What ClickUp’s mass layoff tells us about the future of work

The nine-year-old startup is replacing hundreds of employees with thousands of AI agents.

The pope’s AI encyclical isn’t really about AI

Pope Leo XIV's first encyclical uses AI as a lens to diagnose older problems: concentrated power, eroding democracy, and a tech elite that shapes the world to its own advantage.

The pitch trick that helped an eSports startup raise $20M when VCs only wanted AI

Earlier this year, Lucra Sports founder and CEO Dylan Robbins did something that no one else has ever done. And he shared several secrets on how he did it.

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Everyone is navigating AI security in real time — even Google

We're in the transition period -- all of us.

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. ...

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. ...

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. ...

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. ...

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. ...

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. ...

Add SVGIcons MCP to Claude Code and Find SVG Icons from Your Terminal

Finding the right SVG icon is one of those small tasks that constantly interrupts development.

You are building a UI, need a clean search icon, then a settings icon, then maybe a GitHub logo. You open an icon website, search manually, compare styles, copy SVG markup, paste it into your project, clean it up, and repeat.

With SVGIcons MCP, you can bring that workf...

3 CLI Tools You Can Buy with Crypto — No KYC, No Subscriptions

3 CLI Tools for Developers — Buy Once with Crypto, Use Forever

If you live in the terminal, you know the pain. Repetitive commands, lost session history, messy .env files with secrets accidentally committed. I built three CLI tools that solve these specific problems — and you can own them permanently for the price of a coffee.

No subscriptions. No accounts. No KYC. J...

COSS Weekly: OpenClaw competitor NanoClaw Raises $12M, Dust Raises $40M, Sonar Acquires Gitar, and more

This week in COSS: NanoCo, the company behind the OpenClaw competitor NanoClaw, turned down a $20M buyout offer and raised a $12M seed round; Dust raised a $40M Series B for its multiplayer AI platform; Sonar acquired Gitar to expand its code verification platform; Mistral AI acquired Emmi AI in an industrial push; and Deno Land continued its challenge of Oracle's JavaScript trademark.

How to know if you actually need mobile proxies (without buying any)

Every scraping project I start, the same question comes up: do I actually need mobile
proxies for this target, or will residential or datacenter do?

Picking wrong on this is the most expensive mistake on a scraping project. Too cheap and
your requests get blocked — you pay for traffic that achieves nothing. Too expensive
and your margins evaporate; mobile carrier IPs ...

Building Cursor for Community: A Buildathon Built on Time Pressure

Over the weekend, I attended an event hosted by Cursor Kenya, bringing together developers, builders, and tech enthusiasts to explore modern AI-assisted development workflows and collaboration tools.

The sessions focused on how developers can build faster using AI, improve productivity, and rethink how software is developed in collaborative environments. We also got int...

How we built a PII masking layer for LLM APIs — local detection, reversible tokens, one line to integrate

If you're building LLM features on top of OpenAI or Anthropic, you're almost certainly sending raw user data to a third-party model provider. Names, emails, phone numbers, tax IDs, health records — whatever your users type, it goes straight to the API.

Here's the uncomfortable part: every attempt to fix this problem seems to make it worse. The most obvious fix — sending your text to a c...

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...

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...

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...