SShortSingh.
TopTechnologyAI & MLStartupsProgrammingScienceBusinessFinanceCrypto & Web3World

Programming

LatestTopDiscussed
0
ProgrammingDEV Community ·

Ten Questions to Ask a Web Designer Before You Hire, Answered by a WordPress Developer

Small business owners often choose a web designer based on price or a polished mockup, and later discover problems like slow load times, difficult editing, or missing search setup. A WordPress and Flutter developer in Famagusta, North Cyprus, outlines ten key questions clients should raise before hiring, along with how he typically answers them. The points cover testing live sites on mobile, starting discussions with customer and goal planning, and keeping domain and hosting ownership in the client's name. He also emphasizes mobile-first layouts, performance optimization, and clearly defined SEO deliverables at launch. The guide further addresses multilingual sites, which are common in the region, and ways to make content updates easy for clients.

0 comments Read more at DEV Community
0
ProgrammingDEV Community ·

Gartner Projects $8.5 Trillion Needed in AI Infrastructure Revenue Against $3.6 Trillion Forecast

Gartner's analysis, published 14 October 2026, estimates AI providers would need $8.5 trillion in cumulative revenue through 2030 to cover announced capital spending, financing costs and a 12% return on invested capital. Attributable enterprise and consumer AI revenue is forecast at no more than $3.6 trillion, leaving a wide gap. The firm warns that over $3.5 trillion of AI infrastructure spending could face impairment by the end of 2030, with neocloud providers most exposed and over 80% expected to stop operating independently by then. Shares of South Korean chip and hardware makers fell sharply on 15 October, which media outlets linked to financing costs. The projections rest on Gartner's assumed 12% return hurdle, and a lower required return would narrow the gap.

0 comments Read more at DEV Community
0
ProgrammingDEV Community ·

Developer Guide Shows How to Build a Voice-Powered Accessibility Tool

An article on DEV Community argues that voice-based accessibility tools, such as screen readers and text-to-speech assistants, can help people with visual impairments, reading difficulties, or motor challenges. It recommends building a custom, lightweight solution so the experience can be tailored to a specific audience. The guide outlines a stack combining speech recognition, text-to-speech, and voice cloning, with ElevenLabs highlighted as a single provider for synthesis and cloning. It walks through account setup, installing the SDK, generating sample speech, and cloning a voice from a short audio clip. The piece concludes with a Python script that connects microphone input, speech-to-text conversion, and speech playback in a cloned voice.

0 comments Read more at DEV Community
0
ProgrammingDEV Community ·

Social Media Schedulers With MCP Support Compared on Cost, AI Permissions and Platforms

Several social media scheduling tools now offer MCP servers, so the feature alone no longer sets them apart. The real differences lie in pricing, how much control an AI agent gets, where media is stored, and which platforms each tool supports. Buffer's first-party server is free on all plans, while Postiz is open-source and self-hostable, and PostSyncer starts lower than the others. Sprout Social restricts agent access to a $399-per-user tier, which the article frames as aimed at large organisations. Most tools let an AI publish immediately, a capability the author argues deserves closer scrutiny.

0 comments Read more at DEV Community
0
ProgrammingDEV Community ·

Offloading Image Optimization from Next.js SSR to Cloudflare Edge for High-Traffic Sales

During high-traffic events such as Black Friday, the Next.js /_next/image endpoint can become a CPU and memory bottleneck, since libvips processing of resizing and format conversion can drive Node.js pods to 100% CPU and trigger Kubernetes OOMKills. The article argues that handling heavy binary transformations inside the SSR runtime is an architectural anti-pattern. It proposes moving image transformation to Cloudflare Images and Cloudflare Image Resizing at the Anycast edge, so the application server only generates HTML. Implementing a custom Next.js loader translates Next's width and quality parameters into Cloudflare's transformation syntax. The approach aims to preserve Time to First Byte at e-commerce scale with millions of SKUs.

