Announcing The Daily Context: our first print newspaper! Plus AI homelabs, links vs buttons, PureScript polymorphism, and more!

Hey there! Welcome to our newsletter, where we update you on what’s going on in the DEV world.

The AI Engineer World's Fair is underway in San Francisco, and the DEV and MLH teams are reporting live from the event throughout the week. For in-person attendees, we're printing our coverage every day in The Daily Context, a newspaper we started just for the event! For everyone watching from home, you can view the web version here.

Our next Weekend Challenge is just around the corner. If you're unfamiliar, these are bite-sized hackathons meant to fit into your weekend. The prompt will be revealed right as the challenge launches, and you'll have the weekend to build and submit. Follow #DevChallenge so you don't miss the announcement.

Have a great week ❤️

As always, here are our favorite posts from last week in no particular order:

• Building an AI Homelab: one developer's take on running local LLMs through a homegrown agent framework, with real experiences debugging MCP clients and macOS quirks along the way.

• Link or Button, that is the question.: a practical take on accessibility, exploring the semantic line between links and buttons and the keyboard and screen reader behavior that depends on it.

• I built a CLI to break my highlights out of Apple Books: hands-on insights into freeing reading notes from Apple's locked-down storage, plus lessons learned wiring an MCP server so AI tools can search them directly.

• DIY Smart home project: Restoring the wall switch: real experiences solving the classic smart bulb dilemma, rethinking the humble wall switch with a Zigbee button and some Home Assistant automations.

• Coding an Extension that Summarises Web Pages with HTML, CSS, and JS: a hands-on walkthrough of building a privacy-friendly Chrome extension that summarizes pages locally, no API keys or external services involved.

• Building a Custom Status Line for Claude Code: practical insights into tracking cost, context, and session info in real time, built from nothing more than a shell script and stdin.

• The ultimate polymorphism: PureScript as a universal language: exploring how the same PureScript logic can target Node, Erlang's BEAM, or Chez Scheme, and lessons learned on why this succeeds where older cross-platform languages stalled.

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Hot off the Press: The Daily Context

The Daily Context is your source for all things related to the AI Engineer World's Fair in San Francisco. Our reporters will be on the ground all week bringing you the latest news and announcements from the event. Find us in-person at AIE to grab a copy or check out the Daily Context on DEV.

Read the Daily Context

Here are some standout wins from this week's discussion:

• @georgekobaidze: is back on DEV after a promotion to Engineering Manager (congrats!) 🎉

• @annavi11arrea1: jumped into NetworkChuck's Summer of CCNA course mid-program 📡

• @technogamerz: got invited to Samsung's event in Delhi 🎤

• @eva-nomados: made a new friend 🧑‍🤝‍🧑

• @edmundsparrow: made progress on a Browser OS project — looking good! 🖥️

Well done, everyone!

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