WeAreDevelopers LIVE
This week we’re looking back on the best of 2025 from the Weekly Developer Show, with part 1 of a 3-part series:
00:20 - Brian Rountree on writing a script to turn the tables on scammers
09:10 - Stefan Judis on how bad design can actually be good
11:53 - Salma Alam-Naylor on why developers should try to solve real problems with AI, not just create GPT wrappers
14:30 - Christophe Porteneuve on nested if statements and ternaries
20:00 - Alexander Lichter on 20 years of AJAX and learning how to deal with state
23:50 - Luise Freese on how humans should push back against AI
28:30 - Emma Dawson on the EU Accessibility Act (EAA) and what it means for developers
34:00 - Christian “Scepp” Schaefer looks back on 50 years of Microsoft and the “valley of tears” he experienced moving from PC to Mac.
36:40 - Tejas Kumar on why MCP is so exciting
41:00 - Luise Freese on why you have to speak to LLMs like a child
43:20 - Tejas Kumar on why we should ignore the hype in tech
49:29 - Zaid Zaim on YouTube turning 20 years old
52:04 - Rowdy Rabouw on why regular expressions are scary
54:15 - Dirk Ginader on why developers should stop converting designs into web pages
