Magazine

DC

Daniel Cranney

GitHub Actions: Auto-Comment on New Issues

GitHub Actions let you automate tasks within your repository. While many developers use them for continuous integration or deployment, they can be used to automate all kinds of tasks and supercharg...

about 1 year ago

DC

Daniel Cranney

How to Get Better at Pair Programming

As the finals of CODE100 approach, our contestants are practicing for four rounds of competitive coding, including a pair programming round. With this in mind, we thought we would share some tips ...

about 1 year ago

DC

Daniel Cranney

Dev Digest 170: All things MCP, huge login data leaks and web privacy

Inside last week’s Dev Digest 170 . 🙌 MCP - Hype or hope? 🤖 Hidden costs of AI coding 😬 2 billion Discord messages leaked 🕵️ W3C releases web privacy principles ⚠️ Detecting malicious unicode 🎂 Th...

about 1 year ago

DC

Daniel Cranney

Dev Digest 169: Computers under pressure, AI's future & the why of Vim!

Inside last week’s Dev Digest 169 . 📝 Figma’s 2025 AI report 🤖 How AI products can and should evolve 😲 The truth about VPNs ⚡ How to create great animations 💻 The Compute Pressure API 🔥 A Google C...

about 1 year ago

DC

Daniel Cranney

Spot the Mistakes: CSS

Our community has had a great time solving our spot the mistakes challenges, so we thought we’d keep it rolling with another one. This time, we’ll be setting our sights on CSS. See if you can spot ...

over 1 year ago

DC

Daniel Cranney

Dev Digest 168: Hacking Postgres, Blocking Meta and Fixing CSS

Inside last week’s Dev Digest 168 . 📊 The state of OpenAI’s GPT models 🤖 20% of Salesforce code written by AI 👩‍💻 Hacking Postgres 🙅‍♂️ How to block Meta AI from your Instagram 🔧 How to fix common...

over 1 year ago

DC

Daniel Cranney

7 VSCode Extensions That Actually Make You More Efficient (2025 Edition)

When it comes to development IDE’s, Visual Studio Code is tough to beat. It’s open-source, lightweight, deeply customisable and has a huge community around the globe extending its functionality an...

over 1 year ago

DC

Daniel Cranney

Dev Digest 167: Open Source AI, Passwordless Microsoft and Vibe Coding

Inside last week’s Dev Digest 167 . 🖼️ Is vibe coding killing creativity? 🌳 Is ChatGPT not as bad for the environment as we think? ⚠️ 95% of AppSec fixes don’t reduce risks 🔑 Microsoft going passw...

over 1 year ago

CH

Chris Heilmann

Vibe coding, creativity, craft and professionalism… are we making ourselves redundant?

“Vibe coding”, creativity, craft and professionalism… are we making ourselves redundant? In a time of “vibe coding” and instant creation at the push of a button or speaking to the computer, how do ...

over 1 year ago

DC

Daniel Cranney

Dev Digest 166: Sycophancy, Zip bombs and AI Native Development

Inside last week’s Dev Digest 166 . 🔥 The hottest AI job of 2023 is already obsolete 🙌 Sycophancy as an AI dark pattern 👨‍💻 The hidden cost of AI coding 🔝 2025’s Top OSINT Tools 🐞 Bugs in AI chatb...

over 1 year ago

DC

Daniel Cranney

How to Make Your GitHub Profile Stand Out (Without Writing a Line of Code)

A GitHub profile is more than just a list of repositories — it’s a portfolio, a resume/CV, and often the first impression others will have of its owner. If you’re applying for a job, contributing t...

over 1 year ago

DC

Daniel Cranney

Spot the Mistakes: HTML Tables

When it comes to HTML, tables don’t get the respect they deserve. Despite being a part of HTML since 1997 - and with many others tags from the time now being deprecated - tables are considered by m...

over 1 year ago