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Hi developers hope to get some advice from you guys since i dont know how to code.

I want to make a global site where people from different locations write something and upload it on the site (using CMS) without having a profile on the site.

Where can i do it easily without having to pay other than a monthly plan? I have experince with Wix but dont know if it is the best platform to choose for this project and price point. Since i dont code and i will not monetise the site.

Hello,

I'm a BA, and I joined an organization a while back. Since day 1, the way that "user stories" are written has caused me physical pain.

Here are my observations of a typical story we write:

1. We don't actually write user stories; we really write use cases.
2. We have 8-16 Acceptance Criteria per story
   1. Each AC uses Given/When/Then and, if "appropriate," technical notes and notes for QMs.
3. We throw in technical specifications on top of the ACs into a lot of user stories, making them even longer and hard to follow.
4. We are allergic to breaking down stories into smaller chunks
5. We are defining what makes a good user story on the "length" or if it's "too much detail" or "not enough detail" instead of looking at the qualities a good user story should have.

Other challenges:

1. There is very little education on writing user stories. The Systems Analysts have a perspective on it, so they write their user stories one way; the Business Analysts have a different perspective and write theirs their way.
2. We've heard complaints from Dev's and QM's about our stories, but we don't actually engage them in any discussions about how to improve what we're writing.

There is an opportunity to change the way we do things right now, and with the challenges above, I'm getting a lot of resistance, so I'm looking for info.

So my questions to you as Developers:

I work on a team that handles both AI and non-AI development/enhancement.

1. What do you need from a user story?
2. What makes a good user story to you?
3. Would something like a "dev notes" section help, where it has like a concise list of what you need to do?
4. Any suggestions?

1. Provide Google login: The majority of people wouldn't create an account otherwise.
2. Charge immediately: Stay away from free trials. Paid users = serious users.
3. Launching is the start not the end: Post-launch is 4/5 marketing, 1/5 product.
4. Promote shamelessly: Plug in your product everywhere, not just where it's "safe".
5. Value the unsubscribers: They're giving you the most valuable input.
6. Use your own product as much as you can: You'll find bugs your users haven't reported yet.
7. Retention > acquisition: The most valuable revenue comes from existing users.
8. Cut your MVP in half: Then cut it again. Ship the core, nothing else.
9. Think bigger: $10k/month feels great until you realize $100k requires the same effort.
10. Pay attention to market: If it's not converting after real attempts, the market is telling you something. Listen.
11. Your landing page has 5 seconds: Clean, fast, obvious value prop or they're gone.
12. Talk to your users: Email your users. DM them. Get on calls.
13. Price based on value, not competition.

Most SaaS founders fail because they give up too early

Stay in the game...

I have a 30+ year career as a software developer. I've been writing JavaScript since it came out.

It took me awhile to start doing AI assisted programming. It had a rough period with hilariously bad code.

If you haven't been keeping up, it has gotten really good.

I designed a new language as an experiment to see what results I could get. I won't link to it here. I'm happy with the results and I'm not just vibe coding over here.

The reason I bring this up is because I posted about it on r/ProgrammingLanguages and was immediately and permanently banned.

Our profession has to grow out of this denial. AI is good at writing code. I was out of software development for a year and a half because I was displaced by AI, but now I'm a solid AI developer with a solid place in the industry.

What do other people think about this topic?

EDIT: Here is a link to the github if you're curious

https://axon-pl.github.io/axon/landing.html

- Google Cloud or AWS?

- Best Stack, quickest to deployment from idea?

Why is your answer the way it is?

Thank you!

Hi there,

I was hoping for some advice out here. Giving the rapid change in the coding field due to AI and the feeling of loosing relevance I was hoping for some advice and what steps others take to stay relevant on the job market.

I am just wondering what others do? What should I focus on learning? Any book recommendations?

One step I took is learning more about agentic workflows, agent orchestration, got familiar with SPEC Driven AI Development and so on. I hope this was a right step in the right direction direction.

Thank you so much!!

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Building a full pickle-ordering ecommerce site for a relative's small business.

Scope

React frontend — home/catalog, product pages, cart, checkout, login, user profile, order history

Java Spring Boot backend + Spring Security (auth, sessions)

Relational database (users, products, orders, payments)

Live payment gateway, needs to accept orders from anywhere globally, real shipping to real addresses

Full deployment — live domain, hosting, SSL, production-ready

Solo dev (me), ~48 days from spec to launch

What would you quote for this as a freelancer, and honestly —

is 48 days realistic for one person doing this for the first time end-to-end?

