WeAreDevelopers Dev Digest

Hello fellow developer, this time we look at the rising stars of JavaScript, we learn how a package broke NPM, how to attack LLMs and why AI has a trust issue. We also talk to a YouTube star how to succeed with code tutorials. 

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📰 Top developer news 

• JavaScript's rising stars 2023
• Browser Interop dashboard 2023 - looking good!
• What PWAs can do today
• The package that broke NPM (accidentally)
• Announcing Vue 3.4

WeAreDevelopers World Congress 2024
17-19 July 2024 · Berlin

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📚 Reading list

• Weird things engineers believe about Web development
• The AI trust crisis
• Common mistakes with the Next.js App Router and how to fix them
• 10 Interview Questions Every JavaScript Developer Should Know in 2024
• Attacks on machine learning models
• LLMs and Programming in the first days of 2024

☕️ CODE100 Puzzle: Happy New Year (solution)

Did you manage to crack the first CODE100 puzzle of 2024? Here is the solution how to turn an array of numbers into the emoji Happy new year message. Next edition will be a new puzzle, so stay tuned! 

☕️ Featured video

In this Coffee With Developers we sat down with Francesco Ciulla, public speaker and rising YouTube star working for daily.dev. We covered how you can get started as an content creator and how to get past stage fright. Check it out on YouTube.

📺 Handpicked talks

• Audit your site for third-party cookies
• React server components from scratch
• Ekaterina Sirazitdinova - Multimodal Generative AI Demystified
• Hans Hosea Schäfer - Get ready for new features - the legacy challenge
• Hidde de Vries - ARIA: the good parts

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• Praktikum Toolentwicklung im Automotive Umfeld at Bosch in Vienna
• Backend Entwickler - Kotlin & GCP at ista Express Service 
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• Remote Fullstack Developer - Vue.js/Nuxt/PHP at StreamTV Media

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⚙️ Procrastination corner

• Web Design Museum - what things used to look like

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