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React Components vs Spaghetti: 5 Signs Your UI Is Becoming Unmaintainable
Last week I opened a React component… and immediately closed it. Not because it was complex. But...
Gavin Cettolo
When 100.00 Means Nothing: Gaming Coding Assessments
I recently worked on a machine learning challenge on HackerRank and got a strong score with a real...
Real Actioner
Stop Taking Blurry Scans: How I Built Frame Stability Detection for Android with CameraX
Every document scanner app has the same problem: users tap the capture button while their hand is...
A Bit Above Bytes
Bringing History to the Modern Web: Introducing moment-shahanshahi for JavaScript & React 👑
As developers, we often deal with timezones and calendars. While the Gregorian calendar is the global...
Vahid Afshari
🚀 Stop Struggling with PDFs in Flutter — Here's Everything You Need to Know
If you've ever tried generating PDFs in Flutter, you know it can get messy fast — coordinates,...
Yash Patel
Congrats to the Winners of Our First DEV Weekend Challenge!
It's time!! We are thrilled to announce the winners of our first DEV Weekend Challenge. The prompt...
Jess Lee
Intelligence, Farming, and Why AI Is Still Mostly in Its Tool Phase
People usually talk about intelligence as if it starts with language, tools, or raw brainpower. I do...
marcosomma
Why I Built Eval Tools for Karpathy's Autoresearch
TL;DR: Karpathy's autoresearch runs hundreds of GPT pretraining experiments overnight. It doesn't...
Dean Sharon
Firebase App Check: Protecting Your Backend from Abuse
I'm Berat Göktuğ Özdemir, a Senior Flutter Developer since 2018 and a Google Developer Expert for...
Göktuğ Özdemir
I Think a Lot of Developers Are Quietly Grieving the Old Internet
I think a lot of developers are carrying a kind of grief right now, but rarely naming it. Not...
NorthernDev
Tokis: A Performance-First, Token-Native UI Library for Building Modern Design Systems
Tokis: An experiment in building a token-first UI library Over the past few months...
Prerak Mathur
Two React Design Choices Developers Don’t Like—But Can’t Avoid
Developers have never been shy about disliking certain React APIs. They feel awkward, restrictive, or...
Ryan Carniato
Autonomous AI Research Does Not Need a Giant Framework
A lot of the conversation around AI agents has drifted toward increasingly complex frameworks,...
Julien Avezou
The Diplomatic Core: Shared Logic in a Multi-Framework World
This is the third part in a tenuously linked series defending JavaScript singletons in a modern...
Andrew Bone
I built a free offline barcode & QR scanner for Android — here's what I learned about offline-first Flutter architecture
A few months ago I shipped ScanPro — a free Android app for scanning and generating barcodes/QR...
Preeti Singh
Why Asking an LLM for JSON Isn’t Enough
When I first learned prompting, I assumed something simple. If I needed structured data from an LLM,...
Vaishali
Congrats to the GitHub Copilot CLI Challenge Winners!
The results are in! Thank you all so much for your patience as we reviewed over 400 submissions for...
Jess Lee
AI Agent Landscape: February 2026 Data from Running One for 6 Months
I have been running a personal AI agent autonomously for about six months. Here is what the data...
Pawel Jozefiak
3 words worth a billion dollars: Drift to Determinism (DriDe)
I doubt I am the first to come up with this concept, but I am probably the first to name it. Drift...
GrahamTheDev
Your Dialog Has role='dialog'. That Doesn't Make It Accessible.
How I built a focus trap, click-outside hook, and roving tabindex from scratch — and what I learned about the gap between ARIA attributes and actual accessibility.
venkatesh m
Surviving an Apple "Sherlock" and a 12-month cash burn
What do you do when you spend months building an AI-powered iOS keyboard to proofread text, and then...
Diego Dotta
The Real Skill in Programming Is Debugging. Everything Else Is Copy-Paste
I have a feeling this statement is even more true in the age of AI and coding agents. Sure, today we...
