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DEV Community • 2026-07-28 23:40

Your AI Agents Need Finite State Machines (FSMs)

In my previous article, I argued that AI changes the role of constraints in software development. For years, many developers saw constraints as something to minimize. Dynamic languages gained popularity over static ones. Schema-less databases promised greater flexibility. Convention replaced configuration. Implicit behavior was often preferred over explicit definitions. The motivation was unders...

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DEV Community • 2026-07-28 23:36

Unicode Isn't a Font: How Fancy Text Generators Actually Work

If you've ever seen text like this: 𝓗𝓮𝓵𝓵𝓸 𝐇𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐨 𝕳𝖊𝖑𝖑𝖔 🅷🅴🅻🅻🅾 you've probably assumed it's using a custom font. It isn't. These styles are actually Unicode characters, and that's what makes them work almost anywhere—from Discord and X to Instagram bios and GitHub profiles. Fonts vs Unicode This is one of the biggest misconceptions. A font changes how a character is displayed. Unicode changes...

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DEV Community • 2026-07-28 23:29

Hi, I'm Mr Henderson! 👋 Self-Directed Developer Joining DEV

I'm Mr Henderson, a self-directed student developer. My coding journey so far has been entirely self-taught, relying on incredible free resources like YouTube, books, and freeCodeCamp. Over on my GitHub, I've built a variety of small scripts and mini-projects to test my skills and build my muscle memory. I recently made a project that I’m particularly proud of. I like it, so I've pinned it to my ...

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Hacker News: Front Page • 2026-07-28 23:27

ReFrame – The EPaper Camera

Article URL: https://reframe.camera/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49091379 Points: 4 # Comments: 0

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DEV Community • 2026-07-28 23:25

pytrends Is Dead. Here's How to Get Google Trends Data in 2026

If you've landed here, you probably just discovered one of two things: pytrends — the unofficial Google Trends library the entire Python ecosystem relied on for a decade — was archived in April 2025 and no longer works reliably, or Google's long-promised official Trends API is still in limited-access alpha and you can't get in. Meanwhile you have a dashboard, a research pipeline, or an SEO report...

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DEV Community • 2026-07-28 23:22

I built a free full-stack auth starter so you can skip "auth week" (Flutter + FastAPI)

Every side project I've started died a little during the same seven days: auth week. You know the drill. Login screen, register screen, forgot password. JWT access tokens, refresh tokens, where do I even store these securely? Then the Google Sign-In configuration maze — SHA-1 fingerprints, two different client IDs, the OAuth consent screen. A week of boring, error-prone work before you write a si...

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DEV Community • 2026-07-28 23:20

Your AI Agent Can Call Every API — Except Your Bank. Here's Why.

Every API you'd want an agent to call has a clean path: an API key, an OAuth dance, maybe a scoped token. Your LLM can read your calendar, file your issues, query your database. Then it hits your bank — and the door slams. It's not that bank APIs don't exist. PSD2 forced EU banks to publish them. It's that the authentication layer is built for institutions, not agents. Getting onto a bank's API a...

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HackerNoon - coding • 2026-07-28 23:19

AI Makes Coding Feel Faster, but the Data Says Otherwise

Hand the AI the bounded grind: boilerplate, test scaffolding, the first draft on a blank page, the cold start where the data says it genuinely shines. Keep the parts that are yours: the structure, the trade-offs, the does-this-fit-my-system call the model can't see far enough to make. Read All

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Looking for a Working GNOME Grayscale & Eye Strain Filter? How I Fixed "Tint All" & Built Pasynkov Tint

DEV Community • 2026-07-28 23:16

Looking for a Working GNOME Grayscale & Eye Strain Filter? How I Fixed "Tint All" & Built Pasynkov Tint

Looking for a Working GNOME Grayscale & Eye Strain Filter? How I Fixed "Tint All" & Built Pasynkov Tint If you spend long hours in front of a monitor, using a grayscale (monochrome) filter or a warm color tint (amber/sepia) is one of the most effective ways to reduce eye strain, minimize digital fatigue, and cut down on dopamine-driven screen distractions. However, Linux user...

