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Why We Built BuddyNext: Rethinking WordPress Community Architecture
At Wbcom Designs, we've spent years deep in the WordPress community ecosystem. We've built over 40 add-ons for BuddyPress and created BuddyX, one of the most popular themes dedicated to the platform. We know the code inside and out. But more…
I visited the best Christmas Markets in the country - I won't return to one
Although I am a British citizen, I grew up on the other side of the world in New Zealand, and for me, Christmas has always meant beaches, sand between my toes and steaks on the barbecue as friends and family sip cocktails beneath patio umbrellas.
February Update: What's New in Data Connect in Firebase: Web Architecture & Implementation Guide
For years, choosing Firebase meant trading away relational SQL joins, strict foreign keys, and pgvector similarity search in favor of NoSQL document denormalization. Following the announcement of February Update: What's New in Data Connect by…
Understanding hybrid inference: the role of Firebase AI Logic: Web Architecture & Implementation Guide
Calling frontier multimodal models directly from a web or mobile client is a security minefield if you expose raw API keys or hardcode brittle system prompts in your frontend bundle. Following the announcement of Understanding hybrid inference: the…
What's new from Firebase at Cloud Next 2026: Web Architecture & Implementation Guide
For years, choosing Firebase meant trading away relational SQL joins, strict foreign keys, and pgvector similarity search in favor of NoSQL document denormalization. Following the announcement of What's new from Firebase at Cloud Next 2026 by Seba…
Grounding with Google Search in the Firebase AI Logic client SDKs: Web Architecture & Implementation Guide
If you have ever watched an AI coding agent hallucinate deprecated Firebase v8 syntax or deploy wide-open Firestore rules, you know that raw LLM prompts are not enough for production backends. Following the announcement of Grounding with Google…
What web frameworks does Firebase App Hosting support?: Web Architecture & Implementation Guide
Deploying server-rendered Next.js, Angular, or Astro apps alongside Firebase used to require stitching together custom Cloud Functions rewrites or managing separate Cloud Run containers by hand. Following the announcement of What web frameworks…
Extracting structured data from PDFs using Gemini 2.0 and Genkit in Firebase: Web Architecture & Implementation Guide
Building AI features in TypeScript or Go quickly turns into spaghetti when you try to bolt structured output validation, tool calling, and OpenTelemetry tracing onto raw model API calls. Following the announcement of Extracting structured data from…
Market Analysis: Regulatory Scrutiny of Prediction Markets and the Crisis of Information Governance
The recent investigation initiated by U.S. Senators Elizabeth Warren and Curtis into prediction market platforms Kalshi and Polymarket regarding alleged election-related insider trading marks a critical inflection point for the digital asset…
I visited the UK's two best Christmas markets - I won't be back for a simple reason
The crowds ruined one of these markets Although I am a British citizen, I grew up on the other side of the world in New Zealand and for me, Christmas has always meant beaches, sand between my toes and steaks on the barbeque as my friends and family…
Hitler's Eagle's Nest retreat was torched in an arson attack. Should it be rebuilt?
One of the last structural relics of Adolf Hitler's dictatorship was conceived to project indomitable power. Last month it was destroyed in a suspected arson attack. Will it, and should it, be rebuilt? The historic Nazi mountaintop retreat known as…
What happens when AI starts self-replicating?
Anthropic's Frontier Red Team recently published research suggesting that small AI models may be only months away from replicating and spreading across insecure devices, creating slow but hard-to-kill autonomous botnets. AI companies are no…
I've been to both the UK's best Xmas Markets - I wouldn't go back
Although I am a British citizen, I grew up on the other side of the world in New Zealand, and for me, Christmas has always meant beaches, sand between my toes and steaks on the barbecue as friends and family sipped cocktails beneath patio…
Europe's smallest airport costing just £9m to build with only three flights a day
Airports are often busy and chaotic One airport in Europe barely gets any visitors for most of the year, with just three flights a day. It's not only one of the smallest in Europe, but one of the smallest in the world. A person who visited the…
Samsung chairman highlights chip packaging, visits Japanese unit
Samsung Electronics Executive Chairman Lee Jae-yong visited the company's semiconductor advanced packaging technology laboratory in Japan, Sunday, pledging to continue expanding its research workforce there and develop the lab into a global R&D hub…
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