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title: "207:  Spring cleaning, AI agent manipulation and stopping bad bots"
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Trust in AI is low, yet are we too lazy to verify? OpenClaw fighting malware, how to clean your Mac and how to batch resize images.

| WeAreDevelopers Dev Digest View in browser Issue 207:  Spring cleaning, AI agent manipulation and stopping bad bots 26-28/11/26: 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 Hello fellow developer, the web is stifled by a lot of unnecessary data. We use frameworks, AI generated code and complex tricks we needed when IE was a thing and then wonder why our traffic numbers are high but users don't convert to buyers. This edition of Dev Digest is a spring cleaning edition. You learn how to embed videos without delays, how to replace a ton of JavaScript with HTML, how to batch resize your images and how to clean up your computer. So, let's get scrubbing… Are you using more JavaScript than you need to in your product? And why is that a problem? We sat down with Aaron T. Grogg, a web performance specialist who put together a repository called NoLoJS which shows CSS/HTML only alternatives to heavy and slow JavaScript solutions. If you haven't had the time to catch up with what is possible with the web's own technologies, check out what he had to say.   What's happening in AI 96% Engineers Don’t Fully Trust AI Output, Yet Only 48% Verify It Self-Improving Coding Agents Claude Code: connect to a local model when your quota runs out 10 Charts That Explain the AI Era Stopping Bad Bots Without Blocking the Good Ones Security and Privacy ClawSec: Security Skill Suite for AI Agents Mobile carriers can get your GPS location OpenClaw integrates VirusTotal malware scanning to battle enterprise risks 17% of 3rd-Party Add-Ons for OpenClaw Used in Crypto Theft and macOS Malware How manipulation-proof is your AI agent? Software Development A broken heart or, getting a 100x speedup with one dumb line of code. Claude Code's renderer is more complex than a game engine Explicit resource management in JavaScript JavaScript's for-of loops are actually fast Performance-Optimized Video Embeds with Zero JavaScript Tips, Tricks and Tools 60 Cybersecurity Projects, Certification Roadmaps & Resources Interactive & Customizable JavaScript Heat Map Batch image processor in the browser Mole - deep clean and optimize your Mac. vert - The file converter you'll love. Procrastination corner and Wonderful Weird Web Wordlink Defeating a 40-year-old copy protection dongle ChatGPT Self Portrait Career and Culture: We mourn our craft AI notetakers are creating HR nightmares Electricity use of AI coding agents The hidden danger of shipping fast AI Doesn’t Reduce Work—It Intensifies It Are you looking for opportunities or fancy a change? Companies to check: Linux Entwickler at Hubert Burda Media Manual QA Engineer at Eltemate Senior Software Development Security Engineer at VECTOR Informatik Android Engineer (Mid to Senior) at SMG Swiss Marketplace Group Senior Backend Engineer at ING Deutschland SD Worx Douglas Raiffeisen Bank International Sopra Steria Custom Software Solutions IGEL Technology More jobs here: Remote positions - Germany - Austria WeAreDevelopers, Schottenfeldgasse 23, Vienna, Vienna 1070, Austria Unsubscribe Manage preferences |
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