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

Jem for The DEV Team

Oct 12

Join the Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge: Side Hustle! $2,550 in Prizes Across 18 Winners.

#devchallenge #hf26challenge #hacktoberfest #softwaredevelopment

8 min read

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

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Giorgi Kobaidze

Oct 18

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

#discuss #community #showdev #writing

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

Daniel Balcarek

Oct 18

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

#devchallenge #hf26challenge #ai #machinelearning

10 min read

Heartwarming community pet photo thread

Hemapriya Kanagala

Oct 18

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

#discuss #community #watercooler #pets

3 min read

Compares garden design to software architecture

Shubhra Pokhariya

Oct 18

The Garden I Wait for Every Winter

#watercooler #discuss #gardening #devlive

5 min read

A court professional's unexpected AI speaking tour

Earl Grey

Oct 17

AI Took Me to Three Stages. I Still Don't Like Public Speaking.

#discuss #ai #career #learning

6 min read

Academic AI theory turned into practical dev tips

Dhruv Jani

Oct 17

10 Prompting Techniques My Deep Learning Exam Taught Me (That I Actually Use Now)

#discuss #promptengineering #ai #beginners

10 min read

Overcoming burnout through salsa and nature walks

Alexandra

Oct 18

In the quest of un-rotting my brain

#discuss #mentalhealth

6 min read

Compares human grammar quirks to coding paradigms

Giorgi Kobaidze

Oct 15

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

#programming #writing #design #languages

10 min read

Jessica Doering

Oct 18

I Built a New Tab Extension for DEV

#showdev #webdev #opensource #javascript

4 min read

Alex Georgiev

Oct 18

SQLite 3.54's diskused command needs a build flag sqlite3_analyzer never required

#sqlite #database #performance #devops

6 min read

Christian Vasquez

Oct 18

How I finally understood what idempotency is

#beginners #learning #programming #softwaredevelopment

6 min read

tdk-cli

Oct 18

Bookmark It! STOP Shipping Broken Vibe Code: 10 Checks That Save Your App at 2 AM

#ai #webdev #mcp #vibecoding

2 min read

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

Arqam Waheed

Oct 18

Munshi: a WhatsApp front desk for small hotels. A 4B model reads, Python decides, Temporal holds the room.

#devchallenge #hf26challenge #ai #opensource

19 min read

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

Lymah

Oct 18

PawPitch: A Local AI Pitch Writer That Has to Earn Its Claims

#devchallenge #hf26challenge #rust #gemma

6 min read

Roshni Mishra

Oct 18

How I built an Autonomous Voice Healthcare Agent on FalkorDB that actually saves lives

#falkordb #ai #database #opensource

4 min read

xbill for Google Developer Experts

Oct 18

Can a QAT 12B Fit an 8 GB GPU? Gemma 4 12B on an RTX 3050

#gemma #llamacpp #cuda #benchmarking

15 min read

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

Karthikeyan

Oct 18

ChaseLocal: An open-model tool that writes the invoice follow-up you've been putting off

#devchallenge #hf26challenge

4 min read

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

Elev 💥

Oct 18

A fake alert can copy your bank's words. It can't know your balance.

#devchallenge #hf26challenge #gemma #opensource

12 min read