How X promotes content, why web security is too hard, how not to be "meat proxy" and turning your terminal sessions into screenshots. ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­    ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­  

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Issue 234: How X's feed works, top 10 CI/CD risks & meat proxies

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

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14-16/07/2026: WeAreDevelopers World Congress Europe

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Hello fellow developer, wrapping up our tour here in San Francisco during a GitHub outage is an interesting experience, especially people in cafes currently being unable to run anything. Trust me, a seasoned developer, always make sure you can work offline. Things break and even the best and the brightest can make mistakes. Before I am off to the airport, here are some excellent resources I collected this week for you to try out. 

Vicky Pirker - How Constructive Feedback Helps Teams Build Better Software

Giving feedback is one of those tricky things in our market. Over the years I especially found that across borders people react differently to direct criticism and often it is hard for people to grasp the "it is not you, it is your work that needs fixing". Vicky Pirker has spent a lot of time with different teams and found out how constructive feedback helps teams build better software.

Vairetail - DevDigest

Point Claude, Cursor or ChatGPT at api.vairetail.com/mcp/sse and you get 40 AI Discovery MCP tools : trimodal search, virtual try-on, deep data enrichment, agentic feeds and checkout. Vibe Code AI infrastructure in hours/days vs. weeks/months! Lovable and Shopify Plug & Play. First 500 registered developers get our Starter tier free-for-life. developer.vairetail.com

What's happening in AI

  • AI usage patterns in software teams
  • Evaluating AI Agents as Products
  • There are no lossless transformations of natural-language text
  • Don't be a meat proxy
  • A Claude Code skill was eating 200k tokens before answering a single question

Security and Privacy

  • OWASP Top 10 CI/CD Security Risks
  • CSS:the bomb inside your inbox
  • ssh on a Higher Port Keeps Out The Bots
  • Cloudflare DDoS Threat Report: 1 Tbps attacks soar
  • Web Security is Too Hard

Software Development

  • Encode, don't stringify – How JSON.stringify Lies to You
  • My HTML boilerplate in 2026
  • The git history command deserves more attention
  • Why Go is an Ideal Language for AI-Assisted Software Engineering
  • HTML can do that!? build modern UIs with the simplicity of hypertext

Tips, Tricks and Tools

  • X For You - the Feed Algorithm
  • Build Terminal UIs with HTML, CSS and DOM.
  • CLI proxy that cuts up to 90% of the bash output your agent reads
  • Your users deserve a loading state
  • Terminal screenshots

Procrastination corner and Wonderful Weird Web

  • LinkedIn CringeBot 3000
  • How NASA’s Mariner 9 probe encoded images
  • Why Tiny JPEGs Look Different in Chrome

Career and Culture:

  • Accepting a messy git history
  • The Case for Software Craftsmanship in the Era of Vibes
  • Most tech revolutions made work worse for employees. AI could be the exception
  • Shattering the Dream – When a Job Offer Becomes a Zero-Day Attack
  • AI’s top startups are barely publishing their research
Are you looking for opportunities or fancy a change?

Companies to check:

  • Lead Software Engineer /Banking at msg
  • Senior Product Manager - Mobile at Patronus Group
  • Software Dev C/C++ at Power Plus Communications
  • (Junior) Java Software-Entwickler at Finanz Informatik
  • Network Automation Engineer at Burda
  • zeb consulting
  • Almedia
  • synava
  • tree-IT
  • ZEISS Group

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