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[Read more](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/753-trustworthy-ai-starts-at-deployment-5-checks-before-you-ship) ## Generating ODF Files in JavaScript — Without LibreOffice **By:** Scott Wirth, Chris Heilmann **Published:** August 14, 2026 European governments are mandating OpenDocument Format (ODF) as the standard for public sector documents. Germany’s recent Deutschland-Stack decision and the EU’s push for digital sovereignty mean JavaScript developers increasingly need to produce .odt and .ods files — but the go-to solution (spi... [Read more](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/752-generating-odf-files-in-javascript-without-libreoffice) ## How We Built a Worry-Free System That Runs for 10+ Years – And What We’d Do Again **By:** Igor Khokhriakov, Chris Heilmann **Published:** August 12, 2026 The Problem: Big Science, Tiny Teams Between 2012 and 2016, we built a control system for high-throughput tomography beamlines at PETRA III (DESY, Hamburg) and FRM II (Munich) – facilities where researchers scan materials at synchrotron and neutron sources to understand everything from aircraft c... [Read more](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/751-how-we-built-a-worry-free-system-that-runs-for-10-years-and-what-we-d-do-again) ## E-Commerce in the Agentic Age: When "Buy" Becomes a Function Call **By:** Ben Smith **Published:** August 6, 2026 For more than thirty years, we’ve built online commerce around one simple assumption: the customer is human. Humans browse websites. They compare products, read reviews, add items to a shopping cart, and eventually click a Buy button. Every ecommerce platform, analytics dashboard, checkout optimi... [Read more](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/750-e-commerce-in-the-agentic-age-when-buy-becomes-a-function-call) ## Velocity with Guardrails: How Technical Teams Can Move Fast Without Losing Decision Integrity **By:** Pawan Kumar Suresh **Published:** August 5, 2026 “Move fast” is easy advice to give, but often very difficult to actually act on. When technical teams move slowly - or slower than they would like to - it is not because the people within the team lack urgency. Instead, it is often because decisions are unclear, ownership is diffuse, risks are di... [Read more](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/747-velocity-with-guardrails-how-technical-teams-can-move-fast-without-losing-decision-integrity) ## Dev Digest 231: Pelicanmaxxing, Interview Hacking, RSS Revival & LLM Clichés **By:** Daniel Cranney **Published:** August 3, 2026 Inside last week’s Dev Digest 231 . 🦩 Why AI companies are obsessed with pelicans 🤖 Which AI to use to do different tasks 🎯 AI users are 3x less accurate but twice as confident 🌐 HTML is unsafe according to Reddit 💀 Hacked by a take-home interview ⚡ Why you should know about SIMD 🔐 A secret vaul... [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) [Next page](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine?page=2)