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
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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
很多团队的网络监控并不算差。 链路可用率有、接口带宽有、CPU 和内存有、异常告警也接进了企业微信、飞书和短信。但真正出了事,复盘时还是会出现同一句话:当时知道出问题了,但没有把现场留住。 这就是为什么越来越多团队开始关注网络回溯分析系统。 它解决的不是“能不能看到告警”这个初级问题,而是更关键的两个问题: 告警发生时,能不能快速还原到底是哪一段流量、哪一条路径、哪一种会话出了问题 事故结束后,能不能基于证据复盘,而不是靠聊天记录和印象拼凑过程 对云上和混合云场景来说,这件事尤其重要。因为链路更长、设备更多、路径更动态,很多故障不是“持续坏”,而是短时抖动、瞬时拥塞、路径切换、策略误命中。如果没有回溯能力,排障就很容易沦为赛后猜谜。 这篇文章不讲空洞概念,直接从一线运维视角拆清楚:云上网络回溯分析系统到底该怎么建,应该覆盖哪些能力,落地时最容易踩哪些坑。 先说结论: 传统监控擅长发现“异常
If you manage a remote team of 10+ people, laptop battery monitoring is one of those quiet problems you only notice when it's too late: a dev's MacBook dies on a client call, a sales rep's Dell shuts down mid-demo, or you suddenly need to replace 8 laptops in the same quarter because nobody saw it coming. This guide walks through how to track laptop battery health across a remote team — the metric
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
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