About the author
Mika Flowers
@mikachu
Self-taught dev. Creator of Mochi, a native Linux desktop pet. I build Linux/web tools and write about them. Open to software engineering and technical writing roles.
Alexandria, Virginia
Sep 26
I Built a Better Codex Pet Than OpenAI Did
Sometimes you just have to let the agent cook. Mika vs. a multi-billion-dollar...
Sep 25
My AI Agent's Skill Declared Nothing. It Still Read 9 Files, Ran 7 Processes, and Got Blocked 3 Times.
I gave an AI agent a code-review skill. It never mentioned touching the filesystem or spawning...
Sep 25
Can Two Local AI Agents Build an App Without Me? I Gave Them 6 Rounds to Find Out
I have very, very limited experience with AI agents. I've used AI heavily while building software,...
Sep 25
8 Posts by Women on DEV That Deserve More Than a Once-a-Year Spotlight
We went looking for good posts by women on DEV. Not "inspirational," not "diverse" but just genuinely...
Sep 24
Devlog: I Built a 3D Library in Three.js Without a Level Editor — So I Made My Own
Updated 3D Environment for Library Reading DEV Articles A lot of you...
Sep 23
I Turned DEV.to Into a Walkable 3D Library — Debugging It Has Been a Nightmare
DEV Library is my idea of first-person 3D reimagining of DEV.to. Not a themed scene with some...
Sep 21
Calculators Were the Original "AI Cheating Panic" — And We're Doing It All Again
Picture this: it's the 1970s, and a kid pulls out a pocket calculator during a math test. Teachers...
Sep 21
why on earth does the Claude logo still look like a sphincter?
I need to talk about the Claude logo. Seriously. It's 6 in the morning on a random Monday and this...
Sep 20
nobody teaches you software architecture. you just break something enough times.
For the longest time, I thought architecture was something other people did. Not I. Design patterns?...
Sep 20
i built a green blob that lives on my desktop. now it has feelings.
A quick disclaimer before we dive in: when I say "feelings," I mean state machines, bond...
Sep 19
AI Is Making You a Worse Engineer and a Better Employee
Somewhere in the last few years, "good at your job" and "good at your craft" quietly stopped meaning...
Sep 19
Stop Building Portfolio Projects. They're Making You Worse.
There's a piece of advice that gets repeated constantly to people trying to break into tech: build...