DEV Community • 2026-08-20 07:01

Running LM Studio Locally Doesn't Mean It Never Connects Out

When we say “local LLM,” it is easy to mentally translate that into: Everything stays inside the PC. For inference, that can be true. But the application running the model is still an application with network-capable features. LM Studio, for example, may need connectivity for things such as: searching for models downloading models downloading runtimes checking for application updates It ...

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DEV Community • 2026-08-20 07:01

Building Real-Time Analytics for a WhatsApp Native CRM

Building Real-Time Analytics for a WhatsApp Native CRM Every CRM vendor ships a table of numbers. Very few ship analytics that a team actually acts on. When we were building the analytics layer inside Zetta CRM, the numbers were never the hard part — the hard part was deciding which numbers matter and getting them to the screen fast enough that a support lead can change their routing mi...

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DEV Community • 2026-08-20 07:01

Stop Selling AI‑Sell The Outcome: Monetization Lessons For Indie Builders

Lots of independent developers jump onto the AI trend, build a chat wrapper, and expect users to pay. Almost always, that approach fails. Users will not pay you just to access a large language model. They pay for the concrete outcome your tool delivers. Many early‑stage AI projects make the same mistake: they market the AI technology itself. They advertise “powerful LLM”, “smart AI agent”, and hi...

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DEV Community • 2026-08-20 07:00

GitHub Advanced Security ROI: Why Scanning Without SLAs Is a Waste of Money

Git Hub Advanced Security ROI Why Scanning Without SLAs Is a Waste of Money Back to blog The Illusion of Security: Identification vs. Remediation Why Scanning Fails in a Vacuum: The Alert Fatigue Epidemic The Missing Link: Operationalizing Remediation Automated, contextual routing Intelligent grouping ("fix campaigns") Strict, severity-based SLA enforcement Pipeline enforcement and escalation Im...

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DEV Community • 2026-08-20 07:00

I fed a parody LinkedIn generator to three AI detectors. Gemini said it was human.

There's a site called cringebot3000.com that generates deliberately terrible LinkedIn thought-leadership posts. You pick a topic and a cringe style ("The Vulnerability Post", "Proud to Announce"), it produces a story about a grandmother, a quirky German named Horst, or a cat that writes email subject lines. The footer says the posts are "guaranteed to make your followers shudder". It delivers. I ...

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React 20 `ref` as a Prop: Migrating Away From `forwardRef` Across a Large Component Library
DEV Community • 2026-08-20 06:59

React 20 `ref` as a Prop: Migrating Away From `forwardRef` Across a Large Component Library

React 20 ref as a Prop: Migrating Away From forwardRef Across a Large Component Library This article was written with the assistance of AI, under human supervision and review. Most React component library maintenance debt stems from a single historical artifact: forwardRef. The pattern emerged because refs were special-cased in React's original architecture—passing them required wrap...

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Product Hunt — The best new products, every day • 2026-08-20 06:59

ProtoNote

Share AI-built prototypes, get feedback pinned to the page Discussion | Link

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DEV Community • 2026-08-20 06:56

Regex Against a PDF: The One Endpoint That Skips OCR Entirely

Most document pipelines have a reflex. A PDF comes in, and the first instinct is: run OCR, then parse it. That reflex costs time and money on documents that never needed it in the first place. Here's the distinction that gets skipped over. A PDF generated from Word, from an invoicing system, from a web page, from almost any modern software, is "born digital." Every character on the page is alread...

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DEV Community • 2026-08-20 06:53

Stop Writing Regex to Match URLs — The Browser Already Can

Priya was three paragraphs into rewriting a support ticket when the page flashed and her draft reverted to what it had looked like an hour earlier. She hadn't refreshed. Nobody had. The service worker had. It was running a cache-first strategy for ticket pages — fetch once, serve from cache after that, so the dashboard felt instant on a flaky connection. The intent was to cache /tickets/482, the...

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DEV Community • 2026-08-20 06:52

Dashforge: an application orchestrator for React

React solved rendering. Dashforge tries to solve orchestration — theming, forms, permissions, and visibility moved out of your components, declaratively, predictably, reusably. Two skins (MUI and Tailwind), one contract. Building complex applications isn't about building components. Inside a single module you're juggling forms, permissions, roles, visibility conditions, fields that depend on oth...

