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Issue 168: Hacking Postgres, Blocking Meta and fixing CSS

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Hello fellow developer, ever wondered what's happening with OpenAI's GPT models, how to stand out on Github and how to fix common CSS mistakes? You're in luck! All this and more is just a scroll away… 👇🏾

This week, Francesco Ciulla - Developer Advocate, Content Creator and World Congress speaker - joined us for our weekly live stream to discuss all the latest happenings from the world of tech. We covered why we should treat LLMs with respect, why Rust is taking over and public speaking tips for Developers. There's lots of fascinating insights in this one, so check out the video now.

What's happening in AI

• The State of OpenAI’s GPT Models – Spring 2025
• You're Probably Breaking the Llama Community License
• Anthropic just analyzed 700,000 Claude conversations — and found its AI has a moral code of its own
• This AI already writes 20% of Salesforce’s code. Here’s why developers aren’t worried
• Translating Live Streams in Real-Time with On-Device AI Models

Security and Privacy

• Privacy for Agentic AI
• Flag potentially dangerous API calls in source code, a.k.a. lines containing scary strings from a security perspective!
• Why do websites still restrict password length?
• Hacking the Postgres wire protocol
• How to block Meta AI from using your Instagram or Facebook posts for training

Software Development

• Collection of common CSS mistakes, and how to fix them
• A faster way to copy SQLite databases between computers
• Counting in Binary and Hexadecimal
• Curved Box Cutouts in CSS
• Programming languages should have a tree traversal primitive

Tips, Tricks and Tools

• Avatars
• XCode DevCleaner
• An OpenAI API gateway honeypot
• Tailwind trainer
• BrowserAI - LLMs Directly in Your Browser

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Procrastination corner and Wonderful Weird Web

• Tiny emulators
• Paper Airplane Database
• Comic Sans Maps

• The Abysmal State of Contract Software Development
• Don’t Let Technical Debt Ruin Your Project
• How to Make Your GitHub Profile Stand Out (Without Writing a Line of Code)
• Why are big tech companies so slow?
• YAGRI: You are gonna read it

Companies to check:

• Senior Backend Engineer (C#/.Net) at Riverty
• App Developer Native iOS/Android at Techniker Krankenkasse
• Scrum Master at ROSEN Tech and Research Center
• Software-Entwickler 3D/mobile Apps at piazza blu²
• Full Stack Developer at SD Worx

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