How to add Apple Game Center leaderboards to an Expo app
DEV Community • 2026-04-23 12:28

How to add Apple Game Center leaderboards to an Expo app

I shipped my indie game Chromatch with Apple Game Center leaderboards earlier this week. My first submit got approved with the binary alone and my 6 leaderboards stayed "In Preparation" with no warning from Apple. It took a re-submit to find all the pieces that aren't obvious from the docs. Here's what ended up working, code included. The native module Expo doesn't ship any game cent...

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I built a browser daemon for AI coding agents because Playwright wasn't enough
DEV Community • 2026-04-23 12:26

I built a browser daemon for AI coding agents because Playwright wasn't enough

The problem I use Claude Code on Windows — Anthropic's coding-agent CLI that runs alongside my editor. It drives my codebase through a pipeline of exec-style tool calls. One day I wanted Claude to open a web UI, log in to my account on a SaaS dashboard, export a CSV, and diff it against yesterday's. Simple task. I reached for Playwright. It didn't work. Here's why. Claude Code's Bash tool can ...

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Doppar vs Laravel: A Brutally Honest PHP Framework Comparison (2026)
DEV Community • 2026-04-23 12:26

Doppar vs Laravel: A Brutally Honest PHP Framework Comparison (2026)

Every syntax. Every feature. One winner. PHP frameworks have matured enormously over the past decade — and Laravel has long dominated the conversation. But a new challenger has entered: Doppar, built from the ground up for clarity, performance, and zero bloat. This post does a deep, side-by-side comparison of both frameworks across real-world features — with actual code examples — so you can...

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DEV Community • 2026-04-23 12:24

Reverse Engineering a Modern Phishing Kit (2026 Edition)

The phishing kits today are not hacked together. They are developed software products that have modular architectures, evasion layers, real-time dashboards, and AI-aided content generation. Looking at one inside will alter your way of thinking about detection. This year, a threat intelligence analyst at a mid-size financial security company was tipped off by a partner organization that a phishing ...

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DEV Community • 2026-04-23 12:19

Four platforms, four identity systems. Who writes the shared record?

The scene this week In the span of 48 hours in late April 2026, four of the largest enterprise AI providers announced the same thing from different angles. Each launched a governance plane for agents running inside its own cloud. Each introduced some form of per-agent cryptographic identity. Each promised the ability to trace what an agent did, when, and with what scope. Each talked ab...

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DEV Community • 2026-04-23 12:16

Adding Realistic Drop Shadows to Product Images with the PixelAPI Shadow Generator

A few months ago I was building a product listing page for a small Shopify store. The client had decent product photos — white-background PNGs, cleanly cut out — but when you put them on a white page, everything looked flat. Like the products were just floating there with no weight. Classic problem. My options were: manually add shadows in Photoshop for 200 SKUs, hire someone to do it, or find a ...

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Hacker News: Front Page • 2026-04-23 12:16

Raylib v6.0

Article URL: https://github.com/raysan5/raylib/releases/tag/6.0 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47874854 Points: 9 # Comments: 0

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Product Hunt — The best new products, every day • 2026-04-23 12:16

UXPin Forge

Generate UI from your design system, not around it Discussion | Link

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DEV Community • 2026-04-23 12:13

Debugging "No Credentials Found" when Aliasing AWS SSO Login in ZSH

TL;DR: Creating a ZSH alias that runs aws sso login appeared to succeed, but subsequent commands failed with "no credentials found" because the alias was not correctly setting the profile for downstream tools. I was trying to streamline my workflow by adding an alias to my .zshrc to automate logging into a specific AWS SSO profile. The goal was simple: run one command, and have all subsequent AWS...

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Hacker News: Front Page • 2026-04-23 12:12

Surveillance vendors caught abusing access to telcos to track people's locations

Article URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/23/surveillance-vendors-caught-abusing-access-to-telcos-to-track-peoples-phone-locations-researchers-say/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47874814 Points: 6 # Comments: 0

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DEV Community • 2026-04-23 12:11

Why I spent years trying to make CSS states predictable

Have you ever changed the order of two CSS rules and broken a component without changing the logic? .btn:hover { background: dodgerblue; } .btn[disabled] { background: gray; } Both selectors have specificity (0, 1, 1). When a button is both hovered and disabled, the browser falls back to source order. If the :hover rule comes last, the disabled button turns blue. If the [disabled] rul...

