WeAreDevelopers Dev Digest

Issue 206: X algorithm, Super Monkey Ball, Moltbot Security and Owls!

Hello fellow developer, hello agents, bots and people! Welcome to another edition in between a flood of news around Clawdbot/Moltbot and many of the sites using this service. Frankly, we are overwhelmed and will try to dig deeper on that subject soon, but for now, let's tread carefully and not allow automated things to access everything on your computer, OK? But first, let's talk to someone who knows how to make sure services are available, secure and to ensure that who is requesting data really is a human…

There is a 100% chance that you relied on Twilio to connect, authenticate or use a service. Even if you don't know it. We sat down with VP of Engineering Justin Kitagawa to tell us what it’s like to build and scale the infrastructure that powers things like SMS, voice calls, and real-time communication for millions of developers and businesses worldwide. Turns out, an API-first approach scales the best. 

What's happening in AI

• Moltbook is the most interesting place on the internet right now
• Practical Use Of AI Coding Tools For The Responsible Developer
• Use the 'glitch' prompt to make ChatGPT more reliable
• Catching Code Complexity with a Local LLM
• Implementing local-first agentic AI: A practical guide

Security and Privacy

• Qodo have a fun 60 seconds bug hunt challenge
• AIs Are Getting Better at Finding and Exploiting Security Vulnerabilities
• Exposed Moltbook Database Let Anyone Take Control of Any AI Agent on the Site
• How the Clawdbot/Moltbot AI Assistant Becomes a Backdoor for System Takeover
• A backdoor was the "most downloaded" skill for viral Clawdbot/Moltbot
• Bot Insights gives you real-time analytics for bot traffic

Software Development

• X open sources its algorithm deciding what to show 550 million users
• Cross-Document Communication With The Broadcast Channel API In JavaScript
• The engineering behind GitHub Copilot CLI’s animated ASCII banner
• Building a javascript runtime in one month and a browser API in one shot
• JavaScript Frameworks - Heading into 2026

Tips, Tricks and Tools

• Track Your Claude Usage
• Awesome hacking is a curated list of hacking tools
• A curated list of free courses with certifications
• Enhance - upscale and improve image quality directly in your browser.
• Node Modules Inspector

Procrastination corner and Wonderful Weird Web

• Owls in towels
• Porting Super Monkey Ball to the web - play it here.
• Okay Claude, can you help me port Quake to Three.js - Three-quake repository

• Why the forward-deployed engineer is tech’s hottest job
• Why I Still Write Code as an Engineering Manager
• Moving Away From U.S. Services: A Few Favorites
• Sometimes Your Job is to Stay the Hell Out of the Way
• 2026 is the Year of Self-hosting

Companies to check:

1. Solution Architect - Salesforce & Azure at SD Worx
2. Senior Java Developer (SpringBoot) at Deichmann
3. Security Engineer at Technoly
4. Senior QA Automation Engineer at SMG
5. Teamlead Data Science at WALTER GROUP

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