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ProgrammingDEV Community ·

I shipped a Pomodoro app in 39 languages as a solo dev — here's how i18n actually went

Most indie apps ship in English, maybe add a handful of "big" languages later, and call it done. I went the other way: Cadento, my SwiftUI Pomodoro/focus timer, launched in 39 languages on day one — including ones most apps never touch, like Catalan, Croatian, Malay, Hebrew, Thai, and Ukrainian. This post is the honest version of how that went: the setup that made it possible, the things that broke, and whether it was worth it. Cadento is built with SwiftUI + SwiftData, targets iOS 18 / watchOS 11, and has Live Activities, widgets, an Apple Watch app, an activity heatmap, and iCloud sync. App

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ProgrammingDEV Community ·

Breaking the SQL Barrier: How to Build a Natural Language Database Assistant

Tags: #DataEngineering #AI #Python #HuggingFace #Streamlit For decades, SQL has been the universal language for extracting insights from databases. But there's a catch: it creates a bottleneck. Business analysts, product managers, and marketers often have to wait for data teams to write queries for them. What if we could skip the code and just talk to our databases in plain English? Thanks to the rapid advancements in Artificial Intelligence and Large Language Models (LLMs), this is now entirely possible.

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IndiaTimes of India ·

Oracle layoffs: 500+ employees get emails from leadership, calls them 'proposed impacted employee'

Oracle has begun a second round of layoffs in Romania, notifying around 500 to 520 employees on June 25 with emails headed "collective dismissal-you are a proposed impacted employee." The cuts span OCI, Database Technologies, Oracle Health and several other units, and were reportedly planned months ago. They form part of Oracle's global drive to shed payroll and fund its debt-heavy AI data centre push.

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ProgrammingDEV Community ·

How I Hacked GTK4 and Python to Build the Ultimate "Kawaii" Linux OS

How I Hacked GTK4 and Python to Build the Ultimate "Kawaii" Linux OS If you’ve seen the recent screenshots floating around Reddit (with people asking if their meme packages are broken or if they are having a stroke), I have a confession to make. It is not a Photoshop mockup. It is 100% real. Welcome to Kawaiintu OS (Neo Moebuntu). I wanted to see how far I could push modern Linux customization to create an uncompromisingly "Kawaii" (cute/moe) environment.

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ProgrammingDEV Community ·

How to Talk to Any Database Using AI: Building a Text-to-SQL App

In today’s data-driven world, getting information out of a database usually requires knowing SQL. But what if you could just ask your database a question in plain English and get the answer instantly? Thanks to Large Language Models (LLMs) and Artificial Intelligence, this is no longer science fiction. In this article, I will show you a real-world example of how to build a Text-to-SQL Query Generator using Python, Streamlit, and Hugging Face. The Magic of Text-to-SQL Instead of writing: SELECT Salary FROM employees WHERE Name = 'Bob'; A user can simply ask: "What is the salary of Bob?" Buildin

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ProgrammingDEV Community ·

The idea you haven't told anyone about

Five months ago I had an idea for XEdge and didn't tell anyone for weeks. Not because it was bad. Because saying it out loud made it real, and real meant I'd have to actually try. I think a lot of people are sitting on something like that right now. Not lacking ideas — lacking the nudge to say it out loud to someone who won't laugh.

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IndiaTimes of India ·

Veteran Tamil actor-director K Bhagyaraj dies at 73

Tamil cinema mourns the loss of K. Bhagyaraj, a versatile filmmaker and actor, who passed away at 73. Known as a "one-man studio," Bhagyaraj excelled as a director, writer, composer, and actor, leaving behind a legacy of popular films like 'Mundhanai Mudichu'. His ability to master multiple roles in his productions was a rare feat. He also ventured into writing and editing, and was set to return to directing.

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IndiaTimes of India ·

Forget Temple Run, Delhi footpaths turn into real-life obstacle course for pedestrians

Delhi's footpaths, meant for safe pedestrian movement, are largely unusable. Reporters found markets, hospital zones, office hubs, and educational areas where pavements are blocked by shops, parked vehicles, vendors, and construction. This forces pedestrians onto busy roads, making walking a dangerous and difficult ordeal, despite the Supreme Court recognizing it as a fundamental right.

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ProgrammingDEV Community ·

Prompting Is Dead. Long Live Looping.

For the last two years, everyone has been obsessed with one thing: Prompt engineering. People wrote 2,000-word prompts, created prompt libraries, sold prompt courses, and believed that the perfect prompt was the secret to great AI. It isn't. The future isn't about writing better prompts. The future is about building better loops.

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IndiaTimes of India ·

'Siya Goyal's wig remark, forced marriage, secret relationship': Twist after twist in murder case

A Lohagad Fort fall has escalated into a murder probe, with police arresting a fiancée and her alleged partner for the realtor's death. Investigators suggest a complex motive involving a secret relationship, reluctance to marry, and family pressure. Evidence points to a conspiracy, with conflicting accounts from the accused on who masterminded the alleged crime. The investigation continues.

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ProgrammingDEV Community ·

Truthmark for AI Loop Engineering: Keeping Product Behavior Observable

AI coding agents are useful because they can make changes quickly. That same strength creates a review problem. In a typical loop, an agent edits code, runs tests, reads failures, patches the implementation, and repeats. The loop may finish with clean tests and a reasonable diff. But somewhere along the way, a small behavior can change: a timeout becomes longer, an optional field becomes required, a retry policy becomes more forgiving, or an API starts accepting a state that used to be rejected.

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ProgrammingDEV Community ·

Why I stopped waiting on Fiverr and went direct to my audience instead

Spent the last few days setting up Fiverr gigs — landing pages, AI stack research, content writing. Zero impressions, which is normal for a brand new seller, but also slow. Here's the realization: I already have an audience that knows and trusts me from 5 months of building XEdge in public. Why wait on an algorithm to surface me to strangers when I can offer the same service directly to people already paying attention? So today I'm opening 3 paid spots for 1:1 AI stack research — same service I'd list on Fiverr, just sold directly through the audience I've already built.

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ProgrammingDEV Community ·

How to Generate Cryptographic Proof of AI Agent Authorization (EU AI Act Article 14)

How to Generate Cryptographic Proof of AI Agent Authorization for EU AI Act Article 14 Compliance EU AI Act Article 14 enforcement starts August 2, 2026. If you're building AI agents that access sensitive data, process customer information, or make autonomous decisions — you need to demonstrate human oversight with verifiable artifacts. Not logs. Not observability traces. Cryptographic proof.

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