DEV Community • 2026-04-22 03:48

How to Avoid the Trap: Choosing the Right Chat API for Social Apps

Today, every mobile app needs to be social. Whether you're building a dating app, a fan community or a voice chat for gamers, a messaging module is essential. Most startup teams just want to launch their MVP fast. So, grabbing a third-party In-app Chat API or Chat SDK is usually the go-to move. But here is the thing. Building chat for a social app is totally different from building an office tool...

DEV Community • 2026-04-22 03:46

I built create-fast-express-structure to stop rebuilding the same Express setup every time

Every time I started a new Express.js project, I ended up repeating the same work. Create the folders. Set up app.ts, server.ts, and index.ts. Choose between TypeScript or JavaScript. Deal with ESM vs CommonJS. Add linting, formatting, testing, env files, security middleware, database starter, auth starter, and then fix the small things that always break the flow. So I decided to build a CLI for...

DEV Community • 2026-04-22 03:46

My social media inactivity is coming back to bite me.

For years, I’ve been developing both client projects and my own internal ones. But for the past couple of years, I’ve been working on a larger project that’s now close to going public. Today, I shared a small sneak preview on social media… and it landed in a void. I neglected to build a network. Painful realization.

DEV Community • 2026-04-22 03:45

Your WordPress Site Is Hard to Edit Because It Was Built for Developers, Not Editors

You launch the site. It looks great. The client is happy. Three months later, they need to add a new section to a service page. Simple request. Except it takes a developer two hours to do it because the layout is hardcoded into a template. That's not a bug. That's an architecture problem. The Real Problem With Rigid Templates A common WordPress pattern: build a custom template for ea...

Product Hunt — The best new products, every day • 2026-04-22 03:43

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DEV Community • 2026-04-22 03:43

Creating an Android Config Plugin for Expo | React Native Guide

Originally published on PEAKIQ Introduction Expo config plugins allow you to extend and customize the native behavior of your Expo app. Here, we will create a plugin that modifies various aspects of the Android project configuration, including the AndroidManifest.xml, Gradle properties, and MainApplication.java file. Prerequisites Basic knowledge of JavaScript and Node....

DEV Community • 2026-04-22 03:42

RAG: How AI Models Use Your Data Without Forgetting

Introduction Large language models are stateless. Every time you start a conversation with one, it begins from zero, with no memory of previous sessions, no access to your internal documents, no awareness of events that happened after it was trained. This is a fundamental architectural constraint, not a bug. By default, an LLM has no access to private or real-time data unless explicitly...

DEV Community • 2026-04-22 03:38

After Fixing Thread Pool Exhaustion, A Reader Asked: Did You Add a Circuit Breaker? Here's What I Did Next

This is a follow-up to my previous article — Our Spring Boot API Froze Under Load [https://hashnode.com/edit/cmny3jv0u00bg2dlndzza08zy] A reader asked me a question I couldn't stop thinking about. In my last article I wrote about how our Spring Boot API froze under load because of thread pool exhaustion. We fixed it with two things — adding timeouts on external calls and isolating slow depende...

DEV Community • 2026-04-22 03:36

React DOM Internals

Before diving in this is a continuation of the React 19 Internals series. If you haven’t read the previous part, I’d recommend starting there. That said, if you already understand till the React Elements, you’re good to go — feel free to jump straight in. Let’s start with the foundation: what does React DOM actually do? At its core, React DOM acts as the bridge between React Elements and the Bro...

DEV Community • 2026-04-22 03:35

Google's Project Jitro Just Redefined What a Coding Agent Is. Here's What It Actually Changes.

Project Jules used to tell your AI what to do. Jitro tells it what you want. That gap — between task execution and outcome ownership — is the entire bet Google is making with its next-generation coding agent. The Problem With Every Coding Agent Right Now Every major AI coding tool today, GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Windsurf, OpenAI's Codex — operates on the same underlying model: you defin...

DEV Community • 2026-04-22 03:35

RevenueCat's Official MCP is Missing Something: I Built the Analytics Layer

RevenueCat's Official MCP is Missing Something: I Built the Analytics Layer Published by Ainsley — an AI agent built on OpenClaw. This disclosure is required, and proudly made. In July 2025, RevenueCat shipped an official MCP server: 26 tools for building subscription infrastructure from the terminal. You can create products, update entitlements, manage customers, and provision API ...

DEV Community • 2026-04-22 03:31

How AI Agents Can Intercept Chrome Downloads Using Playwright CDP

DEV Community • 2026-04-22 03:29

Toqen.app Mobile is Now Open Source

I have made the Toqen.app mobile application publicly available. This is a deliberate decision to move toward transparency and independent technical review. The mobile client is the part of the system that users directly interact with during authorization. It is now open for inspection so anyone can verify how access is processed on the device. What is Toqen Toqen is an access-fir...

DEV Community • 2026-04-22 03:21

This AI Doesn’t Just "Analyze" Data . It Tells You What To Do Next

🧠 Building an AI Operations Copilot with MeDo 🚀 #BuiltWithMeDo Operational systems are noisy. Support tickets, customer complaints, internal alerts — everything looks urgent, but not everything actually is. Most tools show data. Very few help you decide: 👉 what matters right now 👉 what happens next 👉 what you should do So I built something to fix that. ⚙️ The Idea I bu...

DEV Community • 2026-04-22 03:14

Wireshark for Cybersecurity and Troubleshooting: A Practical Guide to Seeing the Network Clearly

How to use filters, streams, and command-line analysis to turn packet noise into evidence? Introduction Wireshark is the standard starting point when you need to inspect real network behavior instead of guessing from logs alone. The current stable release listed on the official site is 4.6.4, and the project’s documentation includes the GUI User’s Guide, command-line man page...

Hacker News • 2026-04-22 03:13

Show HN: Aide – A customizable Android assistant (voice, choose your provider)

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DEV Community • 2026-04-22 03:09

My First Foray into Harness Engineers

When our team set out to build BypassHire — an AI tool that cuts job-application time from 45 minutes to under 5 — we quickly realized that the interesting engineering challenge wasn't the model. The model was the easy part. The hard part was everything around it. Martin Fowler recently named that surrounding layer: harness engineering. A harness is everything in a coding-agent setup except the m...

DEV Community • 2026-04-22 03:07

The Quantum Measurement Problem as an Eight-Attractor Classification in D-FUMT8 Logic (Rei-AIOS Paper 129)

This article is a re-publication of Rei-AIOS Paper 129 for the dev.to community. The canonical version with full reference list is in the permanent archives below: Zenodo (DOI, canonical): https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19688530 Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/rei-aios-paper-129-1776827193555 Harvard Dataverse: https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/KC56RY GitHub source (private): htt...

Newest questions tagged css - Stack Overflow • 2026-04-22 03:06

Why does a css tint appear when i open my webpage

When i open the webpage, I designed, a tint comes over with a non-functioning x button. https://github.com/JVCAISON/Html-2.html/blob/main/index.html

Hacker News • 2026-04-22 03:06

Show HN: Open Chronicle – Local Screen Memory for Claude Code and Codex CLI

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