Why AI browsers are a bad idea. what a 500GB log file on your Windows machine might be about and how Reddit fights spam. All this and more! ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­    ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­  

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Issue 229: Free Claude Code Course, Agent Credit Cards & GTA in JS!

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

25-26/11/2026: WeAreDevelopers Conference India - CFP India

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Hello fellow developer, last week, 15,000 developers descended on Berlin to attend the WeAreDevelopers World Congress. in three days we had over 550 talks, hosted 600 speakers and ran the CODE100 coding competition. We enabled tons of conversations, people found new jobs, made lots of new contacts and hopefully learned a lot. We now start working through the over 4500 hours of talk footage and here is the first recording:

Five things in tech that matter now - 2026 edition by Chris Heilmann

At the end of the event I was asked to create a reminder of all the things that were covered and an outlook about what's to come. So I put together a deck that covered what's happening and what you can do to make it have a happy end. As a survivor of the first .com crash, all I can say is that the inevitable crash feels in the making, but there is a lot we as geeks need to do. So check out Five Things in Tech That Matter Now 2026.

What's happening in AI

  • Claude's Personality Changes Depending on the Model And the Language
  • A developer toolkit to make your website agent-ready
  • How we really build production-grade AI agents
  • How I Cut an AI Agent's Token Use by 94%
  • Don’t rewrite your CLI for agents

Security and Privacy

  • Windows 11 Bug Can Create Over 500GB Permission Log File
  • How to protect your MCP Server with Fastly
  • Context Bombs: stopping AI attackers in their tracks.
  • A peek into Reddit's anti-spam internals
  • New attack provides one more reason why AI browsers are a bad idea

Software Development

  • Claude Code Course
  • Implement Website Best Practices With Lighthouse
  • Rewriting Bun in Rust using Claude
  • Do we still need build tools?
  • How one chrome flag makes 3D pages render 4× faster

Tips, Tricks and Tools

  • Little Snitch for Linux
  • pwa-check for your app
  • Open models run entirely on your Mac — your data never leaves.
  • AgentCard - disposable credit cards for AI agents
  • Give a coding agent its own disposable Linux machine

Procrastination corner and Wonderful Weird Web

  • GTA2 in JS
  • The art and engineering of Sega CD Silpheed
  • Can you draw the perfect rectangle?

Career and Culture:

  • Designing For Distressed Users
  • Visual design rules you can safely follow every time
  • Brown Professor Suspects Majority of His Class Used AI to Cheat
  • Why I’m leaving developer relations, and why I’m not telling you what’s next.
  • The People Who Will Thrive in the AI Age
Are you looking for opportunities or fancy a change?

Companies to check:

  • Senior Software Engineer – Data Migration at Wilken
  • DevOps Engineer at synava
  • Senior Full Stack Engineer at Sensory-Minds
  • Staff Frontend Engineer at SMG
  • Lead Software Engineer at Personio SE
  • Sopra Steria
  • Schwarz Digits IT
  • STACKIT
  • Televic Rail
  • Vertical Horizon

More jobs here: Remote positions - Germany - Austria

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