pickuma
Author ProfileClaim This Author Profile
Prove ownership by publishing #HashtagPLUS and this profile link on your author page or an article under your byline. A moderator or admin will review the request before it merges into your real HashtagPLUS username.
🌐 dev.toSource
Java's StructuredTaskScope leaves preview in JDK 28 with no API changes from JDK 27. Here is what that means for code you build and deploy.
🌐 dev.toSource
Browsers blocked eight bad eMudhra certificates fast. Your servers, containers and API clients probably did not. Here is why, and what to update.
🌐 dev.toSource
I have hired juniors and mentored a few through their first paid work. Here is an honest comparison of internships, open source, and freelance gigs for building real experience in 2026.
🌐 dev.toSource
I used Cap, the open-source screen recorder, as my daily Loom replacement for a couple of weeks. Here's where its self-host and bring-your-own-storage model wins, and where it still trails the paid incumbents.
🌐 dev.toSource
Two of the best free AI autocomplete tools, tested head-to-head — latency, context window, IDE support, free-tier limits, and what Supermaven's move into Cursor means for its standalone future.
🌐 dev.toSource
A hands-on review of Goose, Block's open-source on-machine AI agent — provider-agnostic config, MCP extensions, the CLI session-and-recipe workflow, and how it stacks up against Claude Code and OpenCode.
🌐 dev.toSource
I spent two weeks moving real analyst work through Claude in Excel, Gemini in Google Sheets, and Rows AI. Here is how they compare on formulas, live data, trust, lock-in, and price.
🌐 dev.toSource
A hands-on comparison of Ghost, Beehiiv, and Substack for developers and operators — pricing models, monetization, growth tooling, and data ownership compared in plain terms.
🌐 dev.toSource
After running coding agents for months with too many MCP servers and then too few, here is the short list of Model Context Protocol servers that actually earn their context-window cost — plus the ones quietly wasting your tokens.
🌐 dev.toSource
I lived in Capacities, Anytype, and Logseq for weeks each. A hands-on comparison of data ownership, sync, structure, and extensibility for developers building a second brain.