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The Hacktoberfest Weekend Challenge theme is Build for a Friend. Use open-source AI to make something that matters to them.

Jem for The DEV Team

Oct 2

Join the Hacktoberfest Weekend Challenge: Build for a Friend! $2,450 in Prizes Across 17 Winners. Submissions Due October 5 at 6:59 AM UTC.

#devchallenge #weekendchallenge #hf26challenge #hacktoberfest

6 min read

Bypassing GitHub's strict sandbox via SVGs

Giorgi Kobaidze

Oct 1

I Turned My GitHub Profile Into a Cyberpunk Console With a City Built From My Contributions

#showdev #python #github #design

166

15 min read

Sanity Challenge Path One Submission

Dhruv Jani

Oct 4

OriginTrace: Protecting the DEV Community from Content Theft using Sanity Context MCP

#devchallenge #sanitychallenge #sanity #ai

7 min read

Community shares diverse personal achievements

Jess Lee for The DEV Team

Oct 2

What was your win this week?

#weeklyretro

1 min read

Includes video and contributor perks

Anthony Max

Oct 3

EmbedCatalog is participating in Hacktoberfest 2026

#webdev #javascript #programming #opensource

134

2 min read

Includes a complete C# build log and live link

Iseoluwa Olowogoke

Oct 3

I Was Overwhelmed, So I Turned My GitHub Profile Into a Roguelike Dungeon

#showdev #csharp #gamedev #github

7 min read

Hacktoberfest Weekend Challenge: Build for a Friend Submission 🤝

Soumyadeep Dey

Oct 4

I Played Out a Broke Student's Month 500 Times on a Budget i3 Laptop With the Wi-Fi Off. It Warned Him Ahead in 4 of 5 Bad Months.

#devchallenge #weekendchallenge #hf26challenge #opensource

22 min read

Readers celebrating 19 consistent editions

Hemapriya Kanagala for The DEVengers

Oct 2

Dev Opportunity Radar #19: Hacktoberfest, $20K AI Agent Hackathon, and Pear Prime 2027

#discuss #community #resources #opportunities

10 min read

Hacktoberfest Weekend Challenge: Build for a Friend Submission 🤝

Dhruv Jani

Oct 4

Gift Hunter: An AI Agent That Finds Gifts They’ll Actually Want

#showdev #devchallenge #weekendchallenge #hf26challenge

4 min read

Organized entirely by a solo student

Dhruv Jani

Oct 2

Hacktoberfest Is Coming to Nadiad, Gujarat 🚀 Official MLH Meetup at DDU, 15 Oct

#hacktoberfest #opensource #ai #beginners

4 min read

Hacktoberfest Weekend Challenge: Build for a Friend Submission 🤝

Rohit Purkait

Oct 4

My mom reads Bengali, not English. So I built her a reader that catches scams, on open-weight Gemma.

#devchallenge #weekendchallenge #hf26challenge #ai

7 min read

Hacktoberfest Weekend Challenge: Build for a Friend Submission 🤝

DaC

Oct 4

My Son Loves Squishies, So I Built Him One for the Browser

#devchallenge #weekendchallenge #hf26challenge

2 min read

Self-Correcting Systems

Oct 4

My Health Check Watched the Wrong File

#python #devops #launchd #opensource

11 min read

Hacktoberfest Weekend Challenge: Build for a Friend Submission 🤝

Lewis Sawe

Oct 4

Will my plants survive my friend? I built her a bodyguard

#devchallenge #weekendchallenge #hf26challenge #tabpfn

7 min read

xbill for Google Developer Experts

Oct 2

Write Markdown Once, Publish It Everywhere: dev.to, Medium, AWS Builder Center and LinkedIn

#writing #markdown #devtools #ai

10 min read

Generates animated SVGs for profile READMEs

Jessica Doering

Oct 3

Turn Your GitHub Contribution Graph Into an ASCII City

#showdev #github #opensource #go

4 min read

Seenivasa Ramadurai

Oct 4

Grounding AI Agents in Business Meaning: Semantic Layers, Ontologies, and MCP Elicitation in Practice

#ai #agents #ontology #semantics

8 min read

Alex Georgiev

Oct 4

Valkey 9.2's forkless BGSAVE cuts my memory spike from 350MB to 10MB

#valkey #database #performance #devops

7 min read

Shai Almog

Oct 4

iOS 27 Glass You Can Choose, Measure, and Test

#java #mobile #android #ios

7 min read