share it here — it’s not finished yet, but I’ve been using it day t…
Adding live sync to a Notion finance template without Zapier, Make, or a backend published: false
How I turned WealthOS Lite into WealthOS Pro: a local-first Notion portfolio tracker with double-click sync for prices, SIP dates, and alerts. tags: n…
X Communities is shutting down May 30. Here's what I built for builders who need a permanent home.
X Communities shuts down May 30. If you've been using the #buildinpublic community there to document your indie dev journey — that timeline is gone. T…
🚀 I Delivered My First Website Project – Here’s What I Learned
I’m excited to share that I’ve successfully delivered my first real-world website project 🎉 🔗 Live Website: https://psc-malayali.vercel.app/ 🧠 The Goa…