Skip to main content

DEV account connection not recognized

Hi! I'm participating in Hacktoberfest 2026 Week 1: Touch Grass. My DEV account is already connected to my MLH account. In DEV Settings → Account, I can see MLH connected , and the email addresses match. However, my Hacktoberfest participant dashboard still shows “Connect DEV account” as incomplete. Clicking the button only takes me to DEV Account Settings, where the MLH connection is already…

dev.to ·2h ago

We haven't written up this one. Dev.to has the full story — the link below goes straight to it.

Read the original at dev.to →

More in Tech

ERC-3643 vs ERC-1400: How to Choose a Standard for Tokenized Instruments

Choose ERC-3643 when the central requirement is that a token can move only to an eligible investor represented through an on-chain identity system.

2h ago ·dev.to

Edge Cases in VIN Check Digits: X, Transliteration Mistakes, and Invalid Characters

A basic VIN check-digit function looks finished after length, charset, and mod-11. Production traffic then proves otherwise: position 9 can be X, letter maps are not A=1 through Z=9, and users paste…

Position 9 can be 'X', representing remainder 10, deviating from 0-9 range
Specific letters accepted in position 9 through transliteration values
Users frequently input invalid characters like 'I', 'O', 'Q' not allowed in VINs

2h ago ·dev.to

InitOps: One-Command WordPress Deployment on Ubuntu

Setting up a production-ready WordPress server on a fresh VPS often means going through a long list of tasks: installing Nginx, PHP-FPM, MariaDB, Redis, configuring firewall rules, setting up…

InitOps simplifies WordPress deployment on Ubuntu VPS with one command
Supports Ubuntu LTS versions 24.04 and 26.04 with various PHP versions
Offers hardware-aware configuration and multi-site WordPress hosting

2h ago ·dev.to

SQL Joins Explained with a Real-World E-Commerce Database

If you're building a Java Full Stack application, SQL joins are something you'll use far beyond interview questions. In a real e-commerce application, customer information, orders, products, payments…

2h ago ·dev.to

Silicon Labs Expands AI Developer Platform With New Offerings

(RTTNews) - Silicon Laboratories Inc. (SLAB), a fabless semiconductor company, Tuesday announced a set of developer initiatives that makes it easier to build, extend, and operate increasingly capable…

2h ago ·nasdaq.com

Fake Signups and Card Testing: A Small Defense Stack for a Tiny SaaS

If your signup form has been live for a few months, go look at your newest users table right now. Sort by created_at , scroll a bit.

Identify three main issues: junk signups, free tier abuse, and card testing
Monitor Stripe dashboard for failed payments and genericdecline errors
Implement CAPTCHA, rate limit signups, and restrict card form access

2h ago ·dev.to

More from Wednesday 7 October →