On this edition of WeAreDevelopers LIVE we welcome Kate Astrid, Senior Product Engineer at Cogram and speaker at this past summer's WeAreDevelopers World Congress North America to talk all about cognitive biases in development, and how to overcome them. Of course, we also take a look at the news from the week and separate fact from fiction in a round of Fake or News.
This week we're joined by Kate Astrid, Senior Product Engineer at Cogram, to see if she can tell fact from fiction in a round of Fake or News.
Is Wordpress dropping PHP and picking up Python in its place? Did one person spend $10million on tokens in a month, and is Claude going to cure cancer?
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This week we look back at Mark Cavage's Keynote from the WeAreDevelopers World Congress North America, delivered with Michael Irwin and Hervé Bizira, to discuss how sandboxes don't have to slow down your agents, and safety can also mean speed in the agentic era.
On this episode of Coffee with Developers we welcome Yasmine Kordjazy, Backend Developer at The Pool Chefs Companion, to discuss her transition from linguistics lecturing to software development, to hear all about how the two might not be as different as they seem.
Today I learned that MacOS can remove backgrounds from images, much like remove.bg does. All you need to do is right-click an image and select Quick Actions > Remove Background. For example, it turned this image into this one:
One of the things I always loved about the web is its immediacy. You write a piece of code, publish it somewhere and people can access it. No compilation step, no packaging and distribution, no listing on marketplaces or app stores – just a push of the button. This gives people a wrong impression that […]
Currently we are in a huge round of tech layoffs that are reminiscent of the first .com crash in the beginning of the century. Meta, Amazon, Microsoft and now Google announced layoffs in the 10k range and it seems no one is spared. New people as well as people who have been at companies for […]
The web has replaced and outlived a lot of closed technologies because of its resilience. Its underlying technologies are simple and sturdy and one of its main design principles is to – no matter what happens – never punish the user for developer mistakes. User needs come before the needs of web page authors, which […]
I just wrote myself a small tool to get all the thumbnail images available for a YouTube video. Say you have a Youtube URL, the ID is the last part: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDukVqBDd3Q, in this case “GDukVqBDd3Q”. Just copy this into the tool and you will get all the images available. You can choose to get JPG […]
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