My first Cloudflare Worker deployed in 47 minutes. Three of those were spent staring at this exact error in a red GitHub Actions log: Authentication error [code: 10000]. I had the API token. I had the account ID. I had copy-pasted the workflow from the official docs. It still failed. The fix was one checkbox I never selected. That checkbox is the entire reason I'm writing this post, because every
Find a beginner-friendly issue. Fork the repo. Set up the dev environment. Read through the codebase. Start working. Then check the issue again and see a comment from 2 days ago: "Hey I'm working on this, should have a PR up soon." Two hours wasted. Every single time. The weird part? Almost every existing tool for finding open source issues - goodfirstissue.dev, up-for-grabs.net, codetriage - rely
I started this six months ago because nobody else seemed to. Hedge funds spent the last decade extracting alpha from satellite imagery, credit-card panels, parking-lot photos. The venture-capital equivalent — public engineering activity on GitHub — was sitting in plain sight, and most institutional sourcing teams I knew still ran on Crunchbase, warm intros, and Twitter. So I built a crawler. That
When you automate backups, you eventually discover the backup was not the hard part. The hard part was everything around it. This week I got a nice little reminder from my self-hosted agent setup: the backup job can be logically correct, authenticated, scheduled, and still fail because of two very boring constraints: Docker-owned files are not always readable by the user running cron. GitHub Relea
The Autonomous Paradox In 2026, we’ve moved past simple chatbots. We are building Production-Grade RAG pipelines and autonomous agents that can plan, execute, and iterate. But as an architect, I’ve noticed a glaring hole in our "Agentic" future: Identity Sprawl. We are giving agents non-human identities (NHI) with "Full Admin" permissions just to ensure the RAG works smoothly. We are effectively
We're all learning how to ship more side projects. If you're "in the bubble" it can feel like everyone is repo-maxxing. Shipping weekly. Spinning up agents to scaffold full apps overnight. New OSS dropped every Friday. The reality I see with most developers is much more normal: They have six or seven repos sitting in various states of half-attention. A side project from last year that still gets a
Hey dev.to community! I just launched CodeLens AI — an AI-powered code review tool that automatically reviews every pull request. Connect your GitHub repo Open a PR AI automatically reviews the code Detailed review comment posted on PR Bugs and logic errors SQL injection and security vulnerabilities Performance issues Code quality improvements Next.js + TypeScript NextAuth + GitHub OAuth Supabase
What if your Kubernetes cluster simply refused to run unsigned images? I spent some time experimenting with enforcing image provenance in a small Kubernetes setup using MicroK8s. The idea was simple: Only container images with valid cryptographic signatures are allowed to run in the cluster. For this I used: GitLab CI/CD (build + signing pipeline) Cosign / Sigstore (image signing) Kyverno (admissi