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[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) ## The Overflow: AI and Agentic Coding **By:** Daniel Cranney, Chris Heilmann **Published:** March 24, 2026 In this week’s Overflow - where we shared links we just couldn’t fit in the Dev Digest but were too good to ignore - we’re looking at what’s been happening in the world of AI, coding agents and automation. As always, you can see this in video form or go straight to the links below: Give an Agent... [Read more](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/721-the-overflow-ai-and-agentic-coding) ## Dev Digest 212: WebMCP or MCP, What is DevRel, AI's 10% Productivity Boost, and a 49MB Web Page… **By:** Daniel Cranney **Published:** March 23, 2026 Inside last week’s Dev Digest 212 . 🤔 WebMCP or MCP 🧠 Essential Claude code skills 📊 The AI incident database 🎨 Hacking CSS ⚡ Rethinking web performance 🐍 How Python got lazy imports 📘 Free “Algorithms with TypeScript” book 📉 AI makes you 10% more productive, not 10x 🧼 120 minutes of cleaning gl... [Read more](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/717-dev-digest-212-webmcp-or-mcp-what-is-devrel-ai-s-10-productivity-boost-and-a-49mb-web-page) ## The Overflow: 5 CSS Generators and Visual Design Tools **By:** Daniel Cranney **Published:** March 20, 2026 If you’ve read The Overflow before you’ll know it’s where we take some time you show you our favourite tools from around the web that we simply couldn’t fit into the always-packed Dev Digest. This time, we’re looking at five tools for generating CSS — from grid layouts and flexbox to gradients, e... [Read more](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/708-the-overflow-5-css-generators-and-visual-design-tools) ## How Engineering Hubs Build Visibility at Developer Conferences like WeAreDevelopers World Congress **By:** Daniel Cranney **Published:** March 19, 2026 Engineering hubs don’t attend developer conferences for brand awareness in the traditional sense. They attend to build technical visibility, employer branding, and credibility with developers. At large developer-first events like WeAreDevelopers World Congress, this becomes especially important. ... [Read more](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/720-how-engineering-hubs-build-visibility-at-developer-conferences-like-wearedevelopers-world-congress) ## Why We Should Be Using the <search> Element More **By:** Daniel Cranney **Published:** March 18, 2026 When you consider how integral search elements to user interfaces and user experience more general, you might be surprised to learn they were only introduced to the HTML spec in 2023. If you’ve ever built a search bar in HTML, it could well have looked a little like this: <div class="search-conta... [Read more](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/711-why-we-should-be-using-the-search-element-more) [Next page](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine?page=4)