TOOLS3 days ago
The bug that never crashed: how I fuzzed an AI's own code sandbox and found it lying to its model
This is a submission for DEV's Summer Bug Smash: Smash Stories powered by Sentry. The bug...
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TOOLS3 days ago
I Built a Job-Scraping Bot to Escape Cloud Consulting (And It's Open Source)
I Built a Job-Scraping Bot to Escape Cloud Consulting (And It's Open Source) From manually...
TOOLS5 days ago
I Built an AI Memory Agent That Forgets on Purpose — Then Spent Two Days Proving It Actually Works
Every "AI memory agent" I looked at before starting this does the same trick: embed every message,...
TOOLS5 days ago
From Apple Health Data to Clinical Storytelling: Building an AI-Powered Report with Python and Gemini
Introduction At recent technology conferences, one topic has caught my attention: every...
TOOLS5 days ago
The smolagents bug that made my agent retry the same valid code three times
Third entry in the DEV x Sentry Bug Smash. Entry 1 was a crash with a confusing message. Entry 2 was...
TOOLS6 days ago
One line of math froze my AI agent forever. The timeout watched and did nothing.
This is my second entry for the DEV x Sentry Bug Smash challenge. Entry #1 was a crash with a...
TOOLS8 days ago
Porting a 128-expert MoE (Gemma-4 26B-A4B) to AWS Inferentia2 — where every rank weighted the wrong experts
The MoE was the hard one: a dual-path FFN, a sparse expert loop that won't trace, and a bug where the device output was empty while the CPU reference was perfect and every unit test passed.
TOOLS9 days ago
I fixed a smolagents bug that confused everyone who hit it (with Sentry watching the whole time)
This is a submission for DEV's Summer Bug Smash: Clear the Lineup powered by Sentry. ...
TOOLS10 days ago
My Demo Script Found a Production Bug on Its First Run: A Tiny Post-Mortem
How a narrated demo for an MCP image server caught an API-contract drift that 10 passing unit tests never could — root cause, fix, and lessons about mocked tests.
TOOLS10 days ago
Build One AI Tool Server, Call It From Three Different Agents (MCP Explained)
A beginner-friendly tour of the Model Context Protocol: one Python server that generates images with Gemini, called by Claude Code, a Google ADK agent, and a Rust CLI.
TOOLS10 days ago
Why did my benchmark stop at N=22? A debugging story in nine bugs
Submission for DEV's Summer Bug Smash — Smash Stories track. There was a file in my repo called...
TOOLS10 days ago
My benchmark's Python column was N/A for a year — CPython's 4300-digit limit, and eight other bugs
Submission for DEV's Summer Bug Smash — Clear the Lineup track. The...
TOOLS13 days ago
Adding WebRTC to py-libp2p: Two Runtimes, Three Specs, and One Unforgiving Private Slot
TL;DR — py-libp2p PR #1309 adds an experimental WebRTC transport (/webrtc-direct and /webrtc) as a...
TOOLS13 days ago
Debugging a Legacy CRA + Django Deployment Pipeline: A DevOps Postmortem
A few weeks ago I was handed two deployment tasks that looked routine on paper: containerize and ship...
TOOLS16 days ago
Debugging Deployments with Gemma 4B, TPU v6e-1, MCP, and Antigravity CLI
This article provides a step by step debugging guide for deploying Gemma 4 to a Google Cloud TPU...
TOOLS16 days ago
Automating Django `dumpdata` Backups to S3 (One Command, Zero SSH)
If you're running a cookiecutter-django project on a droplet and still ssh-ing in every time you need...
TOOLS16 days ago
I'm 13, Building a CLI Tool for LLM Cost Tracking, and Shipping It in 10 Days
The problem A few weeks ago I read a Reddit comment that stuck with me: "I lost my house...
TOOLS18 days ago
Building a physical API
Now my journey on building a physical API for the robot. It goes through sentinel, a Rust daemon that listens to the CAN bus and turns the robot's own traffic into telemetry, the API and time series database behind it, Grafana for dashboards and alerts, and a control plane where a live 3D copy of the arm mirrors the real one.
TOOLS19 days ago
Omni Flash Preview with Claude Code
This article covers the MCP setup and configuration for using Google Omni Preview and underlying...
