Firebase's Agent Skills library raised a coding agent's task pass rate from 31.7% to 78.0% in the company's own evaluations, according to an Aug 11 blog post by product manager Charlotte Liang. The ga…
Cue, a todo app built by an individual developer over several years, exemplifies how building a simple product can practice complex skills in product management, design, and engineering. The developer…
Firebase's Imagen models shut down today, August 17, 2026, after Google moved the deadline twice from an original June 30, 2026 cutoff, according to Firebase's migration guide. The replacement, Gemini…
Firebase's JavaScript SDK deprecated VertexAIBackend in version 12.17.0, released July 30, 2026, replacing it with AgentPlatformBackend, which defaults to the global region instead of us-central1, a b…
GDG Basilicata organized DevFest Basilicata, rebranded as DevForest, in a forest in Tito, Italy, where 66 developers collaborated to build a smart greenhouse. The event featured technical interdepende…
A developer compiled a list of 10 open-source GitHub repositories that can replace expensive paid SaaS applications, including Coolify as a Heroku/Netlify/Vercel alternative, an autonomous AI coding a…
Firebase CLI 15.26.0, released Aug 5, now auto-detects when an AI agent is running it and switches to non-interactive mode to prevent hanging on prompts, according to GitHub release notes. The update …
Packt Publishing will release 'Angular Projects, 3rd Ed' by Aristeidis Bampakos in June 2026, a 298-page guide teaching Angular development through 10 real-world enterprise projects, covering signals,…
El Mostafa Lafryhi, an Android and Unity developer from Morocco, built an educational Android quiz app using Kotlin and Jetpack Compose. The app features interactive multiple-choice questions with tim…
Google has canceled its standalone AI Studio mobile app and is shifting app creation toward deeper Gemini integration, moving from specialist developer tools into everyday AI assistants. The company's…
Prompt engineering has become a critical skill for software engineers using AI coding tools. Developers can improve AI output by providing clear context, defining expectations, and breaking tasks into…
Firebase will retire its Extensions marketplace on March 31, 2027, the third major product wind-down in about a year after Firebase Studio and Firebase ML. Already-installed extensions will continue r…
Google offers a suite of AI tools for developers and enterprises, each with distinct purposes. AI Studio enables rapid prototyping and lightweight app development with automatic backend provisioning, …
Is.team, an AI-native project management platform launched in 2026, combines built-in AI and external agents with human collaboration on an infinite canvas, replacing tools like Jira, Asana, and Linea…
A developer built Handify ai, a tool that converts typed text into realistic handwritten notes, addressing the challenge of making AI-generated handwriting appear authentic. The project uses React, Ty…
Oracle has introduced Oracle Backend with Firebase APIs, a free feature of Oracle REST Data Services (ORDS) that enables mobile and web developers to build apps directly against Oracle AI Database usi…
Kontigo, a Y Combinator S24 startup, is hiring for its USDC-smart neobank for Latinos, which uses Next.js, React Native, Supabase, Firebase, Prisma, Nest.js, OpenAI and Anthropic APIs, Solidity, web3.…
Dior, a Business Administration student in Senegal, is teaching himself web development and seeking a programming buddy to collaborate on projects involving React, TypeScript, Vite, Firebase, and Supa…
Firebase AI Logic now supports Gemini 3.6 Flash and Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite, models Google shipped on July 21, 2026, with lower pricing than the previous Gemini 3.5 Flash. Gemini 3.6 Flash cuts output-t…
A developer built SellAI, an AI-powered platform that integrates sales, CRM, and business analytics into a single dashboard. The platform features an AI assistant, customer management, product and ord…