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Artificial Intelligence 10/5/2026 Mika Flowers

What "best practice" did you quietly stop following?

Every dev picks up a pile of rules early on. Write tests first. Never commit to main. Keep functions under 20 lines. DRY everything. Comment your code. 100% coverage or it doesn't count. ![bfmeme](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/y68geh2aufj05uv4q5be.png) Some ...

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Workflow Automation 9/23/2026 James Anderson

Something About Coding Stopped Feeling Good — and It Took Me a While to Figure Out What

Let me tell you about a project that wasn't impressive. Back in university, I built a small .NET application. I don't even remember all of what it did — some forms, some logic, a database behind it, nothing you'd put in a portfolio. By any technical measure it was tiny. A beginner's project. But I...

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