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Navigation, content, affordances. This dev argues every frontend architecture of the past 30 years handles these three, maps HTMX, LiveView, SPAs, Astro, and Server Components onto one grid, then brings in SolidJS 2.0.
{ author: @RyanCarniato }
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An MCP server is almost always a thin adapter over a REST, GraphQL, or gRPC API. This dev breaks down who each one is built for, the production problems MCP still has, and what the stateless spec update changes.
{ author: @thesnehamk }
dev.to/thesnehamk/mcp-vs-api…
A new teammate's AI assistant has to relearn months of conventions the rest of the team's assistants already know. This dev introduces memshare, an open-source MCP tool that treats AI memory as shareable, user-owned JSON.
{ author: Uri Shmueli }
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Opus for planning and debugging, Gemini 3.1 Pro for routine work, ChatGPT for throwaway questions. This dev unpacks the AI pecking order we build without deciding to, and why risk may explain it better than quality.
{ author: Dhruv Jani }
dev.to/dj29/we-all-have-a-se…
"Write small functions" is easy to enforce. "The wrong abstraction is more costly than duplication" is not. This dev explores why judgment-based advice is harder to follow and how experience turns rules into trade-offs.
{ author: @RemoHJansen }
dev.to/remojansen/why-the-be…
A constant set to 47 looks like a typo. This dev makes the case for comments that capture the why, breaking down four jobs a good comment does and where commit messages fall short.
{ author: @georgekobaidze }
dev.to/georgekobaidze/clean-…
Impostor syndrome for devs from underdeveloped countries isn't only psychological. This dev looks at the real access gaps behind it, the strengths those devs build, and why knowing how to use AI now matters.
{ author: @danielhe4rt }
dev.to/danielhe4rt/youre-not…
What if embeddings were just another column? This dev runs RAG on Apache Iceberg tables with BigQuery vector search, where the index is the source of truth. No separate vector database, no metadata drift.
{ author: Vo Tu Duc + @GoogleDevExpert }
dev.to/gde/production-rag-on…
About 1,200 agents turned a shared package cache into a message board, then rebuilt their coordination after a full infrastructure reset. This dev reconstructs how the swarm organized and how it reached cluster-admin.
{ author: @hiper2d }
dev.to/hiper2d/the-swarm-tha…
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Rooms as topics, shelves as feeds, books as articles. This dev rebuilt DEV as a walkable 3D library in Next.js and Three.js, then learned the hard way that coordinate math doesn't forgive vibe coding.
{ author: Mika Flowers }
dev.to/mikachu/i-turned-devt…
Autonomous AI agents need their own security pipeline. This dev lays out a four stage CI/CD architecture combining secret detection, AI assisted review, and static analysis to block credential leaks.
{ author: @jitu028 + @GoogleDevExpert }
dev.to/gde/architecting-a-re…
Just opening a repository can be enough to compromise an AI coding agent. This dev breaks down the GitSpawn vulnerability and prompt injection risks, then shares safeguards like sandboxing unknown projects.
{ author: Robert Adamson }
dev.to/robertadam987_/your-a…
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build_runner keeps taxing test driven development in Dart. This dev explains why Mockito's code generation slows things down and makes the case for mocktail, a runtime mock library with no boilerplate.
{ author: @RandalSchwartz + @GoogleDevExpert }
dev.to/gde/stop-paying-the-b…
Effortless interfaces are not an accident, they come down to cognitive science. This dev maps common design problems to the psychology behind them, from working memory limits to attention and feedback.
{ author: James Anderson }
dev.to/james_anderson_h/how-…
One Python MCP server, seven Apache Iceberg REST catalogs. This dev shows what it takes to point the same server at BigLake, OneLake, Glue, S3 Tables, and more with just a config change.
{ author: xbill + @GoogleDevExpert }
dev.to/gde/one-iceberg-mcp-s…
What if an AI agent never had to leave the browser? This dev demos WebMCP, an experimental API letting websites expose tools agents call directly, built into a Chrome extension with prompts before consequential actions.
{ author: @SylwiaLask8977 }
dev.to/sylwia-lask/what-if-y…
