Student from Kabirwala Launches Blogging Journey Using Only a Mobile Phone

Waqas, a student from Kabirwala, Punjab, has published his first post on DEV.to, marking the start of his blogging and web development journey. Working without a laptop, he manages all his work entirely from a mobile phone. He plans to post daily, covering topics such as mobile blogging, Linux basics for beginners, and ways students can earn passive income online. His stated goals are to sharpen his writing skills and document his learning for others in similar situations. He is also looking to connect with fellow students from smaller cities who share an interest in technology and blogging.

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Trump Defends Russian Oligarch's Financial Ties to Son's Wedding

Former U.S. President Donald Trump publicly defended a Russian oligarch reportedly involved in funding his son's wedding. Trump framed the financial arrangement as a repayment, suggesting the money was owed rather than a gift or improper contribution. The situation has drawn scrutiny given longstanding concerns about Trump's financial ties to Russian nationals. Critics have questioned whether such connections raise ethical or legal concerns. The White House or Trump's team has not provided further detailed clarification on the nature of the transaction.

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Filters, Interceptors, and AOP: Choosing the Right Spring Tool for Cross-Cutting Concerns

Spring provides three tools — Servlet Filters, Handler Interceptors, and AOP Aspects — to handle cross-cutting concerns like logging, authentication, and metrics without duplicating code across controllers. Filters sit at the outermost layer, operating on raw HTTP requests before Spring even initializes, making them ideal for security gates, CORS headers, and compression. Handler Interceptors run inside Spring's DispatcherServlet and have awareness of which controller method will handle the request, offering hooks before and after the controller executes. AOP Aspects sit deepest in the stack, wrapping individual bean methods and firing even for non-web calls, making them suited for service-layer concerns. The key distinction is depth: as you move inward from Filter to Interceptor to Aspect, each layer gains more Spring context but loses direct access to raw HTTP details.

Why Parents Hold On to Old Report Cards and Childhood Drawings

Parents often preserve childhood drawings and old school assignments not merely out of habit, but because these objects carry deep autobiographical and emotional significance. Research indicates that nostalgic feelings can increase the perceived value of otherwise ordinary items. These keepsakes act as tangible reminders of meaningful family moments and the bonds formed during a child's upbringing. They also reflect how quickly children grow, making such mementos a way for parents to hold on to fleeting stages of parenthood.

Why a 45 KB webpage can still damage your phone's lifespan, carbon models aside

Current per-byte carbon models used to rate webpage sustainability assign equal scores to pages with identical file sizes, regardless of how they actually perform on a device. Research from two independent sources — the Sustainable Web Design model and France's ADEME–Arcep study — agrees that end-user device manufacturing, not data transfer, accounts for the largest share of digital's carbon footprint. However, both models still calculate manufacturing impact as a proportion of bytes transferred, even though device lifespan is shortened by poor runtime performance, not page weight. A poorly optimised 45 KB page running continuous CPU loops or blocking the main thread can accelerate device obsolescence just as much as a much heavier page. Metrics like Interaction to Next Paint and CPU idle state are argued to be more meaningful proxies for real-world environmental impact than transferred kilobytes alone.

US Court Upholds Warrantless Cellphone Searches at International Borders

A US court has ruled that border agents are permitted to search travelers' cellphones without a warrant or reasonable suspicion. The decision reinforces broad government authority over electronic devices at international entry points. The ruling came to light following an incident in Atlanta where a traveler's phone was wiped during an airport inspection. Privacy advocates warn the decision significantly limits digital privacy rights for those crossing US borders. The case has reignited debate over the balance between national security interests and personal data protection.

Chess Atlas Visualizes the Geographic History of Chess

A project called Chess Atlas has been shared on Hacker News, presenting a visual gallery exploring the history and geography of chess. The tool is hosted online and appears to map or chart the spread and evolution of the game across regions and time periods. It received 7 upvotes on Hacker News at the time of posting, though no comments had been added yet. The project is accessible via a public web gallery built on the Vercel platform. It represents a community-driven effort to document chess history in a visually engaging format.

Manu Bhaker Named India's Flag Bearer for Asian Games Opening Ceremony

Shooter Manu Bhaker has been selected as one of India's flag bearers for the Asian Games opening ceremony. She previously held the same honour at the Commonwealth Games, reflecting her consistent achievements in athletics. Kabaddi player Pawan Sehrawat will join her as a co-flag bearer, highlighting India's strong presence at the Games. The selection has brought back memories of her coach Jaspal Rana's strict attendance philosophy. Bhaker's role underscores her standing as one of India's most celebrated young athletes.

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How domain coloring renders complex functions as vivid images in a browser

Domain coloring is a mathematical visualization technique that maps complex functions onto a 2D plane by encoding each output's angle as hue and its magnitude as brightness, making zeros, poles, and growth rates instantly readable. A developer has implemented this method inside LK Forge, a free browser-based graphing calculator, without using WebGL or 3D rendering. The tool relies on a custom shunting-yard expression parser that handles complex arithmetic using paired real-imaginary values, correctly computing identities such as i² = −1 and e^(iπ) = −1. To maintain interactivity, the renderer samples at half resolution during idle states and drops to quarter resolution while dragging, achieving roughly 3.4 million evaluations per second on a single thread. The result is a fully interactive complex function plotter that loads any expression safely via a URL parameter and repaints the canvas within milliseconds of user input.

India's First District-Level Labour Data Exposes Female Workforce Participation Gaps

India has released its first-ever district-level labour market data, offering an unprecedented granular view of employment across the country. The data reveals significant variations in workforce participation rates between different districts. A particularly striking finding is the wide disparity in female workforce participation across regions. The district-level breakdown provides policymakers with detailed insights that national or state-level data previously could not capture.

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Cummins picks Pujara, not Dhoni or Kohli, as toughest Indian opponent he faced

Australian Test captain Pat Cummins has named Cheteshwar Pujara as the toughest Indian batter he has faced in his career. Cummins credited Pujara's resilience and mental strength, particularly during two hard-fought Border-Gavaskar Trophy series, as what made him so difficult to dismiss. Across 25 Tests, Pujara accumulated 2,074 runs at an impressive average of 49.38. Cummins also reflected on other challenging opponents from world cricket, including Brendon McCullum, Saeed Ajmal, Alastair Cook, and AB de Villiers.

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Developer Completes 13-Month Solo Browser Project 'Faibilo', Beta Launch Imminent

A developer has announced the near-completion of Faibilo, a web browser built over 13 months of independent work. The project has reached its beta stage, with a public launch expected very soon. The developer has finished implementing default browser features, including the ability to set Faibilo as the system's default browser. The browser will be released as open-source software, making its code publicly available to the community.

How LLMs Work: A Practical Explainer for Product Managers Building AI Features

A guide published on DEV Community breaks down how Large Language Models function, targeting product managers who work on AI-powered products. The article explains that LLMs process text by converting it into tokens, transforming those tokens into numerical embeddings, and then predicting the next token in a sequence using a Transformer architecture. It highlights why understanding tokenization matters beyond theory — token volume directly affects API costs, latency, and context-window limits at scale. The piece also outlines the full generation pipeline, from user input through self-attention layers to the final response output. Rather than requiring deep mathematical knowledge, the guide aims to give product managers a practical mental model for making informed decisions about AI features.

Hemanth Naidu recalls ‘memorable’ IndiGo flight with Kargil War veteran