Sylwia Laskowska
What Makes an Architecture "Clear" in Modern Android Apps?
When I first started my journey as a developer, I was constantly told to write "elegant" code. I...
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Share, Embed, and Curate Agent Sessions on DEV [Beta]
Authors can now upload Agent Session transcripts to their DEV account. Those transcripts can be...
Jon Gottfried
React: Singletons aren't as evil as you think
In the world of React, the humble singleton gets a bit of a bad rap. It is often dismissed as a messy...
Andrew Bone
Our Trading Bot Rewrites Its Own Rules. Here's How (and What Went Wrong).
We lost $100 on a single hockey bet. Our system had an 83% win rate at the time. The math still...
Bill Wilson
The Server-Side Mocking Gap Nobody Talks About
Per-test server-side mocking using MSW, Playwright, and any fullstack framework.
Raphael Rafatpanah
i built a social platform where everything vanishes after 24 hours
genjutsu is a fast-paced, developer-focused social network where everything vanishes every 24 hours....
Ovi ren
Using Slightly Broken Smartphones thanks to Accessibility
I rescued my water-damaged phone thanks to Android's powerful accessibility features and open-source...
Ingo Steinke, web developer
Android OAuth Flow - Browser Doesn't Redirect After Password Setup
I'm using logto_dart_sdk in a Flutter Android app. After Google authentication, users get stuck on...
Brian Kibet
Adding Navigation support to Large Content Viewer with Compose
In my previous blog post, Beyond Font Scaling: Large Content Viewer with Compose, I explained how to...
Eevis
AI Ate the Homework: What Communities Are Actually For Now
Communities used to be where you went to ask questions and get help. Now that AI can answer most of those questions, what are communities actually for? Here's what the shift means for community builders and members.
BekahHW
My Take On AI and Technology (Besides the Pure Developer PoV)
Hello Dev.to community ! I hope you're all doing well, today I decided for a little bit more...
Luftie The Anonymous
How to Build Responsive Flutter Apps for Phones, Foldables, Tablets & Web (2026)
Hey everyone, Samuel here! In 2026, your Flutter app needs to look perfect on a tiny phone, a folding...
Samuel Adekunle
Happening Now: DEV Weekend Challenge!! Submissions due March 2 at 7:59am UTC.
Winners Announced: Congrats to the Winners of Our First DEV Weekend Challenge! ...
Jess Lee
I Had an AI Agent Build Me a Full App. 46K Lines of Code, 3 Platforms, Zero Dart Knowledge
Disclaimer: this article was also written by an AI agent. I’m a developer, not a writer — my raw...
Hcan
Adding Capacitor to Glif with Antigravity: The Good, The Bad, and The Reality Check 📱
Overview Hey everyone 👋 I recently decided to take Glif, my minimalist QR code generator...
Domenico Tenace
MongoLens: Visualize and Edit MongoDB Documents as Graphs on Mobile
Managing MongoDB on mobile has always been painful. Most tools only show raw JSON, which becomes hard...
Animesh Manna
Join the "Built with Google Gemini: Writing Challenge" Presented by Major League Hacking (MLH). Win a Raspberry Pi AI Kit!
Winners Announced: Congrats to the "Built with Google Gemini: Writing Challenge" Winners! ...
Jess Lee
I Built a Free Offline CRM for Real Estate Agents Using Flutter — Here's Why
I live in India, and real estate agents here have a massive problem — they track leads in notebooks,...
Ubedulla midde
The $0 Developer Phase — And How Dev.to Pulled Me Out
Eight years ago, I was absolutely convinced of one thing: I was ahead of the curve. Not just...
Art light
Once Upon a Time, Writing Code Was Fun
I’m one of those developers who’s had the privilege of writing code by hand in its rawest form, the...
Abdelrahman Ismail
Flutter Performance Optimization 2026 (Make Your App 10x Faster + Best Practices)
Hey guys, Samuel here again. One of the crucial aspects of mobile app development is performance...
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