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Giorgi Kobaidze

Nov 4

Scared to Publish Your First Technical Article? Don't Be. I'll Be There to Read It

#discuss #community #beginners #writing

3 min read

Spot homoglyph attacks using simple profile checks

Ayoub Hammoudi

Nov 4

"Mandatory user verification" on DEV is a scam. Here's how to spot it in 30 seconds.

#discuss #security #webdev #beginners

1 min read

MLH Team for Major League Hacking (MLH)

Nov 5

Prompt Pad: What Are Open-Weight Models?

#opensource #ai #beginners #codenewbie

1 min read

Anna Villarreal

Nov 5

🤷‍♀️ Soul Searching Amid Tech Frustrations

#webdev #beginners #mentalhealth #career

9 min read

Faheem Ahmed

Nov 6

Building a Role-Based Dashboard in React with Just Context API and localStorage (No Backend)

#react #webdev #javascript #beginners

2 min read

Avinash Kori

Nov 5

3 cron mistakes that make your job run at the wrong time

#linux #devops #beginners #webdev

3 min read

Bill Edenfield

Nov 5

My first Hackathon - SpeedDemon 2026 by Hackathon Raptors

#hackathonraptors #beginners #devchallenge #performance

8 min read

Shish Singh

Nov 5

Transformers: Why Is Everyone Talking About Them?

#ai #nlp #beginners #chatgpt

15 min read

GarySto

Nov 5

How to Run a Free Local AI Model with LM Studio and Use It from Python

#ai #llm #python #beginners

11 min read

Jay Barker

Nov 5

Compress Images Before You Upload: A Faster Website Workflow

#webdev #performance #tutorial #beginners

11 min read

HVAC Fitter

Nov 5

Frost or a Frozen Heat Pump? Writing the Triage as a Small Python Function

#python #beginners #tutorial #iot

3 min read

OMW Locksmith LLC

Nov 5

Building a static site for a locksmith in Columbia, MO: LocalBusiness schema, click-to-call and a blog with no CMS

#beginners

3 min read

Rahul Kumar

Nov 5

In most open source projects we measured, one person gives most of the first answers

#opensource #github #programming #beginners

9 min read

VoiceDeveloper

Nov 6

Best Text-to-Speech APIs for Production Apps

#ai #webdev #programming #beginners

4 min read

Carlos Chinchilla Corbacho

Nov 5

Fine-tuning is the wrong tool for knowledge: three training phases and the low-rank shortcut

#machinelearning #python #ai #beginners

10 min read

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