The Claude Code Source LeakNews of how Athropic accidentally shipped a 60MB source map alongside a Claude Code npm update has had developers talking recently, so we thought we’d share some of our favourite break-downs of what happened - and why.
The leak, which happened at the...
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Why Developers are So Excited About PretextPretext is a new JavaScript and TypeScript library from Cheng Lou - previously a React core developer - that crossed 7,000 GitHub stars in three days to get the entire tech world talking recently.
The demos that spread were visually striking: dragon...
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GitHub's Copilot Ads and Opt-out for AI Training DataOur newsletter - The Dev Digest - is packed with links to all kinds of tech content, but we just can’t cover everything. That’s why we put together the Overflow, where we share some of our favourites in bonus posts and videos, and this time we’re ta...
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Dev Digest 214: Claude Is Leaking, GitHub Is Listening & Axios Hacked!Inside last week’s Dev Digest 214 .
🕵️ Claude source code leaked, analysed and re-written in 2 days
🐙 GitHub auto-opts users into feeding their code to train their AI
🌐 Pretext shows how to show complex text rendering in the browser
🤖 How to securin...
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The Overflow: 5 Security and Privacy Tools for DevelopersWe’re back again with another edition of the Overflow, where we share some of the best tools we’ve found from around the web that we just couldn’t cram into the already jam-packed editions of the Dev Digest.
So let’s take a look at five security and ...
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5 Examples of Creative Customised <select> ElementsUntil now, <select> was one of the few HTML elements without customisation options. Of course, you could include horizontal dividers, group options and some other minor tweaks, but anything more than this meant ditching the native element altogether....
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Dev Digest 213: Petrol Prices, Agentic Workflows, AI Skills and CODE100!Inside last week’s Dev Digest 213 .
🤫 Don’t tell your LLM that it is an expert
👻 AI generated code is invisible
🔄 Learn about agentic workflows
🛡️ Linux Foundation sponsors fight against AI slop
🦠 1M users infected by Chrome extension
🫃 The why of J...
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CSS-Only Scroll-Driven AnimationsScroll-linked animations look slick, but until now it often meant writing a fair amount of JavaScript, scroll event listeners, getBoundingClientRect(), class toggling and so on, with UX benefits often offset by performance downsides.
CSS scroll-drive...
