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Daniel Cranney

Dev Digest 155: Hashtable breakthrough, Multi-threaded Python and DeepSeek Leaks

Inside last week’s Dev Digest 155 . 🤯 40 year old hashtable myth busted! 🐍 Multi threaded and multi core Python 🐋 There’s been a DeepSeek leak 🤷‍♂️ People don’t care about your AI feature 🔐 Applic...

over 1 year ago

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Daniel Cranney

How to Style Other Elements on Hover with the :not() CSS Pseudo Class

A few years back, Stephan Judis wrote about CSS’s :not pseduo-class as it started to gain widespread browser support. Fast forward to 2025, and it’s widely available, but so rarely used. In this a...

over 1 year ago

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Daniel Cranney

Dev Digest 154: Responsible AI? Mistakes of CSS & track all the things!

Inside last week’s Dev Digest 154 . 💰 Google pushing for AI on device with Web AI fund and lots of APIs 📱 Track your own location using in-app ads 🍎 Track your hardware using Apple’s location serv...

over 1 year ago

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Daniel Cranney

How to Avoid Over-Engineering

In today’s software development world, the demand for designing applications that are both robust and easy to maintain is more pressing than ever. Many developers encounter the architectural chaos ...

over 1 year ago

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Daniel Cranney

The Temporal API: How JavaScript Dates Might Actually Be Getting Fixed

JavaScript developers have long struggled with the limitations of the built-in Date object. The Date API, inherited from Java’s java.util.Date, has fundamental design flaws that make handling date ...

over 1 year ago

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Daniel Cranney

Dev Digest 153: All about DeepSeek, Date in JS solved, AI makes us dumb

Inside last week’s Dev Digest 153 . 🤷‍♂️ Is AI creating a generation of illiterate programmers? 🐳 All you ever wanted to know about DeepSeek AI 🤑 Calculate how much that meeting you just had cost...

over 1 year ago

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Daniel Cranney

Finder Tips and Tricks: Upgrade Your Workflow on macOS

If you’ve seen any of our previous tips and tricks articles , you’ll know that we share shortcuts, tools and tips to help developers speed up their workflow. This time, we’re turning our attention ...

over 1 year ago

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Daniel Cranney

DeepSeek R1 vs ChatGPT o1: How Do They Compare?

It’s fair to say DeepSeek has arrived. The Chinese startup and its R1 model exploded onto the AI scene last week, and - at least temporarily - turned the industry on its head. With OpenAI having e...

over 1 year ago

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Daniel Cranney

The Rise of Disinformation on the Web

In recent years, the digital landscape has transformed dramatically, propelled by the rapid evolution of AI-generated content and the proliferation of disinformation, as well as a greater focus pai...

over 1 year ago

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Daniel Cranney

Dev Digest 152: Chrome Extensions Hack, CSS Spy Sheets, Deepseek OSS AI

Inside last week’s Dev Digest 152 . 🐋 DeepSeek - a new rising star open source model 🖐 Using CSS to fingerprint browsers and email clients 🧠 Things you should know about accessibility 🤷‍♂️ What do...

over 1 year ago

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Daniel Cranney

The State of Tech Salaries in Europe in 2025

One of the greatest allures of the tech industry is the income it can provide for those working within it. From eye-watering high six-figure salaries in Silicon Valley to more modest-but-still-impr...

over 1 year ago

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Daniel Cranney

Is HTMX Worth Learning in 2025?

HTMX, a relatively niche library for modern web development, has been quietly surging in popularity… or so it would seem. As of January 2025, JavaScript Rising Stars reported that HMTX now has more...

over 1 year ago