📰 Dev.to · Alan West

Step-by-step guide to diagnosing and recovering from Git repository corruption, from broken HEAD refs to damaged packfiles.

Running Qwen locally on a MacBook Air fails out of the box. Here's why quantization fixes it and exactly how to set it up step by step.

Legal documents in Git repos produce terrible diffs. Here's how to structure text, automate ingestion, and use word-level diffs for readable legislative history

A practical comparison of Auth0, Clerk, and Authon for developers evaluating auth providers in 2026, with real migration steps and honest tradeoffs.

Claude Opus 4.6 has a 1 million token context window. Gemini 2.5 Pro supports up to 1 million tokens. GPT-5 offers 256K. The numbers keep going up, an

Stop wasting hours on broken local AI setups. A step-by-step guide to choosing the right open-source models, inference engines, and API layers.

Fix the most common reasons self-hosted production apps crash overnight — memory limits, disk issues, health checks, and the operational basics most guides skip

Common RAG system failures — from naive chunking to bad retrieval — and the concrete fixes that actually improve answer quality in production.

Your AI agents are expensive and never improve. Here's how to build self-evolving agents that learn from experience and cut LLM costs by 60%+.

I've been using Magnet for years, no complaints. Then I picked up a Mac Mini to run OpenClaw agents...

Fix slow, expensive TTS in production apps by self-hosting open-weight models like Voxtral — with practical setup steps and code examples.

A practical, step-by-step guide to migrating your repositories from GitHub to Codeberg without breaking everything or burning a weekend.

Why flight delay trackers show stale data and how to fix it with multi-source aggregation, ADS-B ground truth, and adaptive caching.

# Google Search Console Has a Full API. Why Is Nobody Using It from Their IDE? I published a blog post, waited three days for Google to index it, the

Video.js v10 beta dropped an 88% size reduction. Here's why the old version was bloated and how to migrate to the leaner rewrite.

# 66 Analytics Tools Your AI Agent Didn't Know It Needed I check my analytics dashboard maybe twice a week. Which means I miss the spike on Tuesday a

Learn how to stack astrophotography images in Python using sigma-clipped averaging, memory-efficient chunking, and proper calibration frames.

Open three tabs of AI-generated landing pages. Any three. I guarantee at least two of them have a purple gradient, Inter font, rounded cards with subt

How to detect, respond to, and prevent PyPI supply chain attacks like the compromised LiteLLM package versions that exfiltrated environment variables.

There's a special kind of friction that comes from typing `npm publish`, getting a 2FA prompt, fumbling for your phone, missing the 30-second window,

A 400B LLM ran on an iPhone 17 Pro. Here's how flash offloading and aggressive quantization make the impossible possible.

Walk through the most common causes of infinite loops, from off-by-one errors to floating point traps, with step-by-step debugging techniques and prevention pat

A deep dive into building Windows XP in React — why OS clone projects teach you more about frontend development than most tutorials ever will.

Grafeo is a new embeddable graph database built in Rust. Here's what it does well, where it falls short, and whether you should use it yet.