Tech Blog - DevRadar

Two weeks ago my Code Jam got zero submissions because I buried it inside a chat app. So I rebuilt it as a standalone platform. Now I'm going bigger: KODA Online Fest 2026 — a 3-day coding festival, hosted entirely from a POCO C55 in Tamil Nadu. Sept 12–14. 🎪 THE THREE TRACKS 🏆 TRACK 1

Dev.to (EN Zone) 2026-09-05

K

Open Source

Kept Getting Strange GitHub Followers. So I Measured Them

Over the past several weeks, I kept seeing something unusual in my GitHub followers. Not one suspicious account. Not even one suspicious batch. Repeated waves of accounts would appear with remarkably similar characteristics: dozens of newly generated repositories thousands of outbound follows r

Dev.to (EN Zone) 2026-09-05

A

Frontend

Are We Becoming AI Managers Instead of Developers?

I've been doing front-end development for somewhere around 20 years now. During that time, I've watched the job change over and over again. New frameworks. New languages. New tooling. New ways of building and deploying software. But I don't think I've ever had to adapt as quickly as I have over the

Dev.to (EN Zone) 2026-09-05

W

Industry

We Built Kolaboratr Because Finding the Right People to Build With Shouldn’t Be This Hard

There’s a pattern we keep seeing across indie development and creative communities. One person posts: “I have a project, but I need an artist.” A programmer says: “I’m looking for a team.” A writer is looking for something worth joining. A composer wants a real project to score. A designe

Dev.to (EN Zone) 2026-09-05

7

Cloud

7 AWS Resources That Could Be Quietly Increasing Your Cloud Bill

AWS makes it incredibly easy to provision infrastructure. Sometimes, a little too easy. An EC2 instance gets created for a project. A volume survives after the instance is terminated. A snapshot is kept "just in case." A development environment runs all night even though nobody is using it. Indiv

Dev.to (EN Zone) 2026-09-05

O

Open Source

Ollama's -cloud suffix isn't a label, it's a silent instruction. I bypassed it.

Error: model 'Natuworkguy/flash-onyx-2.2:31b' not found (status code: 404) I never built :31b. I built :31b-cloud. I asked for :31b-cloud. Ollama went looking for something else, didn't find it, and told me so, using a name that existed nowhere on my machine, in my registry, or in my head. T

Dev.to (EN Zone) 2026-09-05

I

AI & ML

I'm 12. My Code Jam got zero submissions. So I built a platform for it.

Last week I ran the first KODA Code Jam — a tournament where developers build niche single-page apps, submit them to the Showcase Wall, and compete for Champion status. The result: zero submissions. I could've blamed users. "They didn't care." "The timing was wrong." "My audience isn't into hackat

Dev.to (EN Zone) 2026-09-05

I

AI & ML

I Tested Q4_K_M vs MXFP4 on the Same Laptop — The Supposedly-Faster New Format Lost

I tested two local LLMs in two different quantization formats on the same laptop, on the same prompt, three trials each. The result is the opposite of what the marketing says: the supposedly-faster new format lost by 1.8x. Q4_K_M (the older integer-based format) hit 4.7 tokens/second and finished a

Dev.to (EN Zone) 2026-09-05

H

Frontend

Hermes Bytecode and the Cold-Start Budget: Engineering Time-to-Interactive as a Product Requirement

In the lifecycle of a mobile application, the most expensive milliseconds are the ones that occur between the user tapping the icon and the first meaningful interaction. In my eight years of professional software engineering, I have seen these milliseconds treated as a secondary performance metric—a

Dev.to (EN Zone) 2026-09-05

S

Frontend

Showoff Saturday: a 59-tool utility site in 10 languages, Flask backend, every tool is a plain JS file

toolkitsapp.com Formatters (JSON, SQL, CSS, HTML, YAML), converters (CSV to JSON, number bases, timestamps, units, timezones), generators (QR, UUID, passwords, cron expressions, favicons, meta tags), image tools (compress, resize, format convert, SVG to PNG), a JWT decoder, a regex tester, a handful

Reddit r/webdev 2026-09-05

H

AI & ML

How We Doubled Our Cache Hit Rate When Pre-Warming Wasn’t Enough

Quick question. If you run a voice agent, do you know your prompt cache hit rate on turn 1? Not the average across the call. Just turn 1, when the caller has said hello and is sitting in silence waiting for your agent to speak. We thought ours was fine. We pre-warm before every call, like everyone

DEV Community 2026-09-05

W

AI & ML

What if your AI assistant had two minutes of free time?如果你的AI助手有两分钟的空闲时间，会怎样？

A few weeks ago I was talking with Claude about whether a model could have anything like a belief, and what it would take. Its answer was that tool use is the most underrated piece: a tool is the first thing that can tell a model "no" where the "no" does not come from a human. Run some code, and the

DEV Community 2026-09-05