WeAreDevelopers Dev Digest

Issue 106 - DHH in HD

Hello fellow developer, to celebrate International Women's Day we have a special Women in Tech WeAreDevelopers LIVE day today, so drop by later in the afternoon! Furthermore, we have an exclusive interview with David Heinemeier Hansson of Ruby on Rails and Hey fame, we list leap year issues and show you a great dev environment and OS in the browser. And you learn how John Romero's Doom is good for your teeth!

News and Articles

Have you been affected by leap year bugs? Apparently it is still a thing. As predicted for decades, this is the year of Linux on the Desktop as it passes 4% market share. Small steps. Google launched a $5m prize to find actual uses for quantum computing and coinciding the release of Dune 2, there's reports of worms that spread through generative, AI powered mails. In good news, the web is getting a Storage Bucket API and lots of new Set methods and filing bugs in browsers has effects.Things to wonder about is why the is-number package has 59m weekly downloads and if Deno's JSR is ready to replace NPM.

Code and Tools

CODE100 puzzle: Stars in their Eyes

On 29/02 CODE100 came to Amsterdam and this was the final challenge. Challengers got the README and the dataset. and here's how to solve it!

Daytona, the coding platform used in CODE100 - is now open source!
Mozilla's readability.js is the library that powers Firefox's reader view
Puter is an OS and desktop environment in the browser!
BrowserCat makes browser automation a lot easier but -
🤯 Google's Gemini can generate automation scripts from a screen capture.

Videos and talks

WeAreDevelopers CPO Thomas Pamminger met with David Heinemeier Hansson, Co-Founder and CTO at 37 signals and creator of Ruby on Rails to talk about EU regulations, big tech and the state of the web. Check out the video (1h 13m)