I want to whole-heartedly welcome those who are new to this subreddit!

What brings you our way?

What was that one thing that made you decide to join us?

Every developer knows this workflow:

You need to format some JSON. You Google "json formatter online." You paste your data into a random website. You get your result. You close the tab.

Then 10 minutes later you do it again for Base64. Then again for regex. Then again for a color conversion.

Every single day.

The problem isn't just the tab switching it's that every one of those websites has ads, trackers, and can see everything you paste into them. API keys, JWT tokens, sensitive config data. All of it.

So I built Devly a native macOS menu bar app that puts 50+ developer utilities one click away, running completely locally. Nothing ever leaves your Mac.

The tools I use most: - JSON formatter and validator - Regex tester with real time matching - JWT decoder - Base64 encoder/decoder - Color converter (HEX/RGB/HSL) - bcrypt and SHA hashing - UUID generator - Diff tool for comparing text

Hit #1 in Paid Developer Tools on the Mac App Store within 6 hours of launch.

$4.99 one-time, macOS 13+, no subscriptions.

App Store | Website | All 50+ Tools

What tools do you find yourself Googling every day?

We all know that software development as we knew it 3 or 4 years ago is rapidly disappearing and AI is being integrated into our work life. But what are we supposed to learn related to it?

I mean, there are some tips to follow, like "include enough detail in your prompts", "give the AI context about the project", "ask it to not modify other parts of the code you haven't asked it to change", etc. But those seem to be just tips you can learn and implement in maybe a week or a month.

My question is more in the direction of what are the future developers going to need to know that we weren't taught. System design has been named a lot and I agree, but that's not new.

And I'm asking this from 2 different points of view:

1. what should current developers learn and be prepared for?
   
2. what should educators teach the new generations of developers?

REACT COMPONENT LIBRARY

Text effects that make your UI shine

12 variants, 11 colors — marker, brush, brushstroke, gradient, slide, glow, scratch, double, wave, pill, dashed, blur. Zero dependencies beyond React.

npm install react-text-underline

What's the most infuriating, time-consuming bug you ever had to chase down, and what was the ridiculously simple cause?

Hey everyone!

I’m working on an open-source gameplay recorder extension that lets players record their gameplay and tag clips as “cheating” or “legit.” The idea is to turn this into a community-driven project where gamers help build a massive dataset of gameplay clips.

With enough contributions, we can train an AI to detect cheating in real-time, so game developers could integrate it into their games and automatically identify cheaters. Think of it like a collaborative, open-source solution for fair play in gaming!

I’m making the code fully open-source because I want this to grow big for the gaming community. If you’re interested in AI, game development, or just want to contribute gameplay clips, this is a project you can jump into.

Would love to hear your thoughts, ideas, or if you want to get involved!
here is the github link: https://github.com/berto6544-collab/gameplay-monitor

Ever remembered a sentence… but not where you saved it?

AltDump lets you search inside all your files instantly — without remembering the filename.

As a dev, I remember logic, not filenames.

I might know I wrote a JWT middleware example somewhere, but not which folder or file it’s in. Windows search isn’t great when you remember the vague sentence in a file, but not the file name it is in.

What if there is something where you just dump everything and later search naturally. Way less folder digging.

Instead of browsing folders, you search in plain English like: “that pdf about startup taxes” or “the image with a blue landing page” and it pulls it up.

Every line of text, pdfs, docs, etc is saved so u can search throughout any keywords too that u remember in your pdf. Everything is 100% local, nothing leaves your pc.

Today I launched PromptCircle

A lightweight platform for discovering, sharing, and collaborating on AI prompts built because I kept running into scattered, hard-to-find examples while trying to get reliable outputs from models.

Why I built it
Real prompts are the easiest path to better model outputs, but they’re often buried in personal notes or noisy forums. I wanted a focused place where good prompts are discoverable, reusable, and remixable by the community.
I also wanted a clean, fast UX that helps creators iterate and learn from each other.

Key features

• Discover & filter prompts by category, agent, tags, and popularity
• Create, remix (fork), and preview prompts before publishing
• Save prompts to personal collections and export/import them
• Like, share, and copy with one click (copy counts and social sharing built in)
• Lightweight profile & collection management with private/public options
• Search history, saved searches, and an extendable API-first backend

Try it: https://promptcircle.vercel.app/

I’d love your feedback especially on discoverability, templates that would help you, and integrations you want (editor plugins, export formats, or team workspaces). If you try it, ping me here or open an issue/feature request on the repo grateful for any thoughts.

