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.
When you write markdown files, headings automatically also get an ID generated so they become in-page targets to link to. This is also used to create a table of contents in various publishing systems. Today I learned that VS Code also offers these generated IDs as an autocomplete when you type links. If you wrap […]
I’m currently putting things together for a new flat and I realised that there are a lot of similarities between assembling IKEA furniture and doing web development. You get a huge bag of seemingly random parts and you should sort them before you start Everything is standardised and uses building blocks The manual is meant […]
One of the more overly strict features of video players in modern operating systems is that you can not use screen recording or screenshot tools to record content from streaming video platforms like Netflix or Disney+. Whilst I understand the need for DRM and preventing recording a streaming program, taking screenshots is a different matter. […]
When you have your OS set up in dark mode seeing bright form elements is grating. By starting your style sheet with a single line of CSS, you can make sure that people using dark mode get dark form elements and backgrounds and those using light mode, light ones. You can see it in this […]
GitHub Copilot is already the dog’s bollocks, but I just installed the GitHub Labs extension and my jaw is still open. Code explanation This one allows you to highlight a piece of code and get explanations of what it does: For example: async function downloadZipFile(downloadUrl) { await fs.remove(’out/edge’); const file = fs.createWriteStream(’edge.zip’); https.get(downloadUrl, function(response) […]
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