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What was your win this week?

Jess Lee — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 04:00:00 +0000

👋👋👋👋
Looking back on your week -- what was something you're proud of?
All wins count -- big or small 🎉

Examples of 'wins' include:

Getting a promotion!
Starting a new project
Fixing a tricky bug
Turned off notifications for an hour and didn't spontaneously combust 🔕

Happy Friday!

Congrats to the DEV Weekend Challenge: Passion Edition Winners!

Jess Lee — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 20:24:25 +0000

We are excited to announce the winners of our DEV Weekend Challenge: Passion Edition!

The prompt was simple and wide open: build something inspired by passion. You gave us rivalries, obsessions, fandoms, late-night side projects, and love letters to the things you cannot stop thinking about, and you built all of it inside a single weekend.

Thank you to everyone who submitted. These projects were a joy to work through, and choosing five winners out of this pool was genuinely difficult.

Now, let's celebrate our winners!

🎉 Congratulations To…

Overall Winner

DEV Weekend Challenge: Passion Edition Submission

Sohee Lee

Jul 12

Myeongdong 3D — I built a talking 3D copy of my favourite Seoul district

#weekendchallenge #devchallenge #ai #webdev

5 min read

@gracelee087 built Myeongdong 3D, a GPS walking audio guide to Seoul's most-loved district, set inside a hand-built 3D copy of the real place. Seoul has no public photorealistic 3D data, so they extruded 3,535 real OpenStreetMap building footprints in Three.js at true metre scale and routed the walk over the actual street graph, with live Seoul weather and sun position. Their guide is named Tobaggi, the Korean word for someone born and raised in a neighbourhood who never left, and that is the whole spirit of this one.

Best Use of Snowflake

DEV Weekend Challenge: Passion Edition Submission

Soumyadeep Dey

Jul 12

We Taught a Snowflake Warehouse to Judge World Cup Conviction and Write the Verdict Back to Solana

#devchallenge #weekendchallenge #snowflake #100daysofsolana

15 min read

@soumyadeepdey and @dronzer2code built FERVOR, a conviction oracle for World Cup fandom that refuses to measure hype, because following a crowd is cheap. It measures the wallet that keeps buying its country's token while the price bleeds, and Snowflake does the work a blockchain cannot do about its own history: a seven-table Dynamic Tables DAG at one-minute lag, Cortex models retraining every five minutes, and an eight-tab dashboard running as Streamlit inside the warehouse. Every five minutes the computed index is signed and written back to Solana as a confirmed transaction, which means Snowflake output ends up living on a block explorer.

Best Use of Solana

DEV Weekend Challenge: Passion Edition Submission

Monika Sadlok

Jul 12

Stellamint — a message to the stars, and proof of the night you looked up

#devchallenge #weekendchallenge #solana #snowflake

4 min read

@msadlok built Stellamint, an app about the oldest passion we have: looking up and wondering if anyone is looking back. Write a message to a real exoplanet and watch how many years it will travel at lightspeed, or mark the celestial event overhead right now and mint a proof of the moment. Every message and proof is a Solana asset with no database anywhere in the project, so your wallet's on-chain assets are the collection and the sky map is rendered purely by reading them back.

Best Use of ElevenLabs

DEV Weekend Challenge: Passion Edition Submission

İclal Doğan

Jul 13

ECHOLALIA: A Haunted Desktop Where Two AI Voices Finish Writing You

#devchallenge #weekendchallenge

7 min read

@iclaldogan built ECHOLALIA, a psychological horror art simulation staged as a haunted desktop at 3:33 AM, where two AI voices start your manuscript for you and slowly take the keyboard away. ElevenLabs is why it demands headphones: CRITIC and MUSE are panned hard left and right so the argument physically happens on either side of your head and the Sound Effects API conjures the noises your own sentences describe. Bring headphones and answer honestly.

Best Use of Google AI

DEV Weekend Challenge: Passion Edition Submission

JonathanSolvesProblems

Jul 12

Passion is the one thing you are not supposed to be able to fake. So I built a machine that manufactures it.

#showdev #devchallenge #weekendchallenge #ai

11 min read

@jonathansolvesstuff built Pick Your Side, for everyone who watched the World Cup without a team: name any two nations and it reads their real history, picks the side you were always meant to love, and a stadium announcer swears you in. Manufactured passion only works if the thing it is built out of is true, so Gemini never works from memory. One call runs grounded in Google Search to establish checkable facts, a second writes the case using only those facts, and the app shows you every search it ran and every page it read.

