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Top Articles of the Day | 01-May-2026

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AI & Data

Pick #1
Fix MCP Timeouts: Async HandleId Pattern
Dev.to 7 min read 14 reactions

MCP tools freeze AI agents when external APIs are slow, causing 424 errors. The async handleId pattern returns immediately with a job ID and polls for results without blocking.

Pick #2
Show HN: Pu.sh – a full coding-agent harness in 400 lines of shell
Hacker News 1 min read 73 points

A full coding-agent harness in 400 lines of shell. No npm. No pip. No Docker. Just curl, awk, and an API key.

Pick #3
I Compressed GPT-2 to Run on an Arduino ($3 Microcontroller) — Here's How
Dev.to 1 min read 5 reactions

I got GPT-2 running on a $3 Arduino. No cloud. No subscription. Just quantization. The...

Product

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Is Software Development Just a Side Quest? A Jira Story
Dev.to 3 min read 66 reactions

How much time did you spend this week moving tickets in Jira (or other tracking tool) instead of...

Pick #2
They said AI Would Kill SaaS Boilerplates. It's Doing the Opposite.
Dev.to 4 min read 21 reactions

When ChatGPT launched everyone was predicting that developers would soon be obsolete. This was...

Pick #3
OpenAI Tells You What You Spent. Not Where. So I Built a Dashboard.
Dev.to 8 min read 13 reactions

OpenAI's billing page shows total spend. It doesn't show which feature, which tenant, or which conversation caused it. I built a 3-file monitoring system that does — and the first time I opened it, I caught a 100× cost gap between two features I'd been treating as similar.

Programming

Pick #1
More Accessible Focus Indicators with Compose
Dev.to 6 min read 30 reactions

Last summer, I wrote a blog post about focus management with Compose. Ever since, I’ve had drafts of...

Pick #2
5 Levels of AI Code Review — From 'Trust Me Bro' to Production Ready
Dev.to 6 min read 21 reactions

I asked AI to review its own code last week. The code had a bug. An edge case. A variable name that...

Pick #3
Soft launch of open-source code platform for government
Hacker News 1 min read 547 points

Code.overheid.nl platform is now live, enabling government organisations to jointly develop and publish open-source software independently.

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