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On our Wednesday LIVE show, we talk about the latest goings on from the world of tech... and occasionally tell a bad (Dad?) joke, too. Watch Graham's appearance on WeAreDevelopers LIVE show at www.wearedevelopers.com/en/videos/17...

Tejas Kumar (@TejasKumar_) says that we should not trust LLM-generated code, and should be vigilant. Do you agree? 🔴 Join us for WeAreDevelopers LIVE every Wednesday at 12:30 CE(S)T at wearedevelopers.com/en/live

Missed Friday's Dev Digest? Here's a look inside... 🌐 Sundar Pichai on what’s in store for the web 💰 Is AI profitable? 🧠 Are AI-assisted engineers burning out because of decision fatigue? 📦 Staged publishing for npm packages 🚨 Megalodon: Over 5k malicious commits infected over 5k GitHub repos

Scott Hanselman says AI presents us with all kinds of ethical challenges, but we're not talking about them enough. Watch Scott's session from the World Congress 2024 at www.wearedevelopers.com/en/magazine/...

Salma Alam-Naylor says that the most fun part of having an application is the process of building it, not just being able to say you have one. How about you... are you more focused on the process or the product? Watch episodes of Coffee with Developers and more at wearedevelopers.com/en/videos

Are you kind to AI? Do you say please and thank you? Scott Hanselman says you probably should be, because it might remember. Watch Scott's session from the World Congress 2024 at www.wearedevelopers.com/en/magazine/...

Do you reach for libraries and packages, or prefer to build a feature yourself? Rowdy Rabouw says he only looks for packages when he doesn’t have the time to commit to do it himself. 🗞️ Subscribe to the Dev Digest at wearedevelopers.com/devdigest

Everybody says AI frees us up to do other things... but can we get AI to fold our laundry? That's the kind of AI we really need. 🔴 Join us for WeAreDevelopers LIVE every Wednesday at 12:30 CE(S)T at wearedevelopers.com/en/live

Scott Chacon (@chacon) says it's easier for startups to move fast than it is for big organisations. Do you agree? Watch Scott's sit down session with us from the Merge in 2024 at www.wearedevelopers.com/en/videos/91...

'Copy to clipboard’ buttons are essential, especially for people using assistive technology. But PLEASE, don’t include the line numbers 😭 🗞️ Subscribe to the Dev Digest at wearedevelopers.com/devdigest

Robby Russell (creator of Oh My Zsh) says he created the open source framework to save developers a few keystrokes. It might be a small problem, but it turns out it's an important one. Watch this episode recorded live from The Merge in Berlin in 2024 at www.wearedevelopers.com/en/videos/91...

Why do we love writing code? Brian Whippo of Algorand says it taps into something in us all, and we chase the dopamine hit of fixing a bug. Why do you love programming? Watch Brian's session from the World Congress at www.wearedevelopers.com/en/videos/13...

Games Industry recruiter Alla Pavlova says the web is flooded with fake candidates and fake CVs, making it harder for recruiters to find real people. 🔴 Join us for WeAreDevelopers LIVE every Wednesday at 12:30 CE(S)T at wearedevelopers.com/en/live

Jonathan Creamer solved a mystery of an ever-growing monorepo, eventually shrinking the git size by 94%. Watch the full episode at www.wearedevelopers.com/en/videos/12... to find out how he did it.

Kyle Daigle (@kdaigle) explains why GitHub is remote-first. Is your role remote, hybrid or in-office? Watch this session in full, recorded live at the Merge, at www.wearedevelopers.com/en/videos/91...

Christian “Schepp” Schaefer says that bombarding users with notifications right away is just bad UX, and puts users off. Do you agree? 🔴 Join us for WeAreDevelopers LIVE every Wednesday at 12:30 CE(S)T at wearedevelopers.com/en/live

Developers need to be empowered to find issues and suggest solutions, rather than simply complete programming tasks set for them. Watch this episode recorded live from The Merge in Berlin in 2024 at www.wearedevelopers.com/en/videos/91...

