Meta kills like buttons, Tim-Berners-Lee thinks AI won't kill the web, GitHub is ending toasts and the worst selling Microsoft product.

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Issue 195: End of likes, JavaScript's a Zoo and messing with bots!

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Hello fellow developer, who remembers the 80s when computer magazines came with BASIC programs to type in? Well, now there is a paper mag that offers HTML listings, to get typing! Read an interview with Tim Berners-Lee on AI and the web, learn about secure JavaScript, check other people's laptop stickers and learn about the worst selling Microsoft product. Also, time to remove all the Facebook "Like" buttons as Meta is killing them. But first, what if you could learn about security by playing a game in your terminal? 

Coffee with Developers Security Blindspots and How to Learn About Them with Anna Oliveira
Knowing about your security blindspots is important for any developer but security isn't a topic that is easy to get into or master. Automated security tools aren't enough. Anna Oliveira took a different route and teaches you to learn to spot vulnerabilities yourself with an interactive game in the terminal. Check out what she had to say.

What's happening in AI

  • Sir Tim Berners-Lee doesn’t think AI will destroy the web
  • AI Diffusion Report: Where AI is most used, developed and built
  • We ran over 600 image generations to compare AI models
  • The “novel Turing test” detects AI with up to 80% accuracy
  • Messing with bots

Security and Privacy

  • Secure coding in JavaScript
  • Malicious npm package sneaks into GitHub Actions builds
  • Over 67,000 Fake npm Packages Flood Registry in Worm-Like Spam Attack
  • Be careful responding to unexpected job interviews
  • Ransomvibing appears in VS Code extensions

Software Development

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  • Electron vs. Tauri
  • Older Tech In The Browser Stack
  • A complete guide to the HTML number input
  • GitHub no longer uses toasts because of their accessibility and usability issues.
  • Effectively Monitoring Web Performance

Tips, Tricks and Tools

  • Coffee Commit - tracker
  • Shannon - your fully autonomous AI pentester.
  • gerbil - run Large Language Models locally
  • JavaScript engines zoo
  • jsonrepair - repair invalid JSON documents.

Procrastination corner and Wonderful Weird Web

  • ’80s BASIC type-in mags are back, but this time for HTML!
  • The worst-selling Microsoft product of all time
  • Welcome to stickertop.art

Career and Culture:

  • The advice I would give on a mentorship call
  • I am a programmer, not a rubber-stamp that approves Copilot generated code
  • Meta is killing off the external Facebook Like button
  • How I stopped worrying and learned to love the easy fix
  • Needy Programs
Are you looking for opportunities or fancy a change?

Companies to check:

  • Softwareentwickler Backend at boTec
  • AI Team Lead / Senior Engineer at Dynatrace
  • Windows Server Admin at ÖBB-Konzern
  • (Senior) Data & AI Consultant / Banking at msg
  • Senior DevOps Engineer (m/w/d) at Technoly
  • ING Deutschland
  • Finanz Informatik
  • Apaleo
  • VECTOR Informatik
  • envelio

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