Originally published on DEV Community in July 2026. This version is updated with the current state of the lab and a new section on what happened when I finally tested my backups. I'm an IT Systems Administrator / Service Desk Team Lead L2 in Torino,...

Most of the social data questions on here end up in the same place: someone needs posts or comments from a platform, the official API gives them two thirds of what they need, and they are trying to work out whether filling the gap is worth it. This i...

Most of the RL material aimed at developers is about games and robotics, which is a long way from the ranking code any of us actually ship. This is the version that applies to a search box or a memory layer in a normal product, written for people who...

For decades, learning to code meant learning how to write code. You learned syntax. You memorized APIs. You practiced algorithms. You built projects. You learned frameworks. But AI has changed one fundamental part of that equation. Writing code is...

I've been using ffuf for bug bounty hunting for a while and kept running into the same problem when showing it to people — you need a terminal, you need to install Go, you need to know the flags. There's a real barrier before someone can run their fi...

Broken internal links can hurt your website's SEO and create a poor user experience. When visitors or search engines encounter a 404 page, it becomes harder to navigate your site and pass link authority between pages. Why Internal Links Matter Inter...

If you're a freelance dev quoting a Squarespace-to-WordPress migration, pricing it like a standard "content move" undersells the work — and pricing it like a full custom build oversells it to the client. Here's how to scope it properly. What's actu...

Most of us here have shipped something with a model behind it, and most of us have hit the same wall: it works beautifully for one session, then treats you like a stranger the next morning. This is a writeup of where that actually breaks in the archi...

When you first learn std::uniqueptr, three things confuse almost everyone: release, reset, and std::move. They all look like they "give something up", but they do very different things. This post explains what each one really does, with short example...

Four-Leaf's SQL Interview Guide1 Key takeaways A SQL interview is a translation test. The syntax is the easy half, and most candidates who fail were fluent in SQL. What sinks them is starting to type before the question is pinned down, or writing a...

As developers, we’ve all done it. You search for a problem, find a solution on Google, Stack Overflow, GitHub, or an AI tool, copy the code, make a few changes—and finally, it works. But then someone asks: “Can you explain how this works?” And s...

In the world of software development, we often celebrate fast coders, clean architecture, and mastering the latest framework. But there is one skill that is even more valuable: > Knowing what problem is actually worth solving. A developer can writ...

When the Machine Doesn’t Need Us Anymore What happens to threat profiling, attribution, and defense when the attacker stops being human There is a question the cybersecurity industry keeps circling but rarely answers directly: what happens to threat ...

Text-to-SQL Is Not a Prompting Problem — 7 Ways an LLM Silently Returns the Wrong Number A text-to-SQL feature that throws a syntax error is harmless. Somebody sees a red box, files a ticket, and you fix it. The one that will hurt you is the query...

How I Brought My Illustrations to Life with PixiJS: Parallax, Particles, and Sound in the Browser I'm a book illustrator by trade. In 2012 I drew a piece called After Picasso — and at some point I realized a static image wasn't the end of the story...

Hello, I'm Ganesh. I'm building git-lrc, an AI code reviewer that runs on every commit. It is free, unlimited, and source-available on Github. Star git-lrc on GitHub to help more developers discover the project. Do give it a try and share your feedba...