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DEV Community • 2026-04-23 12:11

From Raw Data to Human Stories: AI-Powered Churn Analysis for Micro-SaaS

You see the cancellation. You have the raw data. But the real question—the human reason behind the churn—remains a frustrating mystery. Manually sifting through logs to guess "why" is unsustainable for a founder. AI automation turns this reactive guesswork into a proactive, systematic process. The Core Principle: The 3-Layer Translation Framework The key is moving beyond the dashboard ...

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DEV Community • 2026-04-23 12:10

Your security tool should tell users what to change, not just what's wrong

Our findings said 'this bucket is public.' Users asked 'what do I change to fix it?' We derived the answer mechanically from the predicate AST — no per-rule authoring needed. Here's how counterfactual reasoning turns detection output into actionable fixes. The finding that doesn't help Finding: CTL.S3.PUBLIC.001 Asset: arn:aws:s3:::prod-assets Severity: high DEFECT: ...

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DEV Community • 2026-04-23 12:08

Your Slow Website is a Legal Risk: Why Technical Debt is Now a Liability

Hey DEV community! 👋 After auditing dozens of enterprise platforms, I’ve noticed a dangerous trend. We talk a lot about JS bloat ruining Core Web Vitals, but there's a much darker side to heavy payloads in 2026. Web performance is no longer a vanity metric. As we prepare for the full enforcement of strict data protection frameworks—like Europe's GDPR and Paraguay's upcoming Law 7593/2025—the effi...

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DEV Community • 2026-04-23 12:05

The Tokenmaxxing Debate Misses the Point

Jensen Huang says every engineer should consume 100,000 tokens daily. Shopify's CTO says the real metric is what you do with them. Both are right. Both are dangerous. The "tokenmaxxing" conversation took off after Huang's keynote claim: if your $200K engineer isn't burning through six figures of tokens per year, you're underutilizing AI. The logic seems sound. More tokens = more AI assistance = m...

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[Webinar] Mythos Reality Check: Beating Automated Exploitation at AI Speed
The Hacker News • 2026-04-23 12:03

[Webinar] Mythos Reality Check: Beating Automated Exploitation at AI Speed

Imagine a world where hackers don't sleep, don't take breaks, and find weak spots in your systems instantly. Well, that world is already here. Thanks to AI, attackers are now launching automated, large-scale exploits faster than ever before. The time you have to fix a vulnerability before it gets attacked is shrinking to zero. We call this the Collapsing Exploit Window, and it means your

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Hacker News: Front Page • 2026-04-23 12:02

Jiga (YC W21) Is Hiring

Article URL: https://jiga.io/about-us/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47874734 Points: 0 # Comments: 0

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DEV Community • 2026-04-23 12:02

Gradle Said No. Here's How I Learned to Actually Read the Error.

There's a specific kind of panic that only Android developers know. You open your project. You change one line — maybe you bumped a library version, maybe you added a new dependency, maybe you literally changed nothing and just opened it on a different day. And then the banner appears at the top of Android Studio: "Gradle sync failed." For a long time, my entire response to that message was to ...

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Apache Arrow File Anatomy: Buffers, Record Batches, Schemas, and IPC Metadata Explained 🏹📦
DEV Community • 2026-04-23 12:01

Apache Arrow File Anatomy: Buffers, Record Batches, Schemas, and IPC Metadata Explained 🏹📦

If you work with Pandas, PyArrow, DuckDB, Spark, Polars, or data APIs, you’ve probably heard that Apache Arrow is fast because it is in-memory and columnar. That’s true, but just like Parquet, the real value starts to click when you understand how Arrow is physically organized. Under the hood, an Arrow file is not just “serialized table data.” It is a structured binary format built around schemas...

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DEV Community • 2026-04-23 12:00

The Importance of Tech Debt Awareness

Tech debt isn't just a buzzword; it’s the silent killer of projects. Regularly assess your debt and prioritize it like any other feature to keep your codebase healthy!

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