ALT DEV Challenges. The Sanity Challenge. Happening now. September eighteenth through October fourth. Two-thousand five hundred dollars in prizes.

ALT A cartoon bug with long blonde hair and trendy sunglasses.

ALT A sketch drawing of a sloth hanging from a branch with green leaves.

ALT DEV Challenges: Summer Bug Smash powered by Sentry. July 14 through August 23. 5,000 dollars USD in prizes.

ALT A person wearing a jean jacket stands in a city square at night facing away. They hold a skateboard with bright purple neon light designs and computer decals behind their head.

ALT A person in brightly lit public hallway reads a copy of The Daily Context newspaper.

ALT A small dog with white fur and blue eyes sits on an ottoman next to a copy of The Daily Context newspaper.

ALT A large stack of The Daily Context newspaper sits on a wire rack.

ALT DEV Challenges: The Hermes Agent Challenge. One thousand dollars in prizes. May 15 through 31.

ALT Crying man holds tissue to his nose: "When you wanted to thank chat GPT but tokens ran out after last response."

ALT Cartoon character Bugs Bunny holds a shot glass of carrot juice, looking disheveled and defeated. Text: "British developers when they realize they have to write 'color' instead of 'colour' in CSS."

ALT A meme: On the left, a woman scrunched her face. The text above reads "Prompt Engineer." On the right, the woman seems to nod in approval. The text above reads "Sloperator."

ALT An orange background with the DEV profile handle “@annaspies”. A speech bubble from their profile picture features the blog title “On Facing Extinction (Again)” and quote: “I'm facing the dilemma of being in yet another industry facing extinction. My fear is that just like with journalism, it will be to the detriment of society as a whole.”.

ALT A purple background with the DEV profile handle “@mikesol”. A speech bubble from their profile picture features the blog title “How I replaced my staging environment with MCP” and quote: “Building software is messy, people make choices that don't fit neatly into a single coherent stack, and even the projects that tried to have per-PR ephemeral environments hit rough corners that made these previews tough to use and maintain.”.

ALT A green background with the DEV profile handle “@jarvisscript”. A speech bubble from their profile picture features the blog title “Ugly Sweater CSS: Droids.” and quote: “Since 2020 I've made CSS art versions of the LEGO Figure ugly sweaters.”

ALT A blue background with the DEV profile handle “@copyleftdev”. A speech bubble from their profile picture features the blog title “The Most Underrated Tool in Your Dev Toolbox: Pre-Commit Hooks (Yes, That 20-Year-Old Git Feature)” and quote: “We're all sleeping on pre-commit hooks because they're old, boring, and don't have a SaaS dashboard with pretty graphs. But they work. They've always worked.”.

ALT A green background with the DEV profile handle “@aragossa”. A speech bubble from their profile picture features the blog title “The "Spinner of Death": Why Localhost Latency is Lying to You” and quote: “Stop trusting Localhost. It hides your worst bugs.”.

ALT A red background with the DEV profile handle “@maame-codes”. A speech bubble from their profile picture features the blog title “5 Terminal Commands That Saved Me Hours of Clicking” and quote: “Getting comfortable with these basics changed my relationship with my computer. I stopped feeling like a "user" navigating a system someone else built, and started feeling like an "engineer" controlling the system directly.”.

ALT A blue background with the DEV profile handle “@adiatiayu”. A speech bubble from their profile picture features the blog title “Open Source Engagement: What's Working Now?” and quote: “I’ve been wondering, why are contributors fading away, and what strategies can we use to keep contributors coming back for the long run?”.

ALT A green background with the DEV profile handle “@eleftheriabatsou”. A speech bubble from their profile picture features the blog title “How I Cut My Debugging Time in Half as a Front-End Developer (A Practical Guide)” and quote: “Debugging doesn’t have to be frustrating or time-consuming. Small workflow improvements add up, and exploring new tools can reveal simpler paths through complex problems.”.

ALT DEV Challenges. Xano AI-Powered Backend Challenge. Three-thousand dollars in prizes! November 26 through December 14.

ALT A white background with yellow hand drawn sketches of a tree data structure, a cloud network, a calendar, etc. Text: "DEV Challenges. AI Agents Intensive Course Writing Challenge. Starts Nov 10. Registration open."

ALT A purple background with the DEV profile handle @the_nortern_dev. A speech bubble from their profile picture features the blog title “Building a "Bullshit Detector" for LLMs using Node.js and pgvector” and quote: “By treating the LLM as an untrusted component and wrapping it with a semantic validation layer using tools like Node.js and pgvector, we can build guardrails that actually work.”.

ALT A white background with yellow hand drawn sketches of a tree data structure, a cloud network, a calendar, etc. Text: "DEV Challenges. AI Agents Intensive Course Writing Challenge. Starts Nov 10. Registration open."

ALT An orange background with the DEV profile handle “@seenasabti”. A speech bubble from their profile picture features the blog title “Use Local LLMs to Eliminate Little Annoying Tasks” and quote: “If you’re a software engineer who wants to eliminate the tedious parts and move faster, then I hope sharing some of my scripts inspires you to streamline your own workflow as well.”.

ALT A blue background with the DEV profile handle “@xwero”. A speech bubble from their profile picture features the blog title “Other languages than English in code” and quote: “Machines don't care about the words, so why am I writing everything in English?”.

ALT A pink background with the DEV profile handle “@annu12340”. A speech bubble from their profile picture features the blog title “Ctrl+Z Through Time: Rebuilding MS Paint (With Kiro Doing the Heavy Lifting)” and quote: “It's 2024, and I'm staring at my modern, sleek design tools thinking "you know what's missing? Beveled buttons and that classic gray background." So naturally, I decided to build a full-blown MS Paint clone with React and TypeScript. ”.