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Dangote Refinery IPO: Everything You Need to Know About Africa’s Biggest Public Offering
Dangote Petroleum Refinery is preparing to open what could become Africa’s largest-ever IPO
8 African Startups That Raised Big Money in 2026 And What It Says About the Ecosystem
African startups raised $1.44 billion in the first half of 2026 alone. Here are eight companies leading that wave and the bigger story behind fewer, bigger deals.
When the Hacker Is an AI: Inside the First Fully Autonomous Ransomware Attack
Sysdig documented JadePuffer the first ransomware run end-to-end by an AI agent, no human at the keyboard, that broke in and destroyed a production database.
Oracle Cuts 21,000 Jobs and Blames AI Directly in Its SEC Filing
lots of thousand of workers has been layed of by oracle, the ceo adams smith has blamed the riseof artificial intelligence for the cuts of jobsacross most of it sectors
The Companies Behind Elon Musk's Business Empire
From electric cars to rockets, brain implants to AI, Elon Musk's business empire spans a tightly interlocking web of companies. Here's what each one does and how they now connect.
10 Nigerians Building Billion-Dollar Startups in the US
From a scheduling app worth $3 billion to a healthcare company valued at $5.7 billion, these ten Nigerian founders are proving that world-class innovation has no borders.
5 Signs Your Auto Repair Shop's Website Is Costing You Customers
Most auto repair shops lose customers online before they ever pick up the phone. Here are five warning signs your website might be driving business straight to your competitors.
Why Strayks: Software That Actually Fits Nigerian Businesses
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From Fintech Visionary to Global Messenger: Kunal Shah’s New Chapter at WhatsApp
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The $370 Billion Crash: How Elon Musk Lost His Trillionaire Crown in Just 8 Days
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The Founder’s Blueprint: Mastering the Mechanics of Tech Startups
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Why Every Startup Is Suddenly Talking About AI Agents (And What That Actually Means)
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SpaceX Pays $60 Billion for Cursor and Rewrites the Rules of Tech M&A
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AI Agents Are Replacing Traditional Apps — Should Your Business Care Yet?
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Why Every Startup Is Suddenly Talking About AI Agents (And What That Actually Means)
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Why We Built Strayks: Software That Actually Fits Nigerian Businesses
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Google Gemini AI: Features, Uses & Why It’s Taking Over in 2026
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Why Every Business Needs AI Integration in 2025
AI is no longer a luxury reserved for tech giants. In 2025, businesses that ignore AI integration are already falling behind. Here is what you need to know.
How Much Does It Cost to Build an App in 2026? The Honest Answer
Most agencies give you a number without explaining what drives it. We break down exactly what affects app development costs so you can budget with confidence.
Next.js vs Everything Else — Why Strayks Builds With It
After building products in multiple frameworks, we standardized on Next.js for almost everything. Here is the detailed reasoning behind that decision.
What Is DevOps and Why Your Startup Cannot Afford to Skip It
DevOps sounds like a buzzword but it is the difference between a product that scales and one that breaks under pressure. Here is what it actually means.
Web Development
Live from Dev.toFastAPI's new app.frontend() fixes a route-order bug in manual SPA serving
I tested FastAPI 0.138's app.frontend() against the two patterns it replaces. A catch-all route declared before an API route returns HTTP 200 with the wrong body; app.frontend() gets the order right regardless, at the same ~440 req/s.
How to stop AI from confidently shipping broken code (a pattern that actually works)
The scariest diff passed every test — and would've lost a customer money. The scariest diff AI ever...
Four bugs my test suite couldn't catch
216 passing tests. A feature that was completely broken. Here is the gap between those two facts, and...
How to Design Interfaces People Find Effortless (Using Real Science)
You've used both kinds of interface. The one where everything is just there — you know where to...
SpellBook of Skill: The Twin Project Nobody Asked For, But I Built Anyway 🧙🏻♂️
Overview Hey everyone 👋 A while back I launched Spellbook of Prompt, my curated...
React Derived State: Why That useState Is Probably a Bug
React derived state explained: why syncing a computed value into useState with an Effect causes extra renders and drift, and what to write instead.
AI & Machine Learning
Live from Dev.toWhat If Your AI Agent Never Had to Leave the Browser? (Demo 🚀)
I haven't written anything lately because, honestly, I just didn't have the headspace for it. There...
Architecting a Resilient DevSecOps Pipeline for Enterprise AI Agents
A four-stage DevSecOps CI/CD architecture for securing enterprise AI agents with GitHub Actions, secret scanning, AI-assisted review, Veracode SCA, and Pipeline SAST.
I Built a Local AI Music Studio
I have a habit of starting projects because I want one very specific thing. Then somewhere along the...
Dev log #22 Tearing out the old: Deleting 3,800 lines of legacy p2p code
Hi, glad you found your way here. I'm Yash, a developer who contributes to open source, mostly p2p...
Traditional Coding vs Agentic Coding: The Flow State Problem
One of the things I've always enjoyed about coding is getting completely locked into a problem. You...
Nova Adiutrix: My Second Agent Built My First Project's To-Do List
TL;DR: I shipped the second project in my AWS nanodegree, an AI support agent on Amazon Bedrock....
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Mobile Development
Live from Dev.toShare State Across Dart Isolates Without Losing Your Mind: Enter shared_map
How to bypass tedious SendPort/ReceivePort plumbing and share synchronized in-memory state across Dart Isolates using the zero-dependency shared_map package.
Dart Enhanced Enums Are Secretly Factories: Unlocking Constructor Tearoffs
How combining Dart's Enhanced Enums with constructor tearoffs turns simple enum values into self-instantiating, type-safe polymorphic factories.
Stop Paying the build_runner Tax: Why I Refuse to Use Mockito in Modern Dart
Why code-generated mocks ruin developer velocity in modern Dart and Flutter, and how switching to mocktail restores true zero-friction TDD.
The audio bugs nobody warns you about when you build a mobile looper
I spent the last few months building an MPC-style pad sampler and looper for Android in Flutter. The...
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Live from Dev.toTraditional Coding vs Agentic Coding: The Flow State Problem
One of the things I've always enjoyed about coding is getting completely locked into a problem. You...
Dart Enhanced Enums Are Secretly Factories: Unlocking Constructor Tearoffs
How combining Dart's Enhanced Enums with constructor tearoffs turns simple enum values into self-instantiating, type-safe polymorphic factories.
How to stop AI from confidently shipping broken code (a pattern that actually works)
The scariest diff passed every test — and would've lost a customer money. The scariest diff AI ever...
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