WeAreDevelopers Dev Digest

Issue 237: 🎂 20 years jQuery, 🔧 Claude's fave tools & 🔒 the safest job in AI! 

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

25-26/11/2026: WeAreDevelopers Conference India

14-16/07/2027: WeAreDevelopers World Congress Europe

Hello fellow developer, OMG, OMG, OMG the WeAreDevelopers World Congress North America is just around the corner and I still need to find people to moderate! If you're up for it, drop me a line, ping me on X or BlueSky or LinkedIn and I send you lots of love (and free tickets for you and a +1 with all the VIP trimmings). Other than that, we're getting ready to host an incredible amount of amazing speakers, play DOOM live and learn about what's next in AI! You can also just get a ticket for the event half price with the code "Coffee50"! But now, let's take a look what happened and you may have missed. We start with a lovely Coffee with Developers episode. 

We met Nalini Garg of Deloitte in San Francisco at ClawCamp and immediately clicked. Not only has she tons of experience in using AI in her high level job but she also dedicates a lot of her time to help other women succeed and thrive in the world of AI. Check out some of the tips she gave us what women can do and how allies can help.  

Move AI beyond the prototype. Meet Redis CTO Benjamin Renaud and see Redis Iris in action: a real-time context engine that keeps AI agents grounded in fresh, relevant data, with memory that improves over time. Hear first-hand customer stories at the Redis AI Roadshow in Munich on 30 September, then optionally join us for an Oktoberfest celebration at Theresienwiese. Book your free ticket now - seats are limited.

What's happening in AI

• What Comes Next for AI? Our Bet Is World Models
• On teaching AI how you work
• Agentic Coding: Bet on the Primitives
• The Multiplayer AI Manifesto
• Pretraining progress is mostly coming from data
  

Security and Privacy

• I Asked 100 Agents to Hack Me
• Anatomy of a scam campaign, from the point of view of a link shortener
• ASCII smuggling crosses over from AI prompt injection to phishing evasion
• How AI Builders Will Get Hacked
• Anthropic Warns Claude Users of Infostealer Malware Infections

Software Development

• A Query on a 3-Billion-Row Table Took 100 Minutes: One Added Line Made It 40ms
• Twenty Years of jQuery: How a Little Library Rewired Web Development
• 27.5KB language-agnostic1 WebGPU syntax highlighter
• A look at the geolocation HTML element and how it works
• Making a Python interpreter in 1024 bytes

Tips, Tricks and Tools

• Chopin - a real-time multiplayer, agentic planning environment
• A free, open-source app for recording your screen and polished product demos
• cn is a new engine making Tailwind class 30× faster.
• The WebGPU library, designed for agents.
• Check if a file was made with Claude

Procrastination corner and Wonderful Weird Web

• The true size of countries - drag yours to compare
• Indie Developer Simulator - it's a frustrating world out there
• Dog Shelter Cams - live pooches to adopt!

• Which tools do Claude Code, Codex and Cursor choose?
• AI-Written Code Is Still Your Code. Are You OK With That?
• There is no such thing as full decentralization
• The Safest Job from AI may be Writing
• Programming is art

Companies to check:

• Sr. Solution Architect at Dynatrace
• Staff Engineer at Modulate
• Manager, Engineering, Secure Build and SCS Services at Docker, Inc.
• DevOps Engineer - CI/CD & Platform at procilon
• Staff Machine Learning Engineer at Arm

More jobs here: Remote positions - Germany - Austria