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I built a reminder app to keep my Brag Document up to date

I came upon the idea of a brag document a long time ago. Posts like this , spoke to me, because I've faced interviews in which I've been asked about cool things I had accomplished lately, but I couldn't remember them on

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Top 7 Featured DEV Posts of the Week Beaver-powered databases and ancient AI Jess Lee Jess Lee Jess Lee Follow for The DEV Team Apr 6 Top 7 Featured DEV Posts of the Week # discuss # top7 77 reactions Comments 19 comment

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Why PostgreSQL Ignores Your Index (Sometimes), Entry #2

I Thought My Index Would Fix Everything I added the index. Ran the query. And… nothing changed. Same slow response. Same frustration. That was the moment I realized something uncomfortable: PostgreSQL doesn’t care about

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From ML Model to Deployable AI App – MoodSense AI

I built an end-to-end NLP project that detects mood from text and turns it into a usable application. Key features: Multi-class mood classification Confidence score + probability distribution Recommendation system FastAP

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The 90%-Done Paradox

Despite all the recent breakthroughs in AI and tooling, software development hasn’t fundamentally changed. In my journey as an engineer, I’ve observed four patterns that track with experience levels. Let me explain: Ther

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How to Build a Waitlist Page for Your Startup in 2026

You have an idea. Maybe you are still building it. Maybe it is ready, but you want to build an audience before you launch. Either way, the worst thing you can do is wait until launch day to start collecting emails. A wai

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The Real Cost of Bad Data

Somewhere in a data warehouse, a customer record sits incomplete. A postcode field contains only the first half of its expected value. An email address lacks its domain. A timestamp references a date that never existed.

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FixBeacon: dependency scans that stay close to the repo

If you maintain real services, "we have Dependabot" is not the whole story. You still end up bouncing between PR noise, registries, advisories, and spreadsheets when you want a single place to answer: what is exposed rig

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I Built a Website That Will Never, Ever Brew You Coffee

What I Built A website that lets you try to brew coffee. You can't. It's a teapot. That's it. That's the project. The "Problem" It Solves None. Absolutely zero. Coffee drinkers worldwide remain unhelped. How It Works Eve

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The Ultimate Guide to Effectively Monitoring Cloud Workloads

In 2024, I watched as a single faulty cloud update led to a wave of global disruptions. Critical services stopped working. Companies and even governments had hours of downtime. I felt the panic. I saw how devastating a l

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What an LLM Actually Does

Pretraining, Prompting, Sampling, and Alignment By the end of this post, you'll understand what an LLM actually learns during pretraining (ontologies, math, pronoun resolution, all of it) and why this happens from nothin

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Automate Web Scraping in n8n with AlterLab API

Automate Web Scraping in n8n with AlterLab's API n8n is a workflow automation tool that connects APIs, databases, and services. Pair it with a scraping API that handles anti-bot bypass, proxy rotation, and headless rende

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2 + 2 = “We Need to Talk”

This is a submission for the DEV April Fools Challenge What I Built I built an Emotionally Manipulative Calculator — a calculator that doesn’t just calculate… it remembers, judges, and occasionally refuses to cooperate.

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