Tricentis Founder Wolfgang Platz says validating your software idea is essential before committing to building it, and that most developers want to skip this step... but shouldn't. How do you validate your project ideas? 🤔

Here's what you might have missed inside Friday's Dev Digest: 🧠 Learn how to become an AI-native software engineer 🤷 How can you stand out when anyone can build anything? 👂 Whisper Leak allows listening to encrypted chats 🐝 What’s new the OWASP2015 Top Ten List more 👇

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?

UK developers know the pain of finding their country on a dropdown. Is it the UK? Wait… Great Britain? England? The British Isles? Just try every key on your keyboard, and eventually you’ll find it 🤷♂️

Julia Kordick is a Global Black Belt at Microsoft. This has to be the best job title in tech. Do you agree?

The best part of the WeAreDevelopers World Congress is that we bring together devs from every corner of tech. With that in mind, here's what we can all learn from the world of indie games 👇 www.wearedevelopers.com/en/magazine/...

SAP's Michael Ameling says it was important for their developers to be able to switch between models to take advantage of each of their benefits. Do you stick to one LLM, or switch between them? Watch this session from the World Congress at www.wearedevelopers.com/en/videos/13...

Amazon CTO Werner Vogels says software developers need to consider evolvability if a product is going to stand the test of time. How do you do this? 🤔 Watch Werner's session from the World Congress at www.wearedevelopers.com/en/videos/13...

Scott Chacon (@chacon) says it's easier for startups to move fast than it is for big organisations. Do you agree?

The CAMARA project is simplifying Telco APIs, with over 60 companies getting involved, putting collaboration above competition. Have you heard what CAMARA is doing? 🤔

Do you know what slopsquatting is? 🤔 AI is throwing up all kinds of new challenges for developers, and slopsquatting is making it even harder to know which dependencies you can trust.

How do you use AI chatbots? Do you always write to them, dictate with your voice, or use chat mode?

Accenture's Tobias Regenfuss says hackathons are a great way for organisations to get developers familiar with their product, but they also learn a lot from the innovations that developers bring. Watch this session from the World Congress at www.wearedevelopers.com/en/videos/13...

The web lets us build things we could not build in real life, and CTO Werner Vogels says Amazon is a great example of this. You'll enjoy this session, so go and check it out at www.wearedevelopers.com/en/videos/13...

Julia Kordick and her colleagues at Microsoft have been migrating COBOL code to Java, but they found that COBOL resources (and code) are hard to find. They teamed up with Bankdata to tackle this tricky technical challenge.

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...

We spend so much of our working lives on GitHub, but how many of its shortcuts do you use? We show you how to use it at super-speed with some handy tips and tricks 👇 www.wearedevelopers.com/en/magazine-...

Nuxt.js's 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? 🔴 Join us for WeAreDevelopers LIVE every Wednesday at 12:30 CE(S)T at wearedevelopers.com/en/live

John Romero (@romero) and Warren Spector say that indie games festivals energise and inspire them, and their fireside chat at the World Congress left us feeling inspired, too 🙌 Go watch it now at www.wearedevelopers.com/en/videos/14...

What do you use Siri and Cortana for, day-to-day? Christian Heilmann, our VP of DevRel, says that marketers will tell us new tech will change our lives, but we shouldn't get caught up in the hype.

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? 🤔

Do younger colleagues better understand AI? Hannah Hennig says that research they've conducted at Siemens AG has produced surprising results. Watch this fascinating session, in full, over at www.wearedevelopers.com/en/videos/13...

Amazon CTO Werner Vogels says developers should break their application down to decide if a monolith or microservices best suit their use case. What do you think? 🤔 Watch Werner's insightful session over at www.wearedevelopers.com/en/videos/13...

Is ChatGPT turning into AI from 'Her'? Daniela Kubesch says it's getting a little strange. Check out Daniela's appearance on our LIVE stream at www.wearedevelopers.com/en/videos/17...

Tessl’s Simon Maple says that teaching LLMs to work with specifications is a great way to make more robust applications.

