WeAreDevelopers Dev Digest

Issue 146 - It's frontend, not DIVops…

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Hello fellow developer, the end of the year is nigh and time to check what we've done. So next Wednesday, 18/12 join Dan and Chris of WeAreDevelopers at 12:30 on our YouTube channel where we will go through all the editions of DevDigest of 2024 and pick our favourites. We call this WeAreDevelopers Live and it will be blast. See you there!

A few weeks ago Keith Cirkel of GitHub wrote that he has no time to learn React, which was a cracking read, so we invited him to  Coffee with Developers to learn more about React fatigue and why knowing web standards is important. 

What's happening in AI

Quite a rush this time of year in the world of AI. DeepMind's Genie 2 can now can generate interactive video game worlds, the virtual developer Devin is now available to all for $500/month, OpenAI released its video generator Sora in the US and Google countered with VEO world-wide. xAI's Grok released an image generator called Aurora on X but had to take it down again. And then there are these:

• Why AI Is Making Dev Skills More Valuable
• The 70% problem: Hard truths about AI-assisted coding
• Perplexity expands its publisher program
• Certain names make ChatGPT grind to a halt, and we know why!

Security and Privacy

• Denial of Wallet is a newer attack that could become a big issue.

• XSS Ranked #1 Top Threat of 2024 by MITRE and CISA -filter your inputs!

• Deepfake masks are physical masks to wear that make you look like someone else.

• I bought us-east-1.com: A Look at Security, DNS Traffic, and Protecting AWS Users.

Software Development

• Misconceptions about Compilers and understanding the browser main thread.
• The Biggest Shell Programs in the World.
• A more imaginative web with Scroll-Driven Animations and the problems they cause.
• Why you should use Try...Catch As Little As Possible

Tips, Tricks and Tools

Did you know that the Chromium Developer tools provide you with a visual drop shadow editor? If you write 'box-shadow" you get an icon to activate to pop up the editor. Learn more 

• lla - A Modern Alternative to ls - more info per file.
• Skia is a browser-less implementation of the HTML Canvas - for image editing.
• Query anything with old-school cool SQL - remember YQL?

Procrastination corner and Wonderful Weird Web

• The Most Mysterious Song On the Internet
• Find Your Spirit Animal... In Body Fat!

• Grifters, believers, grinders, and coasters - which programmer a you?
• Are Ghost Engineers real, and is “Quiet Quitting” a myth? 
• What causes 'bad days' for developers?
• Why Leetcode Is So Popular

• Senior Softwareentwickler*in at Aktion Mensch e.V.
• Embedded Software Engineer at Lauterbach
• Full Stack Software Engineer / Banking at msg
• Big Data Engineer at NDT Global
• IT Capacity Manager (m/w/d) at Dirk Rossmann

Companies to check:

Lauterbach - ASFiNAG  wirecube x shopreme  msg - NDT Global

More jobs here: Remote positions - Germany - Austria