Dev.to·Wednesday, December 24, 2025

Dev.to - Wednesday, December 24, 2025

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How to prepare for a Coding/Technical Interview

What is a Coding Interview? A coding interview, also referred as technical interview, is a specialized assessment used by technology companies to evaluate a candidate’s problem-solving skills, logic, and proficiency in software engineering. Unlike a standard behavioral interview, these sessions focus on one's ability to write clean code understand computer science fundamentals communicate your thought process in real-time The primary goal isn't just to see if a candidate can find the "right"

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Optimize Your Prompts by Using Shorter Synonyms With Google AI Studio

This post is my submission for DEV Education Track: Build Apps with Google AI Studio. The Italian language is wonderful, but it has one major flaw when it comes to generative artificial intelligence: it is rich in synonyms. This is great for literature, but not for writing prompts, which should be concise. That’s why I decided to create an application that helps optimize the length of the words used. So I chose to create a simple app that finds synonyms for words used in a prompt that are shorte

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9 Developer Tools That Will Boost Your Workflow in 2026 🔥 Anthony Max ・ Dec 24 #webdev #programming #productivity #ai

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Beyond Simple RAG: Building an Agentic Workflow with Next.js, Python, and Supabase

The Problem: "Chat with PDF" is the new Hello World. 500-page university textbook, the standard pipeline fell apart. I didn't want a chatbot. I wanted a tutor. So I built Learneazy.io. Here is the engineering deep dive into the 3-Layer RAG Pipeline and Generative Flashcard Engine I architected to solve this. Most RAG apps treat a document as one giant blob of text. I realized that textbooks have structure (Index -> Chapters -> Content), so I mirrored that structure in my database. I built a Pyth

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Why We Built FlowSynx — The Story Behind the FlowSynx

Why We Built FlowSynx — The Story Behind a Declarative and Unified Interoperability Orchestrator for Intelligent Information Flow The story of FlowSynx didn’t start in a boardroom or with a grand architectural blueprint. It began in the trenches—amid messy integrations, legacy systems, unpredictable data flows, and the constant struggle of making everything “just work” across environments that were never designed to talk to each other. We kept seeing the same pattern: Enterprises were drowni

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Why Regex isn't enough: Auditing Discord Bots with AI Reasoning Models

The Discord ecosystem has a malware problem. Is the bot online? Does the token work? If yes -> Approved. 🚨 At DiscordForge, we decided to take a harder path. We combined manual verification with AI Reasoning Models (Gemini 3). Here is why purely algorithmic checks fail and how "Deep Thinking" models fix it. Imagine a bot with this description: "A simple tool to help you backup your server channels." A standard regex check sees keywords like "backup" and "channels" and tags it as a Utility Bot.

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I built a Discord Bot Platform using Google Antigravity & Gemini 3 (Solo Dev Journey)

Being a solo developer in 2025 is a completely different game than it was just two years ago. I recently launched DiscordForge – a premium directory for Discord bots. My goal was to fix the broken discovery system of current bot lists (spam, malware, fake upvotes). But as a solo founder, I had to move fast. Here is how I used Google's latest tools to build a production-ready platform in record time. I switched from VS Code to Antigravity, and honestly, it’s hard to go back. multi-agent orchestra

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Commit Signing - GnuPG Agent Forwarding

Overview Most corporate networks prevent development on company issued laptops. Often developers must rely on using either virtual or cloud instances within an isolated network. This separation helps secure the rest of the network but could potentially expose the supply chain if proper precautions are not taken. Often when developers are required to sign commits, or code it is just easier to setup signing on the instance you develop from. But, it is much safer to use GnuGP agent forwarding ins

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AI-Powered Dynamic Conversations With NPCs in Godot

This is an example of how you can add dynamic AI-generated responses to your Godot game based on arbitrary player input so that your NPCs can respond in character when talking to them. For this, you will need an LLM server to consume from inside the game. Here, we will use a local LLM server with Ollama running next to the game on the same machine. We will then take the player's text input, hit the LLM with a special prompt, display the result on the screen, and keep track of the conversation to

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Unlocking the Web in 3D: An Introduction to Three.js

Unlocking the Web in 3D: An Introduction to Three.js Three.js has become one of the most influential libraries in modern web development. It bridges the gap between the raw power of WebGL and the accessibility of everyday JavaScript, giving developers a way to create interactive 3D experiences that run smoothly in the browser. This post is not a step by step tutorial. Instead, it is an overview of what Three.js is, how it works, and why it has become a foundational tool for creative web develo

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