Something quietly changed inside finance dashboards over the last eighteen months. The line item for AI tools used to be small and predictable. Now it sits right next to the cloud bill, growing at a pace nobody fully forecasted, and looking suspiciously similar to how AWS looked back in 2015.
This is not a coincidence. AI coding assistants, model APIs, and agent platforms all bill on us...
If you automate anything on the public web for long enough, reCAPTCHA is the wall you hit most. It's on far more sites than Turnstile, hCaptcha, or the enterprise bot vendors combined. So when you wire in a solving service, the interesting question usually isn't "can it solve reCAPTCHA" (most can). It's what does it cost when you'r...
Circular dependencies are one of those bugs that feel harmless right up until they aren't. No build error. No runtime exception on import. Just a subtle undefined that shows up weeks later in production, in a stack trace that points to the symptom and not the cause.
This article shows how to catch them automatically using dependency-cruiser, and how to go one step further by encoding the St...
Welcome to this week's Top 7, where the DEV editorial team handpicks their favorite posts from the previous week (Saturday-Friday).
Congrats to all the authors that made it onto the list 👏
Feeling afraid after completing a difficult task is a common response of the human brain. There are several reasons behind it.
When we do something new or challenging, like:
Hi DEV 👋 first post here.
I'm an indie developer, and lately I've been building web apps with an AI coding assistant doing a lot of the typing. Along the way I noticed something I did not expect: the stack that works best with AI, for me, is a boring old one — vanilla PHP, vanilla JS, and SQLite. No framework, no build step, no compile.
Here's ...