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Issue 162 - hard bugs and horrible managers

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Hello fellow developer, we're still working on the recordings of the WebDev & AI Day last week and are happy to show you the excellent panel discussion this time. Furthermore, let's take a look at the AI Developer landscape, learn about security issues with CSS, scaling your AWS Lambdas and stretching your emoji…

Last week we had our second WeAreDevelopers WebDev & AI day and one of the sessions was a panel with Laurie Voss, Rey Bango, Hannah Foxwell, Rizel Scarlett and Thomas Steiner discussing the future of developer roles and what AI means to our careers and ways of learning our trade. Check out the panel recording - 45 minutes.

What's happening in AI

• The AI native dev landscape, making sense of it and a AI Dev Ecosystem survey!
• Things you never dared to ask about LLMs
• Which AI Model to Use in 2025
• Gemini 2.5 Pro vs. Claude 3.7 Sonnet: Coding Comparison
• Playwright MCP and MCP - It's Hot, But Will It Win?

Security and Privacy

• Fixing web browser history leaks
• Attackers use CSS to create evasive phishing messages
• Trapping misbehaving bots in an AI Labyrinth
• Extracting content from an LCP "protected" ePub
• Memory safety for web fonts

Software Development

• CSS Mixins are ready for experimentation!
• Life Altering Postgresql Patterns
• Handling billions of invocations – best practices from AWS Lambda
• The select element can now be customized with CSS
• Human-readable date formatting with vanilla JavaScript

Tips, Tricks and Tools

• Easy to use and powerful fuzzy string matching.
• A notebook-style editor for building interfaces with Tailwind.
• Learn anchor positioning
• A fast, composable, unstyled command menu for React.
• FilePizza - peer-to-peer file transfers in your browser

Procrastination corner and Wonderful Weird Web

• Long Emoji Maker
• Future Nostalgia: Safeguarding the knowledge of floppy disks
• A collection of digital preservation jumpers no one asked for
• Read NASA’s deleted “First Woman” graphic novels

• AI is "tearing apart" companies, survey finds
• Revenge of the junior developer
• War story: the hardest bug I ever debugged
• The manager I hated and the lesson he taught me
• How engineers can use 1:1s with their manager to accelerate career growth

Companies to check:

• Senior Java Developer at Picnic Technologies B.V
• IT Governance Operations at Redcare Pharmacy
• Teamleiter Bereich Softwareentwicklung at PDV.group
• Softwareentwickler .NET at SCHNELL MEDIA
• Senior Java Engineer at ING Bank N.V.

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