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From: yo@dev.to Time: 2026-08-19
This newsletter highlights recent wins from the DEV community, including personal achievements, project launches, and technical milestones. It also includes links for sharing your own wins, social media engagement, and account management options like magic sign-in links and email service provider information.
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Things are about to get MEGA
From: hello@kentcdodds.com Time: 2026-08-19
Kent Dodds introduces MEGA, a 4-week program for developers to master AI agents beyond autocomplete, focusing on building reliable tools and products.
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you own the code you never read
From: info@certificates.dev Time: 2026-08-19
AI-generated code often hides side effects in observers and event listeners, making maintenance difficult. Reviewers should identify and refactor these effects into named actions for clarity and control.
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- Find every function, observer, event listener, middleware, and helper that writes to the database, sends anything over the network, or changes shared state.
- Lock in $219/yr
- Unlearn.dev
- certificates.dev
Theo spent a week with my skills repo
From: matt@aihero.dev Time: 2026-08-19
Matt discusses the importance of software fundamentals with Uncle Bob and shares Theo Browne’s experience using his skills repo.
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