Dev.to
What it takes to build docs worth reading
Treating docs as a product When documentation lives as an afterthought, it shows. Pages drift out of date, examples break quietly, and release notes scatter across a dozen places no one can find. The fix is not a weekend cleanup. It is a decision to treat docs the way you treat any product people depend on: someone owns it, it has standards, and it gets maintained on purpose. That is the decision I made when the docs came to the Developer Relations team at the end of 2025. Not "let's tidy this up," but "this is ours now, and we are accountable for whether a developer can actually build from it." The work, in the repository The honest record of what a team does to a codebase lives in its git history, so that is where the story starts. Comparing the six months before the handoff to the six months since: Before vs. Under DevRel: Commits: 476 → 1,900+ Merged pull requests: 145 → 447 Unique contributors: 21 → 64 A repository that averaged fewer than 500 commits over half a year is now past 1,900 in the same span. The contributor count tripled, because we treated the docs as something the whole community could improve, not a walled garden. This is what a team that decided to do the work looks like when you measure it. Our proudest metric is what was cut In six months, we added roughly 339,000 lines and removed roughly 281,000. That near balance is the point. A neglected docs site accumulates: dead pages, stale tutorials, examples that no longer compile, three slightly different explanations of the same concept. Adding more on top of that does not help anyone. So we cut nearly as much as we wrote. We rebuilt the Hello World walkthrough from 1,300 lines down to about 300 without losing a thing. We consolidated scattered release notes into a single clean reference. A docs site is judged by what a developer can find and trust, not by how much sits on the shelf. A library you can learn from At the start of the year, the examples library had effectively one usable entry. Today,
Lauren Lee
2026-06-22 23:24
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InfoQ
Presentation: Challenging Google Analytics: Building a Scalable, Cost-Effective User Tracking Service
Alina Krasavina explains how Delivery Hero successfully deprecated Google Analytics and migrated to an internal user tracking platform. She discusses how a simplistic, highly scalable architecture allowed them to handle 10 times more load while capturing 97% of tracking data. By Alina Krasavina
Alina Krasavina
2026-06-22 23:07
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The Verge AI
Apple’s latest AirTags are cheaper than ever for Prime Day
Prime Day has brought a number of Apple deals, but one of the most useful if you’re planning to travel over the July 4th weekend or later this summer is on the new AirTags. The four-pack has dropped to a new low of $90 ($9 off) at Amazon and Best Buy, bringing the price of […]
Sheena Vasani
2026-06-22 23:00
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Product Hunt
Persona.js
Add WebMCP-native AI chat to any Frontend Discussion | Link
Ben Lang
2026-06-22 22:59
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Dev.to
AI found 300 WordPress plugin zero-days in 72 hours. I build plugins. Here's what changed for me.
Before I released my own AI chatbot plugin, I ran it through a security review. It came back with 35...
Rapls
2026-06-22 22:47
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Engadget
'Fungalpunk' RPG Signet City isn't afraid to be weird and political
Gareth Martin drew on diverse inspirations for Signet City, from horror manga to a musical from Sting.
staff@engadget.com (Igor Bonifacic)
2026-06-22 22:32
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Engadget
Instagram for TV is now available on Samsung TVs in the US
Instagram's TV app is expanding to Samsung TVs in the US, half a year after it launched for Amazon Fire TV devices.
staff@engadget.com (Mariella Moon)
2026-06-22 22:30
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HackerNews
Show HN: Selector Forge – browser extension for AI-generated resilient selectors
Hi HN, I'm Ahmad from the Intuned ( https://intunedhq.com ) team. Today, we're releasing and open-sourcing Selector Forge ( https://selectorforge.ai/ ), a browser extension that generates reliable CSS/XPath selectors using AI. You can use it to create a selector for a single element or for an array of elements. The selectors it creates are meant to be "semantic" and more resilient to page changes than what Chrome DevTool’s “Copy Selector” (and other similar extensions) give you. Those tend to ha
ahmadilaiwi
2026-06-22 22:21
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Product Hunt
Bluerails Discovery
The rails AI agents use to find and pay you Discussion | Link
2026-06-22 22:12
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The Verge AI
Patreon CEO Jack Conte on supporting artists in the AI slop era
Today, I’m talking with Jack Conte, the CEO of Patreon. Jack last joined me on the show almost exactly five years ago, in the summer of 2021, and a lot has changed on the internet and in the creator landscape since then, so I was very excited to talk to him again, especially since his […]
Nilay Patel
2026-06-22 22:00
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The Verge AI
Apple’s AirPods Max 2 are $150 off for the first time
Walmart has the Apple AirPods Max 2 in every color discounted to $399.99 (normally $549) during Walmart Deals, the lowest price we’ve seen yet by a long shot. Amazon currently has the starlight color selling at this price. In our review, we praised Apple’s latest over-ear headset for its excellent sound quality, impressive noise cancellation, […]
Brad Bourque
2026-06-22 21:47
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Ars Technica
How Anthropic may have talked itself into an AI export ban
The company warned about dangers of advanced AI far more than rival OpenAI.
Clara Murray, Financial Times
2026-06-22 21:45
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