Top 10 App Developer Skills and Trends to Learn in 2025

Posted on March 28, 2025

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Many of these items could show up every year (2, 4, 5).
Others are old initiatives dressed up with the trendiest tech and buzzwords.

1. Coding with AI Tools, AI Integration and Automation
2. Rapid Prototyping for UX/UI Design
3. Cross-Platform Development and WebAssembly (Wasm)
4. Security-First Development
5. Understanding Customers
6. The Arrival of App Builders
7. AI-Powered Everything, Everywhere
8. Web-based AI Frameworks
9. The Decline of App Stores?
10. The Impact of AI on Search

We surveyed expert developers about the skills and emerging tech trends that web and app developers should be paying attention to in 2025.

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Web-based cryptography is always snake oil

Posted on March 27, 2025

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A cryptosystem is incoherent if its implementation is distributed by the same entity which it purports to secure against.

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TimBL’s Article About Eliminating Paywalls is Behind a Paywall

Posted on March 18, 2025

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(TimBL, inventor of the web, is on the left. Vint Cerf, inventor of TCP/IP with Robert Kahn, is on the right).

Tim Berners-Lee’s article calling for the elimination of paywalls was ironically behind a paywall (not likely his choice).

You can read the article for free here (thanks to the Internet Archive).