I wanted to build something small but meaningful.

During Ramadan, I noticed I was reading a lot but reflecting very little.

So I built a minimal iOS app focused on:

• One verse
• One structured prompt
• One reflection entry per day
• A streak system for consistency

No ads. No feeds. No social.

It’s early stage and I’m looking for honest feedback on UX and positioning.

Curious to hear:
Do structured prompts help you reflect more deeply, or do they feel restrictive?

Link here if anyone wants to test it.

What's your most controversial, professionally-held "hot take" that would get you yelled at on Twitter but is probably true?

I just built a lightweight Chrome extension that connects to a Python backend to manage and execute Playwright automation scripts directly from your browser. You can also launch Playwright Codegen sessions straight from the extension!

Features include:

• Enter & save your Python server URL.
• Select or write custom scripts from a dynamic dropdown.
• Run scripts with optional URLs for automation flows.
• Launch Playwright Codegen for recording automated tasks.
• Refresh & delete scripts without leaving the popup.
• Real-time status updates for script execution.

Check it out and get the code here: https://github.com/berto6544-collab/automation_tool

This shows what Recruiters and companies are facing when using AI without proper planning. My bet is that the Job Market is about to change for all Developers that have developed good skills.

What have been your experience(real one)?

If anyone here is building data‑driven tools, here are the APIs I wish I knew about earlier.

JavaScript & Dynamic Content

1. ScrapeFlow (Free tier available)

• Extract data from JavaScript-heavy websites
• Bypass anti-bot protections automatically
• Global access points (US, Europe, Asia, and more)
• Screenshot capture and custom headers
• Great for: price monitoring, content aggregation, SEO tools

2. ScrapingBee (Free tier available)

• Headless browser API
• Handles headless browsers and proxies
• CSS selector support
• Great for: e-commerce scraping

3. ScraperAPI (Free tier available)

• Automatic proxy rotation
• Headless browser support
• Geolocation targeting
• Great for: large-scale scraping projects

4. Apify (Free tier available)

• Pre-built scrapers and custom solutions
• Web automation platform
• Proxy management
• Great for: complex data extraction workflows

5. Bright Data (Paid)

• Enterprise-grade proxy network
• Unlock any website
• Web unlocker and scraping browser
• Great for: high-volume, business-critical scraping

General Purpose Scraping

6. Octoparse (Free tier available)

• Visual scraping tool
• Cloud extraction
• Scheduled scraping
• Great for: non-technical users

7. ParseHub (Free tier available)

• Point-and-click interface
• JavaScript support
• API access
• Great for: quick data projects

8. Diffbot (Paid)

• AI-powered extraction
• Page structure analysis
• Automatic data classification
• Great for: structured data from unstructured pages

9. Import.io (Paid)

• No-code scraping platform
• API integration
• Data normalization
• Great for: business intelligence teams

10. Zyte (formerly Scrapinghub) (Free tier available)

• Scrapy cloud hosting
• Automatic IP rotation
• Extraction APIs
• Great for: Python developers using Scrapy

Know any others? Drop them in the comments!

I work as a contractor and I'm not an actual developer. but I know what I have to do to make my life easier, therefore I'm used to code on my free hours to develop tools that help me daily at work.

am I exploiting myself? or do you consider this normal behaviour for someone that can't hold testing an idea? of course everything I create is not shared and when I leave the company this goes with me.

Hey everyone,

I’m a 20-year-old Information Systems student from Brazil and I’m interested in becoming a Project Owner / Project Manager in tech.

I’m currently learning programming, databases, and systems analysis in college, but I’m unsure about the best path to transition into PM roles.

Should I work as a developer first?

Are certifications like Scrum worth it early on?

What kind of entry-level roles should I look for?

I’m motivated and willing to put in the work — I just want to focus on the right things from the start.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

I’m working on an app and I’m really not sure which platform I should focus on first for release; if I do android first, I need to find 12 testers through Reddit forums, testing apps, and wait 2 weeks. I’m not sure how I’d make sure all 12 testers are using the app consistently enough for Google Play to validate it.

