🔥 Web and AI Advancements Shaping Development in 2025

Weekly Issue #176 | Subscribe to DS | Daily Sandbox Pro

Hello Developers!

This issue highlights the latest changes to the Chrome extensions platform, along with a helpful reminder that firstChild might be whitespace. Learn how to decode SVG path commands, analyze real-world INP scores from Google’s user data, and explore building BoxLang integrations with the Bluesky API. Discover the growing importance of AI agents in automation and decision-making, run the massive DeepSeek-R1-0528 model locally, and use ChatGPT to streamline resume review and candidate shortlisting.

Dive in and keep coding!

What's happening in Chrome Extensions, June 2025 - Over the last few months, a number of highly anticipated changes have landed in the Chrome Web Store and extensions platform. Let's take a look...

firstChild can be white space - This is one of those things that bit me just the other day so I figured I’d write up. It’s a fairly simple concept and maybe it’s not something you’d be confused by, but like I said, it got me!

Decoding The SVG path Element: Line Commands - SVG is easy — until you meet path. However, it’s not as confusing as it initially looks...

Website INP Scores In 2025 - How quickly do websites respond to user input? In this article we take a look at this question based on real-user data published by Google as part of the Chrome User Experience Report...

Working with the Bluesky API in BoxLang - I've built multiple integrations with the Bluesky API, all making use of either the Node or Python SDK, but I thought I'd take a quick look at what it would take to build a BoxLang integration using the REST API.

Integrating AI agents - Positioned at the intersection of automation, decision intelligence, and data orchestration, AI agents are quickly emerging as essential tools...

Run the Full DeepSeek-R1-0528 Model Locally - DeepSeek-R1-0528 is the latest update to DeepSeek's R1 reasoning model that requires 715GB of disk space, making it one of the largest open-source models available…

How to Use ChatGPT to Review and Shortlist Resumes - Resume screening can be time-consuming, but ChatGPT offers a powerful way to speed up and improve the process.

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