Daniel Cranney

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In case you missed it, here's what's been happening in tech this week...

🌍 AI is eating the internet
⚡ Reverse engineering GitHub Spark with itself
📦 NPM ‘is’ package compromised
⚠️ AI code assistant almost wiped 1M computers
🤫 AI agent deletes data and lies about it

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A quick update to ProfileMe tonight....

I added labels to the skills icons to make them easier to navigate, as we're already on over 100 skills.

I'm tempted to add a simple search bar too, what do you think? 🤔

🤣 deffo human

And not an em-dash in sight. Human approved ✅

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🔗 Check it out at profileme.dev
💻 Contribute at github.com/danielcrann...

🥳 New feature added to ProfileMe

- Re-order skills and social icons by dragging and dropping in the preview panel.
- Markdown automatically updates to reflect the changes.

I'll be adding templates next so you can re-design your profile with one click 🧑‍💻

You have 3 words to prove you're a human and not AI.

GO!

would anybody like a landing page that does not convert?

I've got plenty.

the worst cup of tea you've ever seen

Ok I ran out of milk and now I have to drink tea that looks like this while on the live stream.

The second it's over I'm gonna hand in my passport because this just isn't good enough

I know right 🤣 crazy that people do that, I guess they just want help, but AI isn’t the one to give it

🤣 vine baby sitting is brilliant

Developer survey shows trust in AI coding tools is falling as usage rises “AI solutions that are almost right, but not quite” lead to more debugging work.

📰 Read the original article over at
arstechnica.com/ai/2025/07/...

A screenshot from an article about a decline in developer trust in AI

Developers trust AI output less now than they did a year ago.

Do you trust the code AI writes for you? 🤔

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Had a chilled day coding today and gave ProfileMe some love 🙌

➕ Lots of new skills added (Ubuntu, Ember.js, Servomon and more)
➕ Automatically 'copy' your social username from one platform to another
🥳 Now you can reorder sections in your profile

What are you working on?

People are now co-parenting with ChatGPT.
Uh-oh! 🤦‍♂️

Developers… I’m writing an article about tech marketing.

Which marketing terms annoy you, or are meaningless?

‘All-in-one solution…’
‘10x your productivity’
‘Seamless integration’

Any others? 🤔

How to Test Your Network Speed in the Terminal How to Test Your Network Speed in the Terminal

This is also available as an article over on the WeAreDevelopers magazine at
www.wearedevelopers.com/en/magazine...

Did you know you can test your network speed in the terminal?

Here's 2 ways to do it in 30 seconds 👇

How to irritate a perfectionist in 13 seconds.

So 56 is 56....
BUT in Premiere Pro 56.5 is both 56.5 AND 57, depending on where you look.

This hurts my soul

cuppa tea

Hanging out with my therapist this morning

Yeah please don't try and build this, it sounds like a nightmare waiting to happen 🤦‍♂️

How I built and launched PropertyGuessr How I built a property price guessing game that got 32.7k unique visitors in the first 48 hours

Learn all about how Fraser built and launched it over at www.frasercodes.com/blog/how-i-...

Play it for yourself at propertyguessr.fun/

I absolutely love this project, and big shoutout to Fraser Hamilton for making it.

📍 Pick a city in the UK, see a random sold property
🫰 Guess the price the property was sold for
😲 Do a shocked face / cry a bit

The king of the internet

If you know who this guy is, you're my kind of person

Google Trends showing 'vpn' searches in the UK

Guardian article saying how the age checks will be enforced

BBC article asking whether users will hand over their personal ID?

The UK's Online Security Act came into force a few days ago.

To the surprise of absolutely no one, there's been a huge uptick in searches for VPN on Google 🤦‍♂️

Here's how my saturday looks and I'm tired already 🙃

How are you spending your weekend?

you can follow me if you want to see me building my products in public and trying to make a living from them

plus occasional brain farts