DEV Community • 2026-04-08 15:43

How We Made Waiting Fun: Whimsical Loading States and Stepped Progress in Next.js

Long-running background jobs are a fact of life in video processing. When a user uploads a 30-minute video, your AI pipeline might need two or three minutes to download, transcribe, and clip it. The worst thing you can do is show a spinner and leave people wondering if something broke. In ClipCrafter — an AI-powered tool that turns long videos into short, shareable clips — we recently overhauled ...

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DEV Community • 2026-04-08 15:42

From ticket to PR with agents: how to use Claude to automate platform changes without breaking SLOs

In Platform Engineering and SRE, the hardest part of change is rarely writing the change itself. The hard part is everything around it: understanding the intent behind a ticket or incident, locating the right context, identifying the systems involved, deciding what should change, validating the blast radius, documenting rollback, and making the result legible enough for someone else to review with...

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DEV Community • 2026-04-08 15:40

I Read the Claude Code Docs. All of Them. Here's What I Built.

Claude Code ships with roughly 40 discrete tools, a hook system covering 13 lifecycle events, and an Agent tool that can spawn subagents as flat tool calls. Most people use it as a single-session chat — type a request, get a response, move on. I spent six weeks reading every piece of documentation I could find about those primitives. Not the "getting started" guides — the actual behavior specs. H...

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Hacker News: Front Page • 2026-04-08 15:40

I Ported Mac OS X to the Nintendo Wii

Article URL: https://bryankeller.github.io/2026/04/08/porting-mac-os-x-nintendo-wii.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47691730 Points: 14 # Comments: 0

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Environmental Disaster Is Looming Thanks To “Renewable” Energy Sources (i.e. Capitalist Tools posts Bovine Excrement)
newest submissions : multi • 2026-04-08 15:37

Environmental Disaster Is Looming Thanks To “Renewable” Energy Sources (i.e. Capitalist Tools posts Bovine Excrement)

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

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Lobsters • 2026-04-08 15:35

Verifying human authorship with human.json

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Iran halts Strait of Hormuz traffic, warns over Israel Lebanon strikes
newest submissions : multi • 2026-04-08 15:33

Iran halts Strait of Hormuz traffic, warns over Israel Lebanon strikes

submitted by /u/Crazy-Attention-180 to r/worldnews [link] [comments]

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EmDash vs WordPress: Which CMS Delivers the Best Speed for African Websites?
DEV Community • 2026-04-08 15:32

EmDash vs WordPress: Which CMS Delivers the Best Speed for African Websites?

The 3-Second Problem Killing Kenyan Websites Picture this: a mama mboga in Nakuru is trying to order supplies from a wholesale website on her Tecno Spark. She's on Safaricom 3G — maybe 4 Mbps on a good day. The WordPress site takes 4.7 seconds to load. She bounces. Sale lost. This isn't hypothetical. Google's own research confirms that 53% of mobile users abandon sites that take long...

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DEV Community • 2026-04-08 15:31

Beyond Basic Caching: Introducing `layercache` – The Production-Ready Multi-Layer Caching Toolkit for Node.js

The Unseen Challenges of Caching in Node.js Every Node.js developer eventually faces the caching dilemma. While simple in-memory caches like node-cache are great for quick wins, they quickly fall short in production environments with multiple instances. Redis offers distributed caching, but every request still pays the network round-trip latency. And trying to piece together a robust, r...

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newest submissions : multi • 2026-04-08 15:31

CRDTs in Practice: Guide to building a CRDT Block Editor Engine from Scratch

submitted by /u/Longjumping_Bad_879 to r/programming [link] [comments]

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Experienced Devs • 2026-04-08 15:31

You should really consider letting some plates hit the floor.

So I need to start off this post with a few full disclosures because apparently if I'm not explicit with some remarks, everyone will focus on the obvious elephants in the room. Note: All advice is mere suggestion. Nobody knows your situation better than you do. Exercise your best judgement. Now that we have that out of the way, I want to talk about a trend that I see all too common in our industr...

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newest submissions : multi • 2026-04-08 15:30

Anyone from the Ironmongery field here?

Work has been super busy since 1 month despite all that’s happening😑 #doorhardware Same for yal? submitted by /u/Trinke_error07 to r/hardware [link] [comments]

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DEV Community • 2026-04-08 15:30

What Happens When AI Agents Hallucinate? The boring part is the checkpoint.

Most agent-demo discourse treats hallucination like a model problem. Wrong answer in, wrong answer out. The worse failure in practice is simpler. A confident wrong output turns into company truth. Then it is no longer "a bad generation." It is copy. A metric. A product claim. A technical explanation. A decision someone is about to act on. I run a solo company with AI agent departments inside...

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Walmart’s DC Fast Charging Network Already Has Hundreds Of Ports
newest submissions : multi • 2026-04-08 15:29

Walmart’s DC Fast Charging Network Already Has Hundreds Of Ports

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

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HackerNoon • 2026-04-08 15:29

Shell Stabilization Guide: Fixing Reverse, Web, and Unstable Shells

A shell is the program that takes your commands and passes them to the operating system. Not all shells behave the same. Some are fully interactive and comfortable to work with, while others are bare-bones command execution environments that require stabilization before they're useful.

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DEV Community • 2026-04-08 15:28

Programming as a tool: A mindset shift for software engineers

In the quickly changing world of technology, it’s easy for software engineers and developers to get caught up in the details of programming languages, frameworks, and the newest tools. However, it’s important to remember that programming is just that… a tool. Our ultimate goal should be to solve problems, not just to show off our technical skills. The bigger picture When dealing with a...

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The Ultimate Guide to Securing Ansible Supply Chain
DEV Community • 2026-04-08 15:28

The Ultimate Guide to Securing Ansible Supply Chain

Automation is the backbone of modern IT operations, and Ansible is one of the most popular tools for orchestrating infrastructure at scale. But with great power comes great responsibility: a single misconfigured playbook can impact thousands of systems in seconds. In this blog, we’ll break down how to secure Ansible Playbooks and infrastructure, explain key terms, highlight common risks and outli...

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DEV Community • 2026-04-08 15:27

Early performance testing: benefits, best practices, and implementation strategies

Finding performance problems the week before launch is expensive. The code is complex, the team is stressed, and every fix risks breaking something else. Early performance testing flips that script by validating speed and stability while development is still happening—when problems are isolated and fixes are straightforward. This guide covers when to start, which metrics to track, and how to buil...

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Trump calls Iran's 10-point plan a "workable basis." Key points inc: US/Israeli non-aggression pledges, Iranian control over Strait, acceptance of uranium enrichment, lifting of sanctions, ending UN/IAEA resolutions, war damage compensation, US troop withdrawal from region & halting Lebanon actions
newest submissions : multi • 2026-04-08 15:27

Trump calls Iran's 10-point plan a "workable basis." Key points inc: US/Israeli non-aggression pledges, Iranian control over Strait, acceptance of uranium enrichment, lifting of sanctions, ending UN/IAEA resolutions, war damage compensation, US troop withdrawal from region & halting Lebanon actions

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

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DEV Community • 2026-04-08 15:26

Is a visual builder that exports clean code for BOTH full animated websites and single components a pipe dream? Validating my architecture project.

Hey everyone, I'm a Computer Science student working on a massive architecture challenge (using React & Django), and I want to run my core concept by actual frontend devs to see if this solves a real problem or if I’m way off base. The Problem I see: If you use a full-site builder like Wix or Webflow, you are locked into their ecosystem, and exporting the whole site results in unmaintainabl...

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