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Daniel Cranney

Top Must-Visit Developer Conferences in the US in 2026

For US software developers, 2026 is shaping up to be one of the strongest years yet for in-person learning, networking, and career growth. As AI moves into production, cloud architectures mature, a...

7 months ago

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Chris Heilmann

Adding shadows to irregular shapes in CSS with filter: drop-shadow()

CSS shadows are great to make things stand out, become more readable and give your designs a sense of depth. The problem is though that whilst text-shadow does only add a shadow to the letters, add...

7 months ago

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Daniel Cranney

Dev Digest 201: Don't Stop Thinking, AI Slop vs. OSS Security, Rank Things

Inside last week’s Dev Digest 201 . 🧠 Despite AI you still need to think 🍋 Bitter lessons from building AI products 🤖 AI Slop vs. OSS security 📱 Cloning tap-to-pay on Android 🤑 Saving $500k/year b...

7 months ago

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Daniel Cranney

Devs vs. Marketers, COBOL and Copilot, Make Live Coding Easy and more - The Best of LIVE 2025 - Part 3

In this, the third and final part of our series looking back on the best bits from the Weekly Developer Show, we dig into some more classic moments from our guests for you to enjoy. Raphael De Lio ...

7 months ago

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Daniel Cranney

Slopquatting, API Keys, Fun with Fonts, Recruiters vs AI and more - The Best of LIVE 2025 - Part 2

This week, we’re continuing our look-back on some of the best moments from the Weekly Developer Show from 2025. Here’s what some of our fantastic guests had to say… Sebastian Gingter cracked open ...

8 months ago

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Chris Heilmann

AI overspill Dec 2026: AI in a JAM, Blocking AI browsers, learning programming languages

Welcome to the AI overspill for December 2025. Here are some of the links that didn’t make it to the WeAreDevelopers Dev Digest but are still interesting to check out. Jonah Glover of Hightouch tr...

8 months ago

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Daniel Cranney

Developers vs Scammers, Bad Design, AI is Pointless, AJAX is 20 and more - The Best of LIVE 2025 - Part 1

Every Wednesday, we’re joined by guests from around the world to discuss all the going on in the tech industry, and now that the year is wrapping up, we thought we’d take some time to look back on ...

8 months ago

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Daniel Cranney

The CAMARA Project: How Telcos Collaborating Improves Developer Experience

Every industry has friction points, but few have historically been as fragmented for developers as telecommunications. If you’ve ever tried to build something that interacts with mobile networks, y...

8 months ago

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Daniel Cranney

Dev Digest 198: 30 years of JS, In-Browser AI, How Attackers Abuse GenAI

Inside last week’s Dev Digest 198 . 🎂 30 years of JavaScript ⏰ How long is a JavaScript second 💻 Clean code in Angular 🤦‍♂️ AI makes different mistakes than humans 👨‍💻 In-browser and offline AI 🟠 ...

8 months ago

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Daniel Cranney

Stop Using Divs: Five Input Types You Could Use Right Away

Modern web development tends to lean heavily on JavaScript frameworks and UI libraries, especially for forms. However, before reaching for another dependency or a ready-made (but probably over-engi...

8 months ago

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Christina Schaireiter

Semantic HTML Elements You’re (Probably) Not Using But Should

Semantic HTML is one of the simplest ways to make your pages more accessible, meaningful, and easier to maintain, without adding libraries or rewriting layouts. Here are five underrated elements th...

8 months ago

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Daniel Cranney

Dev Digest 197: Dunning–Kruger Steroids, State of Cloud Security, Puppies > Beer

Inside last week’s Dev Digest 197 . 💪 LLMs are steroids for Dunning-Kruger ☁️ The state of cloud security 🟨 JavaScript for Django developers 🔀 Redirects hurt your page rank 🤔 Is your node setup vu...

8 months ago