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[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... [Read more](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/615-dev-digest-181-america-offline-pay-to-code-and-bad-ai-hackers) ## Lessons for Vibe Coders and Developers **By:** Benjamin Ruschin **Published:** August 13, 2025 In late July 2025, the women-only dating-advice app Tea went viral for all the wrong reasons. Marketed as a safe, private space to anonymously flag men for “red-flag” behavior, hackers attacked the app, accessing over 70,000 user-submitted images including passport scans and driving licenses, an... [Read more](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/614-lessons-for-vibe-coders-and-developers) ## Dev Digest 180: AI Code Crashes, Rooting Copilot and a 200 LOC AI agent **By:** Daniel Cranney **Published:** August 11, 2025 Inside last week’s Dev Digest 179 . 😬 ChatGPT queries leaked and indexed by search engines 👎 The first outage from LLM written code analysed 💻 The hidden productivity tax of ‘almost right’ AI code 🕸️ Cloudflare accusing Perplexity of scraping the web without consent 📅 Hacking a smart home with a... [Read more](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/613-dev-digest-180-ai-code-crashes-rooting-copilot-and-a-200-loc-ai-agent) ## 5 Underrated Things You Can Do with Preview and QuickTime on Mac **By:** Daniel Cranney **Published:** August 7, 2025 Even long-time users of Mac’s often don’t realise how powerful many of the simple tools, built-in to macOS, actually are. Two of the most underrated are Preview and QuickTime Player, with both able to do much more than many people realise, and just like we dug into Finder in a previous article , ... [Read more](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/612-5-underrated-things-you-can-do-with-preview-and-quicktime-on-mac) ## Dev Digest 179: rm -rf, Agent Style, NPM hacks & Browser Design Tools **By:** Daniel Cranney **Published:** August 4, 2025 Inside last week’s Dev Digest 179 . 🌍 AI is eating the internet 💡 Reverse engineering GitHub Spark with itself 📦 NPM under attack - ‘is’ package compromised ⚠️ AI code assistant almost wiped the computers of 1M users 📝 The State of HTML Survey is open! 🤫 AI agent deletes sensitive data and lies ... [Read more](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/611-dev-digest-179-rm-rf-agent-style-npm-hacks-browser-design-tools) ## Who Owns Your Content in the Age of LLMs? **By:** Benjamin Ruschin **Published:** August 1, 2025 AI has changed the web forever. Large language models (LLMs) are changing how information is produced, shared and consumed on the web. In fact, estimates suggest that now more than half of all web traffic is made up of bots , with a sizable amount of that traffic coming from so-called bad bots, b... [Read more](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/610-who-owns-your-content-in-the-age-of-llms) [Next page](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine?page=12)