How to connect Cursor to 100+ MCP Servers within minutes
Model Context Protocol (MCP) is the latest trend of 2025. It makes it easier to scale your workflows and opens many powerful use cases. Today, we will learn how to connect Cursor with 100+ MCP servers, with some awesome examples at the end. Let’s jump in. What is covered? In a nutshell, we are covering these […]
10 common backend tasks and how to automate them
While building the backend, developers are often involved with a lot of repetitive tasks like configuring APIs, handling service discovery and scaling infrastructure. What if you could automate most of these complex problems? Today, we will learn about 10 common backend tasks and how to automate them using Encore. Let’s jump in. Building scalable apps […]
How to Reduce Friction in Learning New Technologies as a Software Engineer
As a software engineer, staying up-to-date with the latest technologies is not just a career advantage—it’s a necessity. However, the process of learning new tools, frameworks, or programming languages can often feel overwhelming. The friction of setting up environments, understanding documentation, and figuring out best practices can slow down progress and even discourage you from […]
5 Local Environment Mistakes I See Everywhere, and How to Fix Them Properly
Every new project brings fresh challenges, but the very first one is always the same: getting it to run locally. Every time I start working on a new project, I end up asking other developers how to launch it. Documentation is usually long, outdated, and full of manual steps, like adjusting configs, copying envs, secrets, […]
How to Say “Hello World” in x86 Assembly
Because why not? Software is fun. I know this sounds insane; assembly for fun—but trust me, you feel alive. I’m lucky to be at a point where I can build almost anything, so I’m testing the waters for a low-level series combining Node.js and assembly as a shared library. In this article, we’re saying hello […]
How to Brick your NAS and lose your data
This is a horror story, but don’t worry… I just lost a lot of time… this time. What happened? For context, I’ve been messing around with self-hosting. I have a Proxmox and inside I’m running TrueNAS as a VM and passing the disks. Before all that, I spent a lot of time running Badblocks and […]
How to Make Carbon Pricing Work for Africa by Rim Berahab & Otaviano Canuto
As the world prepares for COP30 in Belém, Brazil, African countries have an opportunity to advocate for equitable carbon-pricing mechanisms that align climate action with sustainable development. While cutting emissions is important, so, too, is ensuring fairness and equity for the communities most vulnerable to climate change. RABAT – Carbon pricing is a crucial climate-policy […]
How to Dockerize NestJS – DEV Community
Today, I’ll walk you through how to dockerize a NestJS application. This will help you package your app into a container that can run consistently across different environments. Let’s get started! Step 1: Setting Up the Dockerfile First, we need to create a Dockerfile in the root directory of your NestJS project. This file will […]
How to set better 2025 Goals
For me I’ve realized that, going back through my failed resolution goals, I have never set a higher value to change my behaviors. These are examples of those goals: Learn a new programming language X Learn how a computer works Become 10x more productive They are shallow, unmeasurable goals that are rather by-products of some […]
Climate conferences are dying. How to save the world now? – POLITICO
BAKU, Azerbaijan — As the red-eye flight from London made its final descent into Baku, the sunrise lit up the eastern sky, turning the Caspian Sea into a blaze of orange. Most of the passengers were heading to COP29, a two-week climate conference featuring almost 200 nations held in oil-rich Azerbaijan. The mood on the […]