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Oh yeah, we crossed 1,000 members on the @dev_korea Discord server! Thanks @BertijnPauwels for taking good care of it! The link of the Discord is on the top banner of dev-korea.com!

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Dev Korea #11 is happening July 29, co-hosted with AI Salon and SVC Seoul. 🎤@cailynyongyong: How to go viral on X and build your community 🎤@hyojun_at: 7 pivots to build something people want Chill vibe, free, primarily in English. Details and RSVP: dev-korea.com/events/dev-kor…

🔥ProCrewz® is hiring an AI Engineer to build LLM-based RAG and agent systems, Python AI backends, and a company-wide centralized dashboard for a live-show crew workforce management SaaS 📍Remote from Korea 💼Full-time 🗣️Korean language: business Apply👇 dev-korea.com/jobs/procrewz-…

@florianldt @OpenAI @hashed_official ❤️❤️❤️

One of my favorite moments from this week’s @OpenAI × @dev_korea × @hashed_official event actually happened after the event. Oscar has been helping us document our events with photos and videos, creating memories everyone can look back on. As I called him up on stage on Wednesday… he accidentally dropped one of his camera lenses. 😭 The entire room heard it. Everyone gasped. 😱 The lens looked ok at first, but unfortunately it ended up being broken. The next day, Oscar posted in our Discord asking if people would be open to contributing toward a replacement. Camera gear is incredibly expensive, and this was his most-used lens. Just a few hours later, the community had raised the full amount. Some people gave a little, others gave more. That’s not really the point. The point is that people looked after one another. I think it's "easy" to build a community around events. It’s much harder to build one where people genuinely care about each other. Seeing everyone come together to help someone who has given so much back to the community was honestly really special. Thank you to everyone who contributed, and thank you Oscar for helping us capture so many memories. 🫶 This is exactly the kind of community I hope @dev_korea continues to be.

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New talk video just dropped on @dev_korea🎥 Beyond resilience: Architecting antifragile systems by Jan de Vries. Most systems are built to survive failure. But what if they could actually become stronger because of it? In this talk you’ll learn about: - Why resilience isn’t the end goal - Chaos engineering, error budgets, and controlled experimentation - Reducing technical debt through “via negativa” - Why optimizing MTTR often matters more than preventing every failure - Building organizations that adapt instead of just recover A great session for software engineers, architects, DevOps engineers, engineering managers, and anyone building systems that need to last. Watch it here 👇 dev-korea.com/talks/beyond-r…

@florianldt @OpenAI @hashed_official @gabrielchua @wonforall What a night!!!!

Still thinking about yesterday's @OpenAI × @dev_korea × @hashed_official Codex Meetup Seoul 🇰🇷. 250+ people joined us for an evening of demos, talks, and great conversations around Codex and the future of building with AI. Huge thanks to @gabrielchua, @wonforall, everyone who came, and to OpenAI and Hashed for making it possible. Banger video. 🎥🔥

Codex meetup was incredible! Please do more! @florianldt @dev_korea

At @dev_korea, @heo_serin and I remain committed to building a fair, transparent tech market in Korea, which is why we continue to publish Dev Korea's revenue every month. By sharing our numbers, both highs and lows, we hold ourselves accountable and hope to inspire more openness across the community. 💰 June 2026 revenue: $2,786 (up from $330 in May 2026) Your continued support and feedback drive us forward. What would you like to see from Dev Korea in the coming months? 🚀

@florianldt @heo_serin Let's goo!!!

Next week's OpenAI Codex Meetup will be the 60th event @heo_serin and I have hosted in South Korea. That number combines two communities. The first is the Seoul iOS Meetup, which I started in Korea while I was still based in Japan and not yet fully moved over. The second is @dev_korea. From the very first Seoul iOS Meetup in a coffee shop on Oct 20, 2022, with only 2 attendees, to one of our recent Dev Korea events with 150, the idea has stayed the same: bringing tech enthusiasts together, Korean natives and foreigners alike, for English-first roundtables, tech talks and networking. From solo speakers to co-hosting with companies. Always with a fun, deconstructed vibe, and ego left at the door. The logistics changed a lot along the way. What didn't is Serin's support, and her patience for putting up with me at every edition. Plus all the volunteers, sponsors, friends and supporters who keep showing up and lending a hand. I won't pretend it isn't a lot of work to put each one together, but seeing where this has gone makes it all worth it. "Big round of applause"™️ (by now probably my most overused catchphrase 😂), and thank you all 🙏

The usual "Before starting" slide present in all my talks, this time for the upcoming AWS Student Builder Group. Groundbreaking news: 🚨Memes/Gifs will be used!!!!!!

Retentics is hiring a Junior Data Scientist to design predictive models and recommendation algorithms at the core of an AI-powered email marketing SaaS 📍Seoul (on-site) 🗣️ Works in English, Korean not needed 🛂 Must be eligible to work in Korea Apply 👇 dev-korea.com/jobs/retentics…

Made an Uncle Sam style popup (Uncle Florian?) on dev-korea.com to drive more traffic to the @dev_korea State of Dev 2026 survey! Let's see how it goes 😂

@dev_korea is teaming up with our friends at @OpenAI for an evening all about Codex Hear directly from @gabrielchua & the OpenAI team on the latest updates, catch live demos from the community, & pick up practical tips whether you're a new or power user dev-korea.com/events/dev-kor…

@gabrielchua 🥳 🥳 🥳