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Are you applying "best practices" too literally? Tombri Bowei shares his experience.

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Announcing the Auth0 for AI Agents Challenge!

Build with AI Agents that have built-in auth and security. Fine-grained control with just a few lines of code!

Three winners will be awarded $1000🏅

#auth0challenge #ai #security
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Here's a perfect way for beginner maintainers to participate in Hacktoberfest: contribute to a Go REST API Boilerplate. Complete with AI-friendly issues. Check it out!

#Hacktoberfest2025 #Opensource

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🎃 Contribute to a Go REST API Boilerplate — Perfect for Hacktoberfest Beginners!
Hey everyone! 👋 I’ve built a Go REST API boilerplate to help developers learn how to structure...
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It's inspiring to see how a side project can grow into something used by pro sports teams in the NBA, NFL, and Premier League. Share your #Hacktoberfest2025 in our Hacktoberfest Writing Challenge!

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#opensource #reactnative #devcommunity
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🏈⚽🏀 Hacktoberfest, from Side Project to Pro Sports: Contribute to a Library Used by NBA, NFL & Premier League Coaches
This is a submission for the 2025 Hacktoberfest Writing Challenge: Maintainer Spotlight 🌍...
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A simple streamlined guide to passkeys by @highflyer910.bsky.social

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👻 #mememonday
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See if you can spot the AI generated image with "Bot or Not," a clever app created for the KendoReact Free Components Challenge. 🤖

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Check out Study-Mate, an AI powered study assistant built for the Heroku "Back to School" Challenge. 📚

See it here: dev.to/prime_299792...
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Congrats to the three winners of the Google AI Multimodal Challenge!

Amazing work James Hoang, Nadine, and Mwanza Simi.

From an AI-powered visual assistant to "video-to-video" generation tool and a creative app to "Reverse Engineer Reality" - check out their work below!

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Congrats to the Google AI Multimodal Challenge Winners!
The wait is over! We are excited to announce the winners of the Google AI Studio Multimodal...
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Is AI replacing the need for boilerplates? Jigar Shah shares some perspective.

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A big shout-out to the incredible authors featured in this week's Top 7 Featured DEV Posts! 👏

Congratulations @cory.laviska.com, @christine-seeman.com, and all the rest!

Check out their fantastic reads:

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Top 7 Featured DEV Posts of the Week
Welcome to this week's Top 7, where the DEV editorial team handpicks their favorite posts from the...
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Get ready 🎃

The Hacktoberfest Writing Challenge is around the corner! 👻

#Hacktoberfest2025 #OpenSource @Hacktoberfest.com
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Get back to work, all of you!

Just kidding. Happy #mememonday!
 Title: "When you do an unnecessary refactor just for aesthetics and end up breaking prod." 
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Exploring why your desk setup may be holding you back with Bek Brace. 💻

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A thorough breakdown of Model Context Protocol by Om Shree.

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What was the best part of your week?

I finished a book I've been working on for a while now. Always feels good to turn that last page and reflect! 📖

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What was your win this week!?
👋👋👋👋 Looking back on your week -- what was something you're proud of? All wins count -- big or...
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Did you miss #APIPlatformCon 2025? 🕷️

Our very own developer @ktherage.bsky.social has summarized all the talks he attended

Get an overview of some of the highlights 🎙️✨ of the conference

Find his article on @dev.to platform 👉 tinyurl.com/3p4wr352

#PHP #Symfony
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