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My $230/Month AI Stack: Every Tool a Solo Founder Actually Uses
Dev.to · kanta13jp1 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
My $230/Month AI Stack: Every Tool a Solo Founder Actually Uses
My $230/Month AI Stack: Every Tool a Solo Founder Actually Uses Full transparency: here's...
code-shot: the code-screenshot API that I wish existed
Dev.to · basenull 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
code-shot: the code-screenshot API that I wish existed
For seven years Carbon has been the canonical "make a code screenshot" tool. Same with Ray.so since...
Top Free AI Tools That Boost Developer Productivity in 2026
Dev.to · Orbit Websites 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
Top Free AI Tools That Boost Developer Productivity in 2026
Top Free AI Tools That Boost Developer Productivity in 2026 Let’s be honest: the AI hype...
Pterocos: a good dev environment for HTML, CSS, and JS with AI Chat
Dev.to · Amine 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
Pterocos: a good dev environment for HTML, CSS, and JS with AI Chat
I made a little thing using AI. It's called Pterocos. It’s a browser-based code editor for HTML,...
I Let AI Loose on My 300K-Email Inbox. Here's What Happened.
Dev.to · Anton Bukarev 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
I Let AI Loose on My 300K-Email Inbox. Here's What Happened.
You have too many emails. Everyone does. Somewhere between the GitHub notifications, the newsletters...
5 AI Prompts That Actually Save Time in Your Dev Workflow
Dev.to · charlie-morrison 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
5 AI Prompts That Actually Save Time in Your Dev Workflow
I've been collecting AI prompts that genuinely improve my development workflow — not the generic...
🤖 AI Dev Tools
Dev.to · KALPESH 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
🤖 AI Dev Tools
AI Dev Tools — Comparison graphify vs claude-context vs axon vs Lynkr 🧠 The...
I built a VS Code extension in 3 days because copy-pasting into ChatGPT was annoying
Dev.to · Sandy 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
I built a VS Code extension in 3 days because copy-pasting into ChatGPT was annoying
Three days ago I was sitting on yet another ChatGPT session, spending more time explaining where my...
I Built a CLI That Extracts Content From URLs and Turns It Into JSON for AI
Dev.to · Omar Fuentes 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
I Built a CLI That Extracts Content From URLs and Turns It Into JSON for AI
If I wanted to analyze several articles on the same topic, the process was always the same: open...
5 Cursor AI Rules That Save Hours Every Week (Real Examples)
Dev.to · Olivia Craft 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
5 Cursor AI Rules That Save Hours Every Week (Real Examples)
5 Cursor AI Rules That Save Hours Every Week (Real Examples) I've been shipping SaaS...
The Cursor AI Workflow That Saves My Team 6 Hours a Week
Dev.to · Olivia Craft 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
The Cursor AI Workflow That Saves My Team 6 Hours a Week
The Cursor AI Workflow That Saves My Team 6 Hours a Week Three months ago, my team of four...
Seth Godin's Blog 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
Courage vs. excuses
There are more available excuses now than ever before. In just two letters, “AI” is a simple, brand-new, all-purpose excuse for laying people off, averaging thi
Automating Your eBook Formatting: AI as Your Quality Assurance Partner
Dev.to · Ken Deng 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
Automating Your eBook Formatting: AI as Your Quality Assurance Partner
As a self-publisher, you know the drill: formatting an eBook for both print and digital is a...
OpenClaw Is the Easiest AI Setup I've Ever Done
Dev.to · Zach Hajjaj 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
OpenClaw Is the Easiest AI Setup I've Ever Done
I've spent more time than I'd like to admit setting up AI tools. Configuring API keys across three...
Using AI to Build Your Year-End Performance Case
Dev.to · Phaneendra Kanduri 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
Using AI to Build Your Year-End Performance Case
Most engineers lose their appraisals in June. Not because they underperformed — because they forgot...
I built a new file format to cut AI token costs by 70% — here's how it works
Dev.to · Javier Castillo 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
I built a new file format to cut AI token costs by 70% — here's how it works
Tags: #ai #webdev #javascript #opensource #ChatGPT #Claude #Copilot #Gemini Every time I pasted a...
Why Your Flashcard App Is Showing You Words You Already Know — And What To Do About It
Dev.to · Funlingo 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
Why Your Flashcard App Is Showing You Words You Already Know — And What To Do About It
If you've used Anki, Duolingo, or any vocabulary app for more than a few months, you've had this...
