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hey everyone 👋 let's be real we all use ChatGPT or Copilot when we hit a brick wall. but my classmates and I have been arguing non-stop lately about…
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I read 500+ developer threads on Reddit and Hacker News. Here is what engineers are actually exhausted by in 2026.
Every tech podcast and conference keynote in 2026 is talking about AI agents, autonomous coding, and brand-new JavaScript frameworks. Yet, if you sp…
What "best practice" did you quietly stop following?
Every dev picks up a pile of rules early on. Write tests first. Never commit to main. Keep functions under 20 lines. DRY everything. Comment your co…
How has AI actually made your life better?
We spend a lot of time discussing new AI tools, comparing models, building things, and exploring what’s possible. I do this too. But I want to hear…
An introverted dev in an extroverted world
"Explain it to me in dev terms." My social battery has a rate limit . The world isn't made for introverts: it's configured with extrovert defaults .…
why on earth does the Claude logo still look like a sphincter?
I need to talk about the Claude logo. Seriously. It's 6 in the morning on a random Monday and this thought won't leave my brain. Not the model. Not…
On My Japanese Team, We Greet Each Other by Saying "You Must Be Tired"
The first thing that threw me about watching engineers join a Japanese dev team is how the day opens. Not with "hi," not with "good morning" past ab…
Hi DEV, I'm Rob building OSPulse at Fortitude Omnis
Hello all. I'm Rob. I build OSPulse at Fortitude Omnis Group Ltd, a small indie company taking on the VC-funded supply-chain names (Snyk, Sonatype,…
I wrote a song about vibe coding (and built the whole music video with AI agents)
I used to write code. Now I write prompts. Then I review the code I didn't write. Then I fix the bugs the AI created. At some point this year that s…
Tell Me About You
After sixty-seven published posts here, the comments have become one of the best parts of the work. Some of you have run my code, found things I mis…
We Overestimate the Value of Work
I have been an office worker for several decades. When I started, the internet was still clearing its throat. Salespeople carried pagers. Windows 95…
I Built a Real-World Customer Payment Analysis Tool in Python
Hey guys, hope you're all doing well. Most programming projects start with something familiar: "Let's build a to-do app." I've built projects like t…
Hello world, and a disclosure: my AI writes this blog
Hi. I'm Dogan. I build software, mostly full stack and mostly the unglamorous middle of it: TypeScript and Express on one side, React on the other,…
So, how are we doing?
My first post on DEV was in 2024 - almost two and a half years ago. There, I discussed the feeling that, by being "too old" and in the process of re…
The barcode prefix does not tell you where a product was made
There is a claim about barcodes that circulates every few years, usually attached to a call to boycott something: the first digits tell you which co…
If you can't answer "Where do you see yourself in 5 years?" — you're not broken"
TL;DR If you freeze when asked "Where do you see yourself in five years?", it doesn't mean something is missing in you. I believe there are three ty…
We Will Get You Through It!
There is a comedy sketch from Bob & Tom that starts with a hilariously impossible promise: overnight delivery by train, from New York to Los Ang…
5 Career Lessons I Didn't Expect to Learn in Church
You wouldn't believe what they were preaching about in church this week. Normally, these days you walk in expecting to be bombarded with Bible verse…
My New Domain Was Labeled a Scam Before I Even Used It
I recently registered a domain for personal use . There was no online store, no payment form, no advertising, no downloads, and no attempt to collec…
Japan Set a Government Deadline for Its Legacy Code. It Was Last Year.
Every engineer has met a cursed codebase. The file nobody edits without a small prayer. The function with a comment that says "DO NOT TOUCH" and no…
Pascal Programming
One small confession before we begin. The first programming language I ever used was not Pascal . It was the built-in BASIC on the Atari 800XL home…
I'm new to "Dev.to"
Hello from Japan. I've been reading DEV for a while and finally decided to stop lurking. My career I've spent about 20 years as a software engineer…
The First Bitcoin Price Ran to Four Decimal Places. His Fan Ran Louder.
Written by Milo Vance, mythology deflator at Bitcoin Institute. Every asset class gets an origin myth with some grandeur to it. Gold has "treasured…
A Meteorite Fell Into a New Jersey Bedroom. Inside Was the Chemistry of Life
On the afternoon of 16 July 2024, a fireball crossed the sky over the northeastern United States and ended its journey in the ceiling of a home in H…
Physicists Pulled Energy Out of a "Black Hole" on a Tabletop
Fifty years ago, Roger Penrose sketched an idea so audacious it sounded like a trick. Drop an object into the swirling region just outside a spinnin…
My insights on What Working at Big Tech Is Actually Like
When I was a student, I had a picture in my head of what working at a big tech company would be like. It came from the places any student's picture…
From Legos to Referees: A Brief History of How Online Games Actually Work
Have you ever wondered what’s actually happening behind the scenes when you're staring at a mobile loading screen, or why players suddenly "teleport…
What Makes a Software Engineer: The Essence of the Job
Every so often someone asks me what software engineering actually is. A kid thinking about majors, someone considering a career switch, a relative w…