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
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
WooCommerce sits underneath a large share of small-business e-commerce on the web. It is free, runs on top of WordPress, and is flexible enough that a hobbyist can launch a store in an afternoon. That same flexibility is also why WooCommerce stores show up in ADA demand letters and EAA complaints out of proportion to their share of the market. The owner picked a theme that looked nice, installed f
The first time a prospect asks "Can you send us your VPAT?" most B2B founders react one of two ways. Either they panic and forward the email to a developer, or they reply "What's a VPAT?" and lose the deal to a competitor who already had one ready. Neither is necessary. A VPAT is a template, not a certification, and any company can produce one if they understand the document, do the underlying acc
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
Keyboard Shortcuts in Firefox Extensions: A Complete Guide Good keyboard support separates a great extension from a mediocre one. Here's everything you need to know. For global keyboard shortcuts (accessible even when the extension isn't focused): { "commands": { "_execute_action": { "suggested_key": { "default": "Ctrl+Shift+W" }, "description": "Open Weather & Cl