Use AI-powered labels in Google Workspace Studio
Dev.to · Justin Poehnelt 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
Use AI-powered labels in Google Workspace Studio
Streamline your Gmail inbox using AI-powered labels in Google Workspace Studio. Learn how to configure Gemini to automatically label messages based on custom de
Using Raspberry Pi 4, Raspberry Pi OS, and Docker to Connect Home Assistant with a Eufy IndoorCam 2K Pan & Tilt and Save Images When a Pet Is Detected
Dev.to · vast cow 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
Using Raspberry Pi 4, Raspberry Pi OS, and Docker to Connect Home Assistant with a Eufy IndoorCam 2K Pan & Tilt and Save Images When a Pet Is Detected
I wanted to connect an Anker Eufy IndoorCam 2K Pan & Tilt to Home Assistant and automatically...
I Was Copy-Pasting Text Just to Fix Capitalization… So I Built This
Dev.to · Bhavin Sheth 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
I Was Copy-Pasting Text Just to Fix Capitalization… So I Built This
🚨 The Small Problem That Kept Wasting My Time This happened more times than I’d like to...
Your Team's Best AI Prompts Are Disappearing — Here's the Fix
Dev.to · speed engineer 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
Your Team's Best AI Prompts Are Disappearing — Here's the Fix
If you work on a team that uses ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini, you've probably lived this...
I lost all my Prompter scripts on a Friday. By Sunday, I'd built PrompterKit.
Dev.to · snapsynapse 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
I lost all my Prompter scripts on a Friday. By Sunday, I'd built PrompterKit.
Camera Hub stores your Elgato Prompter scripts in opaque JSON with no export, no backup, and no way to get your words back out. So I fixed that.
AI made devs feel 20% faster but measured 19% slower. Nobody's ready for that conversation.
Dev.to · Aditya Agarwal 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
AI made devs feel 20% faster but measured 19% slower. Nobody's ready for that conversation.
AI tools made developers feel 20% faster. Then researchers measured them at 19% slower. Read that...
AI monetization strategy: Pricing models for AI systems
Dev.to · Abu Sakib 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
AI monetization strategy: Pricing models for AI systems
AI has changed how software generates value and how it incurs cost. AI businesses must contend with...
How I chained Midjourney, Suno v4 and Veo 3.1 in one Dify workflow to ship 8s video ads for 35 cents
Dev.to · Aikit Pros 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
How I chained Midjourney, Suno v4 and Veo 3.1 in one Dify workflow to ship 8s video ads for 35 cents
TL;DR: one Dify workflow, four models, single API gateway. A product brief goes in, a full 8-second...
Fully Automated Website Day 16: Cottonburr Mortar — Rootline Defense's First Arc-Trajectory Plant
Dev.to · dtannen 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
Fully Automated Website Day 16: Cottonburr Mortar — Rootline Defense's First Arc-Trajectory Plant
Command Garden is a website that builds itself — one feature per day, fully autonomously. No human...
I built TokenBar because I was tired of guessing my AI spend
Dev.to · John 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
I built TokenBar because I was tired of guessing my AI spend
I kept opening bills and thinking the same thing: why did this cost jump so fast? It was not because...
Simplifying Dahua Biometric Integration with Python (pydahua)
Dev.to · Sreethul 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
Simplifying Dahua Biometric Integration with Python (pydahua)
If you've ever worked with Dahua biometric or access control devices, you already know the pain: ...
Configuring My Site for AI Discoverability
Dev.to · Dennis Morello 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
Configuring My Site for AI Discoverability
A growing share of web traffic doesn't come from people anymore. It comes from models reading on...
I optimized my Knowledge Management using AI - Ella: A Memory Browser and Knowledge Management System
Dev.to · Soroush Javed Sulehri 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
I optimized my Knowledge Management using AI - Ella: A Memory Browser and Knowledge Management System
The Story Behind ELLA Ten days ago, my phone rang. An unknown number flashed on the...
Building AI-Powered Business Solutions for LATAM with Amazon Quick: A Hands-on Technical Guide
Dev.to · luis zuñiga 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
Building AI-Powered Business Solutions for LATAM with Amazon Quick: A Hands-on Technical Guide
Over the past few weeks, I built and deployed five production-ready use cases using Amazon Quick (the...
Claude Code Memory Files: The Workflow That Eliminated My Daily Briefing Ritual
Dev.to · Nex Tools 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
Claude Code Memory Files: The Workflow That Eliminated My Daily Briefing Ritual
How a simple CLAUDE.md file replaced 15 minutes of context-setting every morning Every morning I...