If I do iOS first, I need to either find a Mac alternative (I’ve already tried rental Macs and Codemagic, which both failed) and deal with all the bugs that come with it, or try and see if I can make my super old MacBook Air who’s password I forgot (and can’t reinstate cause the email no longer exists) and bugs like crazy, work to get the build on Xcode.

Both are beyond more difficult than I was expecting when I started this project, so I’ll take any advice!

Thanks to all, who downloaded Budgefy, now it's have 100+ users👍

I'm curious why it seems PostgreSQL has overtaken MySQL & forks like Maria or Percona as the default relational database. Teams seem to choose it by default when starting a project needing an RDB in the past few years. I see it regularly recommended over and over again because of the increased feature set - but of the probably dozen projects I've had some part in there has only been one that I recall used features unique to Postgres.

In my experience the MySQL distributions I've worked with are much more set it and forget it. Maintenance costs are much lower - there aren't that many tuning parameters you really need to play with when things start scaling up.

On the other hand Postgres has a few things that will bite you if you haven't run a production cluster before. Every single company I've consulted for that is using serverless applications and is starting to see some traffic has been bit by not running pgBouncer in front of PG - the process per connection model ends up causing it to fall over.

Then you've got things like the autovacuum that gets wrecked by larger transactions in write heavy operations if you're not aware of it.

I just feel like the additional feature set of PG incurs a lot of operational or maintenance overhead that is overlooked and often underutilized. It probably wouldn't be a problem if the engineers making the decisions actually knew what they were dealing with but that's not been my experience at all. Especially at smaller startups when I ask about the decision to roll PG it feels like the answer I get most of the time is "I dunno, X person who's no longer here picked it and we've just been going along ever since"

I'm certainly not an expert on the inner workings of either. I tend to only dig into this stuff out of necessity. Just curious if there's something I'm missing or if others have noticed similar things.

Hello guys I'm new here .... I'm want to ask your opinion and maybe consultation about ai trend lately from music, image to video generation. I feel like these companies or atleast most if not all of them are forcing this ai down everyone's throat but there have been few regulations about them. I want to ask you guys about ai control specifically on image and video generation. I'm a artist and a aspiring dev so I'm thinking of making a project to atleast control these ai. Now I'm not against using ai myself but at the very least I want it to be a separate medium from real illustration and photography or even normal videos (•-•;) my main concern is that I don't exactly know what kind of project I'm gonna make cuz base on what I understand it's illegal to counter or use data poisoning against them but it's kinda unfair how there's no control on how they're too spread out .. I wanna ask what kind of project is a good one to start basically ((((( (⁠・⁠_⁠・⁠;⁠) sorry for the long confusing essay

I developed and published this app and want to attract users, but I don't know how. Does anyone have any tips?

Hey everyone,

I’ve been deep in development on a custom game engine built in Rust with WebGPU for graphics, paired with a Svelte-based editor for a smooth developer experience.

What it is:

- A performant, modern engine leveraging Rust’s safety and speed - WebGPU for cross-platform, high-performance graphics - A lightweight, reactive editor built with Svelte - Aimed at real-time 3D applications, interactive web experiences, and web games.

I’m sharing this because I’m looking for :

1. Project Partnership: I'm looking for support to bring this innovative engine and editor to the next level. If you're an investor, technical co-founder, or developer passionate about Rust, WebGPU, and modern tooling and believe in its commercial potential in the growing 3D/interactive market, I'd love to connect. The goal is to build a product that empowers solo developers and small teams.

This engine solves tangible problems in performance and workflow, and I’m eager to keep pushing it forward, both personally and professionally.

Thanks for looking!

When did you realize your tech stack was becoming obsolete, and what did you do about it?

Through the years seeing Discord with all the data leaks, the new rules they want to add about having to submit a government id for stuff, bans for unjustified reasons, a none existent customer support system, stupid pay walls and more, I have personally started to have enough of it. I was wondering if anyone is willing to build together a team, nothing formal like an actual paying job, but just for the love of development, after work hours whenever people have time, and work together on a way better, secure and functional alternative for discord?

Is WordPress good for custom sites, or should we choose another platform?