WeAreDevelopers Magazine

Daniel Cranney

Stop Using Divs: Five Input Types You Could Use Right Away

Modern web development tends to lean heavily on JavaScript frameworks and UI libraries, especially for forms. However, before reaching for another dependency or a ready-made (but probably over-engineered) component, it’s worth remembering that HTML a...

Daniel Cranney

Semantic HTML Elements You’re (Probably) Not Using But Should

Semantic HTML is one of the simplest ways to make your pages more accessible, meaningful, and easier to maintain, without adding libraries or rewriting layouts. Here are five underrated elements that quietly (but meaningfully) improve UX, accessibili...

Daniel Cranney

Dev Digest 197: Dunning–Kruger Steroids, State of Cloud Security, Puppies > Beer

Inside last week’s Dev Digest 197 . 💪 LLMs are steroids for Dunning-Kruger ☁️ The state of cloud security 🟨 JavaScript for Django developers 🔀 Redirects hurt your page rank 🤔 Is your node setup vulnerable? 💿 Meta data on audio CDs 🐶 OSS: More puppie...

Chris Heilmann

10 holiday calendars to keep you busy learning various technologies in December (web, security, a11y, performance…)

Every December, developers and companies offer holiday calendars with daily technical articles and challenges. This is a lot of work and there is a ton of excellent content to be discovered. Here are some of the ones we read daily and check out. Why ...

Daniel Cranney

Dev Digest 196: AI Killed DevOps, LLM Political Bias & AI Security

Inside last week’s Dev Digest 196 . ⚖️ Political bias in LLMs 🫣 AI written code causes 1 in 5 security breaches 🖼️ Is there a limit to alternative text on images? 📝 CodeWiki - understand code better 🟨 Long tasks in JavaScript 👻 Scare yourself into n...

Benjamin Ruschin

What Developers Really Need to Create Great Code Demos

Every developer on earth has, at some point, had another developer to thank for a breakthrough, a success, an aha moment they wouldn’t have had without coming across that blog post, that open-source contribution, that reply on socials or that humble ...

Daniel Cranney

Dev Digest 195: End of Likes, JavaScript’s a Zoo, and Messing with Bots!

Inside last week’s Dev Digest 195 . 👎 No more external likes 🤗 Needy programs 📉 The worst selling Microsoft product 🟨 JavaScript engines zoo 🍞 No more toasts! 🤖 Messing with bots 👔 Beware of fake job interviews 🗞️ Join over 150,000 developers alread...

Benjamin Ruschin

Creating a 3D Card Fan with CSS Transforms

So many of us developers use CSS every day, but the chances are we only use a very small portion of its features, and overlook many of its most fun ones. You only need cruise Codepen to find some mind-bendingly impressive CSS-based projects using 3D ...