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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 🦠...

5 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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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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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

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Daniel Cranney

Dev Digest 211: Securing Agents, Top AI Apps and Lost Readers…

Inside last week’s Dev Digest 211 . 🏗️ Can the infrastructure keep up with AI growth? 📱 Top 100 GenAI consumer apps 🪱 Wikipedia hit by worm and AI slop 🔍 The results of Codex Security scanning 1.2...

5 months ago

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Daniel Cranney

The Overflow: Security and Privacy

Every week we dig through hundreds of links from all over the web, and it’s often hard for developers keep up. So, we thought we’d put together some links we couldn’t fit in the Dev Digest in what ...

5 months ago

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Daniel Cranney

HTML Media Elements and How to Use Them: <video> and <audio>

If you’ve read the WeAreDevelopers Magazine before, you’ll know we’re vocal supporters of the web platform, and of sharing the power of native HTML elements. This time, we’re taking a closer look a...

5 months ago

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The Overflow: 5 Tools for Working with SVGs

In last week’s edition, we looked at tools for working JSON and so this week we’re pivoting to something a little more visual, with tools for scalable vector graphics (or SVGs to you and me). As al...

6 months ago