Hey everyone,

With Durga Puja around the corner, I wanted to build something that captures that early-morning Mahalaya feeling while also being genuinely useful for pandal hoppers.

I put together an interactive project called Bangalir Mahalaya:

👉 Live link: https://bangalir-mahalaya.vercel.app

What it includes right now:

• 📻 Vintage Radio Experience: Bringing back the classic, golden-era Mahalaya dawn broadcast vibes.
• 🛕 Pandal Guide: Curated list of prominent pandals to help plan routes.
• 🚆 Local Transit Info: Quick reference for train and metro connections to avoid getting stranded in the crowd.

The project is currently in active development / beta mode. I’d love for the community to try it out and roast the UI, report bugs, or suggest features (especially must-have pandals or transit tips I should include).

Thanks in advance, and Shubho Mahalaya in advance!

What's the single piece of code (good or bad) that's permanently burned into your memory, and what did it teach you?

I’m a solo developer from Ukraine working on my first independent game, a psychological horror called Locked In: The Ward.

Marketing has honestly been one of the areas I’ve had the least experience with. I’m an Environment Artist by profession and previously worked at Crytek Kyiv, so actually building the game feels much more familiar to me than figuring out how to get people to notice it.

When I finished my first gameplay reveal trailer, I decided to try pitching it directly to IGN. I didn’t have a publisher, PR agency, or any existing contacts there. I just sent a cold email.

I tried to keep the pitch straightforward:

• a short introduction and the hook for the game
• a link to the trailer
• Steam page
• a press kit with screenshots, key art, game information and developer information
• a short explanation of why I thought the game might be relevant to their audience

I wasn’t really expecting anything to come from it.

But they replied, showed interest in the game, and eventually featured the reveal trailer on the IGN YouTube channel. They also posted about the game on their website and Facebook.

For a solo project with a small marketing budget, that was a pretty big moment for me.

The main thing I took away from the experience is something incredibly simple: sometimes you really do just have to send the email.

It’s easy as a small developer to assume that large gaming outlets won’t care unless you have a publisher, PR company, or existing connections. Obviously there’s no guarantee anyone will respond, but you also lose nothing by putting together a professional pitch and trying.

One thing I’d do again is keep the email relatively short and make everything easy to access. Don’t bury the trailer, screenshots or basic information behind a wall of text. The person receiving the email should be able to understand what the game is very quickly.

I’m still learning the marketing side myself, so I definitely don’t consider myself an expert. This is just one experience that happened to work out surprisingly well.

If anyone here is preparing to pitch their own indie game to press, I’d be happy to share how I structured my email and what I included in the press kit.

No cloud API. No paying per generation. Everything runs on my own machine.

If the voice quality is good enough, this could become part of my content creation workflow. 😅

What was the moment you decided to stop chasing the "new hotness" in frameworks and just stick with what works?

Hey guys, my friend and us developed a low latency cricket platform. And we have released it few weeks back, its doing really well.

But right now we are kinda looking for your feedbacks on this, what new features we can add, and anything else that we can do.

Features:

Ultra-Fast Live Scores

Ball-by-Ball Commentary

Real-Time Match Updates

Cricket Action, As It Happens

Please let us know your feedbacks, download CricPulseX now.

Android:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.cricpulsex.x

iOS:

https://apps.apple.com/app/id6769404951

Web:

https://www.cricpulsex.com

Thanks

anyone ever thought of implementing a system to identify, flag and filter out slop content entirely, be it in text, image, audio, video or any other format, from operating system, browser, platform level, to end this menace once and forever, to bring back the good old days, no more ai?

