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Hacktoberfest 2026: Build Your Own Hybrid Search Engine with Postgres with Justin Mitchel from Tiger Data

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Keyword search finds exact words but misses meaning, and vector search understands meaning but can miss exact matches. In this session, Justin Mitchel builds a hybrid search engine live in PostgreSQL, combining keyword ranking from pg_textsearch with semantic search from pgvectorscale.

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Promise Delivered: Welcome to the DEV Hall of Fame (65 Authors, 65 Masterpieces)
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Over 10 hours of reading behind it

Promise Delivered: Welcome to the DEV Hall of Fame (65 Authors, 65 Masterpieces)

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The Garden I Wait for Every Winter

Compares garden design to software architecture

The Garden I Wait for Every Winter

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Natural Languages Have Design Trade-offs Too: Georgian Is Dynamically Typed, English Is Statically Typed

Compares human grammar quirks to coding paradigms

Natural Languages Have Design Trade-offs Too: Georgian Is Dynamically Typed, English Is Statically Typed

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Fine-Tuning Qwen3-8B with Tinker: From 50% to 76% Accuracy, and Burning Through My Budget

Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 2: Side Hustle Submission 💸

Fine-Tuning Qwen3-8B with Tinker: From 50% to 76% Accuracy, and Burning Through My Budget

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"Rails Magic" Isn't Magic. How a Request Actually Travels Through Rails.

"Rails Magic" Isn't Magic. How a Request Actually Travels Through Rails.

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Writing C for the Web in 2026 Isn't Insane. It Might Be the Future

A real commercial product built on CGI

Writing C for the Web in 2026 Isn't Insane. It Might Be the Future

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🐾 DEV Pet Corner #2: Show Us Your Pets!

Heartwarming community pet photo thread

🐾 DEV Pet Corner #2: Show Us Your Pets!

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Your agent's retry bug isn't an AI problem. It's a distributed-systems problem with an LLM on top.

Your agent's retry bug isn't an AI problem. It's a distributed-systems problem with an LLM on top.

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The Browser Already Has a Priority System. Your debounce(300) Does Not.

Distinguishes between slow rendering and rudeness

The Browser Already Has a Priority System. Your debounce(300) Does Not.

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Bank alerts to a day-book, with a local Gemma

Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 2: Side Hustle Submission 💸

Bank alerts to a day-book, with a local Gemma

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Stress-Testing Gemini 4 Argon: Building a 3D Flutter Kart Game in 15 Prompts with Zero Assets

Stress-Testing Gemini 4 Argon: Building a 3D Flutter Kart Game in 15 Prompts with Zero Assets

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I Built a New Tab Extension for DEV

Includes tag filters and offline caching details

I Built a New Tab Extension for DEV

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Meme Monday

Relatable developer humor and git struggles

Meme Monday

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Day 17 of Building Crowdwide — Trying to Bring Users Back!!

Day 17 of Building Crowdwide — Trying to Bring Users Back!!

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Persistent Agent Teams: Recreating the Grok Bot Experience with Herdr, Claude Code and Pi

Persistent Agent Teams: Recreating the Grok Bot Experience with Herdr, Claude Code and Pi

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The Scariest Lines of Code I've Ever Written. Boooo!!!

The Scariest Lines of Code I've Ever Written. Boooo!!!

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I built an AWS agent that scores any GitHub repo before you clone it

I built an AWS agent that scores any GitHub repo before you clone it

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Redis 8.4's digest-based SET option cuts a 1MB compare-and-set from 4.3ms to 1.6ms

Redis 8.4's digest-based SET option cuts a 1MB compare-and-set from 4.3ms to 1.6ms

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