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Building a Website in 2026: What Matters More Than Your Tech Stack
For years, developers have debated which technology stack was best for building websites. Some preferred React. Others chose Vue, Angular, Svelte, or server-side frameworks such as Laravel and Django.
How to Run Private Text-to-Speech on Your Own Hardware Using QVAC
When I was putting the final touches on QuizRope, an educational mobile app I built that uses LLMs for real-time tutoring and homework assistance, I knew the next logical step was voice. Reading text
Mastra vs LangChain: Building an AI Agent Pipeline and Analyzing the Data
A week ago, I saw this tweet: I had just shipped SupportMesh, a multi-tenant AI support platform built on Mastra, so I had opinions from production. I liked the .dowhile() loop, the typed step schem
How Large-Scale Platforms Handle Millions of Daily Transactions
Every day, millions of people order food, stream videos, send messages, book rides, make payments, and shop online. Most of these actions take only a few seconds from the user's perspective. A user cl
The Saga Pattern in Node.js: How to Roll Back Distributed Transactions Across Microservices
Building reliable workflows across multiple microservices is challenging. In a monolith, a database transaction can ensure that multiple operations either succeed or fail together. But once data is sp
How to Build a Browser-Based PDF Crop Tool Using JavaScript
PDF files often contain unwanted margins, blank spaces, scanner borders, page headers, page footers, or unnecessary content around the main document area. Cropping allows users to remove these unwante
Geopolitical Risk Isn't One Thing. I Built a Python Framework to Prove It
On April 3, 2025, the US announced sweeping tariffs on Chinese imports. SPY dropped 4.8% that day. The next day, it dropped another 6%. Financial news ran the usual headline: markets rattled by geopol
Building Knowledge Graphs with Gemini
✨ Overview In this exploration, we'll see how to turn raw, unstructured documents into...
Dev Opportunity Radar #3: Neo Scholars, a $2M AI Challenge, and an $85K AI Fellowship
TL;DR Welcome back to Dev Opportunity Radar. This is a weekly series where I share opportunities,...
IOS Midsommer Madness
This is a submission for the June Solstice Game Jam Your Iphone can now celebrate the Solstace! When...
Why I still teach Singleton even though modules make it redundant
Ask any developer what design pattern they know best and Singleton comes up first. Ask the same group...
How to Build a Case Converter Tool Using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
If you're looking to level up your front-end development skills by building a practical web utility, this is the guide for you. We'll code a fully functional Case Converter Tool from scratch using onl
[Hands-on Gemini 3.5 Live
Brand New API Unveiled: Gemini 3.5 Live Translate On June 9, 2026, Google officially...
[AI Practice] Building blazing-Fast AI Mac OS App with Antigravity CLI
Foreword: A Developer's New Collaboration Model Imagine this scenario: you are...
What was your win this week?
👋👋👋👋 Looking back on your week -- what was something you're proud of? All wins count -- big or small...
WordPress.org now distrusts my commits by default. As a plugin author, I think that’s right.
I committed a new version of my plugin to SVN and got a message I hadn’t seen before: this version...
Resolving WSL Friction with Google Antigravity: the Agy 2.0 and Agy IDE Edition
Resolving Friction Last year when the very cool Google Antigravity (Agy) was first...
From Flutter to Backend: How to Build Production-Grade REST APIs with Dart and Dart Frog
Dart backend frameworks exist on a spectrum. At the minimal end sits Shelf, with raw primitives and full control. You wire everything yourself. At the maximal end sits Serverpod. It's a full framework
How to Scale Laravel Applications for High-Traffic Production Systems
Your first scaling problem rarely arrives with a bang. For a while, everything is fine: pages load fast, the database barely breaks a sweat, and the team ships features without thinking much about inf
CSS 'overscroll-behavior' rubber banding: the right color behind the page when you pull it
I think you all know the overscroll rubber-banding effect: when you scroll past the end of a page, or...
The AI Addiction Nobody Is Talking About
There is a particular kind of restlessness spreading through the tech world right now. It is not...
Heterogeneous Pythonic language in your pocket
Hello everyone 👋, I am Amr Hesham, and I am very passionate about Compilers, Languages, and building...
