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Issue 169: Computers under pressure, the future of AI and a reason for Vim!

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Hello fellow developer, ever heard about the compute pressure API? It is not about sitting on your mobile or packing your laptop too tight. Also, possible futures for AI as we know it, a way to see your web product in different fonts, how to create great animations and finally a reason why and when you need Vim (or Emacs…). All this further down! 

This week, Matthias Neumayer and Dima Rubanov - co-founders of Oscar Stories and Intellipaper - joined us for our weekly live stream to discuss running AI startups in the EU, the need for sensible regulation and why reverse image search is scary. We're sure you'll enjoy hearing their insights, so check out the video now.

What's happening in AI

• Figma's 2025 AI report: Perspectives from designers and developers
• MCPs, Gatekeepers, and the Future of AI
• The Evolution of AI Products
• The State of WebDev AI 2025 Results: What Can We Learn?
• The Second Half of the AI revolution

Security and Privacy

• MCP: Building Your SecOps AI Ecosystem
• Gaining Long-Term AWS Access with CodeBuild and GitHub
• Detecting and Countering Malicious Uses of Claude: March 2025
• The Truth About VPNs: What You Need to Know
• Everyone knows your location, Part 2: try it yourself and share the results

Software Development

• Good vs Great Animations
• In search of the perfect way to layout images in a website
• W3C invites implementations of Compute Pressure Level 1
• HTML Oddities: Does the order of attribute values matter?
• Exploring GitHub CLI: How to interact with GitHub’s GraphQL API endpoint

Tips, Tricks and Tools

• track-list - a Web Component for enhancing a list of individual audio tracks
• sitefetch - fetch an entire site and save it as a text file for AI models
• Font Tester - pick fonts that demand attention
• Debug-gym - teaching AI coding tools to learn how to debug code like programmers
• gh-signoff - run tests on your own machine and sign off when they pass.

Procrastination corner and Wonderful Weird Web

• TacOS is a UNIX-like kernel which is able to run DOOM
• Why did Windows 7 log on slower if you have a solid color background?
• Fixing a system without enough RAM for a text editor
• Alphabet book challenge

• Avoiding Skill Atrophy in the Age of AI
• How to write error messages that actually help users rather than frustrate them
• The 2025 Annual Work Trend Index: The Frontier Firm is born
• Ask HN: AI Replacing Engineers – Firsthand Stories?
• Requirements change until they don't

Companies to check:

• Lead Software Engineer at MARKT-PILOT
• Junior SAP Integration Consultant at SD Worx
• (Senior) IT Cloud Architekt /Banking  at msg
• Senior Linux Engineer (x64/ARM,Operating System)– REMOTE at Stratodesk Software
• Software Developer Mobile – iOS at Sopra Steria Custom Software Solutions

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