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What Do You Do While AI Codes?
AI coding agents leave you with 5-to-20-minute gaps all day. Five real ways I fill them — and the one "quick" habit that makes you the bottleneck.
Ashley Childress
The Model Scored 30%. The Harness Scored 100%. Which One Did You Benchmark?
Four harnesses took the same public ARC-AGI-3 set from 13% to 100% without touching a single weight. Then Microsoft put the harness inside the training loop.
Sergei Parfenov
I Used React DataGrid to Build a Real Space Mission Explorer
I went through the documentation and feature list of React DataGrid, and I wrote React DataGrid: A...
Hadil Ben Abdallah
Did the Model Upgrade Break Your AI Agent?
Nothing happened. That is the strange part. No deploy. No pull request. Nobody touched the prompt....
Sara Mo
The Third-Generation GUI Builder: One Workspace for Every Form
Codename One's third-generation GUI Builder keeps the guided layout work from the previous editor and rebuilds the workflow around Maven projects, live CSS, protected Java regions, and fast switching between forms.
Shai Almog
What I Get to Forget About Riverpod Now That I Have BlocSignal
The greatest upgrade in developer experience isn't what you have to learn—it's the mental gymnastics you get to unlearn. A respectful, deep-dive comparison into why shedding Riverpod's cognitive overhead brings joy back to Flutter architecture.
Randal L. Schwartz
State Management in Front-end Web Development: Mutators
Libraries like Valtio and Pinia for Vue use a mutator pattern instead of the actions, dispatch, and...
Abbey Perini
You Don't Need a Ministry of Truth to Build a Memory Hole
What happens when a thousand independent sources turn out to have one parent? A while back I went...
Ken W Alger
I Turned On Cache Components in Next.js 16.3. It Refused to Build My Simplest Page.
I didn't want to write another "what's new in Next.js 16.3" post. Enough of those exist. I wanted to...
Shubhra Pokhariya
Greatness Is Forged by Limitation
Can't believe I spent 2 weeks writing this. Last week, I gave a talk at a Cursor community event...
Adam - The Developer ✨
I’ve Been a Flutter GDE for 8 Years. Here’s the Ground Truth on “Flutter is Dying”
The insider story on Google's commitment to Flutter, the enterprise hiring paradox, and why Flutter is kicking tail on every measurable scale.
Randal L. Schwartz
COSP: The Prompting Trick Where Your LLM Grades Its Own Homework
Hello, I'm Maneshwar. I'm building git-lrc, a Micro AI code reviewer that runs on every commit. It is...
Athreya aka Maneshwar
Learn how to build a disclosure component using the native HTML details tag
Welcome to a new entry in my section dedicated to creating reusable and, above all, accessible...
Mica
Ichiraku Ramen — A Cozy Japanese Restaurant Landing Page 🍜🌸
This is a submission for Frontend Challenge - Comfort Food Edition, Perfect Landing What...
Gamya 
One-Shot UI Side Effects in BlocSignal: Snackbars, Dialogs, and Navigation Without State Pollution
Why persistent domain state is the wrong place for transient dialogs and snackbars, how classic BLoC solved it with bloc_presentation, and how to handle one-shot side effects in BlocSignal with zero dependencies.
Randal L. Schwartz
The "AI" Badge Doesn't Measure What You Think It Does
Anthropic signed the EU AI Act's Code of Practice on Transparency of AI-Generated Content, and...
Pascal CESCATO
Dogfooding BlocSignal on the Web: Building a 100K Ops/sec Reactive App with Jaspr and Dart 3.13
A behind-the-scenes look at how we dogfooded bloc_signals_jaspr on blocsignal.dev, achieving 100K ops/sec in browser JS with declarative consumer components and Dart 3.13.
Randal L. Schwartz
App Shield: Your Server Should Not Trust the App Calling It
Codename One App Shield turns Apple App Attest and Google Play Integrity into short-lived tokens your backend can verify. This release also adds OpenType fonts, advances the R2 repository migration, and prepares new Windows desktop builders.
Shai Almog
Dart 3.13 Primary Constructors + BlocSignal: Boilerplate-Free Reactive Architecture
Discover how Dart 3.13 primary constructors, 'this' constructor bodies, and constructor shorthands transform BlocSignal into the cleanest state management architecture in Flutter.
Randal L. Schwartz
Running Gemma 4 on EC2 G5g: Graviton2 AMD with NVIDIA GPU
A field report on serving Gemma 4 E2B under vLLM on AWS G5g — the only aarch64 + SM 7.5 hardware there is. No published build covers that combination, AWS quietly solves half of it, and the thing that actually blocks you is 64 KiB of shared memory.
xbill
Running Gemma 4 on EC2 G5g: Graviton2 AMD with NVIDIA GPU
A field report on serving Gemma 4 E2B under vLLM on AWS G5g — the only aarch64 + SM 7.5 hardware there is. No published build covers that combination, AWS quietly solves half of it, and the thing that actually blocks you is 64 KiB of shared memory.
xbill
Riverpod to BlocSignal: Incremental Migration and Zero-Codegen Signals for Flutter
Learn how to trial or incrementally migrate from Riverpod to BlocSignal with zero code generation, fine-grained signal graph reactivity, and bidirectional interop.