Francesco Ciulla was lucky enough to get his name as a .com domain. Is yours already taken? Watch episodes of Coffee with Developers and more at wearedevelopers.com/en/videos

Switching from Mac to PC (or the opposite) can be difficult, and Christian “Schepp” Schaefer says you have to go through a “valley of tears” to make the switch. Do you agree? 🔴 Join us for WeAreDevelopers LIVE every Wednesday at 12:30 CE(S)T at wearedevelopers.com/en/live

Brian Whippo of Algorand says that VC funding can be just what some startups need to get going, but AI will drastically reduce the cost of engineering. Watch Brian's session from the World Congress at www.wearedevelopers.com/en/videos/13...

Mastodon was confusing to use when it first launched, but things have changed. Head of Communications, Andy Piper, explains how they work. Watch the full episode at www.wearedevelopers.com/en/videos/13...

Ana Rodrigues says the Web Speech API has improved since she last used it in a live talk. Have you ever used the Web Speech API? See how Ana created a browser-based karaoke game at www.wearedevelopers.com/en/videos/12...

Games Industry recruiter Alla Pavlova says there are AI avatars landing jobs in tech and only being found out when the on-site happens 🤯 🔴 Join us for WeAreDevelopers LIVE every Wednesday at 12:30 CE(S)T at wearedevelopers.com/en/live

Nuxt.js’ Alexander Lichter says that frameworks have a LOT of features, and don’t need to use them all. He also gave us an insight into a handy one-click feature the Nuxt team is considering adding. 🔴 Join us for WeAreDevelopers LIVE every Wednesday at 12:30 CE(S)T at wearedevelopers.com/en/live

Nuxt.js Engineer Alexander Lichter’s advice to other developers is to create more content. Share what you learn, as it helps others and it’s good for your career. Do you create coding-related content?

Marius Obert shows how easy it is to create an AI-powered phone agent using Twilio and OpenAI, and what better way to test it than see if it can top Chris' dad jokes? 🔴 Join us for WeAreDevelopers LIVE every Wednesday at 12:30 CE(S)T at wearedevelopers.com/en/live

Principal Developer Advocate at @AWS Gunnar Grosch says that AI won't put developers out of work, and we'll MORE developers instead. Do you agree? 🤔 Watch Gunnar's appearance on Coffee with Developers at www.wearedevelopers.com/en/videos/17...

Vibe code fixers are everywhere right now, promising to find and fix bugs and issues in vibe-built products. It was inevitable, but is vibe code fixing here to stay? 🔴 Join us for WeAreDevelopers LIVE every Wednesday at 12:30 CE(S)T at wearedevelopers.com/en/live

Saron Yitbarek says diversifying is the best way to stay employable, especially when tech is changing so quickly. Do you think it's better to be a specialist, or a generalist? Watch episodes of Coffee with Developers and more at wearedevelopers.com/en/videos

Salma Alam-Naylor says AI has incredible potential, but is not being used to solve the real problems facing humanity. Instead, it's mostly being used to make GPT wrappers 🤷‍♂️ Do you agree? 🤔 Watch episodes of Coffee with Developers and more at wearedevelopers.com/en/videos

AI coding assistants = coaches. Use them to indulge curiosity and explore problems; you will build better dev skills. Ryan J. Salva (Sr. Director, Product @ Google) breaks it down in this week’s Coffee with Developers. 👉 wearedevelopers.com/coffee-with-developers

2026 = the year of better code, not just more code. AI can help devs do what they love (coding) by handling what they don’t (docs). 🎥 Watch hundreds of sessions from the World Congress over at wearedevelopers.com/en/videos

Google’s Mete Atamel says the coding with Gemini and AI has made writing code fun again. It might not be perfect, but it’s certainly quicker than writing everything by hand. Watch episodes of Coffee with Developers and more at wearedevelopers.com/en/videos

