Posted on Mar 12 • Edited on Mar 28

DevUX Reading List 2024-25: AI Slop, Vibe Coding, Accessibility

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This is another subjective and incomplete selection of relevant, high-quality posts, a follow-up to my personal DEV reading lists from 2023 and 2021/2022 featuring mostly DEV and some other sources, including some of my old bookmarks that I think are still worth reading, and new articles from 2024, 2025, and beyond.

Updated reading list 2024 - 2025 (WIP)

This document will be updated occasionally until the end of 2025, focusing on content published or updated since 2024, with a focus on DevUX, IndieWeb, accessibilty, interoperability, sustainable and inclusive web design, marketing and search engine optimization, and how to stand out as a human despite the global polycrisis and AI-related trends and challenges vibe coding, prompt engineering, AI slop, AI hallucinations, and AI intoxication.

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Authentic Content vs. Spam, Slop, and AI Hallucinations

"AI, AI, vibe coding, but who will tech support?" (Source: DEV Meme Monday)

Productivity, Vibe Coding, Tools and Strategies

Coding, Web Design, and Web Development

I don't care what's a "programming language" or what isn't, even less so in times of "no cdoe" and "vibe coding". Web development can be a handicraft synergy of coding, creativity, and communication. CSS is descriptive, logical, and emotional. Semantic HTML is a robust foundation of accessible and successful content presentation, while TypeScript and JavaScript can add optional UX improvements or unnecessarily reinvent and overcomplicate web development. It's our choice.

Frontend Design, Usability, Accessibility, CSS

Frontend Logic, TypeScript, JavaScript

Backend and other Programming Topics

Local, Free, and Open-Source Software

Although "we won the fight for open-source-software," nobody seems to have noticed, and mainstream corporate tech keeps holding on to its wealth and power. Linux powers servers, smartphones, wearables, and self-driving cars. Microsoft's open-source Visual Studio Code is one of its most popular software products and they replaced their Internet Explorer browser with a follow-up's follow-up based on the open-source rendering engine that won the "browser wars".

Without fighting a physical battle, we've got git, GitHub, Figma, node.js, TypeScript, automated testing and devOps deployment pipelines, linters, and coding copilots, so life could be easy for web developers. Unless you're part of the majority of minorities hampered by social, economical, ecological, or technological challenges and barriers, or if you have a life in real life.

Where to find your own Reading List on DEV.to

dev.to/readinglist is your full reading list, if you're a logged-in DEV member.

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