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Daniel Cranney

Dev Digest 241: Chonky Kolibris, No More Iron Men and Not Everyone Can Code

October 12, 2026
A collage including a kolibri bird, a sign with 'not allowed' over an iron man, and a computer with a terminal screen saying 'i am sorry, not everyone can code'
A collage including a kolibri bird, a sign with 'not allowed' over an iron man, and a computer with a terminal screen saying 'i am sorry, not everyone can code'

Inside last week’s Dev Digest 241.

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🤖 AI needs fewer Iron Men and more Smart Hulks
🧠 Two new European open-weight models: Mistral’s 1T “Le Chonk” and Aleph Alpha’s Kolibri
🕵️ The sleuths who expose when AI goes rogue
🛡️ A peek into Reddit’s anti-spam internals
📦 Node.js built-ins that replaced npm packages
💰 How Booking cut Node.js costs by 38% with Watt
⚡ Size Limit is a performance budget tool for JavaScript
🔌 The accidental history of 3000, 8080, and other port numbers
💻 Not everyone can code

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