Ex-Apple team launches Acme Weather, a new take on weather forecasting

The team that sold their last app Dark Sky to Apple are back with Acme Weather, which offers alternative forecasts, rainbow and sunset alerts, and more.

Anthropic accuses Chinese AI labs of mining Claude as US debates AI chip exports

Anthropic accuses DeepSeek, Moonshot, and MiniMax of using 24,000 fake accounts to distill Claude’s AI capabilities, as U.S. officials debate export controls aimed at slowing China’s AI progress.

Uber’s new autonomous vehicle division is about survival and opportunity

Uber Autonomous Solutions will see the company taking on all the tasks associated with operating a robotaxi, self-driving truck, or sidewalk delivery robot business.

Google’s Cloud AI lead on the three frontiers of model capability

AI models are pushing against three frontiers at once: raw intelligence, response time, and a third quality you might call "extensibility."

Americans are destroying Flock surveillance cameras

While some cities are moving to end their contracts with Flock over its links to ICE, others are taking matters into their own hands.

OpenAI calls in the consultants for its enterprise push

OpenAI is partnering with four consulting giants in an effort to see more adoption of its OpenAI Frontier AI agent platform.

2FA UX patterns: Designing setup flows for SMS, authenticator apps, and biometrics

Two-factor authentication should be secure, but it shouldn’t frustrate users. This guide explores standard 2FA user flow patterns for SMS, TOTP, and biometrics, along with edge cases, recovery strategies, and UX best practices. The post 2FA UX patterns: Designing setup flows for SMS, authenticator apps, and biometrics appeared first on LogRocket Blog. ...

6 React Server Component performance pitfalls in Next.js

React Server Components and the Next.js App Router enable streaming and smaller client bundles, but only when used correctly. This article explores six common mistakes that block streaming, bloat hydration, and create stale UI in production. The post 6 React Server Component performance pitfalls in Next.js appeared first on LogRocket Blog. ...

Making sense of web rendering patterns (SSR, CSR, static, islands)

Gil Fink (SparXis CEO) joins PodRocket to break down today’s most common web rendering patterns: SSR, CSR, static rednering, and islands/resumability. The post Making sense of web rendering patterns (SSR, CSR, static, islands) appeared first on LogRocket Blog. ...

LaunchPod: Smarter AI Models Won’t Fix Your Deployment

Maryam Ashoori, VP of Product and Engineering at IBM’s Watsonx platform, talks about the messy reality of enterprise AI deployment. The post LaunchPod: Smarter AI Models Won’t Fix Your Deployment appeared first on LogRocket Blog. ...

How to design 2FA: Comparing methods, user flows, and recovery strategies

2FA has evolved far beyond simple SMS codes. This guide explores authentication methods, UX flows, recovery strategies, and how to design secure, frictionless two-factor systems. The post How to design 2FA: Comparing methods, user flows, and recovery strategies appeared first on LogRocket Blog. ...

CSS @container scroll-state: Replace JS scroll listeners now

CSS @container scroll-state lets you build sticky headers, snapping carousels, and scroll indicators without JavaScript. Here’s how to replace scroll listeners with clean, declarative state queries. The post CSS @container scroll-state: Replace JS scroll listeners now appeared first on LogRocket Blog. ...

Why we chose Astro over SvelteKit for our hosting comparison platform

Why we chose Astro over SvelteKit for our hosting comparison platform

We're building HostingSift, a platform for comparing hosting providers side by side. Pricing tables, feature breakdowns, filters, user reviews. When we started, we had one decision that would shape everything else: SvelteKit or Astro?

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Visual Studio Weekly: Copilot Memories, AI-Powered Testing, and Custom Agents

The Headline

Visual Studio 2026 version 18.3 shipped this past week (February 10), and it's the kind of release that makes me believe Microsoft is actually listening to developers. Between Copilot memories that persist your coding standards across sessions, GA of AI-powered unit test generation for .NET, and a framework for building custom Copilot agents, this update isn't p...

The Complete Guide to GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio: Every Feature, Every Shortcut, Every Pattern

Most Developers Are Stuck in First Gear

Here's a stat that should bother you: GitHub reports that developers accept roughly 30% of Copilot's suggestions. That means 70% of the time, the AI is generating something you reject. But here...

Tests Are Everything in Agentic AI: Building DevOps Guardrails for AI-Powered Development

I'm going to say something that'll make some people uncomfortable: if you don't have test coverage in your solution, you're going to fail at using agentic AI. Not "struggle with it." Not "get mixed results." You will fail.

After months of building agentic DevOps wo...

Building a Shopify App was the easy part. Finding the first testers is incredibly hard.

Hey DEV community 👋,

I’m reaching out because I’ve hit that classic indie-developer wall: I built something I’m really proud of, but getting those crucial first users to test it and give honest feedback is proving to be the hardest part of the journey.

For the past few months, I’ve been building AI SEO Blog Writer, a Shopify app.

The Problem I Tried to Solve:

Copilot CLI Weekly: Cross-Session Memory and Remote Plugins Land

The AI That Remembers

GitHub shipped two Copilot CLI releases this week (Feb 18-20) with features that fundamentally change how the tool works. v0.0.412 added cross-session memory so the CLI remembers past work across sessions. v0.0.413-0 added remote plugin support so you can load plugins from any GitHub repo or git URL. Both are massive.

This isn't incremental poli...

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...