Major League Hacking

We're hosting a live Sentry demo and Q&A lands July 30 right on the DEV homepage. Drop your questions in the post comments to get them answered on stream. ⚡️ https://lnkd.in/e3t7mjST

The Frontend Challenge: Comfort Food Edition is live! 🍲 Everyone has a dish that means something. The one you make when nothing else will do, the one from a restaurant that closed years ago, the one your region will argue about forever. This challenge is about putting that on the web. 🍜 Two prompts to choose from, and you can enter both: CSS Art — create a work of art using primarily CSS. A steaming bowl of ramen, a stack of pancakes, a perfectly cut slice of pie. A sprinkle of JavaScript is allowed, but the CSS should be the star. Perfect Landing — build a polished, functional landing page with a comfort food theme. A real restaurant, an imaginary one, a recipe collection, a food festival. The content is up to you, as long as the frontend fundamentals are solid. 🍳 Submissions due August 16. Winners announced September 10. 🥧 We can't wait to see what you cook up! https://lnkd.in/eZ8APYXu

Heading to RenderATL (Render Atlanta)? Block off some time to build. Join the MLH team at Hack RenderATL, a 24-hour hackathon dedicated to building tech that empowers local communities and creates real-world impact. Two tracks: 🌍 Hacking for Good, for any tool or platform that benefits your community 🍑 Best Use of Atlanta Open Data, for solutions built on local public datasets that tackle city challenges. More prize categories will be announced at the Opening Ceremony. Whether you’re a seasoned developer, designer, product manager, or beginner looking to drop in, this space is for you. You can build solo, come with a team, or form a team on-site! Best part: it's designed to fit your schedule, not compete with it. We have a dedicated workspace on the 3rd Floor Expo Hall (Silicon South) with tables, outlets, fast Wi-Fi, and MLH mentors floating around all day — but you can hack asynchronously between talks and just make sure you submit by Thursday at 1 PM. Judging is science-fair style, awards at 4 PM. No extra ticket. Your RenderATL badge gets you in. Register today: https://lnkd.in/e4nxvfwW Know someone going to RenderATL who'd love this? Please share!

"For now the code feels like a black box." Every developer has been there. Sami Maghnaoui, MLH Hacker and Grand Prize winner at HackDuke: Code For Good, brought PlaybackIQ to the AI Agent Clinic, hosted by Luis Sala. It's an agent that generates full pre-match and post-game football podcasts: Gemini with Google Search grounding writes the script, a text-to-speech engine performs it in a commentator's voice, and a live tactical view lets you click any event for an instant breakdown. The problem wasn't the concept. It was the wait. Generation took over 90 seconds, and no fan stays hyped that long. Rather than start by reading through the code, Luis and Sami reached for observability first — instrumenting the app with OpenTelemetry and sending traces to Google Cloud Trace to find out where the time was actually going. What the traces revealed changed the fix entirely, and they had one hour to ship it. The lesson is bigger than one app: you can't optimize what you can't see. Measure first, then fix. Thanks to Laxmi Harikumar, Abraham Gomez, Frank Guan for making this episode possible. Watch it here: https://lnkd.in/edn9DYkV

Today is Day 100 of 100 Days of Solana. We’ve gone from creating our first wallets and sending our first transactions to building with Anchor, testing programs, deploying to devnet, connecting frontends and agents, and shipping live code. Quite a lot for 100 days. The live run ends today, but the challenges will stay available. Whether you’re still catching up or only discovering the program now, you can work through them at your own pace. And Day 100 isn’t the end of the journey. There are more Solana projects to build, resources to explore and open-source projects to contribute to. You can also keep learning and sharing with MLH on DEV, join a Global Hack Week, take your next project to a hackathon or explore the MLH Fellowship. Congratulations to everyone who learned, built, shared their progress and helped someone else along the way. https://lnkd.in/eidssBpD

We want to give a big thank you to all of our speakers at DevRelCon NYC last week! We had over 40 speakers this year, so we won't mention everyone by name, but each and every talk brought a fresh perspective to the event. What we loved most was that the talks felt like part of an active dialogue, not just a collection of lectures. You could see it in the lively Q&A sessions, the unconference discussions, and countless conversations over food and drinks. 🌮 What were some of your favorite topics and discussions that came out of the talks? 📸: Remington Perregaux

Cheers! What an amazing past couple of days at DevRelCon! There are so many people to thank, but we want to start with the most important: you. To everyone in attendance, thank you for making this year's event unforgettable in every way. Just looking at the smiles in these photos reminds us why we put on this event in the first place. We're so grateful to this community, and for the curiosity, thoughtfulness, and care you show up with. So one more time: Thank you for making #DevRelCon NYC 2026 such a resounding success!

Budgeting shouldn't feel like a guessing game. Meet Budgeteer, a hackathon project by Andrew S., Leyna Nguyen, and Ashley Lin built to act as your personal financial coach, not just another expense tracker. Budgeteer brings your statement activity, accounts, loans, and budgets into one clear view, then uses a lightweight decision intelligence model to suggest smart budget actions tailored to you. Powered by Llama 3, it goes further than tracking by answering your financial questions in plain language so you actually understand where your money is going. Read more about their build here: https://lnkd.in/enPijPNx

Day one of DevRelCon NYC was a success! Thank you to all our speakers and attendees for making this such a standout event. We had talks relating city infrastructure to the current development landscape, why we should design for more delight, and how to grow a successful company YouTube channel. There was strawberry matcha, plenty of swag, and of course — NYC bagels. We hope you had as much fun as we did. Ready for day two? #DevRelCon Pictured in order: Alex Kretzschmar, Nikita Jotwani, John Britton, Brian Douglas, ✨Lauren Lee