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Issue 188: CfP time, the risks of NPM and IKEA algorithms

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

Hello fellow developer, good news everyone! The call for papers for the first two of our 2026 events is out! So send us your talk outlines for the WeAreDevelopers World Congress in Berlin 8-10/7/26 or the WeAreDevelopers World Congress North America in San Jose 23-25/9/26 and you might be the one featured with a video here afterwards. 

Angie Jones: MCP Mashups - how AI Agents are Reviving the Programmable Web

When Web 2.0 kicked off it wasn't just about having social platforms, it was also about using APIs to take content from them and use them in mashups to create something new. Now Angie Jones from Block explains how AI Agents can be used to revive that time of creativity and using the web as a source to give data more context and meaning.

What's happening in AI

  • The AI coding trap
  • GitHub Copilot CLI is now in public preview
  • Dedicated mobile apps for vibe coding have so far failed to gain traction
  • Chrome DevTools (MCP) for your AI agent
  • Microsoft is Bringing “Vibe Working” to Office Apps

Security and Privacy

  • Sophos: AI deepfakes hit 62% of firms last year
  • When LLMs autonomously attack and Agents Free Each Other
  • GitHub Pages abused to create Mac targetted phishing sites
  • The Risks of NPM and CISA, GitHub taking action
  • Attackers Abuse AI Tools to Generate Fake CAPTCHAs in Phishing Attacks

Software Development

  • The 14kb Problem
  • Taking SVG “screenshots” of HTML elements
  • Use the Accept Header to serve Markdown instead of HTML to LLMs
  • Common Causes of Memory Leaks in JavaScript
  • How AWS S3 serves 1 petabyte per second on top of slow HDDs

Tips, Tricks and Tools

  • Impolighthouse - a sweary review of your website
  • Snappy - a fast compression/decompression library
  • A refresh of Learn CSS with nine new modules
  • AI auto-names your files and sorts them into the right folders
  • ASCII flowcharts

Procrastination corner and Wonderful Weird Web

  • IKEA style instructions for algorithms
  • ohyaml.wtf - how well do you know YAML?
  • Cloudgazing - collaboratively paint on clouds

Career and Culture:

Zero Outage Executive Summit 2025 BUILDING RESILIENT IT Balancing Security, Stability and Innovation Vienna 8.10.2025
Join ZOIS Executive Summit 2025 – October 8, Vienna
WeAreDevelopers is teaming up with Zero Outage Industry Standard for their Executive Summit this fall on the topic “Building Resilient IT: Balancing Security, Stability and Innovation.”
A full day of:
  • Keynotes from industry leaders
  • Breakout sessions
  • Discussions on IT Security, Stability & Innovation
Bonus: The first 10 people from our community can join for free with the code Y86INEO0.
Check out the details and register here: summit-zois.com
  • In the economy of user effort, be a bargain, not a scam
  • Why I gave the world wide web away for free
  • Hiring only senior engineers is killing companies
  • The Theatre of Pull Requests and Code Review
  • When Being Incorrect Became the Internet's Best Business Model
Are you looking for opportunities or fancy a change?

Companies to check:

  • Senior Software Engineer at WALTER GROUP
  • Senior Software Engineer at Aeon
  • Senior IT Service Expert (Tenant) at Riverty
  • SAP Basis und HANA-Administrator:in at ÖBB
  • Senior React Native Developer at Hubert Burda Media
  • NDT Global
  • Rhein-Main-Verkehrsverbund Servicegesellschaft
  • E.ON Digital Technology
  • msg
  • Techniker Krankenkasse

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