TOOLS20 days ago
Does Quantization Break Tool-Calling? I Measured It on a 4GB Laptop GPU (BFCL, 3 Seeds, Bootstrap 95% CI)
"Is Q4 safe for tool-calling?" gets asked constantly in local-LLM circles, and the answers are almost...
TOOLS22 days ago
Another Tale of Two Threads (C or C++ vs. Python)
A significant difference between writing multithreaded code in C or C++ vs. Python.
TOOLS23 days ago
Migrating from Python to Rust? Here's how to map your packages
Porting Python code to Rust is one of the most common performance optimization plays in modern...
TOOLS23 days ago
Building my humanoid robot
How I built and trained a humanoid arm from K-Scale's open-source K-Bot, from the CAN motors and LeRobot integration to a SmolVLA model that does pick-and-place on its own.
TOOLS23 days ago
Declarations from the Periphery: From Genesis to the Sovereign Edge
In July of 1776, an experimental political concept was ratified on the extreme edge of the known...
TOOLS24 days ago
Semantic Observability: Engineering Reliability for Production RAG
It is a noticeable thing when a microservice fails. It is either a null pointer exception in a Java...
TOOLS26 days ago
Time Necromancy: 100 Python Scripts That Resurrect Lost Hours
Raise your productivity from the dead with pure Python. Enter fullscreen mode Exit...
TOOLS26 days ago
Abandoning Abstractions: Manually Crafting EtherNet/IP Packets Almost Broke Me
By RUGERO Tesla (@404Saint). There is a persistent illusion in Industrial Control Systems (ICS)...
TOOLS26 days ago
Claude Code to Outlook via pywin32 — no MCP, no permission, no problem.
I work on a locked-down enterprise Windows machine. Can't register an Azure app, no MS Graph access,...
TOOLS29 days ago
# I built a tool that found my LangGraph email agent could be hijacked to forward the entire inbox to an attacker
TL;DR: I discovered that standard LLM email agents with tool access are highly vulnerable to indirect...
TOOLSabout 1 month ago
On programming languages, targets, and platforms
I started as a Java developer, but for some time now, I have broadened my horizons. Recently, I...
TOOLSabout 1 month ago
My eval harness paid for itself on the first run: 0.57 0.96, two bugs no unit test could catch
I almost shipped a RAG pipeline that, on certain questions, cited exactly the right document, and...
TOOLSabout 1 month ago
The LLM Visibility Tools Cost $79/Month. Mine is Open Source.
Tom Capper at a Search Engine Journal webinar last week: "There's no Search Console equivalent for...
TOOLSabout 1 month ago
Some friends wanted to see how I use DigitalOcean. So I built them the smallest real app I could.
A couple of friends know I host most of my side projects on DigitalOcean, and lately they've been...
TOOLSabout 1 month ago
Some friends wanted to see how I use DigitalOcean. So I built them the smallest real app I could.
A couple of friends know I host most of my side projects on DigitalOcean, and lately they've been...
TOOLSabout 1 month ago
I almost added an em-dash remover to my LLM library. Then I tested whether local models even produce em-dashes.
How a five-model local sweep reshaped llmclean 0.3.0 — and three things about LLM output that turned out to be the opposite of what I assumed.
TOOLSabout 1 month ago
I tested 12 job search tools. they all failed the same way.
took me a week to write this. not ai-generated, not a listicle. just something i genuinely wanted to...
TOOLSabout 1 month ago
How a Weekend Python Script Saved a CA Firm 209 Hours During ITR Season
How a Weekend Python Script Saved a CA Firm 209 Hours During ITR Season ₹3,12,000. That's...
TOOLSabout 1 month ago
Giving Coding Agents Better Test Memory
When I work with coding agents, I increasingly care about whether the project can preserve why an...
TOOLSabout 1 month ago
Expanding the Sovereign AI Stack: Moving the Specification from Gateway to Local Silicon
When I first introduced the Sovereign Systems Specification and released the initial foundation of...
TOOLSabout 1 month ago
When Your AI API Goes Down: A Real-World Fallback Strategy
Two months ago, I was staring at a 503 error from an AI API provider while my users were...
