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[Read more](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/630-using-light-dark-for-easy-theme-switching) ## Dev Digest 185: Hello Asia, Gaming is the Future & Vibe Scheming! **By:** Daniel Cranney **Published:** September 15, 2025 Inside last week’s Dev Digest 185 . 🌏 WeAreDevelopers Expands to South Asia 🏆 AI Darwin awards 🎨 Are you an AI Artist or AI engineer? 📘 Agents Directory and MCP Registry 🐍 Tracking malicious code in Python 🧬 Book: React sucks! 💬 Johanna Pirker Talks About Gaming in the Future 💻 Why debuggers are... [Read more](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/628-dev-digest-185-hello-asia-gaming-is-the-future-vibe-scheming) ## Dev Digest 184: Happy Agents, Vibe Hacking & You Don't Need JavaScript! **By:** Daniel Cranney **Published:** September 8, 2025 Inside last week’s Dev Digest 184 . 😀 “Agents for the sake of Happiness” Keynote video of the WeAreDevelopers World Congress 😅 Is AI sycophancy a “dark pattern”? 🤖 Claude Code AI best practices 🦠 AgentHopper - the first AI Virus ⚡ Hidden prompt gave attackers access to Google Drive 💻 We’re devel... [Read more](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/627-dev-digest-184-happy-agents-vibe-hacking-you-don-t-need-javascript) ## What is Agentic Programming and Why Should Developers Care? **By:** Daniel Cranney **Published:** September 5, 2025 Since the release of tools like ChatGPT and GitHub Copilot, the way developers work has shifted dramatically. What began as simple autocomplete in the early versions of Copilot has quickly evolved into agentic programming, where AI agents can take on entire development tasks, with mixed results. ... [Read more](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/625-what-is-agentic-programming-and-why-should-developers-care) ## A Lightweight Text Scrambler Inspired by CODE100 **By:** Daniel Cranney **Published:** September 4, 2025 messagescramble: A Lightweight Text Scrambler Inspired by CODE100 Back at this years’ World Congress, Nimrod Kor took home the CODE100 trophy after providing a slick solution for our final challenge. We were so impressed by his approach, in fact, that Nimrod joined us to talk through his solution... [Read more](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/626-a-lightweight-text-scrambler-inspired-by-code100) ## Dev Digest 183: End of Win10, a Bus Factor of 0, "Call" Explained **By:** Daniel Cranney **Published:** September 2, 2025 Inside last week’s Dev Digest 183 . ⏰ Windows 10 support is coming to an end 🐧 Linux turns 34 🪦 Why AI projects cannot live without open source ones 🤖 How Googlers use AI to work smarter 🎨 An illustrated guide to OAuth 💉 Safeguarding VS Code against prompt injections 👀 5 areas to focus on for a ... [Read more](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/624-dev-digest-183-end-of-win10-a-bus-factor-of-0-call-explained) ## Boring Tech Is What Matters **By:** Benjamin Ruschin **Published:** August 28, 2025 Every year, the Stack Overflow Developer Survey gives us an insight into the state of the industry, the tools and tech that developers love or loathe, and what’s changed from the year before. Some of the headlines that came out of the 2025 results were predictable: JavaScript remains the most us... [Read more](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/623-boring-tech-is-what-matters) ## Dev Digest 182: GPT5 Prompts, MCP Vulnerabilities, Code Traps **By:** Daniel Cranney **Published:** August 25, 2025 Inside last week’s Dev Digest 182 . 📝 A guide to prompting GPT-5 ⏰ Extreme hours at AI startups 💻 AI is a Junior Dev, and it needs a lead 🐴 Trojans embedded in SVG’s ⚠️ The State of MCP Security ⚒️ A reference manual for people who design and build software 🌐 A command line tool to detect copy a... [Read more](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/622-dev-digest-182-gpt5-prompts-mcp-vulnerabilities-code-traps) ## Efficiently Cut Huge 4K Videos Using FFMPEG and PHP **By:** Chris Heilmann **Published:** August 20, 2025 What do you do when you face massive files you need to work with? Go back to the roots, in this case, the command line. The main stage at the WeAreDevelopers world congress has a lot of cameras that all record in 4K which results in footage stored in huge files: To create social media posts and ... [Read more](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/621-efficiently-cut-huge-4k-videos-using-ffmpeg-and-php) ## From Hype to Code: Real Blockchain Use Cases for Developers **By:** Algorand Foundation **Published:** August 19, 2025 So you’ve wrapped your head around why blockchain exists . You’re on board with the concepts: decentralization, immutability, and trust-minimized infrastructure. But now comes the real question: What can you actually build with it? This post is for developers who have worked on systems like APIs,... [Read more](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/620-from-hype-to-code-real-blockchain-use-cases-for-developers) ## Why Blockchain? A Developer’s Perspective **By:** Algorand Foundation **Published:** August 19, 2025 For many developers, blockchain feels like that one friend who keeps trying to sell you on their side hustle: persistent, occasionally confusing, and often surrounded by hype. But behind the buzzwords and market noise lies a technology with real engineering depth. Let’s set aside the speculation ... [Read more](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/616-why-blockchain-a-developer-s-perspective) ## Dev Digest 181: America Offline! Pay to code? And bad AI hackers… **By:** Daniel Cranney **Published:** August 18, 2025 Inside last week’s Dev Digest 181 . ☎️ AOL shuts down dial-up internet 🔥 Bot-only social media platform immediately goes to war 🤑 Is the future pay to code? ⚠️ Path traversal vulnerability in Microsoft’s agentic web 🤷 Why is XSS still a thing? 🟪 The State of CSS 🕸️ Is HTML-in-Canvas a better way... 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