AI & ML

Defining Autism: The Shadow and the Object

When I attend tech conferences, people usually know me — if they do — for my work on Cilium and my labs. That started changing recently. At the last t…

Virtual Coffee Needs Your Help

Virtual Coffee has always been a free, volunteer-led developer community supporting the tech community since 2020. We host small-group coffees, challe…

Best Professional Networking Platforms in 2026

Professional networking has not died. It has just splintered. The days of LinkedIn being the only answer are over, and in 2026, where you build your p…

[FOR HIRE] Front-End Developer | 4.5+ Years Experience | Next.js /React / TypeScript / JavaScript | Open to Full-Time/PartTime Remote Positions

Hey everyone! I'm a Front-End developer with over 4.5 years of hands-on experience building scalable, performant web applications. I'm currently looki…

Pull Medium Comments into Your Moderation Dashboard

Pull Medium Comments into Your Moderation Dashboard If you syndicate full articles on-site, community managers still need responses in one ops stack. …

Return to the Planet of the Autistics

Field journal of Dr. E. Rempel, Department of Minority Neurological Studies, University of New Carthage (A work of fiction. "Allism" is a real term us…

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Advice for (parents of) teen coders

Today 2 of my kids (13/rising 9th grader, 16/rising 11th grader) finished their first week of Operation Spark's 1 month summer code camp for teens in …

The repo that became its own good-first-issue

I've always loved teaching and helping others achieve things. There is a huge sense of accomplishment leveraging someone else's abilities. Not only te…

The $1 Test That Can Save You Months of Wasted Time

The Idea That Couldn't Fail Elena had an idea she was sure was a winner. As a freelance graphic designer, she was drowning in a sea of tiny administra…

What It's Actually Like to Be an LFX Mentee at CNCF

The CNCF has a lot of projects. When I opened the CNCF Landscape for the first time, I spent days just trying to figure out where to start. Kubernetes…

Why autism hasn't disappeared — a hypothesis

In the previous post , I described two survival systems: one oriented toward information, one toward social cohesion. The autistic information drive p…

🤖 AI Event Experience: Is AI Growing or Replacing Developer Communities?

Today, I attended an AI event that raised a thought-provoking question: Is AI helping developer communities grow, or making us rely on it too much? 🚀 …

The Champion: Showing Up for the Ecosystem

The Champion is a company that has chosen to champion an open source project and are investing significant resources into supporting it—maybe they hav…

Robust Developer's Community - Stack Overflow & Forums Tamil Linux Community

Never had an idea of Stack Overflow apart from searching answers, but one session changed everything. Yes, Stack Overflow is not only for clarifying o…

Building Cursor for Community: A Buildathon Built on Time Pressure

Over the weekend, I attended an event hosted by Cursor Kenya , bringing together developers, builders, and tech enthusiasts to explore modern AI-assis…

The Internet Career Nobody Talks About Enough: What Is DevRel?

What Is DevRel? Most people discover DevRel by accident. You just start helping people online. Writing tutorials. Organizing meetups. Explaining techn…

Our System's Sins in Ghana: Why We Had to Rethink Digital Product Sales

The Problem We Were Actually Solving At first glance, our platform was simply a successful e-commerce solution. But the truth was more complex. We had…

How We Picked Between PayPal and Crypto for a $500K/Year Digital Product Launch

The Problem We Were Actually Solving In 2024 we launched a $99 CLI toolkit for engineers who automate cloud security posture. By month six we were pro…

Digital Exclusion Is a Technical Problem

The Problem We Were Actually Solving Our platform relied on traditional payment gateways like Stripe and PayPal, which were easily integrated into our…

Building a Global Digital Store in a Country that Hates Cryptocurrency

The Problem We Were Actually Solving When I started working on a platform for selling digital downloads, I thought the biggest challenge would be gett…

The One Thing I See in Every Developer Who Gets Unstuck

I've mentored over 100 developers. Some were juniors. Some had 5 years of experience but felt stuck. And the one thing I see in every single one of th…

The Bane of International Payment Systems for Open Source Developers in Sub-Saharan Africa

The Problem We Were Actually Solving The project 'OpenAid' is an OSS platform to help non-profits collect and allocate funds more efficiently to grass…

🌍 From Field Science to AI Intelligence: What Google I/O 2026 Reveals About the Future of Earth Systems

This is a submission for the Google I/O Writing Challenge Introduction — When Observation Meets Intelligence I learned Geology not from datasets, but …

OSS‑Meets‑Freedom — A Repo Where You Can Contribute Anything

TL;DR: I created a GitHub repository where you can contribute anything in any programming language. Scripts, memes, strange code, experiments—everythi…

Too Curious to Focus, Too Lost to Grow

I need to be honest: I feel completely lost in tech. I’ve been working as a Support Analyst for 5 years, and during all this time I’ve tried to learn …

Stay Tuned on May 22 for the Gemma 4 Writing Challenge Post Featuring 4 DEVengers!

We are happy to announce the first post that involves 4 people to tackle on the Gemma 4 challenge (Writing Portion), releasing on May 22! Here is what…

My Journey to Becoming a "Trusted Member" on DEV

Achieving Trusted Member status on DEV Community is a meaningful milestone for any tech writer. This role unlocks moderation powers aimed at keeping o…

I miss building weird software with people who actually care about software

Lately I’ve been thinking a lot about creating a small developer community around the things I build and experiment with. Not really a “startup commun…

The Story of GoBadge: How It All Started

A journey from a simple idea to a badge service for modules It Started with a Simple Problem (and a Wearing Out F5 Key) "Why do I need a CLI tool just…