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Google will pay SpaceX $920M per month for compute

The companies announced the deal on Friday, just one week ahead of SpaceX's historic IPO.
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GM’s electric future depends on a new battery — and this facility

GM wants to slash EV prices by deploying new battery tech up to a year earlier than planned. This building is key to making that happen.
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As VC-backed e-bike startups went bankrupt, bootstrapped Lectric grew

Lectric, which says the U.S. market is ripe for competition and choice, has launched three new brands in the past six months.
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The most interesting startups right now want to get you off your phone

While the AI fundraising machine keeps breaking its own records, some founders are building in the other direction.  Mirror founder Brynn Putnam just raised money for Board, a startup focused on bringing people together through in-person games and social experiences. Cyberdeck creators are going viral crafting whimsical DIY computers that literally encourage users to touch grass. Unlike the AI-fre...
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Supabase doubles valuation to $10B in 8 months

Supabase, an example of an open source project becoming a fast-growing company, has greatly benefited from AI tools like Claude, Codex, and other vibe-coding platforms.
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Google and FBI warn of ransomware group that sends fake IT workers to hack victims in person

Cybercriminals, part of a gang known as Silent Ransom Group, have sent people pretending to be IT support employees to law firms' offices, where the criminals have stolen data using USB drives or remote access tools....
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Why are AI companies buying the teams behind your favorite dev tools?

AI companies are buying developer tools as coding agents turn runtimes, package managers, and linters into strategic infrastructure. The post Why are AI companies buying the teams behind your favorite dev tools? appeared first on LogRocket Blog. ...
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AI-assisted development governance: A practical guide

Learn how AI-assisted development governance uses rules, agents, hooks, and protocols to help AI coding tools produce safer, more consistent code. The post AI-assisted development governance: A practical guide appeared first on LogRocket Blog. ...
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The project that made me question the UX process

A three-week mobile banking project taught me that the “proper” UX process is not always realistic. Sometimes, the better approach is to work with what you know, identify what you still need to learn, and make the strongest decision possible under real constraints. The post The project that made me question the UX process appeared first on LogRocket Blog. ...
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How to rethink scope creep as strategic flexibility

Controlled scope creep can help PMs use capacity buffers, AI tools, and clear guardrails to turn new ideas into better outcomes. The post How to rethink scope creep as strategic flexibility appeared first on LogRocket Blog. ...
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Understanding A/B testing in UX research

A/B testing compares two versions of a design to see which performs better with real users. Here’s how UX teams can use it to test hypotheses, measure outcomes, and make smarter product decisions. The post Understanding A/B testing in UX research appeared first on LogRocket Blog. ...
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How to build your first MCP server with Node.js

A step-by-step guide to building your first MCP server using Node.js, covering core concepts, tool design, and upgrading from file storage to MySQL. The post How to build your first MCP server with Node.js appeared first on LogRocket Blog. ...
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How to Add Drug Interaction Checking to Your Health App in 5 Minutes

Nearly 1 in 4 Americans takes a prescription drug alongside a dietary supplement. That's roughly 75 million people who might not know that their fish oil could be amplifying their blood thinner, or that their St. John's Wort is undermining their antidepressant.

If you're building a health app, a pharmacy tool, or any patient-facing software, drug interaction checking isn't a nice-to-hav...

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From Excel to AI: We Were Always Programmers

Times change. Tools change. But the fundamental question of software development never does: What are we actually agreeing to build?

In the age of generative AI, where the barrier to writing code is collapsing, we need to reframe how we view our craft. The future of software isn't about hoarding syntax; it's about establishing alignment.

1. The Full...

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neovim-final-final: Why I Can't Stop Tinkering With My Dev Environment (And Why That's Okay)

Let me paint you a picture.

It's a perfectly good Saturday afternoon. You had plans. Real plans. Maybe you were going to finish that side project, maybe finally write some tests (lol), or at the very least touch grass for twenty minutes.

Instead, you're 4 hours deep into your Neovim config, you've rewritten your keymaps.lua for the third time this month, yo...

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Advice for (parents of) teen coders

Today 2 of my kids (13/rising 9th grader, 16/rising 11th grader) finished their first week of Operation Spark's 1 month summer code camp for teens in New Orleans: https://www.operationspark.org/programs/highschool

I'm super grateful to Operation Spark and organizations that support them for provid...

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How LLMs Actually Work: A Developer's Mental Model

Most of us use LLMs every day now, but if you asked the average developer what's actually happening between hitting enter and getting a response, the answer is usually some mix of "it's a neural network" and a shrug. That's fine — you don't need to know how a database B-tree works to write a query. But understanding the mental model behind LLMs makes you dramatically better at using th...

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I shipped a 2-line Claude Code plugin that makes it shut up

Toggle it on and Claude Code answers in ≤ 5 lines — until you turn it off. Open source, MIT.

Claude Code is brilliant. It's also a chatterbox. You ask a quick thing and get three paragraphs, a recap, and a "great question!" you didn't need. Reading long terminal output, dozens of times a day, is genuinely tiring.

So I built

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11 Best V0 Alternatives 2025: Real Reviews & Pricing

Why Look Beyond V0 by Vercel? V0 by Vercel is solid for generating React components, but what if you need more than just frontend UI? Look, V0 does one thing really well - it takes your text prompts and spits out clean React components with Tailwind CSS. Perfect if you're building in the Vercel ecosystem and just need UI pieces. But here's what V0 can't do(as of now): Build full applications wit...
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8 AI Developer Tools for Faster & Smarter Development 👨‍💻🚀

Artificial intelligence has been transforming the way software developers build applications by providing them with new ways to simplify repetitive tasks, increase their productivity, and create smarter programs. But the problem is that there are so many AI-powered tools coming out that deciding which ones to use and how to integrate them into your workflow might take a long time and be very frust...

The 5-Minute Kubernetes Cluster Health Check

TLDR You can check your Kubernetes cluster's health in under 5 minutes using five key commands: checking node status, monitoring resource usage, reviewing pod health across namespaces, investigating problem pods, and examining cluster events. This quick routine helps catch issues before they escalate into critical problems. Kubernetes is great until it's not. One bad node, a pod stuck in CrashLoop...
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Livewire 4: The Future of PHP Components

This week at Laracon Caleb Porzio announced Livewire 4, which comes with unified components, performance improvements, and many more awesome goodies 🤤 Unifying Livewire Caleb takes the stage to address one of the most pressing issues in the Livewire's ecosystem: fragmentation. With three different ways to create Livewire components (traditional, Volt functional, and Volt class-based), the communi...

Laracon 2025 Keynote

This year's Laracon keynote was absolutely insane! There were seven segments packed with open source goodies, AI-powered development tools, and infrastructure that'll make you rethink what modern web development can be. Here's everything that went down. 🎯 New Framework Features (Taylor Otwell) 🚀 Open Source Deep Dive (Joe Tannenbaum) 🤖 Laravel AI (Ashley Hindle) 🎨 Laravel Design (David Hill) ...

Laravel Wayfinder

Laravel has announced a new package called Wayfinder. This package will allow you to easily generate fully-typed, importable TypeScript functions for your controllers and named routes, providing devs with a seamless integration between a Laravel backend and a TypeScript frontend. Let's learn how to use Wayfinder with the Laravel React Starter Kit. First, create a new Laravel app using the followin...
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