If you missed Friday's Dev Digest, here's a look inside: 🛰️ A satellite of doom 🤔 Why em-dashes? 😔 Vibe coding Honeymoon is over 🖼️ GenAI image showdown 🔥 Dangers of firewalls and VPNs 👨💼 AI broke interviews 🦉 A LinkedIn wisdom generator

Our VP of DevRel, Christian Heilmann, says that deleting code is more important - and more fun - than actually writing it. Do you agree? 🤔 Watch his closing session from the World Congress, in full, over at www.wearedevelopers.com/en/videos/14...

Elena Torro explains how Penpot handles its state, to store user complex layouts on a drag-and-drop canvas.

Did you know you can test your network connection speed in the Terminal? Here's how. Read the article at www.wearedevelopers.com/en/magazine/...

Less than 3% of startups survive the first three years. Tricentis Founder Wolfgang Platz says there are things we can do to improve our chances, though.

Raymond Camden took a trip down memory lane to look back at how he got started building on the web. Where did it all begin for you? Watch Raymond Camden's appearance on our weekly LIVE stream at www.wearedevelopers.com/en/videos/17...

Entrepreneur and investor Vera Futorjanski says that developers have a lot of responsibility but that they're shaping the future, too.

Albania's government have introduced an 'uncorruptible' AI government minister. Is this another example of throwing AI at a problem hoping it's the solution?

TetraLogical's founder Leonie Watson says the European Accessibility Act might be the worst legislation she's ever come across, but it's important. Does the EAA affect you? 🤔

Does GenAI actually make us more productive, or less? Is AI coming for our jobs... or not? We hear conflicting things about generative AI, so how do we know who to trust? Check out Zalando's Alejandro Saucedo's session from the World Congress at www.wearedevelopers.com/en/videos/13...

Tricentis Founder Wolfgang Platz says your chance of failing is high when you're building software, but that's okay. How do you know which projects to pursue? 🤔

AI benchmarks are not everything, according to @NVIDIA's Ankit Patel. He says that even if your model performs well on benchmarks, it's important to thoroughly test it in context, in your application. Watch this session in full at www.wearedevelopers.com/en/videos/13...

Graham (@GrahamTheDev) says that AI scamming is so believable that he has a 'code word' with friends and relatives, to prove he's human. Have you done anything similar? 🤔 Watch Graham's appearance on WeAreDevelopers LIVE show at www.wearedevelopers.com/en/videos/17...

Frameworks can be handy, but it's easy to over-engineer native elements when using them. We get back to basics and look at some examples. Read on for more 👇 www.wearedevelopers.com/en/magazine/...

Zalando's Alejandro Saucedo says that AI is not new. In fact, many of the fundamental concepts its built upon actually began in the 1970s. Watch Alejandro's insightful session from the World Congress at www.wearedevelopers.com/en/videos/13...

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...

Raymond Camden says he still loves the web today for the same reason as he did when he first started to write code. Anyone can have a prescence online, and we shouldn't take that for granted. Watch Raymond Camden's appearance on our weekly LIVE stream at www.wearedevelopers.com/en/videos/17...

Daniela Kubesch and her team built Allyphant, where developers can learn accessibility through hands-on tutorials. Check out Daniela's appearance on our LIVE stream at www.wearedevelopers.com/en/videos/17...

Tricentis Founder Wolfgang Platz says validating your software idea is essential before committing to building it, and that most developers want to skip this step... but shouldn't. How do you validate your project ideas? 🤔

The gap between proprietary AI models and open source ones, according to @NVIDIA's Ankit Patel. Do you use any open source LLMs?

Bluesky is a callback to the early days of Twitter, with dense, text-based content the priority. Is this still something you enjoy in the age of bite-sized content?

We hid a little easter egg on our site for Halloween, and ended up going down the Google doodle rabbit hole to find their most creative ones over the years. Check out the WeAreDevelopers magazine for more 👇 www.wearedevelopers.com/en/magazine/...

AI is EVERYWHERE... but Zalando's Alejandro Saucedo says the AI space is just getting bigger, and this is why it's exciting time for developers to get involved. Check out Alejandro's session from the World Congress - in full - over at www.wearedevelopers.com/en/videos/13...

TetraLogical's founder Leonie Watson asks whether we should make accessibility a professional requirement for developers, just like architects. What do you think of this idea? 🤔

British developers wrote pre-processors so they could use British English in their code. !ifYouPlease is genius 👏