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# Dev Digest 165: "Slopsquatting", Chrome extension tracking and CSS hell

**By:** [Daniel Cranney](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/@daniel-cranney)

**Published:** April 28, 2025

## Inside last week’s [Dev Digest 165](https://newsletter.wearedevelopers.com/165).

https://www.youtube.com/embed/K3OKWra78_Q

🤖 Microsoft creates light-weight LLM to run on CPUs  
💻 The state of Webdev AI  
🙅‍♂️ Why you should lie to LLMs and not thank them  
🥷 Chrome extensions have hidden tracking code  
🔨 How to build and AI Agent  
🔒 Slopsquatting brings old security attacks to vibecoders  
🐍 Running Python on production  
💨 A Tailwind cheat sheet

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