Randal L. Schwartz
The Next Evolution of Software Developers
The next evolution of software developers: from implementation to intent, orchestration, and...
Roberto B.
React 19's useFormStatus Fixed My Prop Drilling. Then It Sat There Returning False
Part 1 was about waiting well. Part 2 was about not waiting at all. This one is about a value I...
Shubhra Pokhariya
The End of Undetectable AI Text? Claude’s New Watermark Explained
For the past few hours, the whole world, or at least my LinkedIn feed, has been talking...
Sylwia Laskowska
The Accidental DDOS: How a Single React Bracket Triggered 100,000 API Requests and Melted Our Database
This is a submission for DEV's Summer Bug Smash: Smash Stories powered by Sentry. Introduction: The...
Pooja Bhavani
How Dopamine Works: The Architecture of a Modern iOS Jailbreak
Most developers will never jailbreak a phone. That is fine. This article is not a how-to, and there...
ArshTechPro
Push V3: One Message From Your Server to Every Surface
Codename One Push V3 adds typed messages, managed credentials, segmentation, analytics, and Surface updates. Existing push apps should test the new cloud endpoint before next week's cutover.
Shai Almog
🥁 Mâm Cơm Landing Page: I built a Vietnamese dinner tray on a 3,000-year-old bronze drum
This is a submission for Frontend Challenge - Comfort Food Edition, Perfect Landing What I...
Mike
I Recreated Management With AI: 9 Things I Do Differently
I stopped treating permission prompts as the safety system, then spent four and a half months writing 134 standing rules to replace them. Nine things I do differently with AI, and the proof to back it up.
Ashley Childress
Who Is the Author? AI-Generated Code and PCI DSS Code Review
PCI DSS requires that code review be performed by someone other than the code's author. When an AI...
Yahya Titi
React 19's useOptimistic Fixed My Instant UI. Then Combining It With useActionState Broke My Reset Button
Part 1 was about waiting well. This one is about not waiting at all, and about a couple of mistakes I...
Shubhra Pokhariya
Damn Popovers
Cookie banners are still a nuisance. GDPR, the European privacy law, seems like a perfect example of...
Ingo Steinke, web developer
How would you decide, whether the content is good or bad?
I want to talk about what I have notice on the platform and want to address what we all have been...
FrancisTRᴅᴇᴠ (っ◔◡◔)っ
Solving Riverpod’s Family Provider Cache Dilemma with Signals & mapSignal
When separate family providers store parameterized network queries as isolated state silos, updating an entity in one subset creates stale data across others. Here is how a normalized mapSignal store fixes it.
Randal L. Schwartz
Sub-Agent Metrics Are Not Comparable to Main-Thread Metrics
In my agent fleet, role moves the metrics more than the model does — and the role mix differs per model, so pooled comparisons measure the dispatcher.
John
Collaborative Filtering: How Computers Find Your Next Favourite Thing
🎯 Finding Your Taste Twin Imagine walking into a party where you don't know...
Alexandra
Skills vs MCP: How AI tools have evolved
Eighteen months ago, MCP was the thing. Every demo and chatbot connector was running on MCP under the...
Tilde A. Thurium
You Know What Happens When There's a Bug in Authentication? Absolutely Nothing.
This is a submission for DEV's Summer Bug Smash: Smash Stories powered by Sentry. ...
ujja
Beyond Flutter: Running BlocSignal State Machines in Pure Dart, Jaspr Web, and CLI Tools
Discover how BlocSignal's zero-Flutter core package enables unified state management across CLI tools, Jaspr web apps, and Dart Frog server backends with native DevTools telemetry.
Randal L. Schwartz
I Built a Chat App That Rewrites Its Own UI in Real Time
So I had this idea that kept nagging at me. Every AI chat app works the same way. You type...
Varshith V Hegde
Your Codename One App Can Be an MCP Server
The Codename One JavaSE port can expose a running simulator or desktop tool over the Model Context Protocol. An agent reads the accessibility semantics tree, performs UI actions on the EDT, and can call application-defined tools.
Shai Almog
Slopsquatting: The Supply Chain Attack That Weaponizes AI Hallucinations
Typosquatting bets on your typo. Slopsquatting bets on your AI assistant. When a model invents a...
Nazar Boyko
React 19's useActionState Showed Me Why Disabling My Submit Button Was Never Enough
Every form I ever shipped before React 19 needed the same three pieces of state, and I wired them up...
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