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Daniel Cranney

Dev Digest 234: How X's Feed Works, Top 10 CI/CD Risks & Meat Proxies

Inside last week’s Dev Digest 234 . 🤖 How software teams use AI 🥩 How not to be a “meat proxy” 🔐 Web security is too hard 🛡️ The top 10 CI/CD security risks 🤥 JSON.stringify is a liar! 🧩 HTML can ...

about 8 hours ago

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Daniel Cranney

HTML Input Attributes That Make Your Forms Smarter

Good forms are harder to build than they look — intuitive input, sensible validation, minimal friction on mobile. But a handful of native HTML attributes get you most of the way there for free. Bel...

5 days ago

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Daniel Cranney

Dev Digest 233: Strip AI Watermarks, Hacked Homelabs & Designing with Code

Inside last week’s Dev Digest 233 . 🦩 Why AI companies are obsessed with pelicans 🤖 Which AI to use to do different tasks 🎯 AI users are 3x less accurate but twice as confident 🌐 HTML is unsafe ac...

7 days ago

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Chris Heilmann

Trustworthy AI Starts at Deployment: 5 Checks Before You Ship

Trustworthy AI is not a slogan. It is a release standard. Most AI features do not fail because nobody talked about ethics. They fail because they get shipped like ordinary features, even though the...

8 days ago

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Chris Heilmann

Generating ODF Files in JavaScript — Without LibreOffice

European governments are mandating OpenDocument Format (ODF) as the standard for public sector documents. Germany’s recent Deutschland-Stack decision and the EU’s push for digital sovereignty mean ...

10 days ago

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Igor Khokhriakov

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Chris Heilmann

How We Built a Worry-Free System That Runs for 10+ Years – And What We’d Do Again

The Problem: Big Science, Tiny Teams Between 2012 and 2016, we built a control system for high-throughput tomography beamlines at PETRA III (DESY, Hamburg) and FRM II (Munich) – facilities where re...

12 days ago

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Ben Smith

E-Commerce in the Agentic Age: When "Buy" Becomes a Function Call

For more than thirty years, we’ve built online commerce around one simple assumption: the customer is human. Humans browse websites. They compare products, read reviews, add items to a shopping car...

18 days ago

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Pawan Kumar Suresh

Velocity with Guardrails: How Technical Teams Can Move Fast Without Losing Decision Integrity

“Move fast” is easy advice to give, but often very difficult to actually act on. When technical teams move slowly - or slower than they would like to - it is not because the people within the team ...

20 days ago

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Daniel Cranney

Dev Digest 231: Pelicanmaxxing, Interview Hacking, RSS Revival & LLM Clichés

Inside last week’s Dev Digest 231 . 🦩 Why AI companies are obsessed with pelicans 🤖 Which AI to use to do different tasks 🎯 AI users are 3x less accurate but twice as confident 🌐 HTML is unsafe ac...

21 days ago

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Daniel Cranney

6 Open-Source Tools to Reduce Your Token Usage

Token-usage has been a hot topic in recent months, with some big providers switching to usage-based billing , news of developers burning through eye-watering amounts of money generating code with A...

24 days ago

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Ali Alp

Why Event-Driven Architecture Isn’t About Speed (and When You Actually Need It)

Why Event-Driven Architecture Isn’t About Speed—And When You Actually Need It We’ve all seen it happen. An engineering team wants to feel like they belong in the “cool kids” club, so they grab Apac...

25 days ago

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Daniel Cranney

Dev Digest 230: Secure Agent Sandboxes, $100m OSS & Tricking Claude

Inside last week’s Dev Digest 230 . 🎨 LLMs Fail at Painting the Mona Lisa 🌐 Which AI Reads Your Site? 🔥 Burning Tokens Researching How to Save Tokens 🛡️ Secure Sandboxes for Agents ♿ Building Acce...

28 days ago