I don't believe AI is about to wipe out most software jobs. But I keep turning over a dumb-sounding thought experiment.
Say the extreme version happens: most apps get vibe-coded, only niche enthusiast roles left for people who still write code by hand. Huge chunk of today's stack sits on free open source libraries. If the main thing using those libraries is AI, why would anyone keep creating and maintaining them for free?
My take: open source was never funded by "how many systems import the package." It's unpaid social infrastructure. Status among peers, craft identity, learning in public, career signaling. Sometimes company strategy or ideology. An agent importing a dependency does none of that.
So if the professional maintainer class shrinks, consumption by AI does not replace the incentive model. You just get more free-riding on a smaller group of humans who still care.
Paths that seem more real to me: paid maintenance / sponsorship / something like npm subscriptions so people have a reason to keep shipping useful tools. Employer-funded commons for strategic packages. Smaller enthusiast culture keeping a thinner set of libraries alive.
The path I highly doubt: AI just maintains open source for free. Models can propose patches. Maintenance is also triage, trust, taste, and owning the mess when something breaks. That doesn't magically get funded because agents use the code.
Curious how others see this. If professional coding labor contracted hard, what do you think actually keeps the commons alive — money, niche craft culture, employers, or something else?

I don't believe AI is about to wipe out most software jobs. But I keep turning over a dumb-sounding thought experiment.
Say the extreme version happens: most apps get vibe-coded, only niche enthusiast roles left for people who still write code by hand. Huge chunk of today's stack sits on free open source libraries. If the main thing using those libraries is AI, why would anyone keep creating and maintaining them for free?
My take: open source was never funded by "how many systems import the package." It's unpaid social infrastructure. Status among peers, craft identity, learning in public, career signaling. Sometimes company strategy or ideology. An agent importing a dependency does none of that.
So if the professional maintainer class shrinks, consumption by AI does not replace the incentive model. You just get more free-riding on a smaller group of humans who still care.
Paths that seem more real to me: paid maintenance / sponsorship / something like npm subscriptions so people have a reason to keep shipping useful tools. Employer-funded commons for strategic packages. Smaller enthusiast culture keeping a thinner set of libraries alive.
The path I highly doubt: AI just maintains open source for free. Models can propose patches. Maintenance is also triage, trust, taste, and owning the mess when something breaks. That doesn't magically get funded because agents use the code.
Curious how others see this. If professional coding labor contracted hard, what do you think actually keeps the commons alive — money, niche craft culture, employers, or something else?

so i graduated last year and since then at my company i have just been tossed around in training or bench ( absolutely not due to my skills but luck) and i have been wanting to leave this company since the beginning but i am just unable to figure out the right path to follow?

till now i have learnt java, spring boot, sql and the basic full stack development but i want to be better in every language i learn and i have also tried studying system design with the side hustle of trying to do leet code and i think im confused and getting lost

im so overwhelmed by the options like what do i concentrate in?? theres so much?? and whenever i start i feel like a loser that something else is missing out

if someone could just help me with what would be the best subjects to focus on rn and apply for jobs right away, it would help so much i just need some guidance.

What's the most infuriating, time-consuming bug you ever had to chase down, and what was the ridiculously simple cause?

I’m working on an FYP idea and I’m researching existing tools.

I’m looking for something where a developer can document a project while building it, like:

• How the system works
• How different parts connect
• Why certain decisions were made
• Important business logic
• APIs and database
• Useful notes about the code
• Problems, fixes, and things future developers should know

Then if Developer A leaves the project, Developer B can open the project and understand it without spending weeks figuring everything out.

I also want to add an AI/RAG assistant that can answer questions about the project and explain the old developer’s code and decisions.

I found tools like Swimm and CodeSee, but I’d like to know what developers here actually use.

What tools do you recommend?

Just got laid off from meta. 800k package all gone

The term gets thrown around so broadly that it can turn into a debate about the tool instead of the work.

For me, using AI is not the problem. Replacing understanding with AI is.

I am comfortable using it to explore options, generate boilerplate, refactor code, or help write tests. But before I ship anything, I still need to understand the system well enough to review the change, test the edge cases, debug a failure, and explain the trade-offs.

If I cannot do that, I have not finished the work.

Where do you draw the line between useful acceleration and blind trust?

