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[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) ## Dev Digest 172: CODE100 is back, Linux Containers & PHP in Node! **By:** Daniel Cranney **Published:** June 16, 2025 Inside last week’s Dev Digest 172 . 🍎 All WDC Web Tech announcements 📦 Linux containers on MacOS 🧑‍💻 Take a CODE100 challenge to join the WeAreDevelopers World Congress 📝 Training AI without GDPR issues 📱 Mobile port tracking and restricted Android sideloading 🟪 State of CSS 2025 🟨 Multithreaded... [Read more](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/597-dev-digest-172-code100-is-back-linux-containers-php-in-node) ## Win your spot for CODE100 at WeAreDevelopers World Congress by solving the "hearts and minds" puzzle **By:** Chris Heilmann **Published:** June 15, 2025 CODE100 is coming back live to the WeAreDevelopers World Congress and here is your chance to earn your place on stage to show thousands of people your coding skills. The Hearts and Minds challenge asks you to take this HTML document which results in the following: We ask you to tell us: Ho... [Read more](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/596-win-your-spot-for-code100-at-wearedevelopers-world-congress-by-solving-the-hearts-and-minds-puzzle) ## Declarative Design and a fresh take on collaboration with developers **By:** Chris Heilmann **Published:** June 9, 2025 Getting designers and developers on the same page can be tough for digital product teams. Things get especially tricky when the focus is just on fixing little things here and there instead of looking at the bigger picture together. Translating designs into programming languages often causes confl... [Read more](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/595-declarative-design-and-a-fresh-take-on-collaboration-with-developers) ## Dev Digest 171: AI in disguise, Doomed tech and system prompts **By:** Daniel Cranney **Published:** June 9, 2025 Inside last week’s Dev Digest 171 . 🤖 Insights from LLM system prompts 👎 Why agents are bad pair programmers 🔒 All vibe coded apps share a security flaw 📅 Why are 2025/05/28 and 2025-05-28 different dates in JS? 🧱 Pure CSS Minecraft 🎧 Create web audio like you write CSS 🤔 Would you offer “sign i... [Read more](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/594-dev-digest-171-ai-in-disguise-doomed-tech-and-system-prompts) [Next page](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine?page=14)