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[Read more](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/609-how-to-test-your-network-speed-in-the-terminal) ## Dev Digest 178: VPNs to remove, Coder > AI, Your Trackpad as a Scale **By:** Daniel Cranney **Published:** July 28, 2025 Inside last week’s Dev Digest 178 . 🏆 Human Coder beats AI in coding contest 💻 AI doesn’t make developers more productive 🕵️ A list of malicious VPNs to avoid 🙅 OpenAI CEO warns us not to trust ChatGPT with personal data 🕷️ Crawling a billion websites in 24 hours 📝 A friendly introduction to SVG... [Read more](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/608-dev-digest-178-vpns-to-remove-coder-ai-your-trackpad-as-a-scale) ## The CODE100 2025 Final Puzzle Explained **By:** Daniel Cranney **Published:** July 25, 2025 Europe’s Ultimate Coding Competition is in the books for another year! With this in mind, we sat down with our 2025 CODE100 Champion, Nimrod Kor, to look back on how he solved the puzzle in the final round to secure victory. The Challenge Our final coding challenge asked participants to decrypt ... [Read more](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/607-the-code100-2025-final-puzzle-explained) ## 10 Reasons Developers Should Attend In-Person Tech Events Like WeAreDevelopers World Congress **By:** Daniel Cranney **Published:** July 23, 2025 As the dust has now settled after the WeAreDevelopers World Congress 2025, we’ve taken some time to reflect on the three unforgettable days we spent with you all in Berlin. Tickets are already on sale for 2026 , and with WeAreDevelopers expanding to the United States and India, we thought we woul... [Read more](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/606-10-reasons-developers-should-attend-in-person-tech-events-like-wearedevelopers-world-congress) ## Dev Digest 177: Blockchain, jQuery and a Prompt Playground **By:** Daniel Cranney **Published:** July 21, 2025 Inside last week’s Dev Digest 177 . 😫 Do AI tools slow down developers by 20%? 📝 The State of DevSecOps ⚠️ 2.3M Chrome and Edge browsers infected by malicious extensions 🤔 Is it still worth using jQuery? 🪦 10 dead influential programming languages 💻 Langfast - try LLM prompts in the browser 👨‍💻 ... [Read more](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/605-dev-digest-177-blockchain-jquery-and-a-prompt-playground) ## Everything a Developer Needs to Know About MCP with Neo4j **By:** Michael Hunger, Chris Heilmann **Published:** July 18, 2025 In the rapidly evolving world of AI tooling and agentic workflows, one protocol is reshaping how developers build, scale, and share AI-native applications: the Model Context Protocol (MCP). If you’ve been building AI agents, you know the pain of integration hell: every new tool means custom code,... [Read more](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/604-everything-a-developer-needs-to-know-about-mcp-with-neo4j) ## Dev Digest 176: Expensive Agents, Taking Over VSCode and Safer Vibe Coding **By:** Daniel Cranney **Published:** July 14, 2025 Inside last week’s Dev Digest 176 . In case you missed the Dev Digest on Friday, here’s a few highlights… 🌳 Sustainability of software in the age of AI 🔒 What Web App Sec is about 🤖 What can agents actually do? 🍾 Writing Code Was Never The Bottleneck ⚠️ Exploiting IDE Extensions is Easy 🙌 Microso... [Read more](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/603-dev-digest-176-expensive-agents-taking-over-vscode-and-safer-vibe-coding) ## Why Presentations Should Always Work Offline—Even at Online Conferences **By:** Chris Heilmann **Published:** July 14, 2025 We just finished the WeAreDevelopers World Congress 2025 in Berlin, and I am still recovering from the event. It was a fantastic experience, and I am grateful to everyone who attended and made it a success. As the main moderator of the main stage, I had the pleasure of introducing many amazing sp... [Read more](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/602-why-presentations-should-always-work-offline-even-at-online-conferences) ## Now is the time for industrialized software development **By:** Andre Braun, GitLab **Published:** June 30, 2025 Now is the time for industrialized software development Recently, I received a letter from my car’s manufacturer alerting me to a recall. They had discovered a defective part and wanted to replace it. It was easily fixed, and I might have forgotten all about it. But it’s precisely the banality of... [Read more](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/601-now-is-the-time-for-industrialized-software-development) ## Got AI ideas but no money? Here are 10 free ways to level up your AI skills with Google Cloud **By:** Erin Rifkin, Chris Heilmann **Published:** June 25, 2025 The AI skills gap is real and developers are feeling the pressure to bring AI into their everyday work. As the managing director of Google Cloud’s learning organization, the question I hear from technical leaders more than any other is: How do we move from a theoretical understanding of AI to cre... [Read more](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/600-got-ai-ideas-but-no-money-here-are-10-free-ways-to-level-up-your-ai-skills-with-google-cloud) ## Security Basics for Vibe Coders **By:** Christina Schaireiter **Published:** June 25, 2025 Vibe coding has become a popular trend in the tech world. With so many tools now available for both developers and non-developers, it’s easier than ever to build projects using natural language, in some cases without touching a line of code along the way. The problem is, speed often comes at the ... [Read more](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/598-security-basics-for-vibe-coders) ## AI & A11Y, Meta's privacy and the future of SEO **By:** Daniel Cranney **Published:** June 23, 2025 Inside last week’s Dev Digest 173 . 🏆 GitHub reaches 1bn repos, with underwhelming final submission 🎮 Atari 2600 beats ChatGPT at chess 💬 Chatbots don’t improve work for 7k companies 🕵️ Meta AI app is a privacy disaster ⚠️ Microsoft Copilot’s Zero Click AI attack 👋 Google shutting down Android I... [Read more](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/599-ai-a11y-meta-s-privacy-and-the-future-of-seo) [Next page](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine?page=13)