When promises were introduced in ECMAScript 2015, they had an interesting flaw: if a promise didn’t have a rejection handler and was later rejected, you would have no idea. The rejection silently occurred behind the scenes and, therefore, could easily be missed. The best practice of always attaching rejection handlers to promises emerged due to...

If you write server-side JavaScript, chances are you’ve need to read information from environment variables. It’s considered a best practice to share sensitive information, such as access tokens, inside of environment variables to keep them secure. However, the way environment variables are read from JavaScript is error-prone in subtle ways that might take you hours...

If you’ve spent any time developing software professionally and then you are probably used to the spirited debates that take place between software engineers as well as between software engineers and management, design, and product. Software engineers are not known for being shy about their opinions on any particular subject, and especially when it comes...

Traditionally, developers have created properties inside of JavaScript classes for any data that might be needed within an instance. This isn’t a problem for small pieces of data that are readily available inside of the constructor. However, if some data needs to be calculated before becoming available in the instance, you may not want to...

Open source sustainability is a topic that is just starting to get the attention that it deserves. So much of the technology sector is run on software that can be used for free without any further obligation. However, as companies profit from using this software for free, the maintainers of the software often struggle to...

Early on, it was a battle to get sponsorship for open source projects. What used to require phone calls and drawn-out discussions has now been streamlined thanks to efforts like Open Collective1 and GitHub Sponsors2. Companies and individuals can now know if a project accepts donations just by looking at the project page on GitHub,...

In part 11 of this series, I described how companies make decisions about spending their money and why they might (or might not) sponsor an open source project. If you haven’t yet read that post, I’d suggest going back to do so now before continuing. Everything in this post builds off the topics discussed in...

In the previous two posts in this series, I described why companies sponsor open source projects1 and how following some basic project hygiene can help attract sponsors2. Now that your project is functioning at a high level and is attractive to companies, it’s time to talk specifics about accepting sponsorships from companies. Making it easy...

When the JavaScript Standard Style (StandardJS) project1 decided to show ads during installation, the backlash was swift and harsh. The project is an opinionated JavaScript style guide, formatter, and linter all in one, and it was also the first npm project to try and raise money by inserting an ad in the command line.2 The...

When I decided to teach myself Rust, I naturally started looking around at what editors I could use. It turned out that most of the folks I asked online were still using Visual Studio Code for Rust. To my surprise, though, setting up a complete development environment in Visual Studio Code wasn’t as straightforward as...

The new Picker API enables secure photo selection, while the Library API will focus on managing photos and videos uploaded by your application.

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Vertex AI Prompt Optimizer, a new managed automated prompt engineering service, can help save time and effort in prompt engineering while ensuring performing prompts ready for your generative AI applications.

The season showcases new applications of Gemma, including a personal AI code assistant and projects for non-English tasks and business email processing.

Google is rolling out (in GA) a new Gemini model, 1.5 Flash-8B, our smallest production model with SOTA performance for its size.

Google is building AI models, focusing on Gemma, to bridge communication gaps across languages.

Configure accepted payment methods for Google Pay, with options for authentication methods, card networks, and card types, and upcoming features for enhanced control and customization.

The Google Chat API has been launched, allowing developers to build Chat apps that enable real-time collaboration between Google Chat and other systems.

The People of AI podcast Season 3 highlighted inspiring stories and career anecdotes from individuals shaping the future of AI, focusing on themes of democratizing AI, AI for Good, redefining intelligence, and AI's impact on work.

Compare Mode is a powerful new feature designed to help you make informed decisions about which Gemini model best suits your needs.

Firebase Demo Day is back! Join us virtually on November 19, 2024 for a showcase of cutting-edge Firebase technology.

KerasHub is a new unified library for pretrained models fostering a more cohesive ecosystem for developers.

The Responsible Generative AI Toolkit is being expanded with new features to support responsible AI development across all LLMs, including SynthID Text for watermarking.

Chrome on Android will soon natively support third-party autofill services, providing a smoother user experience.

AgentOps uses the Gemini API to provide cost-effective and powerful LLM-powered agent observability for enterprises.