Trying to set a fair price, not lowball myself or overcharge family.

Hi everyone,

I graduated with a Computer Science degree a little over a year ago, but unfortunately I still haven't been able to get a job in the field.

One thing that has made this difficult is that I most likely have ADHD (I'm not formally diagnosed yet), so I struggle with staying focused and studying consistently on my own. I also don't have any developer friends or professional connections to guide me, so I often end up jumping between random YouTube videos or tutorials without knowing whether they're current, relevant, or even worth my time.

From university, I have a good foundation in Java, Python, and C#, along with basic knowledge of algorithms and data structures, software engineering, databases, and the fundamentals of web development.

My goal is to become a full-stack web developer and build a strong portfolio that will help me land my first developer job.

What I'm looking for is a clear, up-to-date roadmap. Specifically:

What technologies should I learn first?

Which resources (documentation, videos, articles, books, etc.) do you genuinely recommend in 2026?

What stack would you suggest for someone starting today?

At what point should I begin building projects?

What kinds of projects would be most valuable for a portfolio that employers actually care about?

I'd prefer free resources whenever possible. I don't mind reading documentation or watching videos—I just want resources that are high quality, up to date, and worth investing my time in.

I should also mention that I previously paid for a local programming course, but I unfortunately couldn't stay committed to it. I realized that a structured course isn't the learning style that works best for me. I think I'd do much better following my own roadmap with high-quality resources, while building projects along the way.

Also, I live in Lebanon. If anyone here is Lebanese and familiar with the local tech job market, I'd really appreciate advice that's especially relevant for finding a developer job here.

That said, I'd still love to hear from anyone, regardless of where you're from, since I know the core computer science and full-stack development skills are largely universal.

I'm not looking for shortcuts—I just want to stop wasting time on outdated or low-quality resources and follow a structured path. Any advice, roadmap, or resource recommendations would be greatly appreciated.

While my current focus is full-stack web development, my broader goal is simply to become job-ready as a software developer in general and land a role in my field.

Thank you!

i've been splitting my weeks between two camps and they don't feel like they're solving the same problem anymore. the browser builder camp, lovable, bolt, base44, replit, v0, is great at one thing. get a clickable demo in an afternoon. prompt, ui, drag a button, preview url. that part actually works, which is why people keep going back.

the local agent camp, cursor, claude code, codex, is better at something else. reading my existing repo, making targeted edits, running tests, debugging real code. slower at the start but i trust the output more because i can see what's actually changing.

the split usually hits me at the same places: - the moment i need real auth and not a fake login screen - the moment stripe subscriptions need actual webhook handling - the moment i want my code on github and not locked inside a hosted editor - the moment "fix this small bug" turns into a 600 line patch browser builders still win for me on day one. local agents win on day thirty. middle is where it gets messy.

i've also been poking at enter a bit because it tries to sit between those two modes, browser builder on one side and code/agent handoff on the other. still early but its one of the few that even tries to address this gap directly.

My manager recently asked me to give a demo to the rest of the team on how I use AI in my day-to-day work. The reason is that my productivity is consistently good, I sometimes complete more work than my peers, and my AI token usage is noticeably higher than everyone else's. From management's perspective, they seem to think I'm doing something differently that could help the rest of the team.

The problem is that I don't feel like I have any secret workflow to demonstrate. We primarily use the Visual Studio Copilot plugin, and that's pretty much the extent of our AI tooling. I use it a lot throughout the day (for brainstorming, generating boilerplate, debugging, explaining code, refactoring, and writing tests) but it doesn't feel like I'm using hidden prompts or some advanced technique. It just feels like part of my normal development process.

I'm wondering if anyone else has been in a similar situation. Have you ever been asked to explain or teach your AI workflow when you didn't feel like there was anything particularly unique about it? If so, what did you focus on in the demo?

I also thought about creating some sort of standardized workflow or wrapper around AI usage, but I'm not convinced that's actually useful. Since Copilot already has access to the codebase inside Visual Studio code, it seems like most of the value comes from how you interact with it rather than from a predefined prompting framework. Am I overlooking something? What would you demonstrate if you were in my position?

