The Roundup: Just Two Weeks Until India!

This past week we’ve had friends of ours from India joining to help us get ready for our trip to Bengaluru, more incredible content from San Jose, a coding challenge to spread some love, and lots more.

🔴 LIVE and Fake or News: Pritesh Kiri

On this week’s LIVE show, we welcomed Pritesh Kiri, Developer Relations Engineer and Community Manager at Harness and speaker at the upcoming WeAreDevelopers Conference India, to talk about why storytelling matters in the world of tech watch the full episode here.

As always, Pritesh looked to knock past guests off the leaderboard when he stepped up to play a round of Fake or News to try and tell whether ‘maxxing’ is the word of 2026, if a humanoid can clean your house, and if hackers are pretending to be bots.

Check out a clip from Fake or News below, or watch the segment in full right here.

❤️ Without Love: Win Tickets and a Spot on Coffee with Developers

Our VP of DevRel, Chris Heilmann, has set a creative coding challenge we’re calling without-love. The without-love GitHub repo repo contains one HTML file with Lao-Tzu’s wisdom on what things become when love is missing, and your job is to turn it into something cool.

You can use any tools you like, and to enter you just need to submit a pull request so it really couldn’t be easier to get involved.

Winners will be invited to appear on our podcast to talk about what you’ve made and how you made it, and get a FREE ticket to a WeAreDevelopers event whether it’s in Europe, the US or India.

For all the details check out our magazine post on the challenge right here.

🎥 Featured Videos

Last week’s Dev Digest was packed with three awesome videos, including a talk from summer’s event in San Jose from the always-entertaining Cassidy Williams, Senior Developer Advocate at GitHub, deep diving into how we think in Our Brains in the AI Era.

Olena Babenko, Staff Software Engineer at Aiven OY, continued on with the theme of being a human in The Human Side of Software Engineering in the Age of AI, and Moran Weber gave her top tips on How to Submit CFPs and Get into Public Speaking to help more technies to take the plunge and jump up on stage, with confidence.

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📰 In the magazine

Last week, Jenna Charlton and David Burns’ taught us how to lead quality teams through AI transformation, Alim Apekov explained how AI connectors are quietly changing UX in big ways, and Daniel Seybold gave us a tour of the PostgreSQL Analytics Ecosystem.

🇮🇳 India is getting closer

We’re just over 2 weeks away from WeAreDevelopers Conference India in Bengaluru on November 25th and 26th, so don’t delay and be sure to grab your tickets over at wearedevs.in

That’s it for this week! Check back next week for lots more going on and until then, happy building!