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2024 was about proving things to myself that I could build, learn fast, and keep shipping projects. 2025, on the other hand, was about **understanding what it a...

Security incidents often arrive quietly, without alarm bells or dramatic warnings. They sneak into production environments when we least expect them, on weekend...

## The October of Open Source 🎃 October is a magical month for developers. While most people think it as just a normal month transition from summer to winter...

Every developer building a chat app eventually stumbles into the same rabbit hole: Do I use WebSockets or Server-Sent Events (SSE)? It sounds like a minor ...

There’s a golden rule in software development—something every junior developer learns within their first month of writing code: **“Never ship untested code to p...

## The Project Graveyard in My Github ![Screenshot of a GitHub profile showing multiple unfinished repositories](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/upload...

## The Realization That Hit Me Like a Truck So there I was, scrolling through my phone, and I noticed something weird. Almost every "app" I was using daily...

## In 2025, Your Resume is Your Feed The best job offer you can get today isn't from a fancy MNC or a funded startup—it's from yourself, from the brand you'v...

Picture this: You're building an app, everything's going smooth, and then your client drops the bomb — _"Can we support PayU, Stripe, and maybe Razorpay too? Yo...

## A Dev Setup That Started Like Everyone Else’s If you’ve ever worked on a full-stack project, chances are your folder structure looked like this: /clie...

## Why I Ditched GitHub Actions So long story short no one wants to make systems of their own and why should we there are great minds who have devoted years in...

## The Rise of "Vibe Coding" So, "vibe coding" has been making waves recently, all thanks to some tweets about this guy who built an app using AI alone. No a...

## The AI Temptation In 2025, AI is everywhere. From ChatGPT and Gemini to DeepSeek, it feels like we’re living in a sci-fi movie where AI can do almost e...

## The "How Hard Can It Be?" Moment -------------------------------- So you’ve built a beautiful React project, and now you’re thinking, _Why not monetize it?...

## The Unremarkable Beginning When I started working on my Skribbl.io clone, [SyncDrawGuess](https://github.com/DivyanshuLohani/SyncDrawGuess), I didn't t...

### Introduction After completing [Fin Flow](https://finflow.divyanshulohani.xyz), I was doing fine, but I realized I needed a To-Do App. My lazy habits me...

Introduction ------------ As my regular readers know, this is not what I was supposed to publish today. This post was meant to be the follow-up to [my live-st...

After a break from Class To Cloud, I've repicked the project to add more features that I intended for it. One of them was live streaming support for the app. S...

Apps like , **`Zepto`**, **`Swiggy Instamart`**, and others have seen tremendous growth in recent years. To explore the challenges and intricacies ...

# Why Consider Kafka for the App? As a Django developer, my experience primarily lies in developing monolithic services. With a limited user base, I never felt...

As 2024 has come to an end, I find myself reflecting on a year packed with learning, growth, challenges, and achievements. This post is my way of documenting th...

Data scraping is a game-changer for anyone looking to extract meaningful information from websites. With tools like Chrome DevTools and HAR files, you can uncov...

Are you familiar with open-source software? It's free to use, with its code out in the open for anyone to view, tweak, and even add their own features! If y...

## The Problem I’ve always been intrigued by the intersection of technology and education. While exploring the EdTech space, one problem stood out to me: **mos...

Hey everyone! I recently participated in my first-ever hackathon, and it was a wild 48 hours full of coding, creativity, and a lot of coffee. Let me take you th...

Creating a real-time multiplayer game like Skribbl.io is an exciting challenge that combines various aspects of web development. In this article, I'll talk abou...