Building a Digital Time Machine: How I Created an AR Memory Network That Pins Your Life to Real-World Locations
Dev.to · KevinTen 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
Building a Digital Time Machine: How I Created an AR Memory Network That Pins Your Life to Real-World Locations
Building a Digital Time Machine: How I Created an AR Memory Network That Pins Your Life to...
What's New in Diction 5.0
Dev.to · Ondrej Machala 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
What's New in Diction 5.0
Diction 5.0 is out. Three things changed in a meaningful way: the cloud is rebuilt from scratch, AI...
🚀 I Built TechieLearn — An AI-Powered Learning Platform for Developers
Dev.to · Shubham Bhokta 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
🚀 I Built TechieLearn — An AI-Powered Learning Platform for Developers
Hey devs 👋 After ~6 months of building, iterating, and rethinking how we actually learn tech… I...
Batch Process AI Videos for Social Media Platforms
Dev.to · RenderIO 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
Batch Process AI Videos for Social Media Platforms
Why you can't upload the same video everywhere You generated a great AI video. Now you...
Building Claude Skills That Connect to Obsidian: A Developer's Field Guide
Dev.to · scorp323 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
Building Claude Skills That Connect to Obsidian: A Developer's Field Guide
A practical field guide to building and composing Claude skills that work cleanly with Obsidian vaults.
How to Version and Update Your OpenClaw Skills
Dev.to · zac 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
How to Version and Update Your OpenClaw Skills
Learn semantic versioning for OpenClaw skills, how to publish updates, handle breaking changes gracefully, and maintain a changelog that keeps your users inform
Stop Writing Fake Pytest Fixtures and Capture Real API Responses Safely using Snapfix
Dev.to · Sayak Naskar 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
Stop Writing Fake Pytest Fixtures and Capture Real API Responses Safely using Snapfix
So, What Snapfix Does Wraps any Python function with @capture, intercepts the return value...
Building an AI-Powered Event Feedback System: Gemini 2.5 + FastAPI + Supabase + Automated PDF Reports
Dev.to · Sameer Shah 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
Building an AI-Powered Event Feedback System: Gemini 2.5 + FastAPI + Supabase + Automated PDF Reports
After running an event, the feedback collection process is almost always broken. You get a...
I Built an AI CLI Tool That Generates Beautiful READMEs Automatically
Dev.to · Ishan Ashu 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
I Built an AI CLI Tool That Generates Beautiful READMEs Automatically
We've all been there: you finish building an amazing project, push it to GitHub, and then... stare at...
I Built 5 AI Developer Tools That Run Entirely on My Laptop — No API Keys, No Cloud, No Limits
Dev.to · Nrk Raju Guthikonda 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
I Built 5 AI Developer Tools That Run Entirely on My Laptop — No API Keys, No Cloud, No Limits
Every developer has felt the friction: you want AI to help with a mundane task — writing standup...
Your Financial Data Should Never Leave Your Machine — Here's How I Built 5 AI Tools That Prove It
Dev.to · Nrk Raju Guthikonda 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
Your Financial Data Should Never Leave Your Machine — Here's How I Built 5 AI Tools That Prove It
Every day, millions of people paste their bank statements into ChatGPT. They upload invoices to cloud...
Introducing Nova AI Ops: The AI-Native Operating System for SRE Teams
Dev.to · Samson Tanimawo 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
Introducing Nova AI Ops: The AI-Native Operating System for SRE Teams
Hey, I'm Samson and I built Nova AI Ops because I was tired of being paged at 3 AM. For...
I’ve built an AI resume tailoring tool to make job applications faster
Dev.to · Pedro Lee 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 2mo ago
I’ve built an AI resume tailoring tool to make job applications faster
Applying to jobs is still far too manual. Most people end up rewriting the same resume again and...
Luma Dream Machine vs Pika: Which Is Better in 2026?
Dev.to · Tawan Shamsanor 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 2mo ago
Luma Dream Machine vs Pika: Which Is Better in 2026?
<!DOCTYPE html> Luma Dream Machine vs Pika: The Ultimate AI Video Showdown in...
I Built an Easy-to-Use Local TTS with Google Colab Support
Dev.to · Yonatan Kinfe 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 2mo ago
I Built an Easy-to-Use Local TTS with Google Colab Support
Text-to-Speech tools are becoming very useful for developers building AI apps, automation tools, and...
What is a metaframework
Dev.to · Fyodor 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 2mo ago
What is a metaframework
Let's put it straight out of the gate, with all the pros, cons, and how-to's.