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[Read more](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/748-dev-digest-231-pelicanmaxxing-interview-hacking-rss-revival-llm-cliches) ## 6 Open-Source Tools to Reduce Your Token Usage **By:** Daniel Cranney **Published:** July 31, 2026 Token-usage has been a hot topic in recent months, with some big providers switching to usage-based billing , news of developers burning through eye-watering amounts of money generating code with AI (one company blew $500m on Claude in a month ), and the unavoidable fact that more tokens means mo... [Read more](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/746-6-open-source-tools-to-reduce-your-token-usage) ## Why Event-Driven Architecture Isn’t About Speed (and When You Actually Need It) **By:** Ali Alp **Published:** July 30, 2026 Why Event-Driven Architecture Isn’t About Speed—And When You Actually Need It We’ve all seen it happen. An engineering team wants to feel like they belong in the “cool kids” club, so they grab Apache Kafka or a massive event broker, throw it at a straightforward CRUD application, and suddenly a s... [Read more](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/745-why-event-driven-architecture-isn-t-about-speed-and-when-you-actually-need-it) ## Dev Digest 230: Secure Agent Sandboxes, $100m OSS & Tricking Claude **By:** Daniel Cranney **Published:** July 27, 2026 Inside last week’s Dev Digest 230 . 🎨 LLMs Fail at Painting the Mona Lisa 🌐 Which AI Reads Your Site? 🔥 Burning Tokens Researching How to Save Tokens 🛡️ Secure Sandboxes for Agents ♿ Building Accessibility into Canvas Products 📦 Framework Benchmarks and Bundle Sizes 🔌 Knowing What Your USB-C Cab... [Read more](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/744-dev-digest-230-secure-agent-sandboxes-100m-oss-tricking-claude) ## Dev Digest 229: A Claude Code Course, Agent Credit Cards & GTA in JS **By:** Daniel Cranney **Published:** July 20, 2026 Inside last week’s Dev Digest 229 . 🎓 A Free Claude Code Course 🎭 Claude’s Multiple Personalities 💰 Cutting Token Use by 94% 🌐 Why AI Browsers Are a Bad Idea 🎮 WebGL Without a GPU 💳 Disposable Credit Cards and Linux for Agents 🚗 Grand Theft Auto in JavaScript 🗞️ Join over 200,000 developers alre... [Read more](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/743-dev-digest-229-a-claude-code-course-agent-credit-cards-gta-in-js) ## Create Videos Programmatically with React and Remotion **By:** Daniel Cranney **Published:** June 26, 2026 In a recent article, we looked at how easy it is to clone your voice using Elevenlabs and Node.js , so this time we thought we’d take a look at how to create videos programmatically, too. In a future article, we’ll piece it all together and combine multiple programmatically-generated videos with ... [Read more](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/742-create-videos-programmatically-with-react-and-remotion) ## 9 Claude Code Skills to Speed Up Your Workflow **By:** Daniel Cranney **Published:** June 23, 2026 Anthropic has carved out a sizeable share of the AI-code assistant market with Claude Code, becoming a popular way for many modern developers to orchestrate agents with repeatable workflows, integrating all kinds of tools in interesting ways. Today, the most effective devs are building using Skil... [Read more](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/740-9-claude-code-skills-to-speed-up-your-workflow) ## Dev Digest 225: AI Won’t Replace Devs, 2x the Users with HTML & AI Slowdown **By:** Daniel Cranney **Published:** June 22, 2026 Inside last week’s Dev Digest 225 . 🧹 Cleaning up after rockstar developers 🤖 AI hasn’t yet and won’t replace developers 🦠 Malicious code in a job offer ✋ Google adding hand gesture verification 🖱️ SVG and PDF can both be interactive 🌐 Check out Standard Site 📝 Turning websites into markdown wit... [Read more](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/741-dev-digest-225-ai-won-t-replace-devs-2x-the-users-with-html-ai-slowdown) ## Clone Your Voice with ElevenLabs LLMs and Node **By:** Daniel Cranney **Published:** June 19, 2026 Recently we decided to see how easy it is to automate a video-generation pipeline, to see how an AI-generated video stacks up against one made by members of our team. As part of this, I (Dan Cranney, a Developer Advocate here at WeAreDevelopers, the person you may have seen in one of our Dev Dige... [Read more](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/739-clone-your-voice-with-elevenlabs-llms-and-node) ## A 5-Step Open-Source Setup for Agentic Engineering **By:** Daniel Cranney **Published:** June 14, 2026 If you’re a user of GitHub Copilot, then you’re likely already aware that GitHub recently switched all Copilot plans over to usage-based billing . Every interation with Copilot now burns credits by the token, and with so many of us working agentically these days, this can add up fast. With this i... [Read more](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/738-a-5-step-open-source-setup-for-agentic-engineering) ## Never delegate the understanding **By:** Thomas Pamminger **Published:** June 13, 2026 Every year at WeAreDevelopers , hundreds of engineers share what they know on our stages. The recordings end up on YouTube, but the insights get lost: a 45-minute talk holds five minutes for you, five more for the next, and they stay buried. Last May, Thomas and I started Labs with one experime... [Read more](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/749-never-delegate-the-understanding) ## Dev Digest 222: Google's Web Future, AI Profitability & Centering DIVs **By:** Daniel Cranney **Published:** June 1, 2026 Inside last week’s Dev Digest 222 . 🌐 Sundar Pichai on what’s in store for the web 💰 Is AI profitable? 🧠 Are AI-assisted engineers burning out because of decision fatigue? 📦 Staged publishing for npm packages 🚨 Megalodon: Over 5k malicious commits infected over 5k GitHub repos 🛠️ Build with Mode... [Read more](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/737-dev-digest-222-google-s-web-future-ai-profitability-centering-divs) [Next page](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine?page=2)