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DEV Community • 2026-08-20 06:52

1a vez trabalhando com git com time: tudo que você precisa saber

Faz mais de 5 anos que eu não abria um PR ou issue técnica no Github, mas essa semana tenho aprendido algumas boas práticas e termos que reuni neste artigo. Introdução Essa semana eu fiz uma coisa simples: atualizei o README de um projeto open source, o 4noobs, da comunidade He4rt. Troquei um badge, ajustei o contraste de um logo, organizei umas pastas e adicionei um índice pra facilit...

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DEV Community • 2026-08-20 06:51

Vibe Coding vs Prompt-Driven: One Year Later, the Debate Is Already Outdated

A year ago, the debate between “vibe coding” and “prompt-driven development” felt like the right lens for using AI in software. Today it’s outdated. The real frontier is no longer how to phrase a request, but how to build an environment that lets an AI agent explore, modify, and verify code safely. The shift from conversational prompts to structured development harnesses changes what it means to s...

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DEV Community • 2026-08-20 06:45

HTTP Caching Explained: max-age, ETag and Why Your Users Still See Last Week's CSS

📺 Prefer to watch? 90-second YouTube Short · 💬 Telegram Originally published on software-engineer-blog.com. You fixed the CSS. You deployed. You opened the site and checked it yourself — perfect. Then a customer sends a screenshot of last week's layout. Nothing is broken. No deploy failed, no CDN is lying to you, no file is corrupt. The browser is doing exactly what you told it to do, severa...

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New CSS Class Prefix Selector (.prefix-*)
Cascading Style Sheets • 2026-08-20 06:38

New CSS Class Prefix Selector (.prefix-*)

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DEV Community • 2026-08-20 06:35

D8：他猜00919會漲，信心五成，然後整天沒動

今天早上八點三十六分，阿富在盤前計畫裡對他手上唯一的持股00919下了一個判斷：會漲，信心0.50。 0.50。在方向類的預測裡，這個數字的意思是他沒有意見。丟銅板也是0.50。交給他的盤前任務描述有一句寫得很明白，信心要填真實信心、0到1的小數、避免湊整數，他填了正好一半。同一批預測裡加權指數那筆他給0.56，看得出來有斟酌過位數。00919這筆就是0.50。 他猜漲，00919跌了，計分系統判他沒錯 收盤數字擺出來：加權指數收44,933.74，比昨收的44,719.35漲214點，0.48%。00919開30.45、盤中高30.47、低30.09、收30.31，比昨收的30.39跌0.26%。大盤漲，他的ETF跌。 大盤那筆判漲，命中，brier分數0.121，這個分數越低代表預測越準。00919那筆判漲，實際下跌，結算出來是flat_band，brier...

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DEV Community • 2026-08-20 06:23

Physical Server vs Cloud Server: Which Infrastructure Makes More Sense?

When building an application, we usually focus on the frontend, backend, APIs, and database. But there is another important question: Where should the application actually run? Two common approaches are physical servers and cloud/virtual servers. Understanding the difference is important because infrastructure decisions affect scalability, availability, security, maintenance, and cost...

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DEV Community • 2026-08-20 06:21

Switch Icons v0.2.0: A React Icon Library Built for the Icons Developers Actually Need

Modern web applications rarely need only arrows, menus, and generic interface icons. A fintech dashboard needs payment and banking icons. A logistics platform needs waybills, packages, warehouses, and delivery trucks. An AI application needs model, prompt, and AI-related visual language. An African commerce platform may need icons that represent local payment methods such as Naira, USSD, POS, and...

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Newest questions tagged javascript - Stack Overflow • 2026-08-20 06:20

Was the removal of the floating sidebar in VS Code 1.134 intentional?

The latest VS Code 1.134 Modern UI removes the floating style of the left sidebar, which makes the overall UI feel slightly inconsistent. Was this an intentional decision, or is the floating sidebar planned to return in a future release?enter image description here

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DEV Community • 2026-08-20 06:16

Fix Next.js "params should be awaited" Error in Next.js 15+

Fix Next.js "params should be awaited" Error in Next.js 15+ If you are seeing the params should be awaited Next.js error after upgrading to Next.js 15 or following an older App Router tutorial, you are not alone. The error usually looks something like this: Route "/blog/[slug]" used params.slug. params should be awaited before using its properties. Sometimes it appears with se...

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Hacker News: Front Page • 2026-08-20 06:16

Windows brings out the Rorschach test in everyone

Article URL: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20030825-00/?p=42803 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49371006 Points: 5 # Comments: 0

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