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I've been job hunting for a while and wanted some perspective from recruiters, hiring managers, and fellow developers.

I have around 3 years of full-stack development experience (mern). Over the past 3 months, I've atte…

Monthly Getting Started / Web Dev Career Thread

Due to a growing influx of questions on this topic, it has been decided to commit a monthly thread d…

Human-in-the-Loop Playwright Automation: Best Way to Stream Backend Browser for OTP/CAPTCHA Handling?

Hi everyone, We're building an automation platform using Playwright where all browser automation run…

Built a small tool to automate website presentation videos

Hey everyone, I built an internal tool that opens a website, automatically scrolls through it, recor…

If the AI could already see your screen while you were coding, which problems would you actually ask about that you currently don't?

I've been thinking about a specific version of AI-assisted debugging. Not asking which tool is smart…

Copilot being in my editor changed how often I reach for AIClaude in a separate window doesn't have the same effect.

I use Claude a lot for complex problem-solving and Copilot inline in VS Code for quick completions. …

Built my first API product with Django, Stripe, API keys and async jobs — feedback welcome

[Showoff Saturday] I built a Django REST API product — looking for feedback on the docs/onboarding H…

Built a browser-based dev tools site, what tool would you actually want added?

Hey r/webdev 👋 I recently launched UtilCraft, a collection of free browser-based tools for devs and …

Removed every LLM SDK import from our codebase. 30+ files touched. Worth it.

Six months ago: direct SDK imports from three providers scattered across 30 files. Anthropic SDK her…

Need Career Advice: Java or Python Full Stack?

Hi everyone, I need some career advice. I'm from a non-IT background and have been working in a smal…

Is Akamai still crazy expensive?

15 years ago Akamai was the CDN network every tv station was using to distribute their content on, b…

Having a hard time with semantics and structure

The biggest headache im having is learning how to separate elements on the page correctly. I can cen…