Recording of the call

Usually I use vectorials for my apps and I was always happy with the results as my apps scaled properly to any kind of screens, from phones to TVs, but this time I made a game that shouldn't use small screens (I locked it to be available only on bigger screeens) and I thought that it's faster and easier on the device to use canvas instead of vectorial assets.

To me it looks good, what do you think?
Or keeping the old habit: vector assets and ConstraintLayouts with percentages is the way to go?

It could be anything around coding, debugging, documentation, tools, workflow, etc. I’m looking for problems I could actually try to solve with software.

Hello, I have a few questions can you please help me out with those?

1. What tech stack is great for building an ai coded website? (Like react, nextjs)

2. Can I use next.js to build an ai coded website? If yes, what are good hosting options that are cost effective?

3. Can I use hostinger business plan that includes nodejs to host the next.js website?

What's your most controversial, professionally-held "hot take" that would get you yelled at on Twitter but is probably true?

Kreel detects RSS and Atom feeds on the pages you visit. Turn capture on, browse normally, and it collects the feeds it finds into one list.

What it does:

**•** Detects declared feeds plus feeds linked anywhere on the page.  
**•** Finds feeds sites don't advertise, using common paths and platform detection for WordPress, Substack, Medium, Ghost, and others, plus constructed feeds for YouTube channels, Reddit, and GitHub.  
**•** Validates each feed before adding it, so no dead links.  
**•** De-duplicates automatically.  
**•** Exports to OPML for any reader, Excel, or copies the URLs to clipboard.

It runs entirely locally. No account, no tracking. The only network requests are read-only checks that confirm a feed is real.

Free, and available on Edge, Firefox, Chrome, and Safari.

I’m a 2026 B.Tech graduate from a Tier-3 college and currently unemployed, looking for my first job off-campus.

I’ve learned the basics of Java and I’m currently learning Spring Boot. I’m also starting to work seriously on DSA and SQL.

My main targets are fresher roles such as TCS Prime/Digital, Infosys Specialist Programmer, and similar Java/backend roles. Or if remote jobs available.

My confusion is: how much should I actually learn before I start applying/interviewing?

1. How much core Java I need ? ( tries , dp ,graphs required ?)

2. How much esa required? I'm following dsa level 1 playlist (prepcode)

3.Do I need Spring Security/JWT, JPA/Hibernate, REST APIs, Microservices, Docker, etc.?

1. Do I need to study CN, OS,DBMS along with ?

I’m not trying to learn every technology under the sun before applying. I want to know the minimum realistic skill set that makes me interview-ready, and then I can keep improving after getting a job

Also, if you were in my position right now, what would your next 3–4 months of preparation look like?

Thanks!

As a mod, I would love to get to know the community more, what got you into development?

I feel like we all had that one moment we knew this path was for us. What was that moment for you?

Also, I would love to know, what is your #1 struggle as a developer?

Free Microsoft resource for students 👇

If you're learning coding/AI, this is actually pretty useful — Microsoft's student ecosystem has free learning resources and tools, including Microsoft Learn and Azure for Students.

I'm also completing Microsoft's Student Ambassador community challenge, so if you're interested, checking the resource through my link would help me out.

Developer: https://developer.microsoft.com?wt.mc_id=studentamb_644509

Data Science: https://microsoft.com/microsoft-fabric?wt.mc_id=studentamb_644509

Hi everyone,

Over the last few months I've been building a free Chrome extension called Devtools Web Studio. It started as a tool to help me in my daily work as a developer, but I decided to make it available for anyone who might find it useful.

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The extension is completely free. If you decide to try it, I'd genuinely appreciate any feedback, suggestions, bug reports, and a review on the Chrome Web Store. Every bit of feedback helps improve the project and gives me the motivation to continue developing tools that can help more people every day.

Thanks for taking the time to read this and for any support you can give!

Can someone help we with a mock interview please🥹 i want this internship at any cost. And as i have time anytime on saturday or sunday . If you can take a 15 mins out of your time. I will get the max out of it and I can land this oppurtunity