Rowdy Rabouw's sessions are always memorable, and this one was no different 😅 Combining code and creativity, Rowdy makes music where the tempo is set by his heart rate. 🗞️ Subscribe to the Dev Digest at wearedevelopers.com/devdigest

Robby Russell (creator of Oh My Zsh) says writing code is less exciting than what you can do with it. Do you agree? 🤔 Watch episodes of Coffee with Developers and more at wearedevelopers.com/en/videos

Raphael De Lio says that the beauty of Redis being open source is that they can hire from the community. Do you contribute to open source projects? 🤔 🔴 Join us for WeAreDevelopers LIVE every Wednesday at 12:30 CE(S)T at wearedevelopers.com/en/live

Regex is more powerful than you think, especially when generated by LLMs. 🔴 Join us for WeAreDevelopers LIVE every Wednesday at 12:30 CE(S)T at wearedevelopers.com/en/live

Penpot is an open source project, and all features are enabled by default. Enterprise users pay to restrict features, rather than access new ones. What do you think of this model? Watch this episode in full at www.wearedevelopers.com/en/videos/13...

Kyle Daigle (@kdaigle) says AI will not replace developers, and instead it will just operate alongside us. Do you agree? 🤔 Watch this session in full, recorded live at the Merge, at www.wearedevelopers.com/en/videos/91...

Matthias Neumayer, co-founder of OscarStories, says he's already been targeted by AI scammers, and it's only going to get worse. Would regulation help fix the issue? 🔴 Join us for WeAreDevelopers LIVE every Wednesday at 12:30 CE(S)T at wearedevelopers.com/en/live

Kyle Daigle (@kdaigle) says it's important to invest in your development team, and this starts with letting them work from wherever they are. Is your company remote-first? 🤔 Watch this session in full, recorded live at the Merge, at www.wearedevelopers.com/en/videos/91...

Do AI models protect each other? Can Google predict floods? And, can GitHub Copilot modernise old COBOL codebases? Can you tell which stories are real, and which ones we made up? Play this week's Fake or News 🗞️ or join us every Wednesday for WeAreDevelopers LIVE to play along with our guest.

Matthias Neumayer, co-founder of OscarStories, says that users submitting support tickets is a sign that your project is worth working on. No support tickets? This might mean users don't care for it. 🔴 Join us for WeAreDevelopers LIVE every Wednesday at 12:30 CE(S)T at wearedevelopers.com/en/live

If you missed Friday's Dev Digest, here's a look inside... 🧠 Prompts are now tools in Chrome 📜 The AI Coding Agent Manifesto 🔐 How Claude Mythos changes Cyber Security 🧱 GitHub Stacked PRs to battle AI slop ⚙️ Git commands to run before reading code 🐍 A Python framework for agentic times

Dr. Katja Träumner, Head of Data Science and AI at NDT Global, says that while AI could threaten jobs in technology, we must use it to stay current, and we will adapt along with the tech. “Nobody is building a road with a shovel”

Modern design software needs to speak an engineer's language, according to Penpot CEO, Pablo Ruiz-Muzquiz. Are developers and designers merging into one role? Watch this episode in full at www.wearedevelopers.com/en/videos/13...

If you’re interested in AI you’ve probably heard all about graphs… but do you know what they are? Neo4j’s Martin O’Hanlon explains what they are and why we need them. Watch this talk in full at www.wearedevelopers.com/en/videos/13...

According to Marco Podien of the Algorand Foundation, most impactful tech tends to get hyped up early on, but after the hype fades, its real value becomes easier to see. Blockchain, he says, has followed this pattern, but now its real-world use is clear.

