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title: 178 - VPNs to remove, Coder > AI, your trackpad as a scale
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Learn about Digital Sovereignty, how a coder crawled 1bn sites in 24 hours and how to turn your trackpad into a scale!

| WeAreDevelopers Dev Digest View in browser Issue 178 - VPNs to uninstall, coder beats AI, weighing things on your trackpad… WeAreDevelopers World Congress 8-11/7/26 - get 15% off using code "devdigest" Hello fellow developer, as a lot of people enjoy their vacations, we plough through the content created at the WeAreDevelopers World Congress and get all ready for you. If you've been there, you can now watch all video recordings in the app! If you haven't, we're working on releasing them soon. For now, let's learn about an important data topic: There is no doubt that AI and the cloud are useful things that make our lives a lot easier. However, one of the least discussed topics is that of ownership. Where does your data live? Who records what you do and in which context does your data show up? We talked with Julien Blanchez, Digital Sovereignty Solutions Lead at Google about these matters. Learn who owns what and why Digital Sovereignty matters to developers. What's happening in AI Human coder beats OpenAI in marathon programming contest Rethinking CLI interfaces for AI It’s rude to show AI output to people  DuckDuckGo now lets you hide AI-generated images in search results AI doesn’t make devs as productive as they think, study finds Security and Privacy Delete These Chinese VPNs As ‘Risks Are Too Great’ TapTrap: almost invisible attack without permissions targets Android devices Fun with Gzip Bombs and Email Clients Do not trust ChatGPT agent with sensitive or personal data - says Sam Altman(!) Hackers exploit a blind spot by hiding malware inside DNS records Your stack already uses TypeScript or Python,  but what if you could take that same developer experience and extend it into decentralized systems? Learn how to build tamper-proof apps that span client, backend, and blockchain using familiar TypeScript or Python patterns. With AlgoKit, you don’t need to start from scratch to explore trustless coordination, verifiable data, or programmable assets. Join a workshop! Software Development Crawling a billion web pages in just over 24 hours WebAssembly: Yes, but for What? CSS 2-for-one: font-size-adjust Is useful and don’t animate height! First Come First Served: The Impact of File Position on Code Review A Friendly Introduction to SVG Tips, Tricks and Tools wtffmpeg - Natural Language to FFmpeg Translator. yt-transcriber - batch transcribe videos in the terminal. WaitLock - mutex and semaphore functionality for shell scripts. am-i-vibing - detect agentic coding environments and AI assistant tools. git-bug - a decentralized issue tracker Procrastination corner and Wonderful Weird Web new Date(“wtf”) How well do you know JavaScript’s Date class? Fresh AI generated startup ideas from the current Hacker News front page! Turn your MacBook’s trackpad into a digital scale - it works, we tried it! Career and Culture: Vibe coding CEO deletes “production” database using Replit How AI Vibe Coding Is Destroying Junior Developers’ Careers The AI Replaces Services Myth How I Use Claude Code to Ship Like a Team of Five Amazon Ring Is Making AI A Job Requirement and so does Yahoo Japan! Are you looking for opportunities or fancy a change? Companies to check: Staff Engineer at CloudLinux Cloud Infrastructure Developer at Sartorius Senior Engineer - Cloud Services at SKIDATA Leitung IT-Betrieb / Service at PROSOZ Herten DevOps Engineer at Power Plus Communications SMG fulfillmenttools STACKIT ING Deutschland Riverty More jobs here: Remote positions - Germany - Austria WeAreDevelopers, Schottenfeldgasse 23, Vienna, Vienna 1070, Austria Unsubscribe Manage preferences |
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