WeAreDevelopers Dev Digest

Issue 187: Build Agents, pick MCPs and prove you're not a robot!

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Hello fellow developer, Chrome is going full AI (at least in the US) and this means browsers will do the surfing and summarising for you. I am not sure I want this as it also means I get the information of the web filtered by the biases of the model and its provider. What about you? Also, learn how to build agentic applications yourself, play a fun game of proving you are not a robot and learn why AI won't make you rich. All of this in the "187, she wrote" edition of the WeAreDevelopers Dev Digest.

Agentic applications are here, and Docker is making their development real for every developer. Learn how Docker Compose simplifies  the development of apps powered by models, agents, and the Model Context Protocol (MCP). Check it out!

What's happening in AI

• AI Will Not Make You Rich
• Chrome Switches on AI does that make it the browser you love?
• How the Anti-AI Movement Hurts Itself (and What It Could Do Instead)
• What you need to know about vibe coding
• GitHub MCP Registry: The fastest way to discover MCP Servers

Security and Privacy

• Everything I buy isn't quite mine like Samsung showing ads to US fridges
• The New Commandments of Security Teams
• Post-quantum security for SSH access on GitHub
• How an Attacker’s Blunder showed us their Day-to-Day Operations
• VirusTotal finds hidden malware phishing campaign in SVG files

Software Development

• Learning web development: Version control via Git and GitHub
• CSS to speech: alternative text for CSS-generated content
• Fetch streams are great, but not for measuring upload/downloading progress
• Low- and Mid-Tier Mobile for the Real World (2025)
• How fast do websites load from Google Search?

Tips, Tricks and Tools

• wttr - a weather API for the command line or to generate images with weather info
• Tabby a terminal emulator, SSH and serial client for Windows, macOS and Linux
• BlazeDiff pixel-perfect image comparison library for JavaScript - and its making of
• Display and interact with audio waveforms in the browser
• sd - search & displace

Procrastination corner and Wonderful Weird Web

• I am not a robot - take a CAPTCHA test that gets increasingly harder
• Alien’s ‘Standard Semiotic’, Pictograms and Icons
• A classic TRON-inspired light cycle game built with Rust and ggez.
  

• Good first issue - committing to a better future
• Why would anybody start a website?
• How To Minimize The Environmental Impact Of Your Website
• When the Job Search Becomes Impossible: Three Phases of Burnout
• Google Discover page favours content from creators defining the creator advantage

Companies to check:

• Python Backend Developerat Raiffeisen Bank
• Senior Software Engineer at Riverty
• Senior Angular Frontend Entwickler:in at ÖBB
• ABAP-Softwareentwickler Entgeltersatzleistungen at AOK Systems
• Senior Software Engineer (Desktop C#) at NDT Global

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