Kent C. Dodds (@kentcdodds) says that AI removes the human element from content creation, development, networking, and more and that’s why in-person events are more important than ever before. Watch episodes of Coffee with Developers and more at wearedevelopers.com/en/videos

Let's play fake or news! 💻 🗞️ Can you guess which tech headlines are REAL and which ones we made up? 🔴 Join us for WeAreDevelopers LIVE every Wednesday at 12:30 CE(S)T at wearedevelopers.com/live

Missed Friday's Dev Digest? Here's some highlights... 🗿 Make AI talk like a caveman 🧠 A guide to context engineering for LLMs 🤖 Simon Willison on agentic engineering 🔐 Axios supply chain attack post mortem 🛡️ Designing AI agents to resist prompt injection 🎨 HTML in canvas proposal

Leah Culver (@leahculver) says that the joy of software engineering is in chipping away at projects because, over time, you achieve great things. Watch this session in full, recorded live at the Merge, at www.wearedevelopers.com/en/videos/91...

Julia Kordick is a Global Black Belt at Microsoft. This has to be the best job title in tech. Do you agree? 🔴 Join us for WeAreDevelopers LIVE every Wednesday at 12:30 CE(S)T at wearedevelopers.com/en/live

Microsoft's Julia Kordick was shocked when a CEO asked, ""How many developers can I lay off?"" after using GitHub Copilot to generate code. Have you heard anything like this in tech? 🔴 Join us for WeAreDevelopers LIVE every Wednesday at 12:30 CE(S)T at wearedevelopers.com/en/live

John Romero has been there and done it when it comes to the games industry, and back in 2024 he looked back on a storied career at the World Congress. See more from John Romero at www.wearedevelopers.com/en/magazine/...

Jan Moser says that even with AI, developers need to know how to fix issues when things go south. Do you agree with Jan? 🔴 Join us for WeAreDevelopers LIVE every Wednesday at 12:30 CE(S)T at wearedevelopers.com/en/live

AI is forced to be derivative, so can it really capture the creativity of humans? John Romero says his development team created Doom because of who they were as people, and AI could not re-create it. See more from John Romero at www.wearedevelopers.com/en/magazine/...

If you missed Friday's Dev Digest, here's a look inside: 🕵️ Claude source code leaked, analysed and re-written in 2 days 🐙 GitHub auto-opts users into feeding their code to train their AI 🌐 Pretext shows how to show complex text rendering in the browser 🤖 How to securing autonomous agents

Jan Moser gives his advice for junior developers in the age of AI-assisted coding. Do you respect the craft of coding? 🎟️ Get your tickets now for World Congress Europe 2026 over at worldcongress.dev

Jan Moser says AI has changed what clients expect from development teams, and vibe coders often overlook security when building software. Do you agree with Jan? 🤔 🔴 Join us for WeAreDevelopers LIVE every Wednesday at 12:30 CE(S)T at wearedevelopers.com/en/live

Here are five security and privacy tools you can use right away 🔓 Grab links to all five over at www.wearedevelopers.com/en/magazine/...

Francesco Ciulla says he first spoke at the WeAreDevelopers World Congress to conquer his fear of public speaking. As a Developer, does public speaking interest you? 🔴 Join us for WeAreDevelopers LIVE every Wednesday at 12:30 CE(S)T at wearedevelopers.com/en/live

Francesco Ciulla says that the great thing about development is that your path does not need to be ordinary, and there are plenty of ways into the industry. Do you agree? 🤔 Watch episodes of Coffee with Developers and more at wearedevelopers.com/en/videos

Emma Dawson explains why accessibility regulation is important. So much of life is online, and everybody should be able to access their bank, pay a bill or order some groceries, right? 🔴 Join us for WeAreDevelopers LIVE every Wednesday at 12:30 CE(S)T at wearedevelopers.com/en/live

Missed Friday's Dev Digest? Here's a look inside... 🤫 Don't tell your LLM that it is an expert 👻 AI generated code is invisible 🔄 Learn about agentic workflows 🛡️ Linux Foundation sponsors fight against AI slop

Developers often create custom dropdowns, radio buttons or selects when they want to style them. Did you know that this makes your website less accessible? Emma Dawson explains why we should try to use native elements.

