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13 Oct 2026 edition

46 articles · 5 sources · 2 papers ·

Top topics: JavaScript · React · AI

JavaScript

VPS latency is a trading rule, not an infrastructure detail

The connection between your trading terminal and the broker's server is usually filed under "infrastructure". On a prop firm evaluation it is a rule, because several of the rules that end accounts are enforced on time…

Source: DEV JavaScript feed Okeke Jenny
JavaScript

Multiple funded accounts are one position, not several

A trader runs three funded accounts at the same firm, same instrument, same strategy, and treats them as three independent shots at a payout. Then a single bad session takes all three at once. The accounts were not…

Source: DEV JavaScript feed Okeke Jenny
JavaScript React

Weekend holding: what an overnight gap does to a funded account

Here is a rule that costs more accounts than almost any other and gets discussed the least: what happens to an open position between Friday's close and Monday's open. Many prop firms restrict or forbid holding across…

Source: DEV JavaScript feed Okeke Jenny
JavaScript

A soft breach and a hard breach are different failures

Two traders each lose an evaluation. One is told their account is closed with a balance of $96,000 on a $100,000 starting account with a $10,000 drawdown. The other is told their account is "soft breached" and they may…

Source: DEV JavaScript feed Okeke Jenny
JavaScript

A glob that stops at the fence

Monorepos nest. The workspace root is often a package itself, and apps/web can sit inside a folder that is also a project. So the question every cache has to answer is: when a task in the outer project says src/** or…

Source: DEV JavaScript feed VX
JavaScript

The model heard the ocean. My demo was silent.

This is a submission for the MLH x DEV Writing Challenge. Built during MLH and DEV's Hacktoberfest Week 1: Touch Grass. What I Built YAMNet had an answer: Ocean, 0.721. The interface offered a water-themed listening…

Source: DEV JavaScript feed Blucca
JavaScript

A cache that stays the size you chose

Every cache miss in a monorepo adds an entry: the outputs of one task, packed and stored under its key. Nothing in that loop ever takes one out. Left alone, a busy repository's cache grows until the disk is full. vx…

Source: DEV JavaScript feed VX
JavaScript

ByeBlocked: Hiding blocked users across Discord

ByeBlocked is a BetterDiscord plugin that hides blocked users across more parts of Discord, rather than just in chat. I created it to address the places where blocked users can still appear throughout the interface. The…

Source: DEV JavaScript feed 8ug8ird
JavaScript

Fast file search isn't searching. It's proving files can't match.

find took 22 seconds to list the first two million files in my Developer folder. A new Rust tool says it answers a fuzzy name search over 8.3 million files in about a tenth of a millisecond. That gap is not a faster…

Source: DEV JavaScript feed Ian
JavaScript

Core Web Vitals & Frontend Performance

⚡ TL;DR: Your laptop lies about speed. Measure what real users feel with LCP, INP, and CLS, then spend effort on the few highest-leverage fixes that actually move those numbers instead of micro-optimizing things users…

Source: DEV JavaScript feed Sri Balaji
JavaScript

Trencada: 380+ free online tools that need no signup

Hey DEV! I'm launching Trencada on here — https://trencada.com — a collection of 380+ free online tools for everyday tasks: PDF tools (merge, compress, convert), image tools (compress, resize, convert HEIC/WebP), text…

Source: DEV JavaScript feed Trencada
JavaScript React

React Context API Explained: Share State Without Prop Drilling

As React applications grow, passing data through multiple components can quickly become difficult to manage. A value that starts in a parent component might need to reach a deeply nested child, forcing every component…

Source: DEV JavaScript feed Ansh Sheladiya
JavaScript

What Is Event Loop Lag in Node.js? How to Measure It (Part 1)

Your Node.js API gets slow. The database looks fine. So do the downstream services. Yet p99 latency has tripled and even the health check takes 300ms. Often the problem is the event loop itself. Node runs your…

Source: DEV JavaScript feed MANAS YADAV
JavaScript React

One by onestack.dev: The React Framework Nobody Asked For

The creator of One almost didn't post it. Nate Wienert, the guy behind Tamagui, opened his own Show HN with this line: "HN has really soured on frontend/frameworks. And I get it. We've collectively complicated the hell…

Source: DEV JavaScript feed Dishant Sharma
JavaScript

Build a Review Storm Analyzer with ToolJet MCP and Jev

What Is a Review Storm Analyzer? A shared spreadsheet that only one person knows how to work stops scaling the week a launch floods your team with customer reviews. Build a review storm analyzer with ToolJet MCP and…

Source: DEV JavaScript feed Athulya R

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