Dev.to·Sunday, December 28, 2025

Dev.to - Sunday, December 28, 2025

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Building a Full-Stack App with Turborepo, React, and Hono (Part 3: Developing the UI)

In the previous two blog posts, we completed the project scaffolding and developed the APIs. In this installment, we will complete the project by building the user interface. As discussed previously, we will use React Router v7 for building the frontend. Clone the repository by running this command in your terminal: git clone https://github.com/parthivsaikia/todo-turbo Navigate to the todo-turbo folder: cd todo-turbo Install and build all dependencies: pnpm i && pnpm build Our todo applicatio

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Building a Secure Bastion Host Architecture in AWS: A Complete Step-by-Step Guide

What is a Bastion Host? A Bastion Host (also called a Jump Server or Jump Box) is a special-purpose server that acts as a secure gateway between an external network (like the internet) and a private network. Think of it as a heavily guarded front door to your castle—everyone who wants to enter must pass through this single, monitored entry point. Imagine you have critical application servers, databases, and backend services running in AWS. You don't want these directly exposed to the internet

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When Illegality Accelerates Democratization

Deepfakes, Voice Cloning, and the Rise of DevRealityOps As of late 2025, deepfake and voice-cloning technologies have crossed a decisive threshold. This rapid democratization is not an anomaly. Illicit or gray-zone misuse often acts as the ignition point for large-scale technological adoption. This is not an endorsement of illegal behavior. Today, deepfakes represent a textbook case of what can be described as a DevRealityOps moment. ⸻ What Is DevRealityOps? DevRealityOps is a pragmatic operati

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I Built a Security Tool at 2 AM Because Copy-Pasting Commands 50 Times Isn't Learning

A college student's journey from mindless config checking to actually solving something real The coffee's gone cold. It's 2:47 AM and I'm in my room staring at VirtualBox. My network security professor assigned us to audit 20 virtual machines for our lab assignment—check SSH configs, firewall rules, password policies, the works. I'm on VM number eight. My fingers move on autopilot: start VM, wait for boot, ssh admin@192.168.1.108, password, cat /etc/ssh/sshd_config, scroll, look for PermitRootL

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No Red Pills, Just Hygiene – A Dating Guide for Single Male Engineers

I never thought I'd be writing about this topic, yet here we are. I feel like this issue has become so endemic to young male culture that the obvious must be clearly stated. These tips are solely for young single men who are frustrated with dating women. I'm not an expert. This isn't professional advice. I'm a white, male, married engineer who dated for many years, and I have known many engineers who struggle with this issue. I feel like I have some practical advice to give that doesn't involve

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Interactive LED Chaser with 555 Timer & CD4017 DIY Guide

Build an engaging LED chaser using a 555 timer oscillator and CD4017 decade counter — perfect for beginners, decorations, and electronics learning. Bring LEDs to Life: Build a 555 Timer & CD4017 LED Chaser Have you ever wanted to create eye-catching lighting patterns without writing a single line of code? This LED chaser circuit uses the classic 555 timer IC and a CD4017 decade counter to produce a smooth, sequential lighting effect that’s perfect for DIY displays, home decor, or learning core

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Why Blogging Still Matters in the Age of AI

Hi lovely readers, If you’ve ever thought about starting a blog but stopped because “no one reads blogs anymore,” you’re not alone. With AI changing how people consume content, it’s easy to assume blogging has lost its value. I started blogging in 2021, and since then I’ve published 45 posts, with my most read one reaching 40 thousand views. That experience has shown me that blogging is still incredibly important and worth pursuing today. Here’s why. We only save a limited amount of information

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The First 5 Concepts Every Beginner Data Analyst Should Learn

Starting a journey into data analytics can feel exciting but also overwhelming. With so many tools, courses, and buzzwords, many beginners struggle with a key question: Before learning tools like Excel, SQL, or Power BI, every aspiring data analyst should first understand a few core concepts. These foundations shape how you think about data, interpret insights, and solve real world problems. This guide explains the first five concepts every beginner data analyst should learn and why they are imp

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Middleware-Perfect-Symphony

GitHub Home As a veteran with 40 years of development experience, I've experienced a long evolutionary history of fighting errors in the Node.js world. Early Node.js developers all remember the fear of being dominated by "pyramids." This "error-first" callback style is theoretically feasible, but as business logic becomes more complex, the code extends infinitely to the right, forming an unmaintainable "death pyramid." The emergence of Promise rescued us from callback hell. We could use .then()

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EAR, WAR e JAR: Formatos de Arquivo em Java

Quando desenvolvemos aplicações Java, especialmente projetos maiores e mais complexos, nos deparamos com diferentes formatos de empacotamento. Os três principais são JAR, WAR e EAR. Embora todos sejam baseados no formato ZIP, cada um tem um propósito específico e uma estrutura diferente. Este artigo explora essas diferenças de forma prática. O JAR é o formato mais básico e fundamental em Java. Significa "Java Archive" e é essencialmente um arquivo compactado no formato ZIP que contém classes com

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