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Issue 245: 245: Our brains on AI, how to hire juniors and CSS complexity

25-26/11/2026: WeAreDevelopers Conference India

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

Hello fellow developer,  I don't know about you, but I am amazed just how structured, simple and beautiful CSS has become. I am currently moving my 21 year old blog with roughly 6000 posts to a new design and so many hacks and workarounds are not needed any longer. At the same time, it can be daunting to get your head around how grids and all the fancy new CSS units work. But it feels good to get into the weeds of it rather than asking an agent to do the work and end up with a site that looks like all the others. Coding by hand isn't dead, instead it is an important thing to keep our brains busy. To wit: 

Excellent news! You can now get tickets for the WeAreDevelopers Conference India in November! And if you use the code DEVDIGEST on checkout, tickets are 15% cheaper!

Our Brains in the AI Era Cassidy Williams  Senior Director of Developer Advocacy, GitHub

Cassidy Williams, Senior Director of Developer Advocacy at GitHub worries about what AI does to our thinking powers. In her talk at our US event, she described how developers defend architectural decisions they neither made nor understood. Uncover the hidden cognitive costs of AI-assisted coding and how to reclaim your team's engineering intellect. 

Other interesting talks we recorded at Coffee with Developers:

  • Olena Babenko: The Human Side of Software Engineering in the Age of AI

  • Moran Weber: How to Submit CFPs and Get into Public Speaking

What's happening in AI

  • The AI cost of JavaScript frameworks
  • How to Build an AI Writing System That Actually Sounds Like You
  • Supporting a shared AI training control for websites
  • GrokBot is amazing. Here's why I stopped using it
  • Apple's 20B On-Device Model Uses Just 2GB of Memory

Security and Privacy

  • Cloudflare DDoS Threat Report 2026 Q3: More swarms, fewer giants
  • Tech Firms Dismantle Botnet That Turned 1.3M TV Boxes Into Proxies
  • Jailbreaking my car's navigation system just so I can change the time
  • Prioritize What Attackers Will Exploit: 4 Elements of Strong Exposure Prioritization
  • How Meta Catches Bugs Before Code Ships

Software Development

  • Modern CSS Might Make Your Front-End More Complex
  • How hard is it to check for whitespace?
  • The hidden latency inside your database
  • How to make postMessage type-safe in under 350 bytes
  • New HTML and CSS features you should be using in your design system

Tips, Tricks and Tools

  • Free online PDF accessibility checker
  • Find files by what’s in them.
  • browser-whisper - native WebGPU audio transcription
  • Run third-party scripts from a web worker
  • Nibnib An image format tuned for extreme decompression speed.

Procrastination corner and Wonderful Weird Web

  • What if the calculator app would be released now?
  • She Taught the Macintosh to Smile
  • Tree appreciator

Career and Culture:

  • The Web Can't Afford a JavaScript Runtime Monoculture
  • A proposal: how to hire junior engineers in the age of AI
  • Website migration costs are going to zero
  • A Family Tree of Software Job Titles
  • Why AI isn’t replacing project managers, it’s exposing them

Are you looking for opportunities or fancy a change?

Companies to check:

  • Senior Frontend Engineering Expert at ING
  • IT Support Engineer at procilon Group
  • IT-Leiter at Max-Planck-Institut für chemische Ökologie
  • Principal Software Engineer at Dynatrace
  • Full Stack Entwickler at AOK Systems
  • STACKIT
  • ING Deutschland
  • Pradtke
  • Burda
  • AOK Systems

More jobs here: Remote positions - Germany - Austria

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