Your Vibe-Coded App Works. Is It Any Good?
TL;DR - Getting an app to run is now the easy part. AI is very good at producing something that...
Frontend System Design: Designing a Collaborative Whiteboard
A walkthrough of designing a real-time collaborative whiteboard from a blank page to a production-ready architecture.
Congrats to the Google I/O 2026 Writing Challenge Winners!
We are so excited to announce the winners of the Google I/O 2026 Writing Challenge! We asked you to...
Virtual Coffee Needs Your Help
Virtual Coffee has always been a free, volunteer-led developer community supporting the tech...
Why New Language Features Need to Target AI Agents, Not Developers
AI agents are writing our production code. It's time to stop designing syntax sugar for humans and start optimizing languages for bots.
Lessons Learned: Deployment Trade-offs with Gemma4, NVIDIA L4, Cloud Run, and Antigravity CLI
This article provides a step by step guide for debugging a Gemma 4 model to a Google Cloud Run hosted...
My daughter asked if developers used to write code by hand, but it was the follow-up question that surprised me.
My daughter, who's 11, has been doing some vibe coding. The other day she looked over my shoulder...
Celebrate June rituals with Solstice Bingo!
This is a submission for the June Solstice Game Jam Before we dive into technicalities, let me make...
Go Packages and Modules explained
What is a package? In Go, every Go program is made up of packages. A package is a...
Mastering Self-Hosted Convex: A Complete Deployment Guide
Stop struggling with custom scripts and learn the professional way to deploy Convex functions to your own server using the official CLI.
Deployment Planning with Gemma 26B, NVIDIA L4, MCP, Cloud Run, and Antigravity CLI
This article provides a step by step debugging guide for deploying Gemma 4 to a Google Cloud Run...
G4 Fractional VMs are now available on Google Cloud!
In 2025 Google Cloud added G4, powered by NVIDIA's RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition GPUs to...
CSS – only a Nerdy Hobby?
In times when people believe that "AI can code a website in 2 days" (see: how to leverage AI as a...
Debugging Deployments with Gemma 12B, NVIDIA L4, MCP, Cloud Run, and Antigravity CLI
This article provides a step by step debugging guide for deploying Gemma 4 to a Google Cloud Run...
Claude Fable 5 is Now Generally Available on Google Cloud! 🚀
Good news for Claude devs deploying on Google Cloud. Claude Fable 5, Anthropic’s latest frontier...
Google Antigravity SDK: The developer guide
The Google Antigravity SDK is a Python framework for building and running autonomous agents. It...
Antigravity Managed Agents Tutorial: Ship Production AI Agents
If you’ve tried building AI applications, you often face a familiar engineering wall. It goes like...
Gubernator visual schema.
Excited to share the latest feature built for Gubernator (gbnt): Visual Stack Topology &...
TanStack Start Is Kind of a Big Deal
Introduction People keep telling me TanStack Start is kind of a big deal, and I wanted to...
It's Time We All Eat some more Cucumber!
Everyone's writing specs for AI now. We hand the model a markdown file, tell it what we want, and...
The agent that fixes bugs by running the code
Why harness engineering, not better models, is the next frontier in AI-assisted coding. The runtime evidence loop that turns confident guesses into actual fixes.
You’re a Real TypeScript Developer Only If...
A few months ago, I published You're a Real JavaScript Developer Only If... It was just a post for...
I tried to make an AI agent answer more. It answered less.
If you build or evaluate scoped agents: any talk about the agent in your test context makes it defend...
How to Build a Browser-Based PDF Metadata Editor Using JavaScript – A Step-by-Step Guide
PDF files contain more information than what appears on the page. Behind every PDF document is metadata that stores information such as the document title, author, subject, keywords, creator applicati
Two Devs and a Copilot Created ClassifierAI: A Prototype Chrome Extension that Automatically Detects AI-Generated Content on DEV!
This is a submission for the GitHub Finish-Up-A-Thon Challenge Note: AI is currently a Hot Topic in...
Dystopian Civilization Scenarios
Gaming, like AI, is far from what fascinates me most about technology and creative development....