0 comments Read more at DEV Community
0
ProgrammingDEV Community ·

Small Model Tests on a 4-Core CPU Overturn Bigger-Model Assumptions for Camera Agent

The maintainer of OpenNVR, an open source video recorder with a built-in camera agent, benchmarked every small model the agent relies on using a 4-vCPU machine without a GPU, since many users lack dedicated graphics hardware. Four default models were replaced after tests on language, vision, speech-to-text, text-to-speech and image search tasks, with all scripts published in the repository. In the language tests, the larger qwen3:4b performed worst because it rarely called tools and decided without checking, while granite4:micro passed far more cases. A vision comparison found Qwen3-VL the most reliable at avoiding false positives but too slow on CPU, so Moondream was kept for CPU setups. Parakeet TDT was chosen for speech recognition, cutting word error rate and processing time compared with Whisper models. Kokoro was rejected for text-to-speech because it ran slower than real time on four cores, while Piper stayed fast enough.

0 comments Read more at DEV Community
0
ProgrammingGitHub Blog ·

How to Continue a GitHub Copilot App Session in VS Code

GitHub has published a guide explaining how to transfer an agent session from the GitHub Copilot app into VS Code. The process is designed so users keep their conversation history, code changes, and working context intact. The article is aimed at developers who switch between the Copilot app and the VS Code editor during their workflow. The full instructions are available on The GitHub Blog.

0 comments Read more at GitHub Blog
0
ProgrammingHacker News ·

Cloudflare Introduces Clairic, a New Class of System One Extraction Models

Cloudflare has announced Clairic, a new class of extraction models that it describes as System One. The announcement was published on the company's blog and gained traction on Hacker News, where it drew 24 points. The available source material contains only the headline, link, and engagement figures, so details about the models' architecture, capabilities, and intended use are not confirmed here. Readers are directed to Cloudflare's blog post for the full technical description.

0 comments Read more at Hacker News
0
ProgrammingHacker News ·

Open-source phonics reader lets early readers sound out words in stories

A parent built a free, open-source book reader app to help their six-year-old daughter practice reading beyond repetitive phonics lessons. The app lets readers tap words to hear each sound and sound them out independently. A twelve-year-old sibling wrote the first story, which ends on a cliffhanger, and more chapters and stories are planned. The reader also supports an MCP connection that lets AI assistants import a user's own owned books from PDFs or phone scans into a private account. The included stories are released under Creative Commons, and the code is open source for anyone who wants to modify it.

0 comments Read more at Hacker News
0
ProgrammingDEV Community ·

Cheaper Alternatives to interviewing.io for Tech Interview Practice, Ranked by Budget

A DEV Community guide reviews alternatives to interviewing.io, whose live mock interviews start at $179 per session. It lists free peer-practice options such as Aced, a low-cost AI interviewer, and paid coaching through DesignGurus and IGotAnOffer. The author discloses building one of the listed tools, DevInterview.AI, and notes its limitations compared with human interviewers. The article recommends cheap, high-volume practice first, with one expert session shortly before a real onsite interview. All prices were stated as checked by the author on October 19, 2026.

0 comments Read more at DEV Community
0
ProgrammingDEV Community ·

Deterministic Replay Lets AI Agents Time-Travel Through Runs to Debug Distributed Systems

AI agents now write code faster than engineers can review it, and conventional diff inspection struggles with distributed state machine bugs and timing race conditions. Platforms such as Antithesis expose deterministic time-travel APIs that let agents step back through historical system runs, branch interactive terminals, and check fixes against real execution failures. The approach carries costs, since running systems inside specialized hypervisors requires strict containerized constraints. Unguided agents that branch through time can also consume large amounts of compute unless platform teams enforce hard runtime budgets. The article argues that platform engineering is moving from passive code review toward execution-proven verification, with the open question being whether these methods scale as microservice architectures grow more complex.

0 comments Read more at DEV Community
0
ProgrammingDEV Community ·

Open-source project lets a Safari agent control an iPhone via an ESP32 Bluetooth bridge

Developers have released iPhone Agent Harness, an MIT-licensed open-source project that lets users describe a phone task in Safari. A vision model inspects the screen while a nearby ESP32 board, connected over Bluetooth and Wi-Fi, supplies taps and keyboard input through AssistiveTouch. The demo shows the agent setting an alarm in the iPhone Clock app, though the authors note it is not a benchmark for arbitrary apps or long tasks. The setup requires iOS or iPadOS 27 or later, and firmware is installed through desktop Chrome or Edge. Users choose their own model provider, and a model can still misread the screen, so results must be checked on the phone.

