DEV Community • 2026-04-29 12:02

Alpine.js in 2026: The 7 kB Script Tag That Replaced jQuery (And When to Actually Use It)

Alpine.js 2026: The 7.1 kB jQuery replacement. No build step. Add reactivity to Laravel/Django & boost Core Web Vitals. Compare it to React and Vue today. TL;DR Alpine.js is a 7.1 kB JavaScript framework with no build step. Drop in a script tag and get reactive dropdowns, modals, tabs, and form validation on any server-rendered page. It is not a React replacement — it is the tool y...

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Webinar: How to Automate Exposure Validation to Match the Speed of AI Attacks
The Hacker News • 2026-04-29 12:02

Webinar: How to Automate Exposure Validation to Match the Speed of AI Attacks

In February 2026, researchers uncovered a shift that completely changed the game: threat actors are now using custom AI setups to automate attacks directly into the kill chain. We aren't just talking about AI writing better phishing emails anymore. We’re talking about autonomous agents mapping Active Directory and seizing Domain Admin credentials in minutes. The problem? Most defensive workflows

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/r/ReactJS - The Front Page of React • 2026-04-29 12:00

The hardest React problem in my side project wasn't the AI matching, it was making anonymous users feel like they belong somewhere

Been lurking here forever, finally have something worth sharing. I built On Your Mind (https://on-your-mind.pages.dev), an anonymous thought-sharing app that uses BGE-small embeddings and pgvector cosine similarity to match strangers thinking the same thing in real time. The technical side was honestly the fun part. The React challenge that actually kept me up was this: how do you build a UI that ...

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newest submissions : multi • 2026-04-29 12:00

What business software has really good free alternatives?

We all know that businesses get a much tougher deal when it comes to software, whether it's SaaS or downloadable. What are some free or really cheap alternatives you've discovered that replace software/SaaS? submitted by /u/RedEagle_MGN to r/software [link] [comments]

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newest submissions : multi • 2026-04-29 12:00

Two stabbed in Golders Green, north-west London, says Jewish group

submitted by /u/tsteel12 to r/news [link] [comments]

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Hacker News: Front Page • 2026-04-29 12:00

Stardex Is Hiring a Founding Customer Success Lead

Article URL: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/stardex/jobs/6GCK1HC-founding-customer-success-lead Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47947125 Points: 0 # Comments: 0

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newest submissions : multi • 2026-04-29 12:00

Export any Markdown file to a polished PDF in seconds — free browser tool, no plugins, no install

Open a tab. Paste your Markdown. Hit Print. Done. No account. No install. No file size limit. Nothing uploaded anywhere. Just a clean PDF in your browser in under a minute. 🔗 https://www.innateblogger.com/p/markdown-to-pdf.html I built this because I needed it, kept it free because it's useful. It's been live for almost a year and I'm still actively maintaining it. What makes it actually useful: F...

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Experienced Devs • 2026-04-29 11:59

Juniors & AI

First of all, apologize if this is not correct subreddit to discuss about this topic. The other day a colleague said something that stuck with me. We were talking about AI, and he pointed out that junior developers are leaning on it so heavily that they're skipping critical learning phases. And because of that, they can't prompt well or fix what AI gets wrong, leading to poor code. His point mad...

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newest submissions : multi • 2026-04-29 11:57

What's the state of AI when it comes to infra/DevOps?

Hey, hopefully this is allowed but I've been getting buried under Terraform PRs at work that are mostly written by AI now, and a real chunk of my week goes into reviewing them and trying to figure out if anything weird is about to ship (and it's been painful). So I decided to put together a short survey (10 questions, ~5 minutes, no email collection or signup) to try and get a picture of how other...

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DEV Community • 2026-04-29 11:55

I Built an AI to Monitor Servers. Then I Built a Chaos Proxy to Break Them 💥

It’s 3:00 AM. Your phone is buzzing furiously. Your Grafana dashboard looks like a Jackson Pollock painting done entirely in red. A CPU on server-04 is screaming at 99%. Cool graph, you think, rubbing your eyes. But what do I actually do about this? We don’t have a data problem in modern DevOps. We have an Actionable Intelligence problem. We've built massive pipelines to funnel petabytes of Red...

