Chris Heilmann
Stop Googling Git Commands. Start Actually Learning Git.
Every developer has been there. You’re mid-flow, about to push a feature branch, and you need to undo your last three commits without blowing up the remote history. So you do what you always do: you open a new tab, type “git reset vs git revert”, ski...
Stop Googling Git Commands. Start Actually Learning Git.
Daniel Cranney
What are Cookies and Why Do We Use Them?
If you’re in the EU, the chances are you’re all too aware that cookies are everywhere. Cookie banners remind us every day that our data is being collected and stored, though when asked whether we consent we click accept all without much thought of ho...
What are Cookies and Why Do We Use Them?
Daniel Cranney, Chris Heilmann
Dev Digest 215: Agent Memory, JS2026, Googlebot Analysis & Canvas❤️HTML
Inside last week’s Dev Digest 215 . 🗿 Make AI talk like a caveman 🧠 A guide to context engineering for LLMs 🤖 Simon Willison on agentic engineering 🔐 Axios supply chain attack post mortem 🛡️ Designing AI agents to resist prompt injection 🎨 HTML in c...
Dev Digest 215: Agent Memory, JS2026, Googlebot Analysis & Canvas❤️HTML
Daniel Cranney
The Claude Code Source Leak
News of how Athropic accidentally shipped a 60MB source map alongside a Claude Code npm update has had developers talking recently, so we thought we’d share some of our favourite break-downs of what happened - and why. The leak, which happened at the...
The Claude Code Source Leak
Daniel Cranney
Why Developers are So Excited About Pretext
Pretext is a new JavaScript and TypeScript library from Cheng Lou - previously a React core developer - that crossed 7,000 GitHub stars in three days to get the entire tech world talking recently. The demos that spread were visually striking: dragon...
Why Developers are So Excited About Pretext
Daniel Cranney
GitHub's Copilot Ads and Opt-out for AI Training Data
Our newsletter - The Dev Digest - is packed with links to all kinds of tech content, but we just can’t cover everything. That’s why we put together the Overflow, where we share some of our favourites in bonus posts and videos, and this time we’re ta...
GitHub's Copilot Ads and Opt-out for AI Training Data