0 comments Read more at DEV Community
0
ProgrammingDEV Community ·

Why Quora Scraping Data Needs Careful Interpretation for Market Research

A Quora question scraper gathers only a visible sample of user content, so answer counts, upvotes, and author activity cannot be read directly as demand, sentiment, or expertise. Reliable collection depends on a clear data structure, pilot testing, full pagination, ID-based record linking, validation, and regular updates. Because users create topics inconsistently, a single keyword search captures only part of the discussion, so researchers should build a broader query matrix. Answer volume and popularity also reflect question wording, audience reach, author reputation, and list position rather than purely content quality. Researchers should therefore preserve context and cross-check any patterns against other data sources.

0 comments Read more at DEV Community
0
ProgrammingDEV Community ·

Proprietary Assets Linked to Websites Holding Google Traffic Through 2026 Core Updates

A Zyppy analysis of roughly 400 websites found that proprietary assets were the third of five traits associated with sustained Google visibility. Published April 9, 2026, the study by Cyrus Shepard found that 92.9% of winning sites had such assets, versus 57.1% of losing sites. The research covered the previous 12 months, including the March 2026 core update, and used Ahrefs traffic data and Spearman correlations. The authors stress this is an association rather than proof that owned assets alone preserve traffic, and the other traits identified were offering a product or service, enabling task completion, tight topical focus, and strong branding.

0 comments Read more at DEV Community
0
ProgrammingDEV Community ·

Parsing credit card statement PDFs: handling signs, detail lines and balance tie-outs

Extracting transactions from credit card statement PDFs is often harder in deciding what each row means than in locating the table. A key pitfall is that some issuers print payments without minus signs, so a parser trusting printed signs can misread a payment as a purchase and double the error. The recommended approach classifies each line by its section heading and kind before assigning a sign from the magnitude. Foreign-currency detail lines and year-to-date summaries must be excluded from the transaction output. Finally, the rows should be checked against the statement's printed previous and new balances, using exact decimal arithmetic, to confirm they reconcile to the cent.

0 comments Read more at DEV Community
0
ProgrammingDEV Community ·

Batch image generation from prompt lists with a single FLUX API call

A DEV Community post explains how to generate many images at once from a list of text prompts, rather than creating them one at a time in a web playground. It outlines common use cases such as product catalogs, blog illustrations, placeholder game art, and ad variations. The author compares approaches including self-hosting FLUX or Stable Diffusion, calling per-image inference APIs directly, using big-model providers, and looping over single-image endpoints, noting the tradeoffs of each. The recommended method is one call to an Apify Actor that accepts the full prompt list, returns a URL, seed, and status per image, and needs no separate image-model API key. The post includes example JSON input and curl usage.

0 comments Read more at DEV Community
0
ProgrammingDEV Community ·

DDIA Is Excellent Reading but Lacks Hands-On Practice, So a Companion Lab Was Built

The author describes Designing Data-Intensive Applications as the best distributed systems book they have read, but argues it offers no way to test understanding. Without exercises, answer keys, or interactive failure scenarios, readers struggle to apply concepts like linearizability or two-phase commit under pressure. To fill this gap, the author built a companion practice lab covering 14 chapters in English and Persian. The lab includes 89 interactive step-through diagrams, 302 worked examples, and 47 design exercises with full solutions. It is positioned as a practice resource alongside the book, not a replacement or production system.

0 comments Read more at DEV Community
0
ProgrammingDEV Community ·

PrivateTools offers browser-based media tools that process files locally

PrivateTools is a collection of browser-based utilities for working with video, images, audio, and 3D assets. Users open a file, complete the task in the browser, and export the result without uploading media to a server. The toolkit includes an image sequence player for previewing renders and exporting them as video or GIF, plus a video editor for trimming, joining, cropping, and auto-generating subtitles locally. Other tools cover batch file conversion, camera RAW development, simple image editing, an SVG icon library, audio trimming, and a 3D model viewer. The developers note these are focused workspaces rather than a replacement for full production software, and performance depends on the user's hardware and browser.

0 comments Read more at DEV Community
← NewerPage 337 of 3099Older →