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[Read more](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/633-dev-digest-187-build-agents-pick-mcps-and-prove-you-re-not-a-robot) ## View Transition API: Adding Single-Page Transitions With Just HTML, CSS and JS **By:** Daniel Cranney **Published:** September 26, 2025 Over the past few years, you’ve likely noticed an increase in websites and applications featuring transitions that take place as you change page. Perhaps it’s a simple crossfade between the current page and another when clicking a navigation item, or even something a little flashier like an image... [Read more](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/632-view-transition-api-adding-single-page-transitions-with-just-html-css-and-js) ## Dev Digest 186: Vape Coding, NPM Attacks + How to Make Your Boss Listen **By:** Daniel Cranney **Published:** September 22, 2025 Inside last week’s Dev Digest 186 . 🇦🇱 Albania has AI bot in government 🤖 How people use ChatGPT vs. Claude 🌳 How to make AI greener 🪱 Worm infects 187 NPM packages ⚠️ VSCode is flooded with malicious extensions 💨 Hosting on a disposable vape 🇬🇧 Hacker kiddies in the UK 📊 How to present to execu... [Read more](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/631-dev-digest-186-vape-coding-npm-attacks-how-to-make-your-boss-listen) ## Navigating the AI Shift **By:** Benjamin Ruschin **Published:** September 19, 2025 AI has had an undeniable impact on all kinds of aspects of life and work, from how we do everyday tasks, to how software is built, how companies operate, and even how work itself is defined. Despite some impressive developments in a relatively short time, we’re still at the start of the AI curve.... [Read more](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/629-navigating-the-ai-shift) ## Using light-dark() for Easy Theme Switching **By:** Daniel Cranney **Published:** September 18, 2025 In websites and tech products, dark mode has become somewhat of a meme. It’s gone from a useful utility to a clichéd standard, sometimes shipped even before core features are finished. In the past, styling applications so they would respond to the user toggling between light and dark mode would ... [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) [Next page](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine?page=12)