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Issue 239: Slop grenades, the web before GenAI and iPhone Duo readiness

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

25-26/11/2026: WeAreDevelopers Conference India

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

Welcome to the "written live in the backstage of WeAreDevelopers World Congress North America" edition of Dev Digest. We're busy with recording tons of talks and behind the scenes materials for you right now. For those who aren't watching the stream, you will soon get all the materials on WeAreDevelopers.com. Check out what else we collected for you this week, including a way to search the web before AI slop drowned the signal.

WeAreDevelopers and Band "Dark Factory" Hackathon

Join BAND, WeAreDevelopers, and lablab.ai for our Dark Factory Virtual Hackathon. Build a software factory in BAND Desktop: a band of coding agents that plans work, implements it, hands off evidence, and checks its own results. Then use it to ship a clean-room clone of a product everyone knows. Two tracks, four graded stages, one week to build. Online, open to everyone, anywhere in the world. Sept 26-Oct 5. $6,000 in prizes. Register here.

Ryan Sinnott - Building software for overlooked markets

Unpaid invoices threaten livelihoods. To protect tradespeople, Ryan Sinnott built a specialized social network. Discover how AI-assisted development and grassroots marketing power this overlooked blue-collar market. Watch the video here.

What's happening in AI

  • If Your Tool Isn't Reachable by Agents, It Doesn't Exist
  • Do Frameworks Matter Anymore?
  • Markdown in /src
  • The AI graveyard: a running list of projects and startups that didn't make it
  • A Summer of AI Optimization

Security and Privacy

  • An Undercover Google Analyst Infiltrated a Notorious Supply-Chain Hacking Gang
  • What kind of malware do fake CAPTCHAs install?
  • Apple Details How Reference Image Proves a Photo is Real
  • CISA Promotes a Fresh Way to Deter Cyberattackers: Lie to Them
  • Writing More Secure Code with LLMs: Why "Make No Mistakes" Falls Short

Software Development

  • CSS Curiosities of the Past
  • Periodic Table of HTML Elements
  • Testing Google's "modern-web-guidance" skill on a real React app
  • Is Your App Ready for iPhone Duo?
  • The Device Posture API

Tips, Tricks and Tools

  • Desktop apps in ~6 MB.
  • Neat hand-drawn annotations for your page
  • Boost turns noisy logs into compact, structured context that keeps the signal
  • Snooze Files - Out of sight. Back on time.
  • Trusted front-end quality rules for humans and AI agents

Procrastination corner and Wonderful Weird Web

  • Search the web before generative AI
  • Inverted asteroids
  • The chart is real. Its title is redacted.

Career and Culture:

  • Slop grenades
  • The senior engineer death spiral
  • The Front-End Community is Still Alive and Beautiful
  • We need more choices in automated testing
  • The Test Suite Is the New Code Review

Are you looking for opportunities or fancy a change?

Companies to check:

  • AI Product Engineer / Full-Stack Engineer at 1st solution consulting
  • Java Backend Entwickler at piazza blu²
  • (Senior) DevOps Engineer at Technoly
  • C++ Developer at thinkcell
  • Softwareentwickler ABAP at AOK Systems
  • procilon Group
  • Sportradar Media Services
  • Sensory-Minds
  • Finanz Informatik
  • ING Deutschland

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