Dev Digest 108 – Git off my cloud!

fluffy Git pillow Welcome to another edition of the WeAreDevelopers Dev Digest. This time we have am interview with Sead Ahmetovic, CEO of of WeAreDevelopers amd Scott Chacon, co-Founder of GitHub. They talk about careers, early coding days, developer communities, evangelizing git, and how AI is shaping the future of coding.

Money matters

Serverless Horrors Stories”:https://serverlesshorrors.com/ is a collection of things going wrong when you go serverless. Especially bills coming in for traffic you didn’t expect. Another interesting thing is a report showing that most subscription-based apps do not make money and ads don’t seem to work either. So what can we do?

Tools in brief

tlm – an offline AI Copilot, suggesting and explaining command line code, powered by CodeLLaMa.
Capo.js helps you fix performance issues by optimising the `` order
A Guide to Node.js Worker Threads to get you started
Syntax Highlighting can be hard to do. One solution is Shiki.

Procrastination Corner

illustration showing the air flow around a wing

Bartosz Ciechanowski is great at explaining complex topics with beautiful animated illustrations. He told us some time ago how bikes work, but this time things really take off with How planes fly.
GifCities The GeoCities Animated GIF Search Engine allows you to find all those wonderful GIFs that made people’s Geocities pages so much more unique. Time to let babies dance, hamsters spin and show that “under construction” sign.

That’s it! See you all next week!