Developer tools

How student developers can test a mobile app backend from any building on campus: local vs cloud vs hybrid setups, secure tunnels through campus Wi-Fi, a repeatable testing workflow, and the network, auth, and configuration bugs that only appear away from the lab.

LiveView, Hotwire, Datastar, and Blazor all push rendered HTML over a persistent connection instead of JSON. Here's why the pattern keeps resurfacing, what changed in 2026, and what it costs you when you test it.

A technical guide to Claude Code's /loop and /goal commands and OpenAI Codex's Goal Mode -- how each one keeps an AI coding agent working for hours without you babysitting every turn.

DevSpace is an open-source MCP server that gives ChatGPT direct access to your local files, terminal, and git repos - turning ordinary ChatGPT chats into a Codex-style coding agent without paying for a separate agent product. Full setup guide with Pinggy.

Cloudflare shipped Drop on July 8, 2026: drag a folder into the browser, get a live URL with no account. Here's what it actually does, its file and time limits, and why it can't replace a tunnel for anything with a backend.

A look at why geolocation testing matters, the testing dimensions it covers, and the domains where checking a website from different locations makes the difference.

The best Product Hunt alternatives in 2026 for developers and indie makers. Compare Hacker News, BetaList, ProductWatch, Uneed, Fazier, SaaSHub, and more.

SpaceX bought Cursor for $60B. OpenAI owns Windsurf. Google killed the Gemini CLI. In one week, the AI coding tool landscape consolidated into Big Tech hands. Here's what that means for your data, your model choice, and what independent options remain.

npm v12 lands in July 2026 and turns off install script execution by default, a direct response to the Miasma supply chain worm that compromised 57 packages in under 2 hours. Here is what breaks, how to audit your project today, and the exact migration workflow.

Apple shipped an official container tool at WWDC 2026. Each container gets its own lightweight VM, startup is sub-second, and it pulls standard OCI images from Docker Hub. Here's how it works, how it compares to Docker, and how to share containers publicly.