WeAreDevelopers Dev Digest

Issue 105 - Security First

Hello fellow developer, this time we have a lot of resources about security and some brand new online courses to get started as a developer or refresh your knowledge. We also wrapped up CODE100 Amsterdam and wonder if you could have been a winner.

News and Articles

In security news, Github shows how they automatically fix security vulnerabilities with AI whilst Microsoft's released PyRIT to generate malicious prompts to test Gen AI models. And in bonkers security news: fingerprints can be recreated from the sounds made when you swipe on a touchscreen.

In accessibility land, the screen reader survey 10 results are out and Josh Collinsworth worries about Copilot generating inaccessible solutions,

Platform stuff: Mozilla released a brand Front End Development Curriculum! Apple vs. PWA is still on, here's what will be broken soon if we don't act about it and an open letter to Tim Cook to not pursue the endeavour.

Code and Tools

CODE100 puzzle: Stars in their Eyes

On 29/02 CODE100 came to Amsterdam and this was the final challenge. Could you have done it?

Check the README and the dataset.

Deno is releasing JSR - a JavaScript Package Registry to rival NPM.
Google released an AI model that can generate 2D platformer games. Sure, but can it do Frogger in 256 bytes?
Ahmad Shadeed has an interactive guide to using CSS has().

Videos and talks

We met with Jonathan Fielding to talk about Neurodiversity in the tech industry. Check out the video and his resources on the topic.

Microsoft's brand new “Security for Beginners” course - with code.
10 JavaScript security vulnerabilities with code examples (25m)
Code Pac Man in JS - live in one hour with explanations
Jodie Burchell's guide to modern natural language processing (1h)
Luca Palmieri's introduction to Rustdoc's JSON format (45m)

Access the full WeAreDevelopers talk archive

Events

Check out C3 Dev Fest, a contemporary software engineering & design festival!

📚 Code, career, creativity

🎮 12 artists & 30 speakers

💡 Speed Networking & many more

#Amsterdam, June 14-15, 2024 → https://c3fest.com

Work and Jobs

The UK just made the four-day week permanent in world’s biggest trial. You can learn a lot about your company by renaming your profile to "Slackbot". Wired has an interesting bit on tech job interviews getting ridiculously hard and it seems some companies make it even bizarre. AI won't eat your job, but your salary talks about work becoming a commodity with automation. And lastly, Jensen Huang of Nvidia says kids shouldn't learn to code and leave it up to AI. Do you agree?

Are you looking for opportunities or fancy a change? How about these?

More jobs here: Remote positions - Germany - Austria

And some companies to check out are:

Camunda - Canva - Leica Geosystems part of Hexagon

Hoffmann Group - BTC Embedded Systems AG

Procrastination Corner / Wonderful Weird Web

Mario Kart 3 in the browser and you can help make it better
In Sinusoidial Tetris you win by changing a sine curve to match the one below
Gorgeous Random animations on every reload.

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