WeAreDevelopers Dev Digest

Issue 107 - And the OSScar goes to…

Hello fellow developer, this time we celebrate the World Wide Web's 35th, talk to Daytona folk about going open source and go to space in a Yugo!

News and Articles

Happy 35th birthday, WWW! Here's what Sir Tim Berners-Lee has to say about this and Brian Kardell wonders how we fund the web ecosystem.

We might have a new colleague on the block as Cognition released Devin, the first AI software engineer. Sounds too good? First tests are positive.

Git a load of this: Linux 6.9 will be the first Git repo with ten million objects and yet Facebook doesn’t use Git.

Google made Interaction to Next Paint an official Core Web Vital and here's what it is and why you should care.

Josh Collinsworth is lamenting the quiet, pervasive devaluation of frontend and it makes you wonder if automating front-end engineering isn't already a thing. Then again, Nicole Tietz argues that the most important goal in software is understandability.

Code and Tools

CODE100 puzzle: ᓚᘏᗢ pics challenge

CODE100 Amsterdam had this as the 2nd challenge. Here is the README and the dataset. Could you have done it?

The excellent Eloquent JavaScript book has a new, free edition!
Browser extensions are powerful and potentially dangerous. Using Under New Management you'll learn when the ones you have installed changed owners.
I ❤️ PDF is lots of PDF tools in one place
URL parts explained shows you visually what each part of a URL is called
Million Lint identifies slow React code and provide suggestions to fix it.

Videos and talks

Daytona is now open source and has been trending on GitHub for a few days. But what is it? We talked to CEO Ivan Burazin and CTO Vedran Jukic. Check it out.