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Issue 203: play 90s games, don't return to office and have fun developing!

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Hello fellow developer, it's pretty incredible how ubiquitous and immediate computing has become. Remember when it took ages to start your PC, choose a single game to play and wait for it to load and take over the whole machine? Now you can simulate full Windows experiences in the browser (check in the procrastination section), our devices are always on and there is a constant stream of information. Which is cool, but it also means there is a lot happening that we don't even know. That's especially the case with AI agents and services running in the background, which is why we sat down with an engineer from Mozilla to talk about on-device AI and how to know what is happening.

Tarek
Mozilla is the latest company to add AI to your browsing experience. Time to take a look at what that means for our privacy, performance and security. We sat down with Tarek Ziadé who worked on some of the AI features to learn how to use AI without giving away all of our data. Check out what he had to say.

What's happening in AI

  • Your AI coding agents need a manager
  • Slowing Down AI On Purpose
  • Is hallucination-free AI code possible?
  • I run six Claude Code agents in parallel from my phone
  • CONTRACT.md: The Naughty List for AI Coding Agents

Security and Privacy

  • Bad Vibes: Comparing the Secure Coding Capabilities of Popular Coding Agents
  • Decoding the GitHub recommendations for npm maintainers
  • Using Proxies to Hide Secrets from Claude Code
  • Max severity Ni8mare flaw lets hackers hijack n8n servers
  • CSRF Protection without Tokens or Hidden Form Fields

Software Development

  • Web dependencies are broken. Can we fix them?
  • Web development is fun again
  • The Fundamentals of CSS Alignment
  • State of HTML results
  • Stop turning everything into arrays (and do less work instead)

Tips, Tricks and Tools

  • Search the web without AI summaries or generated slop
  • Convert & Compress your images
  • Send notes that self-destruct when read
  • Copy Any Website's Design & Assets
  • Host meetings on your website

Procrastination corner and Wonderful Weird Web

  • EmuOS - play like it is 1995!
  • Type a tone
  • Adobe Photoshop Source Code

Career and Culture:

  • Do I Leave the Laptop at the Office? A Case Against Returning to Office
  • 6 incredibly hyped software trends that failed to deliver
  • Start your meetings at 5 minutes past
  • How Markdown took over the world
  • Code Is Cheap Now. Software Isn’t.
Are you looking for opportunities or fancy a change?

Companies to check:

  • Duales Bachelorstudium: Informatik at ALDI DX
  • Azure Tech Lead at SD Worx
  • Head of Technology / ERP & BILLING at Wilken
  • Backend Engineer – Data at trivago
  • Ops Engineer - MS SQL Server DB skills at ING
  • Bonial International
  • zeb consulting
  • SMG
  • Finanz Informatik
  • VECTOR Informatik

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