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If it were a few years ago, I probably would have been excited. But at this point, it feels like AI is building everything anyway, so the format doesn't even matter anymore.
Well, maybe it does save some tokens.😬
project.pbxproj is dead 🪦
Xcode 27.2 ships a JSON project format (.xcproj): default for new projects, readable, merge-friendly, agent-editable.
developer.apple.com/document…
Anthropic’s anti-abuse stack is starting to look suspiciously familiar.
Browser fingerprinting. Device signals. Network intelligence. Behavioral analysis.
I had to double-check that I wasn’t reading AdTech tweets. 😂
Google users can now change their @gmail.com username. If your app keys users by email, this can quietly break sign-in.
If you use Sign in with Google, stop treating email as identity. Use the stable `sub` (subject ID) as the primary key, support email updates, and add email-based account recovery to avoid duplicate accounts / “lost data” after OAuth grants get revoked.
developers.googleblog.com/su…
A bit sad to see Firebase Studio sunset. The concept (web IDE + agents across the full lifecycle) was genuinely great. That said, consolidating into clearer homes makes sense: AI Studio for prompt→app + Firebase integrations, and Antigravity for the agent-first IDE workflow.
As Google AI Studio evolves, we’re simplifying our AI tools to ensure you have the most powerful, integrated experience. To streamline your workflow and make it clearer where you should start building, we’ll be sunsetting Firebase Studio.
It will remain accessible until March 22, 2027 to give you ample time to migrate.
Deep links to recipe sites + lightweight AI summaries is the right tradeoff: users get faster inspiration, and creators still get traffic + attribution. I run @icooktw (Taiwan’s largest recipe community/app) and this kind of routing layer is exactly what we want to see as AI UI becomes the default.
We've heard feedback on recipe results in AI Mode, and we’re making updates to better connect people with recipe creators on the web. Starting today, when you search for meal ideas like “easy dinners for two,” you can tap on the dish to see links to relevant recipe sites, plus a short overview of the dish to help with inspiration.
We're also planning to bring helpful information like cook time to more recipe results, which testers have found useful for deciding on a recipe. We know there's more work to be done on this, so stay tuned for future updates.
Self-hosted, minimal complexity, maximum signal for AI dev agents. More tools should aim here.
"After more than 10 years running production systems, I’ve tried countless error tracking tools. Telebugs is the first one that finally feels like a sensible self-hosted solution without unnecessary complexity."
This @TelebugsHQ testimonial makes me so proud 🥹
ChatGPT ads end up looking a lot like search ads, because that’s what the market knows how to buy.
If that's the case, the hard part isn’t the ad unit. It’s everything around it: volume, attribution, and buyers trusting the numbers. Google has a 20‑year head start there.
Rails is a philosophy; Laravel is a product.
Discovering the power of Laravel’s official paid ecosystem. It turns out that monetizing infrastructure is how you keep an open-source project thriving for decades.
Business models matter as much as code.
AI bots are flooding the gates: 1 in every 31 human visits is now an AI bot (up from 1 in 200).
Most alarming data from @TollbitOfficial: licensing doesn't fix the CTR bleed. Licensed sites saw clicks drop from 8.8% to 1.33%.
The structural decay of search traffic is accelerating.
Full report: tollbit.com/state-of-the-bot…
OpenAI confirmed a $200k minimum for ChatGPT ads. It’s the Netflix playbook: establishing scarcity and premium positioning before mass scaling.
For now, it’s a PR experiment, not an ROI tool. adweek.com/media/exclusive-o…
Finally, a way to measure Search Grounding performance. Bing now provides data on how AI systems cite publisher content.
From indexing for bots to optimizing for citations. This is the new baseline for SEO in the agentic web era.
blogs.bing.com/webmaster/Feb…
Netflix just did its first global live event and it was someone climbing my neighborhood landmark.
Grew up around 101. Now watching the world watch it in real-time.
Live + streaming + global scale. The media playbook is changing.
A generation of developers learned APIs through Twitter. It was in every tutorial, every bootcamp, every CS course.
That generation is gone. No pricing model brings back a dead ecosystem.
Officially launching X API Pay-Per-Use
The core of X developers are indie builders, early stage products, startups, and hobbyists
It’s time to open up our X API ecosystem and instill a new wave of next generation X apps
We’re so back. developer.x.com
One thing that makes me really happy is that by using more AI agent tools, I can contribute to more open-source projects than ever, especially those I'm less familiar with.
Google just removed Unified Pricing Rules (UPR) from Google Ad Manager. Publishers can once again set different floor prices by deal type and buyer (including Google demand).
Years ago, many of us warned UPR would limit yield control. Turns out those concerns weren’t wrong. A rare case where regulation is clearly reshaping adtech rules.
Facebook Messenger’s macOS desktop app is officially gone (Dec 15).
Electron → React Native (50% faster load, −100MB binary) → Apple Catalyst → discontinued.
A reminder that strong tech choices don’t always survive product strategy.
Whenever I get a Google Cloud email, I already know what it is: another service getting deprecated, another mandatory migration.
That’s not how enterprise platforms should treat customers :/
🚀 New open source: CloudFront Google Tag Gateway
Google docs show GCP and Cloudflare examples but skip AWS. I wrote a CloudFront Function that routes /metrics/* to Google Tag Gateway, preserves geolocation and keeps setup simple.
👉 github.com/dlackty/cloudfron…
AI Mode soon as default in Google Search. Are publishers ready for this? The open web may be dying sooner than expected.
Google AI Mode to be "default" Google Search "Soon" Google's @OfficialLoganK said after @rmstein and Google launched google.com/ai URL for Google AI Mode late Friday seroundtable.com/google-ai-m…