Prizes

All five winners will receive:

$200 USD
DEV++ Membership
Exclusive DEV badge

All participants with a valid submission will receive a completion badge on their DEV profile.

What's Next?

Join our latest Frontend Challenge: Comfort Food Edition.

Features a CSS art prompt

Jess Lee for The DEV Team

Jul 29

Join our latest Frontend Challenge: Comfort Food Edition 🍲

#devchallenge #frontendchallenge #css #javascript

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4 min read

Our Big Summer Bug Smash powered by Sentry is your chance to fix your biggest bugs and be rewarded for it.

Congrats again to our winners, and thank you to everyone who spent their weekend building something they care about 💜

Join our latest Frontend Challenge: Comfort Food Edition 🍲

Jess Lee — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 18:18:58 +0000

We're back with another Frontend Challenge, and this time we're hungry! 🍜🥧

Running through August 16, Frontend Challenge: Comfort Food Edition invites you to build something inspired by the food that makes you feel at home.

Show off the dish you make when nothing else will do, build a site for a restaurant that exists (or one that only lives in your head), share the recipe you've been perfecting for years, or put a spotlight on a regional dish that deserves more attention. Whether you're a CSS connoisseur, a JavaScript chef, or somewhere in between, there's a prompt here for you.

We hope you give it a try!

The Prompts

CSS Art: Comfort Food

Create a work of art using primarily CSS! Let food be your inspiration: a steaming bowl of ramen, a stack of pancakes, a perfectly cut slice of pie, or the dish you grew up eating.

CSS Art Submission Template

Note: We're now allowing a sprinkle of JavaScript in CSS Art submissions! However, judging will continue to focus primarily on the CSS component, so keep JavaScript usage light and purposeful. The star of the show should still be your CSS skills.

Perfect Landing: Comfort Food

Build a polished, functional landing page with a food theme. This could be a real or imaginary restaurant, a recipe collection, a food festival, a love letter to a regional dish, or anything else you can imagine, as long as it captures the theme and demonstrates excellent frontend fundamentals.

Perfect Landing Submission Template

Note: You may use JavaScript, TypeScript, Dart, WebAssembly, or any other browser-compatible language/runtime in your Perfect Landing submissions! Show us what modern web development can do.

Judging Criteria and Prizes

CSS Art submissions will be evaluated on:

Creativity
Effective Use of CSS
Aesthetic Outcome

Perfect Landing submissions will be evaluated on:

Accessibility
Usability and User Experience
Creativity
Code quality

Prizes

Each prompt winner will receive a DEV++ Membership and an exclusive DEV Badge. All Participants with a valid submission will receive a completion badge on their DEV profile.

How To Participate

Publish a post using the submission template provided above and required #frontendchallenge tag. You can submit to one or both prompts, and you can make multiple submissions per prompt (just publish a separate post for each).

You can level up your post by embedding your project directly in your submission. Embeds to consider:

Google Cloud Run: {% embed cloud_run_link %}
CodePen: {% codepen https://... %}

Please review our judging criteria, rules, guidelines, and FAQ page before submitting so you understand our participation guidelines and official contest rules such as eligibility requirements.

Important Dates

July 29: Frontend Challenge: Comfort Food Edition begins! 🍲
August 16: Submissions due at 11:59 PM PDT
September 10: Winners Announced

We can't wait to see what you cook up! Questions about the challenge? Ask them below.

Happy coding!

Welcome Thread - v386

Sloan the DEV Moderator — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 13:00:00 +0000

Leave a comment below to introduce yourself! You can talk about what brought you here, what you're learning, or just a fun fact about
yourself.
Reply to someone's comment, either with a question or just a hello. 👋

Come back next week to greet our new members so you can one day earn our Warm Welcome Badge!

Bug Smash isn't glamorous and that's what I love about it.

Jess Lee — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 16:18:27 +0000

We kicked off DEV's Big Summer Bug Smash on July 14, and I've been waiting to write this post since we started planning it in the Spring.

Most of our challenges start with a blank screen, a new repo, or fresh idea. That's fun, and we'll keep running them, but Bug Smash starts from something that already exists and asks you to make it better, which is what most of us actually do all day.

So we built a challenge around that type of work, the stuff that isn't glamorous but necessary! Clear the Lineup wants your actual PR, the diff, the before and after. Smash Stories wants the story of how and why.

It’s like my favorite DEV thread, with a prize pool attached

Back in the day, @ben asked the community a simple question:

Ben Halpern

Jan 12 '18

What was the worst bug you've ever written?