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Hacker News • 2026-07-28 23:16

Show HN: Magpie, a CLI to Turn Your AI Agent into a Bookkeeper

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DEV Community • 2026-07-28 23:14

The Silent Outage: Monitoring What You Can't See

The worst kind of outage is one nobody notices. Your metrics are green. Your dashboards are fine. Your users are quietly getting a broken experience. I've been burned by three silent outages in my career. Here's how I catch them now. How silent outages happen Frontend caching the error. Your API returned a 500. Your CDN cached it. Now all users get the cached error for 10 minutes, but...

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DEV Community • 2026-07-28 23:12

𝗪𝗵𝘆 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗣𝗿𝗲𝗽𝗮𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗠𝗮𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗠𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗧𝗵𝗮𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗥𝗲𝘀𝘂𝗹𝘁

I am currently preparing for the Oracle Certified Professional Java SE 21 certification. In the age of AI, some people may wonder why developers still spend time preparing for a Java certification when AI can generate code, explain concepts, and identify errors within seconds. For me, the purpose is not only to pass an exam. 𝗠𝘆 𝗴𝗼𝗮𝗹 𝗶𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗯𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗲 𝗮 𝗧-𝘀𝗵𝗮𝗽𝗲𝗱 𝗱𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗹𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗿, 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗯𝗿𝗼𝗮𝗱 𝗸𝗻𝗼𝘄𝗹𝗲𝗱𝗴𝗲 𝗮𝗰𝗿𝗼𝘀𝘀 ...

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Hacker News: Front Page • 2026-07-28 23:03

AE Studio recruiting pirates to recover treasure located by AI

Article URL: https://ae.studio/jobs/pirate Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49091183 Points: 5 # Comments: 0

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Hacker News: Front Page • 2026-07-28 23:00

Schools are adding pepper-spraying drones to help combat active shooters

Article URL: https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2026/07/28/schools-are-adding-pepper-spraying-drones-help-combat-active-shooters/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49091153 Points: 7 # Comments: 5

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Jens Oliver Meiert · On Craft and Responsibility • 2026-07-28 23:00

14 Tips for Working and Developing With AI

From guarding our professional expertise to rethinking processes, some advice for using LLMs effectively and responsibly.

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DEV Community • 2026-07-28 22:54

Python Data Model - Part 1

Leia a versão em português deste artigo aqui. 1. Introduction Ever wondered why modifying a list inside a function changes the original list, but modifying a number doesn't? You've just run into one of the most fundamental — and most misunderstood — concepts in Python: its data model. Understanding how Python represents, identifies, and compares objects isn't just theory: it's what sa...

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DEV Community • 2026-07-28 22:54

Google reCAPTCHA v2 and v3 in React, Vue, or Angular, with one prop

Every time I add Google reCAPTCHA to a form I end up rewriting the same glue: load the script exactly once, register and clean up global callbacks, handle the token expiring, and remember that v2 and v3 work nothing alike. So I packaged it into three tiny libraries, one per framework, with the same API: recaptcha-react recaptcha-vue recaptcha-angular They are zero-dependency, fully typed, test...

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DEV Community • 2026-07-28 22:54

Common Mistakes Beginner Software Engineers Make (And How to Avoid Them)

Starting a career in software engineering is exciting, but it can also be overwhelming. With countless programming languages, frameworks, tools, and best practices to learn, it's easy to make mistakes. The good news is that these mistakes are part of the learning process. What matters most is recognising them early and taking steps to improve. Whether you're self-taught, a bootcamp graduate, or a...

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DEV Community • 2026-07-28 22:53

I Added an MCP Server to NPMScan for AI Coding Agents

I Added an MCP Server to NPMScan for AI Coding Agents AI coding agents are increasingly choosing libraries, installing dependencies, and modifying package.json files. But when an agent recommends an npm package, it may rely on model knowledge, general web search, or incomplete package information. I wanted NPMScan to be available directly inside that workflow. NPMScan now has a publi...

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DEV Community • 2026-07-28 22:51

Modelo de Dados Python - Parte 1

Read this article in English here. 1. Introdução Se você já se perguntou por que alterar uma lista dentro de uma função muda a lista original, mas alterar um número não, você esbarrou em um dos conceitos mais fundamentais (e mais mal compreendidos) de Python: o modelo de dados da linguagem. Entender como Python representa, identifica e compara objetos não é só teoria: é o que evita bu...

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