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Israel engineered 'special' rats to attack Palestinians in Gaza, radical Fatah officials claim
newest submissions : multi • 2026-04-29 11:54

Israel engineered 'special' rats to attack Palestinians in Gaza, radical Fatah officials claim

submitted by /u/barsik_ to r/worldnews [link] [comments]

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📝 Documentation-as-Code Has Silently Won For Tech Content
DEV Community • 2026-04-29 11:53

📝 Documentation-as-Code Has Silently Won For Tech Content

Initial thoughts 1. The power of developer tools Git: complete traceability Pull requests: quality through review Write once, publish everywhere 2. Live documentation The wiki problem: drift and duplication Same PR, same review, same deployment CI/CD enforcement 3. Everything-as-code applied to documentation 4. The AI revolution AI-powered writing assistance AI-readable cont...

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UK’s Metropolitan Police Federation criticises 'intrusive' use of Palantir AI
newest submissions : multi • 2026-04-29 11:52

UK’s Metropolitan Police Federation criticises 'intrusive' use of Palantir AI

submitted by /u/sr_local to r/technology [link] [comments]

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Political prisoner Naser Bakrzadeh at imminent risk after Iran upholds death sentence | "Bakrzadeh, a Kurdish prisoner held in Urmia Central Prison, was severely beaten after the ruling was formally delivered to him."
newest submissions : multi • 2026-04-29 11:51

Political prisoner Naser Bakrzadeh at imminent risk after Iran upholds death sentence | "Bakrzadeh, a Kurdish prisoner held in Urmia Central Prison, was severely beaten after the ruling was formally delivered to him."

submitted by /u/rknsh to r/worldnews [link] [comments]

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Chinese green technology poses national security problem for Europe, report warns
newest submissions : multi • 2026-04-29 11:50

Chinese green technology poses national security problem for Europe, report warns

submitted by /u/TORUKMACTO92 to r/technology [link] [comments]

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DEV Community • 2026-04-29 11:48

The 3 things that break first when you integrate a gift card API

If you're integrating a gift card API for the first time, the vendor demo will look great. The sandbox will work on the first try. You'll think this is going to be a clean two-week sprint. Then you ship to production and discover the same three problems every team hits: Duplicate orders because retries weren't idempotent. Missed transactions because webhooks didn't arrive. A finance team that ca...

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DEV Community • 2026-04-29 11:48

Payment Webhooks Will Lie To You. Here's How We Built Ones That Don't (in NestJS)

A payment webhook fires once. You miss it. The customer thinks they paid. Your dashboard says they didn't. Welcome to my Tuesday morning, two years ago. I've shipped four payment webhook systems in my career. The first three taught me everything I now refuse to do again. The fourth — the one running inside Atoa today — handles open banking payment notifications across our Node.js services withou...

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Control Flow in JavaScript: If, Else, and Switch Explained
DEV Community • 2026-04-29 11:45

Control Flow in JavaScript: If, Else, and Switch Explained

Understanding the control flow of a program is very important to understand the behaviour of code. This blog will help you understand control flow in JavaScript. What does control flow mean in programming? Control flow refers to the order in which statements in a program are executed, usually from top to bottom. However, in many cases, we need to skip or repeat certain parts of the program base...

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DEV Community • 2026-04-29 11:43

String Polyfills and Common Interview Methods in JavaScript

Introduction In this blog, you are going to learn how JavaScript built-in methods work internally. You will also learn how developers make JavaScript compatible with older browsers using polyfills. What are polyfills : A polyfill is a piece of JavaScript code that adds support for modern features in older browsers that don’t support them natively. If the browser doesn’t hav...

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Zelenskiy says Ukraine will continue extending range of strikes on Russia
newest submissions : multi • 2026-04-29 11:43

Zelenskiy says Ukraine will continue extending range of strikes on Russia

submitted by /u/Infodataplace to r/worldnews [link] [comments]

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