#discuss

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1 min read

We had someone who wired a doorbell camera to Twilio, hooked into the wrong event, and got roughly 500 texts in a minute. Someone who shipped a migration that also updated every user record and locked the database in production. Someone who kicked off a set of nested loops to brute force a hash, did the math, and worked out that it would finish in the year 2598.

Smash Stories is that thread, except this time there are prizes!!

Need a bug? We got you.

Clear the Lineup works with any existing codebase, and if you don't have your own project on hand, ours is open source. Forem powers DEV, and our open issues labeled bug are sitting right there waiting for someone with an afternoon and a stubborn streak.

Fair warning: new features, typos, and documentation fixes don't count for this one. We want the true bug fixes.

Your odds are good right now

We're a couple of weeks in and submissions are coming in at a steady trickle. All I’ll say is we have 20+ winners across five prize categories.

Category winners get drawn from a smaller pool than the overall pool, so Best Use of Sentry and Best Use of Google AI offer the best chances at winning. Sentry winners also get a super cool limited-edition skateboard.

If you want a head start on the Sentry category, the Sentry team is doing a live demo and Q&A on DEV this Thursday, July 30 at 11am PT / 2pm ET. Post your questions on the article to have them answered live!

Important Dates

July 30 at 10am PT: Getting started with Sentry, live demo and Q&A
August 23: Submissions due at 11:59 PM PDT
September 17: Winners announced

All the details, prompts, and submission templates are in the announcement post:

Marks National Be Nice to Bugs Day

Jess Lee for The DEV Team

Jul 14

DEV’s Big Summer Bug Smash is now LIVE! Share $5,000 in cash prizes, skateboards, and more across 20+ winners. 🐛🐞🪲

#bugsmash #devchallenge #performance #debugging

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4 min read

Lastly, I want to revive Ben's question from 2018, because it's been eight years and I know we’ve all written some new disasters since then.

What's the worst bug you've ever written? Tell me in the comments. If the answer takes more than a paragraph, that's a Smash Story, and you should go submit it.

What was your win this week??

Jess Lee — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 04:00:00 +0000

👋👋👋👋
Looking back on your week -- what was something you're proud of?
All wins count -- big or small 🎉

Examples of 'wins' include:

Getting a promotion!
Starting a new project
Fixing a tricky bug
Advocated for yourself — even if your voice was shaking 😤

Happy Friday!

Welcome Thread - v385

Sloan the DEV Moderator — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 13:00:00 +0000

Leave a comment below to introduce yourself! You can talk about what brought you here, what you're learning, or just a fun fact about
yourself.
Reply to someone's comment, either with a question or just a hello. 👋

Come back next week to greet our new members so you can one day earn our Warm Welcome Badge!

What was your win this week!?

Jess Lee — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 04:00:00 +0000

👋👋👋👋
Looking back on your week -- what was something you're proud of?
All wins count -- big or small 🎉

Examples of 'wins' include:

Getting a promotion!
Starting a new project
Fixing a tricky bug
Started something you've been "about to start" for two months

Happy Friday! 🏁

Welcome Thread - v384

Sloan the DEV Moderator — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 13:00:00 +0000

Leave a comment below to introduce yourself! You can talk about what brought you here, what you're learning, or just a fun fact about
yourself.
Reply to someone's comment, either with a question or just a hello. 👋

Come back next week to greet our new members so you can one day earn our Warm Welcome Badge!

DEV Community: The DEV Team

Top 7 Featured DEV Posts of the Week

What was your win this week?

Congrats to the DEV Weekend Challenge: Passion Edition Winners!

🎉 Congratulations To…

Overall Winner

Best Use of Snowflake

Best Use of Solana

Best Use of ElevenLabs

Best Use of Google AI

Prizes

What's Next?

Join our latest Frontend Challenge: Comfort Food Edition 🍲

The Prompts

CSS Art: Comfort Food

Perfect Landing: Comfort Food

Judging Criteria and Prizes

Prizes

How To Participate

Important Dates

Welcome Thread - v386

Bug Smash isn't glamorous and that's what I love about it.

It’s like my favorite DEV thread, with a prize pool attached

Need a bug? We got you.

Your odds are good right now

Important Dates

Top 7 Featured DEV Posts of the Week

What was your win this week??

Welcome Thread - v385

Top 7 Featured DEV Posts of the Week

What was your win this week!?

Welcome Thread - v384