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This NAS company wants to run your local smart home

Ugreen, known for its phone power banks, chargers, and NAS storage solutions, is moving into the smart home - in a big way. This week at the IFA tech show, the company launched its HomeAgent smart home platform that combines security camera storage, on-device AI, and smart home control in one system

The Verge (Tech)
Backend

Laravel Middleware in Hindi: Create, Alias & Apply to Routes

I’ve made a Hindi tutorial on Laravel 12 Middleware covering the complete flow from creating Middleware to applying it on routes. In this video: • Create custom Middleware • Understand the handle() method • Register Middleware • Create Middleware aliases • Apply aliases to routes • Practical route e

Reddit r/php
Open Source

Re-Organized configuration in Rails

A while back I wrote about organizing configuration in Rails. The idea was simple: drop YAML files into config/configurations/ and get namespaced constants like Config::Bot.api_key instead of the clunky Rails.application.config.bot.api_key. It worked well. But every YAML file needed manual wiring:

DEV Community
Backend

The compiler was never what you wanted

You have an orders topic on a Kafka cluster, its values encoded with Avro against a schema in the Schema Registry. You want the orders worth more than fifty euros on a topic of their own, and you have decided to do it with Kafka Streams — a JVM library, your code, your deployment. The schema has fi

DEV Community
Frontend

Does That "Free Online PDF" Tool Upload Your File? How to Tell.

Most free online PDF tools work by uploading your document to a server, processing it there, and sending it back. For a lot of files that's fine. For a signed contract, a payslip, a medical form, or a scanned ID, it's the entire privacy problem: your document now lives on someone else's machine, sub

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Frontend

AI Engineering Is Easy. Changing How We Work Is Hard

AI engineering sounds fancy. New terms are everywhere: agentic development, AI-native engineering, spec-driven development, and now AI harness engineering. Underneath all the terminology, though, something genuinely useful is happening. AI can now help with requirements, challenge a PRD, explore UX

Dev.to (EN Zone)
DevOps

I Like Carbon-Aware Pricing, but I Would Not Let It Drive Production Yet

I stumbled across Carbon-aware electricity pricing during a break and ended up poking at it far longer than planned. The idea is simple but useful: track daily electricity pricing across 38 grids so engineers can think about when workloads run, not only how much compute they consume. That distincti

Dev.to (EN Zone)
AI & ML

Building AI Agents That Actually Work: What Nobody Tells You

I've been building AI agents for a while now. Not chatbots. Not RAG demos. Real agents that take actions, make decisions, and run autonomously. Here's what nobody tells you. The gap between demo and production Every AI agent framework shows you a 5-line demo that works perfectly. Then y

Dev.to (EN Zone)
AI & ML

How does one approach towards machine learning?[D]

I honestly am so confused rn as the ml community is overburst with people only caring about building rag modules and agentic ai for larger corporations. I have a passion for machine learning but honestly it feels really confusing as to what really counts today. I would love some advice on what exact

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