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
On March 29, 2024, Andres Freund — a Microsoft engineer and PostgreSQL contributor — noticed something odd while investigating unexplained CPU usage in SSH on a Debian testing build. liblzma, the compression library bundled with XZ Utils, was performing extra work it had no business doing. After careful analysis, Freund had found one of the most sophisticated software supply chain attacks ever dis
Why We Open-Sourced Our AI Safety Layer When we built the AI safety layer for As You Wish (AYW), we faced a choice: keep it proprietary or open-source it to help the community. Here's why we chose the latter (and why it made our platform stronger). If you're building AI-assisted development tools, you need: Input validation (sanitizing prompts, preventing injection) Output filtering (catching u
If you want to Automate GitHub PRs, the real goal is not just adding another bot comment to a pull request. The goal is to give reviewers the context they usually have to gather manually: who owns the service, whether it is deployed, whether basic repository standards are in place, and whether the change looks safe to merge. A useful AI pull request workflow can do exactly that. When a PR opens, i
The Counter Galois Onion (CGO) Migration: Tor's Cryptographic Engine Swap If you've ever dug into Tor's internals, you know the network is a masterpiece of practical anonymity. But like any long-running system, its crypto stack was starting to show its age. Enter the Counter Galois Onion (CGO) Migration - one of the most significant under-the-hood upgrades Tor has seen in years. It's a fundament
How I Used GitHub Actions to Auto-Publish to AMO on Every Release Manually uploading extension files to AMO (Mozilla's Add-On Observatory) is tedious. After the fifth time forgetting to increment the version number, I automated it with GitHub Actions. Here's exactly how I set up the pipeline for the Weather & Clock Dashboard extension. Trigger on new GitHub release Validate the manifest version
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