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In this newsletter:
Next.js 15.5 changes and what they mean for your app.
Infrastructure updates you may need to act on
A reality check on new AI features and how useful they are for coding.
And more!
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PayloadCMS
Versions 3.51 and 3.52 were released. There were very few new features (multi-tenant and group by updates), but a ton of bug fixes.
Version 3.53 was also released recently, but after my cutoff on when I could record and publish this newsletter. So, that will be in the next one.
Featured Tutorial
Payload doesn’t have its own Cloudinary plugin, so I built my own. Learn how to configure it and what it can do in this featured tutorial. Watch here: https://youtu.be/ymolmvqIh_M
Watch here: https://youtu.be/ymolmvqIh_M
On Figma’s side:
New brushes in Figma Draw
New AI-image editing features
Switch between Gemini 2.0 Flash or GPT Image 1 AI models
Next.js
Next.js v15.5 was released, and some of the bug fixes were backported to 15.4.6. There is a looooong list of updates to version 15.5, so it’s worth the read.
On Vercel’s side:
In other news
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OpenAI
There’s not much happening at OpenAI. This was really brought into the spotlight with the flop of the release of ChatGPT 5. It’s not that ChatGPT5 is bad; it’s just not a big improvement. Have we reached diminishing returns in AI model improvements?
Railway
You can apply templates to existing projects.
Make sure you verify your billing information by September 1st.
Railway’s MCP server is now available as an early release.
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Raycast
No new updates to Raycast that I could find.
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Recent Videos
Here’s some recent content from my YouTube channel
Upgrade guide. Watch here: https://youtu.be/BEVYQ5Qe6EY
