 I've always loved the idea of reusing old hardware, especially when it's still more than capable of the job you need it for. Planned obsolescence aside, a lot of machines can still do what we need t...
Read article# I’m More Interested in Why Things Break Than Why They Work I don’t think I became interested in technology because I wanted to build apps. I think I became interested because I wanted to understand things. There’s a difference. When something works exactly as expected, there usually isn’t much...
Read articleThis week, security leaders raised a harder question: who verifies the AI systems now verifying compliance? That is the right controversy. **SOC 2 automation** is no longer about replacing screenshots; it is about proving the automation itself can be trusted. ## SOC 2 Automation Is an Evidence Syst...
Read articleI have used Redis on almost every backend project I can remember. Caching, sessions, rate limiting, queues, the occasional bit of temporary state that felt too awkward to put in Postgres. At some point it stopped being a decision and became a default. About 3 months ago, I came across Dragonfly, wh...
Read article--- title: "Build a Tiny Virtual Pet on Arduino in 60 Minutes 🐾" published: true description: "Turn an Arduino Uno Q into Kiku, a Tamagotchi-style virtual pet with an animated LED face, moods, and keyboard controls." tags: arduino, beginners, programming, hacktoberfest --- What if your first hardw...
Read articleEvery dev picks up a pile of rules early on. Write tests first. Never commit to main. Keep functions under 20 lines. DRY everything. Comment your code. 100% coverage or it doesn't count.  Some ...
Read articleHi, glad you found your way here. I'm Yash, a developer who contributes to open source, mostly p2p networking and AI tooling. Each week I write up what I shipped, what broke, and what fixing it taught me. [GitHub](https://github.com/yashksaini-coder) · [X](https://x.com/0xcrackedDev) · [LinkedIn](h...
Read article## This is NOT a Challenge Submission Post 🥰 I was checking out [Hacktoberfest Weekend Challenge Submissions](https://dev.to/t/hf26challenge/latest). I do this from time to time on DEV Challenges, even when I myself don't have time to submit my own projects. This time was no different. I didn't h...
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 article--- title: "Nudging with Questions: Why Telling Your AI What to Fix Triggers an Apology Death Spiral (And How to Advance Juniors)" description: What I learned mentoring juniors for four decades seems to apply to today's agentic coding: why barking code fixes triggers sycophantic panic, and how Socra...
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