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Presage SmartSpectra SDK Challenge

Your camera is more powerful than you think.

Build with the Presage SmartSpectra SDK that responds to real-time human signals captured through a camera, such as pulse, breathing rate, HRV, or expressions. Enter by Nov. 22 for a chance to be one of 10 winners.

Congrats to the Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 4: Ghost in the Machine Winners!
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Digital ofrendas and dead code séances won

Congrats to the Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 4: Ghost in the Machine Winners!

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Long Live Rails

Real production data shows 75% faster load times

Long Live Rails

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MCP Is Dead Simple. And That's Exactly the Problem

Production gaps like safety and idempotency

MCP Is Dead Simple. And That's Exactly the Problem

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Dev Opportunity Radar #25: $120K+ Atlassian Hackathon, MLH Fellowship, and INSEAD AI Founder Sprint

Dev Opportunity Radar #25: $120K+ Atlassian Hackathon, MLH Fellowship, and INSEAD AI Founder Sprint

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Your MCP Servers Are Silently Draining Your Context Window: The Hidden Cost of Tool-Heavy AI Agents

Schema bloat silently burns tokens

Your MCP Servers Are Silently Draining Your Context Window: The Hidden Cost of Tool-Heavy AI Agents

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One Month After the Hackathon: Why My 4-Service App Stopped Working (and What @mansio Caught in the Verifiers)

Details subtle auth bugs and community PR fixes

One Month After the Hackathon: Why My 4-Service App Stopped Working (and What @mansio Caught in the Verifiers)

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Six Serving Engines on Four Accelerators: Gemma 4 E2B on an RTX 3050, a T4, an L4 and a TPU v5e

Six Serving Engines on Four Accelerators: Gemma 4 E2B on an RTX 3050, a T4, an L4 and a TPU v5e

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A 10 years old developer who has become a DEV.to Trusted Member! 😱

Overcame discouragement from doubting classmates

A 10 years old developer who has become a DEV.to Trusted Member! 😱

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Scope WebMCP Tools to the Open React Workflow

Scope WebMCP Tools to the Open React Workflow

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remove.bg Is Shutting Down — Here's a Free, No-Upload Alternative

Built by a solo dev as a free replacement

remove.bg Is Shutting Down — Here's a Free, No-Upload Alternative

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Can't Beat Free: Gemma 4 31B on AMD Token Lab, with a Local Chat Page and an ADK Agent

Speeds vary wildly and SSE drops need handling

Can't Beat Free: Gemma 4 31B on AMD Token Lab, with a Local Chat Page and an ADK Agent

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Four Applications and One Ask. Guess Which One Scared Me.

Building in public makes reference asks effortless

Four Applications and One Ask. Guess Which One Scared Me.

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Ultimate AI Roast! 😂😹

Brutal AI takedown of excessive homelab gear

Ultimate AI Roast! 😂😹

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🛸 Necoz: The UFO Kingdom Python Loops 🐱

Story format makes Python fun

🛸 Necoz: The UFO Kingdom Python Loops 🐱

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Make the most of your hackathon

AI Engineer Conference Coverage

Make the most of your hackathon

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Benchmarking the Gemini Decisions API

Shows 359ms latency for 100 questions

Benchmarking the Gemini Decisions API

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Keeping a software factory stable at 1,000 PRs a week

Keeping a software factory stable at 1,000 PRs a week

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Snapshotting a DigitalOcean Droplet while it's running

Snapshotting a DigitalOcean Droplet while it's running

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