I Wanted Real-Time Stock Charts on My Garmin Watch. Monkey C Had Other Plans.
I Wanted Real-Time Stock Charts on My Garmin Watch. Monkey C Had Other Plans. I wanted stock prices on my wrist. Not a notification — an actual chart.…
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Traceroute devlog #2
Mid-week I ran into something that made me stop and take stock: was I building on a foundation I already knew was cracked? Most of the click-based pat…
Building a Legal Document Analyzer in typescript with NodeJS
Legal documents are notoriously complex, filled with specialized terminology, hidden risks, and critical obligations. Lawyers and legal professionals …
The hard part of building with AI isn't the code — it's catching the BS
A game called Pathogenic launched on July 16. It's a roguelike where you play as a parasite inside the human body. By launch day, I had a full wiki fo…
My marketing docs kept lying, so I put them in CI
My side project lans.cloud has 100 free browser tools. For three weeks, everything I posted about it — the launch article, the directory listings, the…
From text-JSON parsing to Claude tool use in JobSearch
My job-search tool had five functions whose only purpose was fixing JSON that Claude had just written. _clean_json_text , _fix_unescaped_newlines , _f…
I Built an AI App. Eight Months Later, It Became a Skill
When I first wrote about NutriAgent in November 2025, it was a full application. It had a Python backend, a web interface, a Telegram bot, user accoun…
I Got Tired of AI Quiz Tools Making Up Facts That Weren't In My Notes, So I Built One That Can't
Two nights before a chemistry final, I pasted my notes into an AI quiz generator to test myself. One question asked about a reaction I never studied. …
Keeping code alive on a DOM you don't own: 12-year Chrome extension story
In April 2014 I wanted to sort posts on the Hacker News front page by points, by time, or by comments. Nothing I found did it without cluttering the p…
I Built a BPS Website: Build, Push, Sleep
What is a BPS website? BPS stands for Build , Push , Sleep . It's a simple framework I use for shipping side projects: Build it fast with AI assistanc…
Introducing Soterios: An Open‑Source Windows Security/Maintenance Suite (Contributors Welcome)
For the past few weeks, I have been building Soterios , an open-source, local-first security and system maintenance suite for Windows. The idea starte…
I solved an annoying issue by building my own real-time audio Chrome extension
Hey guys, this is my first ever post in DEV Community and I think even posting at all. Ok, except few photos on Instagram. As many of you I'm somewher…
I Audited the Icon System of 12 Side Projects - Here's the Pattern That Kept Breaking Performance
A few weeks back I went down a rabbit hole: I pulled up twelve random open-source frontend repos (mostly dashboards and SaaS landing pages) and looked…
Building a chikku OS
mintOS Developer Handbook Table of Contents Boot Process Screen Driver Keyboard Driver Input System Kernel Library Parser & Shell Tool Purpose GCC…
I shipped an AI side panel in 2 weekends
I am going to talk about shipping speed, because that is what the last two months have been about for me. The setup I had an idea for a Chrome extensi…
Why your prototype works for you but not for anyone else
You built the thing and it works. In your hands, on your bench, every time. Then a friend tries it, or it sits in the garage a week, or the temperatur…
Looking for feedback
Dev.to article: I built a free unit converter with 500+ conversions (looking for feedback) Hi everyone! I built ConvertPro , a free unit converter wit…
🎮 AXCADE Is Now Live — Play, Compete, Earn XP, and Climb the Leaderboards
Hi everyone, After months of planning, development, testing, and countless iterations, I'm excited to share the first public version of AXCADE . AXCAD…
The Rise of Proof-Based Hiring
Imagine two developers applying for the same role. The first has a computer science degree from a mid-tier university, three years at a company nobody…
How I Built an ATS Resume Builder App for Android (And What I Learned)
After months of watching friends get rejected by job applications they were qualified for, I discovered the real culprit: Applicant Tracking Systems (…
Overwhelmed by Overengineering in Project Tracking Tools. The Result? I Built a Lightweight, Local-First Project Tracker.
Hey everyone 👋 I want to give a massive shoutout to AI — it has injected a whole new level of passion and joy into coding for a non-tech guy like me. …
Building a focused 2026 World Cup schedule tracker
I built a small, focused 2026 World Cup tracker for fans who want the essentials without opening five different pages: schedule, groups, standings sna…
Why I Built ToolNudge: A Privacy-First Collection of Browser-Based Utilities
Over the years, I've found myself repeatedly searching for small utility tools. JSON formatters. JWT decoders. Regex testers. QR code generators. Text…
A Meal Planner & Grocery Shopping Agent in Typescript with HazelJS
In this post, we'll build a practical AI-powered meal planning agent using HazelJS. This agent helps users create personalized meal plans, discover re…
Launched a free DSGVO compliance scanner — scanned 200+ sites, 73% had violations
Originally written for r/SideProject on Reddit — sharing here for the dev.to community. TL;DR: Built a free tool that scans websites for GDPR/DSGVO co…
I built a personalized PSM I practice tool because mock exams felt broken
I built Pretty Scrum because preparing for the PSM I exam felt more inefficient than it needed to be. Most mock exams I tried had the same problem: th…
I Built a Polymarket Trading Bot That Tries to Capture the Last 60 Seconds of Market Inefficiency
Over the last few days, I've been building and testing a Polymarket trading bot focused on BTC and ETH 15-minute markets. The idea is surprisingly sim…
Building Class Tracker: A Student Productivity Web App
As a student, I realized that I & a few other friends of mine were constantly switching between notebooks, calendars, reminders, and random sticky…
I Built and Released My First Windows Productivity App with Python
Hey everyone, I recently built and released my first desktop app: FocusFlow. FocusFlow is a clean Windows productivity app for managing tasks, running…
I Built FileFit: A Free Tool to Resize, Compress & Format Files for Upload Requirements
Case Study: Building FileFit – Making Files Fit Upload Requirements Have you ever tried uploading a document only to get an error like: "File size mus…