Dev Digest 207: Spring Cleaning, AI Agent Manipulation and Stopping Bad BotsInside last week’s Dev Digest 207 .
🤔 Nobody trusts AI but not many verify its outcomes
🛑 How to stop bad bots
🧪 A manipulation test page for AI agents
💖 How a heart emoji slowed down a page 100x
🎬 Embedding videos fast and without JavaScript
🍃 Spri...
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5 GitHub Repos That Help You Ship and Show Your WorkIf you’re a regular reader here, you’ll know we absolutely love open source.
In particular, we have a soft spot for the small, practical repos, the ones that don’t look like much at first glance, but turn out to be incredibly useful.
We’ve rounded up...
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Events like RSAC Get You CISOs. Developers Decide What Actually Gets Deployed.Everyone thinks CISOs make the final call on security tools.
But in modern software organisations, adoption starts long before the boardroom, inside CI/CD pipelines, developer workflows, and pull requests. By the time a tool lands on an executive’s d...
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5 Reasons Why Attending Conferences in 2026 Matters More Than You ThinkIt’s 2026, and the “remote vs. office” debate has finally settled into a high-tech hybrid reality. While we’ve perfected the art of shipping production-grade code from decentralized hubs and home setups, something shifted. We realized that while AI c...
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Why SmartGit Is More Than a Git ClientSmartGit is more than a Git client. It gives developers precise, transparent control in complex or enterprise environments, prioritizing clarity, predictability, and correctness over shortcuts – earning trust as a reliable companion when Git operatio...
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Dev Digest 206: X Algorithm, Super Monkey Ball, Moltbot vs. SecurityInside last week’s Dev Digest 206 .
👀 How X chooses what you see
🟨 Building a JavaScript runtime in a month and a browser API in one shot
🔲 JavaScript frameworks heading into 2026
⚠️ AI is getting better at detecting security issues
🔓 Moltbot is a s...
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Use GitHub Sponsors Like Patreon: Gate Features and Check SponsorshipsOn a recent episode of Coffee with Developers, we heard from cURL founder Daniel Stenberg about what it’s like to run a popular open source project, and the challenge of monetising it. Some survive on donations from sponsors, others on income from pa...
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Why Attend a Developer Event?Modern software engineering moves too fast for documentation alone. Attending a world-class event is about shifting from tactical execution to strategic leadership.
Skill Diversification: Break out of your specific tech stack to see how the industry...