Do you use pull request templates? Penpot's Elena Torro says well-structured PRs that follow a template are more likely to be approved than ones that don't. What do you think? 🔴 Join us for WeAreDevelopers LIVE every Wednesday at 12:30 CE(S)T at wearedevelopers.com/en/live

Elena Torro explains how Penpot handles its state, to store user complex layouts on a drag-and-drop canvas. 🔴 Join us for WeAreDevelopers LIVE every Wednesday at 12:30 CE(S)T at wearedevelopers.com/en/live

Is infinite scroll superior to pagination? Sure it's a hook to keep you scrolling, but which is better for UX? Watch episodes of Coffee with Developers and more at wearedevelopers.com/en/videos

Software engineer Dayana Mick says that even though people increasingly use chatbots rather than search engines, there's a good reason to stick with search. Watch episodes of Coffee with Developers and more at wearedevelopers.com/en/videos

Sentry Founder David Cramer (@zeeg) says different languages have different cultures when it comes to libraries. Is it better to have standard libraries, or competing ones built by the developers using them? Watch episodes of Coffee with Developers and more at wearedevelopers.com/en/videos

Here's some AI stories developers have been talking about... AI writes good code but makes bad decisions, AI code has a hidden cost and maybe the coding agent is already 💀. Get all the links below 👇 www.wearedevelopers.com/en/magazine/...

Sentry Founder David Cramer (@zeeg) says developers shouldn't just use the latest hyped-up tech, and should always ask "does this actually solve a problem?" Watch episodes of Coffee with Developers and more at wearedevelopers.com/en/videos

Here's a look back at Friday's Dev Digest... 🤔 WebMCP or MCP 🧠 Essential Claude code skills 📊 The AI incident database 🎨 Hacking CSS ⚡ Rethinking web performance 🐍 How Python got lazy imports 📘 Free “Algorithms with TypeScript” book 📉 AI makes you 10% more productive, not 10x

Here's how it goes... - Buy a domain - Forget about it, - Accidentally leave it on auto-renew - Remember when you get an invoice - Forget to cancel or turn off auto-renew - Repeat Does this sound accurate?

CSS generators are super useful, and so we've put together five that we know you're going to love. Get the links over at www.wearedevelopers.com/en/magazine/...

How do you debug your code? Do you use console.log(), the de-bugger or something else?

"Sorry, this page has not been optimised for mobile". Is this still acceptable in 2026? 🔴 Join us for WeAreDevelopers LIVE every Wednesday at 12:30 CE(S)T at wearedevelopers.com/en/live

In 2025, jQuery was STILL one of the top three most popular technologies for developers, according to the Stack Overflow Developer Survey. Does this surprise you? 🤔 🔴 Join us for WeAreDevelopers LIVE every Wednesday at 12:30 CE(S)T at wearedevelopers.com/en/live

Vibe-coders have abstracted away the complexity of coding, but it's still important for them to understand how to write code if they're going to fix issues that arise. 🔴 Join us for WeAreDevelopers LIVE every Wednesday at 12:30 CE(S)T at wearedevelopers.com/en/live

This was an official Windows theme, called Hot Dog Stand. How did this ever get approved?! 🔴 Join us for WeAreDevelopers LIVE every Wednesday at 12:30 CE(S)T at wearedevelopers.com/en/live

Can anybody really be a 'full stack' developer? Surely everybody has a preference, or a specialism? Is 'full stack' a myth? 🔴 Join us for WeAreDevelopers LIVE every Wednesday at 12:30 CE(S)T at wearedevelopers.com/en/live

Is HTML written for humans... or LLMs? If it's no longer primarily for humans, why do we try to make it readable? 🔴 Join us for WeAreDevelopers LIVE every Wednesday at 12:30 CE(S)T at wearedevelopers.com/en/live

