Most software founders eventually hit a revenue ceiling dictated not by the market, but by their distribution infrastructure. Relying on managed licensing platforms like Freemius is convenient for MVP stages, but surrendering up to 20% of your B2B Mo...

Imagine you have an upcoming interview at Big Tech. You see 2 coding rounds, 1 behavioural round, and …. 1 System Design. > This was originally published on https://www.mockingly.ai/blog You start to wonder if it’s backend system design, or will ...

The Setup So I did something maybe a bit crazy—I've been paying for all three AI code editors VS Code + Copilot, Cursor, and Windsurf at the same time for the last 6 months. Not for content, not for a review—I genuinely needed to figure out which o...

Understanding the Producer-Consumer Pattern in C Sharp The Producer-Consumer pattern is one of the most common patterns in concurrent programming. In simple English, it means this: One part of the program creates work. Another part of the program...

Agents execute tool calls. Most of them are fine. Some of them delete staging databases, send emails to the wrong distribution list, or git push --force onto a branch someone was reviewing. The gap between "the model decided" and "the tool ran" is wh...

LINQ is great. Until it isn't. Let me explain. When I first learned LINQ, I thought it was magic. You write these clean, readable queries. No more messy loops. No more inline SQL strings. Just beautiful C#. And for small apps or quick prototypes? ...

Zero merchants in Ben Fisher's 4,024-merchant UCP datasethttps://dev.to/benjifisher/agentic-commerce-optimization-what-4491-merchants-reveal-about-ucp-readiness-3fk support native payment. I've been building toward closing that gap since March. Today...

Standard ID alphabets include characters that look identical at normal reading sizes. O and 0. I and 1 and l. S and 5. B and 8. For dyslexic readers, d and b, q and p. Every one of these is a support ticket, a failed lookup, or a phone call where som...

Tüm PVE makinelerde uygulanacaklar Sanal makineye atanan disk silindiğinde üzerindeki verilerin sıfırlanmasını sağlar. Aksi durumda aynı aralığa denk gelen başka bir mantıksal alanda bir önceki mantıksal alanın verilerine erişim sağlanabilir. sed ...

I'm Karim, a full-stack developer and AI/ML researcher from Cairo. Over the past year, I built Qodrateman — a production e-learning platform now live at qodrateman.com, serving Arabic-speaking students across 12+ courses. This isn't a "look what I ma...

Divooka is a high-performance visual programming platform designed for creators, developers, and world builders. Build applications, generate worlds, process data, and experiment with computation using a powerful node-based system combined with flexi...

I've been running DeepSeek behind LangChain for a few months for a side project. Worked fine, except one day I noticed something weird: DeepSeek's pricing page advertises cached input tokens at ~10% of the miss rate, but my bills didn't reflect ...

How to Build a Browser-Based Image Converter Using the Canvas API No Server, No Uploads Most image conversion tools work the same way. You pick a file, it travels to a server, the server processes it, and then you download the result. That workflow...

You open a new Copilot chat and explain everything again. Your stack. Folder structure. That “no default exports” rule. Copilot writes code, but forgets context. This isn’t a bug though. LLMs are stateless, every chat starts fresh. The good part?...

Have you ever tried to follow instructions in a software program, only to end up more confused than when you started? This often happens when instructions are not written clearly or when too many technical terms are used without explanation. Good te...

Thinking about what, exactly, the future of a website “looks” like in the agentic era is a challenging proposition. It might be that in most cases, our future viewers/readers/customers can do everything, from their chatbot of preference while never v...

You've added cryptographic audit trails to your crew part 1https://dev.to/piqrypt/how-i-added-cryptographic-audit-trails-to-any-crewai-crew-in-3-lines-2n6m and co-signed the handoffs between agents part 2https://dev.to/piqrypt/multi-agent-accountabi...

If you have ever written a Delphi application that talks to a database, you know the routine: write SQL by hand, manage parameters, loop through datasets, and copy values into objects field by field. It works, but it is tedious and error-prone. Trys...

Every engineering trade-off between "ship faster using the abstraction" and "derive first, build from scratch" is implicitly a position on a 0-to-10 axis. Without codifying the axis and naming where you currently sit, you drift between positions sess...