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Cover image for Hacktoberfest Is Coming to Nadiad, Gujarat 🚀 Official MLH Meetup at DDU, 15 Oct

Organized entirely by a solo student

Dhruv Jani

Oct 2

Hacktoberfest Is Coming to Nadiad, Gujarat 🚀 Official MLH Meetup at DDU, 15 Oct

#hacktoberfest #opensource #ai #beginners

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4 min read

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Hacktoberfest Weekend Challenge: Build for a Friend Submission 🤝

Dhruv Jani

Oct 4

Gift Hunter: An AI Agent That Finds Gifts They’ll Actually Want

#showdev #devchallenge #weekendchallenge #hf26challenge

4 min read

Cover image for WildProof: Go Outside With a Question, Come Back With Evidence

Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 1: Touch Grass Submission 🌿

Dhruv Jani

Oct 10

WildProof: Go Outside With a Question, Come Back With Evidence

#devchallenge #hf26challenge #opensource #ai

6 min read

Cover image for I Built slothd: A Local-First, Offline-Capable AI Daemon That Patiently Organizes Your Messy Workspace

Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 3: Slow and Steady Submission 🦥

Dhruv Jani

Oct 21

I Built slothd: A Local-First, Offline-Capable AI Daemon That Patiently Organizes Your Messy Workspace

#devchallenge #hf26challenge #opensource #gemma

14 min read

Cover image for Popularity Depends on How You Define It: How 700 RSS Bot Posts Took Over DEV's Community Hub 🤖💥

Led to a 4.4x PostgreSQL query regression

Dhruv Jani

Nov 5

Popularity Depends on How You Define It: How 700 RSS Bot Posts Took Over DEV's Community Hub 🤖💥

#discuss #webdev #rails #database

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5 min read