📰 Dev.to · Russell Jones

How Waaseyaa splits a monolithic controller dispatcher into domain-specific routers using a two-method interface.

Turn Ruth Doherty's AI content framework into a concrete playbook for your own pipeline.

Build a script that generates consistent OG social card images from an HTML template using Playwright screenshots, with smart caching and series-aware gradients

How to build a CLI tool in Go that syncs Hugo blog posts to Dev.to via the Forem API, handling canonical URLs, tag sanitization, rate limits, and content transf

How I built a two-notebook pipeline using ISC profiles and community website scraping to collect governance contacts for ~637 First Nations communities across C

How Claude Code built 3 framework packages, scaffolded a full application, and got 12 pages rendering — all in a single session.

Git hooks have always enforced standards before code enters a repo. With AI agents writing commits autonomously, they've become essential.

How to set up golangci-lint with a practical configuration that catches real bugs without drowning you in noise.

Run a Go API as a DDEV sidecar so Laravel in the web container can call it by service name, with one shared secret for signed requests.

How to structure an Ansible repo to manage two DigitalOcean droplets, six Laravel apps, and a Go microservices platform without replacing the existing Deployer

How Claudriel's temporal subsystem pins time per request, resolves timezones from context, and detects clock drift before it corrupts AI reasoning.

Learn how struct field ordering impacts memory usage in Go and how to optimize it.

Get from Ubuntu 24.04 LTS to a running Laravel 12 app using the official installer first, then the DDEV option for container-based workflows.

Learn about the proper way to handle command comparisons in Bubbletea applications, including common pitfalls and best practices.

Learn how to effectively test Cobra CLI applications using dependency injection in Go, with practical examples and best practices.

How in-memory implementations, a layered test strategy, and AI-assisted test generation keep a 48-package PHP monorepo testable.

Why Docker bypasses your UFW rules, how to fix it, and container hardening practices that matter on a shared VPS.

Conditional builds with ARG, health checks, cross-platform images, linting, and other Dockerfile patterns for production use.

Use layer caching, BuildKit cache mounts, and parallel stages to make your Docker builds faster.

Run containers as non-root users, choose minimal base images, and keep secrets out of your Docker layers.

Use multi-stage Dockerfiles to separate build tooling from your runtime image, cutting image size by 90% or more.

Learn Dockerfile basics — FROM, COPY, RUN, CMD — and build your first container image.

Set up Laravel Boost as an MCP server inside DDEV, with a WSL configuration for Windows users.