Google sees the future of the web powered by AI and we talked to their Web AI lead. Plus lots of security news and how to center DIVs! ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­    ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­  

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Issue 222: Google's future of the web, AI profitability & centering DIVs

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Hello fellow developer, the last few weeks have been turbulent in terms of the future of the web with Google going full in on AI results and offering advice to developers how to build agent-ready web products. NPM is moving to a new way of publishing packages that could mitigate security issues that. And there is the question if AI is making companies profitable or not and what it does to our work/life balance and mental health.

Aside: this is issue 222, and I once lost it at an airport when I heard the announcement that Lufthansa flight 222 to Toulouse will depart at gate 22… 

How Web AI can power the agentic web - Coffee with Developers - Jason Mayes

Google just made a splash at their Google I/O event with introducing a lot of AI solutions that target browsers and the web. A few weeks ago we sat down with Jason Mayes, their Web AI lead live at AgentConf Silicon Valley to talk about what that means for developers, how to implement these new platform features and what issues to avoid. 

Check out How Web AI can power the Agentic Web.

What's happening in AI

  • Sundar Pichai on AI, the future of search, and what’s happening to the web
  • AI-assisted engineers are burning out, is this fine?
  • How the engineer behind Claude Cowork actually uses it
  • Use boring languages with LLMs
  • Is AI profitable?

Security and Privacy

  • Staged publishing for npm packages and mitigating supply chain attacks
  • Malicious Postinstall Hook Found Across 700+ GitHub Repositories
  • Google API keys keep working after you delete them
  • Megalodon: Mass GitHub Repo Backdooring via CI Workflows
  • A Threat Modeling MCP Server

Software Development

  • Build with Modern Web Guidance but maybe don’t blindly rely on it.
  • Your Docker Image Is 1.2GB. Here Is How To Get It Under 80MB.
  • The State of CSS Centering in 2026 and 100 ways to center.
  • Don't put aria-label on generic elements like divs and where to put it instead,
  • How a 30-Line Shell Hook Cut My Claude Code Permission Prompts by 95%

Tips, Tricks and Tools

  • Accessibility Support Will your code work with assistive technologies?
  • The PDF editor that stays on your device.
  • A desktop Postgres client for the keyboard-first.
  • ShareBox: self-hosted file sharing with video streaming in pure PHP
  • Models.dev is a comprehensive open-source database of AI models

Procrastination corner and Wonderful Weird Web

  • Heap - an excellent way to explore your node modules folder
  • The Hilarious History of 'OK' 
  • Claude FM - music to fill the wait for your AI to answer things…

Career and Culture:

  • Your Job Is Changing Faster Than You Think
  • Technical Writing in the AI Age
  • Coding agents are giving everyone decision fatigue
  • Every AI Subscription Is a Ticking Time Bomb for Enterprise
  • Your New Job is Integrating Code
Are you looking for opportunities or fancy a change?

Companies to check:

  • Senior Site Reliability Engineer at Raiffeisen
  • Team Lead Full-Stack Engineer at Hubert Burda
  • Strategischer Produktmanager at PROSOZ Herten
  • Spring Developer (m/w/d) at Deichmann SE
  • Senior Application Administrator at Wilken
  • zeb consulting
  • synava
  • Televic Rail
  • Apaleo
  • envelio

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