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Dev.to·Wednesday, December 31, 2025

Dev.to - Wednesday, December 31, 2025

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01

Beyond Server‑Side Rendering: Rediscovering PHP and the Joy of Experimenting

The Old Way We Were Taught For years we've been trained and taught that working with PHP you surely need to use the server-side rendering to complete the project, and it did stick in many of us that when we are developing PHP based projects we stick to that principle. And without considering looking for other ways to do things and they come a day I had some school assignment for developing a backend project using PHP. I hated PHP way of doing things using the server-side rendering and somethin

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02

Refatoração e Otimização com IA: Entre a Automação e o Julgamento Arquitetural

Projetar uma arquitetura do zero é intelectualmente elegante; conviver com um sistema de 5–10 anos, cheio de technical debt, é a realidade da maioria das equipes. Todo sistema de software bem-sucedido eventualmente se torna legado. À medida que funcionalidades são adicionadas, requisitos evoluem e diferentes desenvolvedores contribuem ao longo dos anos, o código acumula o que chamamos de dívida técnica. Métodos que começaram com 20 linhas crescem para 200. Classes projetadas para uma responsabi

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03

Regular Expressions in Python: The Complete Guide to Finally Understanding Regex

Let's be honest: you've copy-pasted a regex from Stack Overflow without really understanding what it does, right? 😅 ^[a-zA-Z0-9_.+-]+@[a-zA-Z0-9-]+\.[a-zA-Z0-9-.]+$ Does this make sense to you? No? Me neither at first. We all have this love-hate relationship with regular expressions: We know they're powerful We need them regularly But we avoid truly understanding them Result? We spend 30 minutes searching for the right pattern on Google instead of writing it in 2 minutes. I wrote a complete gu

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04

🚀_Ultimate_Web_Framework_Speed_Showdown[20251231195712]

As a full-stack engineer with 10 years of development experience, I've witnessed the rise and fall of countless web frameworks. From the early jQuery era to today's high-performance Rust frameworks, I've seen the rapid evolution of web development technology. Today I want to share a performance comparison test that shocked me and completely changed my understanding of web framework performance. In 2024, the performance requirements for web applications are getting higher and higher. Whether it's

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06

Dopamine Loop - stuck in the couch

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit." -Aristotle You know that feeling when you pick up your phone just to check the time, and suddenly 45 minutes have passed? Or when you tell yourself "just one more episode" at 11 PM, and before you know it, it's 3 AM? That's not a lack of willpower. That's not you being lazy. That's the system doing exactly what it was designed to do. The system that keeps releasing dopamine inside you. Let me explain how: Dopamine is a

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07

When code suggestions suggest the past: deprecated Pandas APIs and silent drift

We recently had a sequence of production bugs that traced back to an AI code assistant recommending deprecated Pandas APIs. At glance the snippets it produced looked idiomatic: df.as_matrix(), df.ix[... ] and in-place mutations with inplace=True. They ran in developer environments and unit tests, so the suggestions felt low-risk, which is exactly why they became dangerous. The model’s training signal contained a lot of older public code, so it favored patterns that have since been phased out. Ou

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08

I'm 15 and I built a self-healing AI terminal that controls computers via Natural Language

Hi everyone! I'm a 15-year-old developer from Turkey. I realized that AI CLI tools often fail and require manual debugging. So I built Zai Shell – an AI terminal assistant that refuses to fail. It auto-retries errors with different strategies, handles GUI automation, and even lets you control a friend's terminal using natural language over P2P. I've been working on this day and night. 👉 Check out the Repository: https://github.com/TaklaXBR/zai-shell Here is what it can do: AI terminal assistant

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09

When an AI refactor renames things wrong across files

In one project we leaned on a code-generation assistant to perform a cross-file refactor: rename a domain object and propagate the change through services, tests, and a few utility modules. The assistant produced a plausible patch set that looked consistent at a glance, but when we ran the app a handful of endpoints started returning 500s. The failure was not a single glaring syntax error — it was mismatched identifiers that the runtime tolerated in some paths and broke in others. At first the c

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10

My parting gift to 2025 - my Claude Code context workflow turned into a plugin

So for 2025 I just want to leave a little gift for you folks to welcome in the new year. I did an article recently on publishing my first Claude Code plugin (which are frickin' awesome by the way). The plugin was centred entirely around Forgetful in isolation, but the reality is for my workflow I don't use it in isolation. There's two main flows that I am going to share with you here. The first is what I do whenever I want to work on something. This is the first thing I do when I open up a new C

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