If you missed Friday's Dev Digest, here's a few highlights: 🏗️ Can the infrastructure keep up with AI growth? 📱 Top 100 GenAI consumer apps 🪱 Wikipedia hit by worm and AI slop 🔍 The results of Codex Security scanning 1.2M commits 🧹 Bye bye innerHTML, welcome setHTML()

Cassidy Williams explains what VC scouting is, and how it's used to help find the next big startup in the tech space. Watch Cassidy's full episode of Coffee with Developers, recorded live in Germany at the Merge 2024, at www.wearedevelopers.com/en/videos/91...

Cassidy Williams says AI is amazing, but can be easily tricked, and the results can be worrying. Do you ever jailbreak or trick the LLM you're using? Watch Cassidy's full episode of Coffee with Developers, recorded live in Germany at the Merge 2024, at www.wearedevelopers.com/en/videos/91...

Want to know what's been happening in tech security this week? Here's five stories you might have missed... For all the links, head to www.wearedevelopers.com/en/magazine/...

Cassidy Williams says that AI is useful, but using it should not replacing learning how to write code. Do you spending less time learning than you used to now you have AI? 🤔

Cassidy Williams says we should be careful using AI to handle hiring, as it can make terrible mistakes. Does AI still need human supervision? 🤔 Watch Cassidy's full episode of Coffee with Developers, recorded live in Germany at the Merge 2024, at www.wearedevelopers.com/en/videos/91...

Carly Richmond decided to dive into machine learning and build a project with it. It certainly wasn’t plain sailing, but her tip is to try and learn from reading and using open source code. Standing on the shoulders of giants, right?

Brian Whippo of Algorand says that VC funding can be just what some startups need to get going, but AI will drastically reduce the cost of engineering. Watch Brian's session from the World Congress at www.wearedevelopers.com/en/videos/13...

Missed out on Friday's Dev Digest? Here's a few highlights... 🪦 Is MCP already dead? 🐍 Secure snake on the CLI 🏗️ The architecture behind open source LLMs ⚖️ AI companies and governments at odds 🦫 Is Go the best language for AI agents? 🕵️ "Security research" bot hacks Microsoft, Datadog and big repos

Brian Whippo of Algorand says that while AI threatens to transform how we work, developers should see it as an upskilling moment, and adapt. Do you agree? Watch Brian's session from the World Congress at www.wearedevelopers.com/en/videos/13...

Brenda Romero says the average career length for a game developer is a LOT shorter than you think. What's your advice for surviving and thriving in the tech industry? Watch Brenda's session from the World Congress in 2024 at www.wearedevelopers.com/en/videos/92...

Brenda Romero says she loves building games, but still had to look out for signs of burnout. How do you recognise it when you're burning out? 🤔 Watch Brenda's session from the World Congress in 2024 at www.wearedevelopers.com/en/videos/92...

The team at Faith @ VCCP created an AI voice bot for telecoms company O2 UK to waste scammers’ time. Developers can relate to that feeling you get when you test your product with live users… and IT WORKS! Watch the full episode at www.wearedevelopers.com/en/videos/13...

When the faith @ VCCP started building a scam-baiting AI voice bot, they struggled with latency. …Until they realised it made the AI character more believable. Watch the full episode at www.wearedevelopers.com/en/videos/13...

Every week we find HUNDREDS of tools and share our favourites in the Dev Digest. ...But we can't squeeze them all in. Instead, we'll be sharing some of the best ones on our magazine, starting off with JSON tools you might find useful. Get the links ➡️ www.wearedevelopers.com/en/magazine/...

Angie Jones (@techgirl1908) says that we must embrace AI and accept the way it has changed the industry and how people learn to code. Do you agree? Watch the full panel at www.wearedevelopers.com/en/magazine/...