Localhost HTTPS: 3 Easy Ways to Secure Your Local Development Server – DEV Community

Developing modern web applications often means working with features that require a secure context. Your browser, third-party APIs, and security best practices all push you towards using HTTPS, even in your local development environment. In this comprehensive guide, we’ll explore why you need localhost HTTPS, walk through the traditional methods of setting it up and…

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🚀 How to Seamlessly Switch Between Browsers in Your Web App with browser-switcher

Seamlessly open links in Chrome, Firefox, Brave, Edge, Opera, Samsung Internet, Vivaldi, UC, Safari and more — with Android Intents and iOS URL Schemes. Live demo: https://browser-switcher-demo.jakkimcfly.comGitHub: https://github.com/jakkimcfly/browser-switchernpm: https://www.npmjs.com/package/browser-switcher Have you ever needed to redirect users from one browser to another? For example, when you want a link to be opened directly in Chrome, Firefox,…

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Day-80 JDBC in Java – DEV Community

When building real-world applications, we often need to connect them with databases to store and retrieve data. In Java, this is achieved using JDBC – Java Database Connectivity. JDBC is a standard Java API that allows applications to connect and interact with relational databases such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, or SQL Server. What is JDBC?…

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Why I Founded Cognix: Creating Reliable AI Tools

Originally published on Hashnode The Trust Problem in AI Code GenerationAs developers, we’ve all been there. You ask an AI tool to generate some code, it spits out something that looks reasonable, and then… it breaks in production. Or worse, it fails silently, introducing subtle bugs that take hours to track down. I’ve watched countless…

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KEXP: The Tubs – Full Performance (Live on KEXP)

The Tubs tore through a six-track session in the KEXP studio on June 3, 2025, kicking off with “Freak Mode” and barreling through “Round The Bend,” “Dead Meat,” “Narcissist,” “Sniveller” and closing with “Wretched Lie.” Fronted by Owen Williams (guitar/vocals) alongside Dan Lucas (lead guitar/vocals), Devon Murphy (bass) and Taylor Stewart (drums), the band delivered…

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