WeAreDevelopers Dev Digest

Issue 197: Dunning-Kruger steroids, cloud security, puppies > beer

Hello fellow developer, with Black Friday, Cyber Monday and many other "you need to buy this now" out of the way, let's take a look at the current state of cloud security, how LLMs make us seem much cleverer than we are and what really caused companies to get rid of thousands of developers. Also, as we are now in December, check out all the great technology holiday calendars to learn new things daily. But first, we had a chat with a person who thinks the next generation should learn how to program instead of agents…

What's happening in AI

• AI isn’t replacing jobs. AI spending is
• AI at trivago: from experimentation to everyday impact
• How to add machine learning to your web application with ONNX Runtime
• why agents DO NOT write most of our code - a reality check
• LLMs are steroids for your Dunning-Kruger

Security and Privacy

• Breaking Into GitLab: Attacking and Defending Self-Hosted CI/CD Environments
• Send this article to your friend who still thinks the cloud is a good idea
• Google warns that a new era of self-evolving, AI-driven malware has begun
• LLM honeypot
• State of cloud security

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Software Development

• Avoid Multiple Page Redirects: How Redirects Impact Page Speed
• Move elements around the DOM while preserving their state with moveBefore
• High Performance Images: 2025 Guide
• Where web components shine
• Modern JavaScript for Django Developers

Tips, Tricks and Tools

• A Personal AI assistant/agent in your terminal
• h2tunnel - TCP over HTTP/2
• A simple static password generator
• Shunpo - bookmark directories in terminal
• is-my-node-vulnerable

Procrastination corner and Wonderful Weird Web

• Codingfont - find what suits you best
• How audio CDs get metadata
• Guess the bounces

• Why your retrospectives don't work and how to fix them
• How to be creative (without taking drugs)
• The terminal of the future
• Payment form best coding practices that don't drop sales
• The Reality of Open Source: More Puppies, Less Beer

Companies to check:

• Android Engineer at Patronus Group
• Team Lead Customer Data Integration at envelio
• Backend Engineer at fulfillmenttools
• Softwareentwickler Java at AOK Systems
• SAP Developer IT HR at Deichmann SE

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