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Benjamin Ruschin

The HTML Elements That You’re Probably Over-Engineering

As frameworks have become more and more commonplace in the world of web development, so too has the over-engineering of features made possible by our humble old friend, HTML. The mental models that...

9 months ago

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Chris Heilmann

A call for Guest Writers for the WeAreDevelopers Magazine

In order to make the WeAreDevelopers Magazine more diverse and to cover topics outside of our own expertise, we decided to open it to guest posts. To this end, we are looking for contributors to wr...

9 months ago

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Benjamin Ruschin

Google's Most Creative Easter Eggs

Google’s daily doodles and creative easter eggs have long served to brighten up one of the most simple (do we say boring?) UI’s on the web, keeping it feeling fresh for users who would otherwise pr...

10 months ago

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Daniel Cranney

Dev Digest 191: Malware interviews, EU ❤️ Open Source and Skilled Agents

Inside last week’s Dev Digest 191 . 💻 Want to write for the WeAreDevelopers Magazine? ⚒️ Claude skills - a less token hungry MCP? 🫰 How much does Cursor spend on AWS? 🧠 LLMs and Brain Rot 🟥 Change...

10 months ago

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Benjamin Ruschin

Five Nostalgic Developer Portfolios for Inspiration

We see amazing developer portfolios every single day, so every now and then it’s nice to stop and shine a light on some of the very best. This time, we’re looking at five nostalgic and beautifully ...

10 months ago

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Chris Heilmann

Links and anchors: ancient HTML and JS magic in your browser

Have you ever wondered why you use an <a> element to add link to an HTML document? Paragraph is <p>, unordered list is <ul>, image is <img> but why <a> instead of <link>? Well, the reason is that t...

10 months ago

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Daniel Cranney

Dev Digest 190: GitHub A11Y action, >12s Sora 2 videos and 42 CSS units!

Inside last week’s Dev Digest 190 . 🙅 Developers don’t trust AI, and that’s a good thing 🤖 Why everyone is talking about AI agents 🔓 Autonomous AI hacking and the future of cyber security 😨 Window...

10 months ago

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Chris Heilmann

With AIs wide open - WeAreDevelopers at All Things Open 2025

Last week our VP of Developer Relations, Chris Heilmann, flew to Raleigh, North Carolina to present at All Things Open . An excellent event he had spoken at a few times in the past and this being t...

10 months ago

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Daniel Cranney

What is Software Engineering in the Age of AI?

Every few years, developers are told their jobs are about to become obsolete. Early programmers, often working in Assembly or machine code, were told that the rise of high-level languages like C wo...

10 months ago

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Daniel Cranney

Dev Digest 189: Open Phones, Be the Messenger and the USB-C of AI

Inside last week’s Dev Digest 189 . ⛑️ Discord and Red Hat data breaches 🤖 Making AI make sense of tables 🔧 CodeMender AI Agent to patch software automatically 🤔 Why MCP is the USB-C of AI 🤐 Vibe ...

10 months ago

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Christina Schaireiter

Remote, Hybrid, or In-Office: What’s Really Best for Developers?

Five years ago, in the midst of a global pandemic, it seemed like we were at the beginning of a remote work revolution. At a time of huge uncertainty and mass layoffs impacting every industry, hitt...

10 months ago

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Daniel Cranney

Creating a Spotlight Text Effect with CSS and JavaScript

Every now and then it’s fun to build something small just to get a better grip on a concept, and this one’s a great example. We’ll explore how to make a simple spotlight text effect that helps you ...

10 months ago