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LINQ GroupBy: The Operator Everyone Uses Wrong

LINQ GroupBy operator collapses rows into aggregates in SQL but doesn't force aggregation.

devto · 2026-09-23
02
IT Heard About the Acquisition Nine Days Before It Closed

A distributor's order system was licensed to the seller's parent group and not transferable, leading to a costly migration.

devto · 2026-09-23
03
The Story Behind Building NuvyntraLabs

NuvyntraLabs is a developer ecosystem that builds and shares useful, reusable software components.

devto · 2026-09-23
04
Five dashboards nobody was opening

Website reporting system for analytics and sign-ups.

devto · 2026-09-23
05
The Shift from AI Insights to AI Actions in Finance

Traditional AI in finance involves predictive and classificatory models that provide insights to human decision-makers. Agentic AI, on the other hand, handles operational tasks by executing actions based on these insights.

devto · 2026-09-23
06
Go WebAssembly Meets WebForms Core 2.1

WebAssembly is used as an execution layer inside a server-orchestrated UI architecture.

devto · 2026-09-23
07
Just One More Round: Scope Creep in the Age of AI Agents

AI-driven project management, scope creep prevention, feature prioritization.

devto · 2026-09-23
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The Calls That Reach Us Now Are the Ones the Model Could Not Answer

A company's IT service desk is becoming less effective as users solve their own problems, leading to increased handling times and dissatisfaction.

devto · 2026-09-23
09
One Loop Made Four Hundred Round Trips

Slow code is invisible due to language calls to other machines.

devto · 2026-09-23
10
The order was committed and nothing else ever heard about it

Financial reconciliation issue, order service failure, system design flaw.

devto · 2026-09-23
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Hello everyone! 👋

The text discusses web development, automation, AI, SEO, and coding practices.

devto · 2026-09-23
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CLOSEDQUORUM: The Malware That Lets Four AI Models Vote on How to Attack You

ClosedQuorum is Windows malware that uses language models for decision-making instead of human operators.

devto · 2026-09-23
13
How I Send 100GB+ Files Directly Between Browsers Without Cloud Storage

ButterShare is a peer-to-peer file sharing product that transfers files directly between browsers without uploading them to cloud storage first.

devto · 2026-09-23
14
Angular Security Headers: A Practical Guide to Securing Your Angular Application

Angular application security headers, HSTS, X-Content-Type-Options, Referrer-Policy, Permissions-Policy, X-Frame-Options, COOP, CORP, CSP.

devto · 2026-09-23
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I had 47 tabs open during an incident. Never again.

Chrome browser usage for SSHing to VMs, leading to high CPU and fan noise.

devto · 2026-09-23
16
TVL Trend Analysis & Liquidity Risk Assessment: Gemini

Gemini has grown to a $5.8B total value locked across its Ethereum main-net and Layer-2 deployments, positioning it among top-10 custodial-exchange-style DeFi platforms.

devto · 2026-09-23
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Why I Chose P2P Instead of S3 for My File Transfer Product

ButterShare architecture shifted from S3 to direct peer-to-peer transfer using WebRTC.

devto · 2026-09-23
18
Two in three 'liquidity pulled' alerts are the same wallet putting it back

The text discusses an API that tracks liquidity changes on decentralized exchanges (DEXs) and identifies patterns of repeated liquidity removals by the same wallet.

devto · 2026-09-23
19
I went looking for sandwiches and found a DEX pool trading with itself

A DEX trader uses a sandwich detector to identify bots in a pool by analyzing token swaps and block data.

devto · 2026-09-23
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We Automated the Entire Build-Test-Deploy Loop on Apple Silicon. Here's What We Learned.

Mano-AFK is an autonomous execution framework that generates product requirements documents, code, deploys locally, tests in multiple layers, automatically fixes bugs, and performs adversarial reviews.

devto · 2026-09-23
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Registering a Concrete Class Instead of an Interface: A Small DI Detail With a Big Testing Cost

Dependency Injection registration often focuses on lifetime and interface vs. concrete class choice.

devto · 2026-09-23
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CodeRabbit Triage: AI จัดคิว Pull Request แทนทีม ใครได้ใช้ฟรีบ้าง

AI-assisted pull request triage system with scoring and prioritization based on severity, impact, and dependencies.

devto · 2026-09-23
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DNS Zone Erasure: Automated Pipeline Decisions from Deliverability Evidence

A pipeline should first quarantine a namespace, collect deliverability evidence, and only later accept a separately authorized commit.

devto · 2026-09-23
24
DAY - 2 - Encryption Technologies

Symmetric and asymmetric encryption methods, including AES, RSA, and ECC. Hashing for data integrity.

devto · 2026-09-23
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Day 17 — Message Broker — RabbitMQ vs Kafka

A backend application that sends confirmation emails and SMSs to customers upon placing an order. It also updates inventory and analytics data synchronously.

devto · 2026-09-23
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JWT Refresh Tokens: How They Make Login Systems Safer and More Practical

JWTs are compact tokens used for authentication between a client and server.

devto · 2026-09-23
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Sizing the Subnet: What Nobody Tells You About Microsoft Foundry Agent Service Networking Until Production Falls Over

Microsoft Foundry Agent Service networking issues due to incorrect subnet sizing.

devto · 2026-09-23
28
# Tableau vs Power BI: A BI Developer’s Practical Comparison

Tableau emphasizes visualization, while Power BI focuses on data modeling.

devto · 2026-09-23
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The one law the whole series assumes: an AI that goes down silently is worse than one that's dead

AI-coding projects need to ensure resilience, including making operations idempotent and handling partial failures.

devto · 2026-09-23
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Windows can decode (and encode) HEIC without ImageMagick - but your browser can't decode it at all

HEIC to JPG conversion on Windows without installing ImageMagick or using websites.

devto · 2026-09-23
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