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Daniel Cranney

GitHub's Copilot Ads and Opt-out for AI Training Data

Our newsletter - The Dev Digest - is packed with links to all kinds of tech content, but we just can’t cover everything. That’s why we put together the Overflow, where we share some of our favouri...

4 months ago

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Daniel Cranney

Dev Digest 214: Claude Is Leaking, GitHub Is Listening & Axios Hacked!

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 c...

4 months ago

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Daniel Cranney

The Overflow: 5 Security and Privacy Tools for Developers

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 D...

4 months ago

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Daniel Cranney

5 Examples of Creative Customised <select> Elements

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 th...

4 months ago

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Daniel Cranney

Dev Digest 213: Petrol Prices, Agentic Workflows, AI Skills and CODE100!

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 🦠...

4 months ago

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Daniel Cranney

CSS-Only Scroll-Driven Animations

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 of...

5 months ago

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Daniel Cranney

Tether Elements Without JavaScript with CSS Anchor Positioning

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, ba...

5 months ago

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Chris Heilmann

The Overflow: AI and Agentic Coding

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 aut...

5 months ago

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Daniel Cranney

Dev Digest 212: WebMCP or MCP, What is DevRel, AI's 10% Productivity Boost, and a 49MB Web Page…

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 “Algor...

5 months ago

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Daniel Cranney

The Overflow: 5 CSS Generators and Visual Design Tools

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 ...

5 months ago

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Daniel Cranney

How Engineering Hubs Build Visibility at Developer Conferences like WeAreDevelopers World Congress

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 l...

5 months ago

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Daniel Cranney

Why We Should Be Using the <search> Element More

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 eve...

5 months ago