I'm currently working at a company with a pretty toxic work env. I recently received an offer from another company that I'm really excited about, but they're expecting me to join within one month. The problem is that my current employer has a 3-month notice period. I'm worried they may not agree to an early release, especially given how they've treated employees in the past.

what should I do, anyone pls help, i m based in India

For the first time in my entire software career, actual E2E tests run against my dev environment right after CI deploys to it. I wrote them with playwright and it was way less flakey than I was afraid of. I only have a retry of 3 and that seems to be the right amount. Only got 20 playwright tests right now and they run in about 1.5 mins, but I do have ~350 backend end-to-end tests that make API calls to create/execute/verify tests. These are running in about 2 mins.

I've got 4500+ unit tests across the FE and BE and those all run in under a minute.

It too 2 days to wire up and helped me fix 4 annoying bugs I'd been battling for a while the kind I could never quite pin down with unit tests because they only showed up across multiple components and caches and it covers a whole class of failures that only exist there: missing Firestore indexes, env config drift.

Anyway, this feels nice and I hope you all get to experience this one day.

Tried using their testing skills, and it got close to my current set of test cases. Curious to see if anyone has tried out any other skills or the Android CLI?

So I’m starting a new Go project and was going back and forth on whether I should generate the code using Claude. Typically I just do the design by now and delegate the code creation to it but somehow it felt wrong with this project.

I’m not yet that used to writing Go services and when I started generating some code I had this feeling that I don’t understand all of it. I deleted everything and decided to now write the first version by hand. I like it so far and have the impressions that I’m learning something. Glad I’m doing it this way, at least for this project.

Hi.

Most of my programming career has been focused on command line tools and other programs like system/netwroking modules and simulations.

I am only recently hoping to enter the desktop/gui application world and i was wondering if Qt6 would be the right way to go.

I know there isnt a single "right way" dont give me the lecture.

I have had looked into Qt years ago and even started learning it before i abandoned it.

I'm considering Qt6 because.

1- I am a little familiar with it from my attempt at learning it years ago

2- I know how to program in C++

3- Ive heard about it a lot and as a linux user many of the open source apps that Im currently using seem to be powered by it and Im fully aware that it is a great and well known platform.

However my aversion to Qt rises due to the following

1- most the the references i mentioned in item 3 of the pros section are pretty old, leading me to suspect that Qt has become old and irrelevant

2- Even though Im fluent in C++, Im no expert and I sort of secretly hate it and my life would be much happier if C++ played as little a role in it lmao.

3- I've heard that some parts of the framework arent free and i need to pay for a license or subscription which i much rather not do.

So I guess my question is.

Is Qt still relevant? Is it free? Are there new projects being released using Qt and would it look good on a resume in the big '26?

If it is indeed powerful and relevant, does anyone have any experience with wrpper frameworks in other languages like pyQt or Rust would you say they are stable and good enough?

If it is not relevant, what is the hot new, go to framework for GUI applications now?

I chose to ask this question on reddit instead of doing online searches because I value the wisdom and opinions of other actual real world programmer and dont wanna be fed AI slop or corporate sponsored content. So please if you ARE INDEED an experienced GUI application developer and have any opinions, discussions, warnings, pointers, rants etc. I invite you to give me some of your time and comment them down below.

Thank you very much.

Is there an api available where I can allow my customers to pin their exact location on google maps, so my delivery driver can simply click get direction to drive to the exact location of customer?

Hey guys,

So I am a fello computer engineering student, who has just finished my first year, and im very interested in computational electronics and its working, but as of now I dont know programming that much

But what i know for sure is that a PS3 could run The Last Of Us game on it, but back then it only had 192GFLOPs of GPU power and 512MB of combined system ram

But even a lower midrange smartphone these days is atleast 5 times faster and more powerful in rasterization than the PS3

As of the current situation of ram and memmory prices PC and console gameing have been far more unaffordable for many

And if someone could port that game from the custom cell broadband engine instruction set to ARM instructions sets, today's phone users can also enjoy good game play on their phones

Hopefully, a random person

I'm in a difficult situation right now and could really use some help.

I had a freelance project lined up that would have covered my university fees, but the client backed out at the last moment after weeks of work. Because of that, I'm now short $500, and my university payment is still pending.

I'm not looking for donations. I'm looking for work.

I'm a full-stack developer and can help with:

High-converting websites

Landing pages

Admin dashboards

Custom backend development

API integrations

Workflow automation

Lead capture systems

CRM-style dashboards

I primarily work with modern Typescript technologies and build fast, responsive applications from frontend to backend.

If you or someone you know needs a developer for a project, even something small, I'd really appreciate the opportunity.

Please send me a DM or comment so i can send my portfolio.

Thank you for reading.