Every October for the past twelve years, developers around the world have taken part in Hacktoberfest, a month-long celebration of open-source software: code that anyone can use, inspect, and improve. For most of that history, the rules were simple: Contribute a set number of pull requests and earn...
Read articleHoi hoi! 👋 I'm @nyaomaru, a frontend engineer currently building an AI-assisted CHANGELOG generator and experimenting with Jev. 😸 Recently, I have been thinking about one problem. How can we extract this ```md ## Why The previous implementation could leave stale release data after an update. ...
Read article*This is a submission for the [Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 1: Touch Grass](https://dev.to/challenges/hacktoberfest-week1-2026-10-05)* ## What I Built Most “go outside” apps stop at reminders, routes, or motivational messages. I built **WildProof**: an offline-first field observati...
Read article--- title: "Tendril: a garden assistant you barely have to open" published: true tags: devchallenge, hf26challenge, opensource, ai --- *This is a submission for the [Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 1: Touch Grass](https://dev.to/challenges/hacktoberfest-week1-2026-10-05).* ## What I Bu...
Read article> The config migration was small. Preserving the package contract was the interesting part. Hoi hoi! 👋 I'm [@nyaomaru](https://github.com/nyaomaru), a frontend engineer who enjoyed looking for fungus this season. 😸🍄 Recently, I migrated its build setup from [`tsup`](https://github.com/egoist/t...
Read article> This is the fifth post in my **"My Open-Source Projects"** series, where I go through some of the OSS projects I started or maintain and tell you the story behind them. So far: [AngleSharp](https://dev.to/florianrappl/my-oss-projects-anglesharp-3b8j), [MAGES](https://dev.to/florianrappl/my-oss-pro...
Read articleHi everyone! A little late, perhaps, but in this article, I’d like to share that my new project is participating in Hacktoberfest. I have been participating with projects for three years now, and this year was no exception. Today, I would like to talk about this in more detail. Well, let's get sta...
Read articleMost students hear about hackathons, open source and developer communities in their **third or fourth year**. By then, a lot of the best chances to use them are gone. I'm a final-year student at Dharmsinh Desai University in Nadiad, and this October I'm doing something about that. ## 🎉 I'm bringi...
Read articleHoi hoi! 👋 I'm [@nyaomaru](https://github.com/nyaomaru), a frontend engineer exploring new possibilities with `Jev` 😸 (I'm also curious about "Decisions API" from OpenAI) Recently, I was looking into the TypeScript Compiler API and asking a pretty specific question > Can reusable type guards pr...
Read articleI've been on a bit of a "install random dev tools and see if they actually hold up" kick lately, and this time I pointed it at Dopbase. It's a secrets manager that claims to be a server, admin UI, REST API, and CLI all packed into one binary. No sponsorship, nobody paid me for this, I just grabbed ...
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