Why I stopped using cloud-based JSON and XML formatters (And what I built instead)
As developers, we constantly copy-paste data into online formatters, decoders, and tools. But have you ever stopped to think where that data goes? If …
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The Biggest Challenges Software Developers Are Facing in 2026
Software development is evolving faster than ever, but developers are facing several new challenges: 🔹 Keeping Up with AI Tools AI coding assistants i…
Overcoming Architectural Dogma: Why Infrastructure is a Business Stage Decision
One of the most persistent traps in modern software development is the tendency to turn architectural styles into absolute dogmas. We see it constantl…
Headless Browser Detection in 2026: What Still Trips Up Playwright
Playwright is the best browser automation library in 2026. It's also the most fingerprinted, the most detected, and the most patched in anti-bot datab…
I Stopped Using Heavy IDEs. AI Became My IDE.
I used to think a serious developer needed a serious IDE. Big project? Open PhpStorm. Design work? Open Photoshop. Need every refactor, every inspecti…
D1 read replicas returned stale data for 6 seconds — here's what I measured and how I designed around it
At p99, a D1 read replica in Tokyo was 6.1 seconds behind a write that landed on the Eastern NA primary. I found this out not from the docs, but from …
Distributing a Python desktop app on Windows and Mac — the full release pipeline
WP Maintenance Manager ships from a single Python codebase to both Windows and macOS. "Python is cross-platform — write once, run anywhere," the sayin…
Coding Burnout is Real: Build a Stress Warning Dashboard with Oura Ring & GitHub
We’ve all been there: it’s 2 AM, you’re deep in a "Refactoring Rabbit Hole," your coffee is cold, and your heart is racing. You feel productive, but i…
How I Build Production AI Apps on Cloudflare with Claude Code
AI makes it trivial to generate a working demo. Making something that survives real traffic is a different skill. Here's how I approach it — the princ…
The UX Challenge of AI: Training Users to Build a Secure Facial Vault
When you build an app, you know exactly how the backend works. But the moment real users hit the frontend, they will do the exact opposite of what you…
How to E2E Test SendPigeon Email Workflows in Playwright
When you integrate SendPigeon into your app, you get three stages of email testing. Each stage solves a different problem. This guide walks through al…
Why PDF generation breaks in production (and why localhost lies)
PDF generation is one of those things that works perfectly… until real users touch it. On localhost: npm run dev Open Chrome → print → PDF. Done. Then…
Notion AI's Pricing Trap: Why I Went Open Source Instead
Notion AI's Pricing Trap: Why I Went Open Source Instead I still remember the day my colleague slid a Notion AI invoice across my desk. The number mad…
Airtable AI From Scratch: A Freelance Dev's Cost Breakdown
Airtable AI From Scratch: A Freelance Dev's Cost Breakdown I run a one-person shop. No co-founders, no VC money, no "growth team." Just me, my laptop,…
Stop letting the prompt be your state machine
Stop letting the prompt be your state machine You shipped an LLM feature six months ago. Now the same user input produces wildly different outputs dep…
The webhook inbox pattern: stop writing this controller by hand
Every Rails app that takes Stripe webhooks has some version of this controller: def create payload = request . body . read sig_header = request . env …
TypeScript Without tsc in 2026: Type-Stripping in Node.js 24, Bun, and Deno Compared
TypeScript Without tsc in 2026: Type-Stripping in Node.js 24, Bun, and Deno Compared The End of tsc: Why Type-Stripping Changed Everything in 2026 Mos…
Stop Reinventing Boilerplate: Modern Web Development Is About Orchestration
There is an old habit in web development that still feels attractive: build everything yourself. Custom boilerplate. Custom admin panels. Custom authe…
The Difference Between a Product and Infrastructure
One of the most interesting realizations I've had while building software is that products and infrastructure are not the same thing. At first, that s…
How We Saved Big and Simplified Our Image Pipeline: Adopting bunny.net on DEV
Hey everyone, Ben here. If you’ve been following the journey of DEV and our open source project Forem , you know we’ve always been obsessed with web p…
Developer take on: Running local models is good now
Developer take on: Running local models is good now Forget the days when running powerful AI models required specialized hardware, complex setups, or …
SpaceX Is Buying Cursor for $60B: What Developers Should Know Right Now
SpaceX has agreed to acquire Anysphere, the company behind Cursor, for $60 billion in stock. The deal was announced June 16, 2026, days after SpaceX's…
Stop hand-picking an LLM per request: a practical case for auto-routing
Most LLM features ship with the model name hardcoded. You picked it once — usually the strongest one you could justify — and now every request, trivia…
Mid-Conversation System Prompts: Steering an Agent Without Breaking the Cache
Here is a problem I hit building a long-running agent: I needed to inject a new instruction partway through a session ("the project is Go, write Go") …
I built an Aadhaar QR reader that works 100% offline — no server, no data leak
Every time I handed my Aadhaar card to someone for KYC, one thought kept nagging me: Where is this data actually going? Most "digital Aadhaar verifica…
A Korean Saju (Four Pillars) API that gets the date math right
If you have ever tried to build a Korean fortune-telling or astrology app, you already know the dirty secret: the fun part is the interpretation, and …
Why Most Developers Never Finish Their Projects
Starting a new project feels exciting. A new idea appears, the first few lines of code are written, the design starts coming together, and everything …
How I Cut Speech-to-Text Costs by 60% Without Killing Quality
How I Cut Speech-to-Text Costs by 60% Without Killing Quality I've been running transcription pipelines in production for the better part of a decade,…
We audited 14 side-project launches. Zero critical bugs, same quiet flaws.
Originally published on the Prufa blog . Five days ago we audited 49 Show HN launches and found that 78% had a critical bug on day one. This week we p…
Accessibility-First Web Development: A Practical Framework
Here's a question most businesses never think to ask when they're building a website: can everyone actually use this? Not just the people on a fast la…