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

Microsoft's Julia Kordick says some AI models are more talkative than others, and some write more code than others, too, and this can be a problem. Have you noticed any differences between the models?

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...

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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

Missed Friday's Dev Digest? Here's a look at some highlights... 🍪 All you ever wanted to know about cookies 🤖 Why ChatGPT cites one page over another 🛠️ How to build better agents 🌐 Is your site agent ready? 🔐 Get started on GitHub Actions security 🧠 How OpenAI built Codex

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.

Keith Cirkel feels that frameworks do not value their users' time, because changes in paradigms require users to re-learn mental models and technical approaches each time the framework is updated. Do you like frameworks, or find them frustrating?

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...