WeAreDevelopers Dev Digest

Issue 185: Hello Asia, why gaming is the future and is vibe coding a scheme? 

WeAreDevelopers World Congress 8-10/7/26 - get 15% off using code devdigest

Hello fellow developer, what a week! NPM had a huge supply chain takeover, and Apple announced a lot of stuff. The important parts are that 54 lost clickwheel iPod games have been preserved and the weirdness that the time picker is just a really long list. Other big news is that WeAreDevelopers Expands to South Asia - we hired folk and there will be a WeAreDevelopers event in India in 2026!  

Johanna Pirker is a professor in Munich/Graz with a focus on computer games and research. She joined us last Wednesday at WeAreDevelopers Live and generally rocks 🤘🏽 - so makes sure to check out the amazing talk that she gave on the main stage at WeAreDevelopers World Congress about the future past of technology - gaming!

What's happening in AI

• AI Artists vs. AI Engineers - which one are you?
• AI Darwin Awards - asking "Can We?" without "Should we?"
• Building Agentic AI Systems - what actually works in production
• Monetise Your Content with the RSL Standard - robots.txt for AI crawlers
• Introducing the MCP Registry and an AI Agents Directory

Security and Privacy

• AI Injection Attacks
• Tracking malicious code execution in Python
• Plex hacked - change your passwords now!
• Inline Style Exfiltration: leaking data with chained CSS conditionals
• How to protect your AI agent from prompt injection attacks

Software Development

• Things you can do with a debugger but not with print debugging
• Reactive: A React Book for the Reluctant
• Removing a 10 year old check in Rails leads to significant speed increase
• Partytown: Optimize Third Party Scripts with Web Workers
• Just Enough Automation - it's a tool, not a goal!

Tips, Tricks and Tools

• CSS Code Quality calculator
• Findmytakeover - detect dangling DNS record in a multi cloud environment
• Sustainability dashboard: Shine a light on your digital carbon footprint
• Generate any sound imaginable from a text prompt
• Mediabunny - read, write, and convert video and audio files in JavaScript

Procrastination corner and Wonderful Weird Web

• Fill in today's New York Times headlines before time runs out.
• Music for programming
• How to read audio CDs data programmatically

• All vibe coding tools are selling a get rich quick scheme
• Why AI Probably Won't Help Your Team Ship More Product
• The Scam Called “You Don't Have to Remember Anything”
• Why Developers Don’t Know What Dev Ex Is
• Vibe Coding as a Coding Veteran

Companies to check:

• Testmanager ERP International at Dirk Rossmann
• DevOps Engineer (Kubernetes/Docker) at basebox
• Python Software Engineer at Picnic Technologies B.V.
• Senior Analytics Engineer at Apaleo
• Backend Java Engineer (medior) at SMG

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