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Two DEV Users. Two Countries. One Weird Little Avatar Project.
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Technical hurdles and VRM animation bugs

Two DEV Users. Two Countries. One Weird Little Avatar Project.

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My GitHub Graveyard has 27 dead projects. Here is the brutal truth about why.
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The trap of over-engineering stacks

My GitHub Graveyard has 27 dead projects. Here is the brutal truth about why.

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4 Tiny Mistakes That Secretly Destroy App Performance
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Real-world cases and energy-saving impacts

4 Tiny Mistakes That Secretly Destroy App Performance

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What was your win this week?!
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Therapy breakthroughs and Gemma 4 news

What was your win this week?!

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AI Didn't Make Software Engineering Easier. It Made the Hard Parts Harder.
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The loss of low-intensity recovery time

AI Didn't Make Software Engineering Easier. It Made the Hard Parts Harder.

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From Rank 6,000,000 to 26,000: 1.5 Years, 1040 LeetCode Problems, and a Surprise Package That Changed Everything
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Shifting from seeing problems as threats

From Rank 6,000,000 to 26,000: 1.5 Years, 1040 LeetCode Problems, and a Surprise Package That Changed Everything

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What Burnout Actually Feels Like (Not What Instagram Tells You)
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The mental fog and apathy sleep cannot fix

What Burnout Actually Feels Like (Not What Instagram Tells You)

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Chat to build and schedule your own personal Hacker News email digest! 🎉
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Open source with 10 filterable section types

Chat to build and schedule your own personal Hacker News email digest! 🎉

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How to Save Bloated MCP with Code Mode
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Collapsing 2,500 endpoints into two tools

How to Save Bloated MCP with Code Mode

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Hacking perfectly square AI videos with Veo 3.1 and NanoBanana 2
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Hacking perfectly square AI videos with Veo 3.1 and NanoBanana 2

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Building "Sweets Vault" - a multimodal Gemini Agent with physical hardware integration

Gamifying homework and latency challenges

Building "Sweets Vault" - a multimodal Gemini Agent with physical hardware integration

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Old PC vs New AI: Can a 2015 Desktop Actually Run Gemma 4? (2B vs 4B Benchmark)
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Gemma 4 Challenge: Write about Gemma 4 Submission

Old PC vs New AI: Can a 2015 Desktop Actually Run Gemma 4? (2B vs 4B Benchmark)

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I built a real-time ASL interpreter for the Gemma4 challenge, no cloud needed
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Gemma 4 Challenge: Build With Gemma 4 Submission

I built a real-time ASL interpreter for the Gemma4 challenge, no cloud needed

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Top 7 Featured DEV Posts of the Week
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Local AI workflows and on-chain agents

Top 7 Featured DEV Posts of the Week

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AI slop is everywhere. Here's what I keep coming back to.

Utility over technical complexity

AI slop is everywhere. Here's what I keep coming back to.

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Local-First AI Done Right: How Gemma 4 E2B and 'Thinking Mode' Powered DiagramFlowAI
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Gemma 4 Challenge: Build With Gemma 4 Submission

Local-First AI Done Right: How Gemma 4 E2B and 'Thinking Mode' Powered DiagramFlowAI

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Circuits: Bit-Banging, SPI, and CPLD
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Precise hardware control for LED strips

Circuits: Bit-Banging, SPI, and CPLD

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Lambda Just Got a File System. I Put AI Agents on It.
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Eliminating the /tmp tax for shared workspaces

Lambda Just Got a File System. I Put AI Agents on It.

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