TOOLSabout 1 month ago
Why we built a desktop app on local Flask + browser UI instead of PyQt or Electron
When you double-click WP Maintenance Manager, it opens a browser tab — and the entire UI lives inside...
TOOLSabout 1 month ago
wayback-video: Turn Any Site's History into a Video
Side project outside my usual PHP world, but worth sharing. I have a habit of Googling old websites...
TOOLSabout 1 month ago
I Built a Consistent Hashing Ring in Pure Python and Finally Understood How Cassandra Distributes Data
I Built a Consistent Hashing Ring in Pure Python and Finally Understood How Cassandra...
TOOLSabout 1 month ago
How I Built a Python Script to Export and Analyze Your DEV.to Followers
It was a Friday, and school was out for the weekend. I made a bit of a Spelling Bee page for my...
TOOLSabout 1 month ago
The Death of Note-Taking and the Rise of the Digital Scribe
In our previous series, we built the Sovereign Vault to verify truth in existing records. But as we...
TOOLSabout 1 month ago
I Built an Offline AI Crop Disease Identifier for Smart India Hackathon
SIH brief - 35% of Indian crop losses come from undiagnosed disease. Build an Android app where the farmer photographs a leaf, AI returns the disease + Hindi remedy. Runs offline. 3.5 MB model.
TOOLSabout 2 months ago
Sovereign Synapse: The Local Brain
A vault of 3,150 Markdown files is just a very organized digital attic. It’s a repository of every...
TOOLSabout 2 months ago
Foghorn : a blunt non-DNS solution
When you're not IT but you need name propagation
TOOLSabout 2 months ago
I tested whether a code health score actually predicts bugs. Here's the benchmark
Most code health scores are vibes. A number goes up, a number goes down, and nobody checks whether...
TOOLSabout 2 months ago
I built a Python AI agent and Pylance drove me to build a type checker and LSP
A while back I started building Nimble Agent — a LangChain-based coding agent in Python. The idea was...
TOOLSabout 2 months ago
FastAPI Middleware Ordering: Why Your CORS, Auth, and Tenant Context Stack Matters in Production
Master the counterintuitive middleware execution order in FastAPI to ensure JWT validation runs before CORS rejection, tenant context loads before permission checks, and error handlers catch everything without silent failures cascading through your multi-tenant SaaS.
TOOLSabout 2 months ago
I Built an AI-Powered Meeting Platform From Scratch — Here’s How It Actually Works
A complete breakdown of Hoovik: WebRTC signaling, distributed Node.js with Redis, real-time emotion...
TOOLSabout 2 months ago
How I Shaved 10 MB Off My Portfolio in One Command
PageSpeed Insights had been staring at me for weeks. Desktop was holding at 91. Mobile was stuck at...
TOOLSabout 2 months ago
Sovereign Synapse: The Context-Cleaner
(Curation is Sovereignty) Sovereign Synapse Series | Post 2 AI is polite by design. It...
TOOLSabout 2 months ago
Running PyTorch fork-safe in Celery on macOS
If you've ever seen this in your Celery logs: Process 'ForkPoolWorker-7' pid:32839 exited with...
TOOLSabout 2 months ago
Why My Analytics Was Logging Every Page Visit Twice (And How I Fixed It)
I built a custom analytics system into my portfolio backend — a Django REST API that records page...
TOOLSabout 2 months ago
I Added a 71-Line Black Box to My Python Agent, Then Queried the $200 Crash With DuckDB
A practical Python pattern for recording agent tool calls, sanitizing traces, stopping runaway runs, and querying failures with DuckDB.
TOOLSabout 2 months ago
Pluto-ecss: A transpiler and runtime for PLUTO procedure language
This is a submission for the GitHub Finish-Up-A-Thon Challenge What I Built pluto-ecss is...
TOOLSabout 2 months ago
Seasons time-lapse - alignment
In the previous post, I described the Seasons project: a time-lapse of hundreds of pictures taken...
TOOLSabout 2 months ago
Hermes Mentor — A Local AI Agent That Gets You Out of Tutorial Hell
This is a submission for the Hermes Agent Challenge: Build With Hermes Agent What I...