WeAreDevelopers Dev Digest

Issue 202: The vibe coding trap, hacking discord and how browsers work

Hello fellow developer, we are back at work after a nice holiday and ready to rock 2026. We hope you also had a great break and the new year brings interesting challenges and changes. Here at WeAreDevelopers we have some grand things coming this year, with three big events in Europe, USA and India and we revamping the whole site and offering to give developers what they need when they need it. And to get started, here is a look behind the scenes how we organise our events: 

26-27/05/26: WeAreDevelopers Conference India - CFP India

08-10/07/26: WeAreDevelopers World Congress Europe - CFP Europe

23-25/09/2026: WeAreDevelopers World Congress North America - CFP US

Get 15% off your tickets with code "devdigest" for Europe, North America

Every year we organise the WeAreDevelopers World Congress and for last year's Developer Relations Summit we put together a "behind the scenes" explanation how we deal with all the call for paper submissions, ensure that the stages run smoothly and post-produce all the videos from the event. Check out how we do it!

What's happening in AI

• 2025: The year in LLMs
• Vibe Coding Without System Design is a Trap
• A Claude "How To"
• 2026 vibe coding tool comparison
• AI code creates 1.7x more problems

Security and Privacy

• VSCode IDE forks expose users to "recommended extension" attacks
• Minimal and hardened images you can trust. Build with open source Try enterprise
• How to hack discord, vercel and more with one easy trick
• How Google Does It: Building AI agents for cybersecurity and defense
• What data do coding agents send, and where to?

Software Development

• The Concise TypeScript Book
• How Browsers Work: An interactive guide to how browsers work.
• Streaming JSON in just 200 lines of JavaScript
• Web development is fun again
• The JavaScript Bundler Grand Prix

Tips, Tricks and Tools

• System Prompts and Models of AI Tools
• Top 100 Claude Code Recipes for Knowledge Workers
• Surf the Web, Save the Ocean
• MicroQuickJS - a JS engine for low end environments
• Turn screenshots into share-ready visuals

Procrastination corner and Wonderful Weird Web

• Watch live TV from around the world and guess which country it's from
• Classical billiards can compute - it is turing complete! 
• MTV Rewind - watch all the old musicvideos

• The Code Review That Cost $2 Million
• On Friday Deploys: Sometimes that Puppy Needs Murdering
• Try to Take My Position: The Best Promotion Advice I Ever Got
• What The Best Engineers Do — and What Actually Got Them Promoted
• Your job is to deliver code you have proven to work

Companies to check:

More jobs here: Remote positions - Germany - Austria