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[Read more](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/729-what-are-cookies-and-why-do-we-use-them) ## Dev Digest 216: CyberSec + Mythos, Stack Overflow for Agents & DOOM in TTF **By:** Daniel Cranney **Published:** April 20, 2026 Inside last week’s Dev Digest 216 . 🧠 Prompts are now tools in Chrome 📜 The AI Coding Agent Manifesto 🔐 How Claude Mythos changes Cyber Security 🧱 GitHub Stacked PRs to battle AI slop ⚙️ Git commands to run before reading code 🐍 A Python framework for agentic times 🧹 Cleaning web content to save... [Read more](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/728-dev-digest-216-cybersec-mythos-stack-overflow-for-agents-doom-in-ttf) ## Dev Digest 215: Agent Memory, JS2026, Googlebot Analysis & Canvas❤️HTML **By:** Daniel Cranney, Chris Heilmann **Published:** April 13, 2026 Inside last week’s Dev Digest 215 . 🗿 Make AI talk like a caveman 🧠 A guide to context engineering for LLMs 🤖 Simon Willison on agentic engineering 🔐 Axios supply chain attack post mortem 🛡️ Designing AI agents to resist prompt injection 🎨 HTML in canvas proposal 📚 What to know in Javascript 202... [Read more](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/726-dev-digest-215-agent-memory-js2026-googlebot-analysis-canvas-html) ## The Claude Code Source Leak **By:** Daniel Cranney **Published:** April 9, 2026 News of how Athropic accidentally shipped a 60MB source map alongside a Claude Code npm update has had developers talking recently, so we thought we’d share some of our favourite break-downs of what happened - and why. The leak, which happened at the end of March 2026, exposed around 500,000 line... [Read more](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/725-the-claude-code-source-leak) ## Why Developers are So Excited About Pretext **By:** Daniel Cranney **Published:** April 8, 2026 Pretext is a new JavaScript and TypeScript library from Cheng Lou - previously a React core developer - that crossed 7,000 GitHub stars in three days to get the entire tech world talking recently. The demos that spread were visually striking: dragons parting text like water, fluid smoke rendered... [Read more](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/724-why-developers-are-so-excited-about-pretext) ## GitHub's Copilot Ads and Opt-out for AI Training Data **By:** Daniel Cranney **Published:** April 7, 2026 Our newsletter - The Dev Digest - is packed with links to all kinds of tech content, but we just can’t cover everything. That’s why we put together the Overflow, where we share some of our favourites in bonus posts and videos, and this time we’re taking a look at what’s been happening over at Gi... [Read more](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/723-github-s-copilot-ads-and-opt-out-for-ai-training-data) ## Dev Digest 214: Claude Is Leaking, GitHub Is Listening & Axios Hacked! **By:** Daniel Cranney **Published:** April 7, 2026 Inside last week’s Dev Digest 214 . 🕵️ Claude source code leaked, analysed and re-written in 2 days 🐙 GitHub auto-opts users into feeding their code to train their AI 🌐 Pretext shows how to show complex text rendering in the browser 🤖 How to securing autonomous agents 🔊 How not to build a volume... [Read more](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/719-dev-digest-214-claude-is-leaking-github-is-listening-axios-hacked) ## The Overflow: 5 Security and Privacy Tools for Developers **By:** Daniel Cranney **Published:** April 3, 2026 We’re back again with another edition of the Overflow, where we share some of the best tools we’ve found from around the web that we just couldn’t cram into the already jam-packed editions of the Dev Digest. So let’s take a look at five security and privacy tools you can pick up and run with righ... [Read more](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/710-the-overflow-5-security-and-privacy-tools-for-developers) ## 5 Examples of Creative Customised <select> Elements **By:** Daniel Cranney **Published:** April 1, 2026 Until now, <select> was one of the few HTML elements without customisation options. Of course, you could include horizontal dividers, group options and some other minor tweaks, but anything more than this meant ditching the native element altogether. Most of the time, it meant re-building it (vis... [Read more](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/722-5-examples-of-creative-customised-select-elements) ## Dev Digest 213: Petrol Prices, Agentic Workflows, AI Skills and CODE100! **By:** Daniel Cranney **Published:** March 30, 2026 Inside last week’s Dev Digest 213 . 🤫 Don’t tell your LLM that it is an expert 👻 AI generated code is invisible 🔄 Learn about agentic workflows 🛡️ Linux Foundation sponsors fight against AI slop 🦠 1M users infected by Chrome extension 🫃 The why of JavaScript bloat 🤖 Development skills for AI cod... [Read more](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/718-dev-digest-213-petrol-prices-agentic-workflows-ai-skills-and-code100) ## CSS-Only Scroll-Driven Animations **By:** Daniel Cranney **Published:** March 27, 2026 Scroll-linked animations look slick, but until now it often meant writing a fair amount of JavaScript, scroll event listeners, getBoundingClientRect(), class toggling and so on, with UX benefits often offset by performance downsides. CSS scroll-driven animations are now available natively in all ... [Read more](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/712-css-only-scroll-driven-animations) ## Tether Elements Without JavaScript with CSS Anchor Positioning **By:** Daniel Cranney **Published:** March 25, 2026 Considering how powerful CSS is, positioning elements relative to other ones for components like tooltips has often involved JavaScript along the way, revealing a weakness in the CSS spec. Well, baseline since 2026, CSS anchor positioning makes it much staight-forward to handle, so we thought we ... [Read more](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/714-tether-elements-without-javascript-with-css-anchor-positioning) [Next page](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine?page=4)