Magazine

DC

Daniel Cranney

Dev Digest 183: End of Win10, a Bus Factor of 0, "Call" Explained

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 illu...

11 months ago

BR

Benjamin Ruschin

Boring Tech Is What Matters

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...

12 months ago

DC

Daniel Cranney

Dev Digest 182: GPT5 Prompts, MCP Vulnerabilities, Code Traps

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 ⚒...

12 months ago

CH

Chris Heilmann

Efficiently Cut Huge 4K Videos Using FFMPEG and PHP

What do you do when you face massive files you need to work with? Go back to the roots, in this case, the command line. The main stage at the WeAreDevelopers world congress has a lot of cameras tha...

12 months ago

AF

Algorand Foundation

From Hype to Code: Real Blockchain Use Cases for Developers

So you’ve wrapped your head around why blockchain exists . You’re on board with the concepts: decentralization, immutability, and trust-minimized infrastructure. But now comes the real question: Wh...

12 months ago

AF

Algorand Foundation

Why Blockchain? A Developer’s Perspective

For many developers, blockchain feels like that one friend who keeps trying to sell you on their side hustle: persistent, occasionally confusing, and often surrounded by hype. But behind the buzzwo...

12 months ago

DC

Daniel Cranney

Dev Digest 181: America Offline! Pay to code? And bad AI hackers…

Inside last week’s Dev Digest 181 . ☎️ AOL shuts down dial-up internet 🔥 Bot-only social media platform immediately goes to war 🤑 Is the future pay to code? ⚠️ Path traversal vulnerability in Micr...

12 months ago

BR

Benjamin Ruschin

Lessons for Vibe Coders and Developers

In late July 2025, the women-only dating-advice app Tea went viral for all the wrong reasons. Marketed as a safe, private space to anonymously flag men for “red-flag” behavior, hackers attacked the...

12 months ago

DC

Daniel Cranney

Dev Digest 180: AI Code Crashes, Rooting Copilot and a 200 LOC AI agent

Inside last week’s Dev Digest 179 . 😬 ChatGPT queries leaked and indexed by search engines 👎 The first outage from LLM written code analysed 💻 The hidden productivity tax of ‘almost right’ AI code...

about 1 year ago

DC

Daniel Cranney

5 Underrated Things You Can Do with Preview and QuickTime on Mac

Even long-time users of Mac’s often don’t realise how powerful many of the simple tools, built-in to macOS, actually are. Two of the most underrated are Preview and QuickTime Player, with both able...

about 1 year ago

DC

Daniel Cranney

Dev Digest 179: rm -rf, Agent Style, NPM hacks & Browser Design Tools

Inside last week’s Dev Digest 179 . 🌍 AI is eating the internet 💡 Reverse engineering GitHub Spark with itself 📦 NPM under attack - ‘is’ package compromised ⚠️ AI code assistant almost wiped the c...

about 1 year ago

BR

Benjamin Ruschin

Who Owns Your Content in the Age of LLMs?

AI has changed the web forever. Large language models (LLMs) are changing how information is produced, shared and consumed on the web. In fact, estimates suggest that now more than half of all web ...

about 1 year ago