AHSYNC BYTES - Weekly Digest (23rd June, 2025)
AHSYNC BYTES brings you the latest: Midjourney’s AI video model, Google’s live voice search, Gemini’s coding AI, Angular’s Signals & SSR, and powerful dev tools like HTMLPad 2025 and Biome v2. Stay informed and sharpen your edge.
The tech landscape evolves at lightning speed and we're here to keep you in sync. Welcome to this week's tech digest: a smart, streamlined roundup of the top trends in frontend development, AI breakthroughs, and essential Angular insights. Let’s keep you ahead of the curve.
🤖 AI & Machine Learning
Midjourney launches its first AI video generation model
Midjourney, one of the most popular AI image generation startups, announced on Wednesday the launch of its much-anticipated AI video generation model, V1.
V1 is an image-to-video model, in which users can upload an image — or take an image generated by one of Midjourney’s other models — and V1 will produce a set of four five-second videos based on it. Much like Midjourney’s image models, V1 is only available through Discord, and it’s only available on the web at launch.
Maxwell Zeff
Search Live: Talk, listen and explore in real time with AI Mode
Google has launched Search Live with voice input in the Google app for Android and iOS. Available in the U.S. for users enrolled in the AI Mode experiment in Labs, you can now have a free-flowing, back-and-forth voice conversation with Search and explore links from across the web.
This is perfect for when you're on the go or multitasking, like if you're packing for a trip. Simply open the Google app, tap the new “Live” icon and verbally ask your question, like, "What are some tips for preventing a linen dress from wrinkling in a suitcase?” You'll hear a helpful AI-generated audio response and you can easily follow up with another question, like, "What should I do if it still wrinkles?" You'll also find easy-to-access links right on your screen so you can dig deeper with content from the web.
Liza Ma
Writing in the Age of LLMs
In a world increasingly filled with machine-generated content, distinguishing between thoughtful writing and generic output has become more important than ever. In this post, the author shares their perspective on using large language models (LLMs) in the writing process—highlighting both the pitfalls and the potential.
You'll learn to recognize the subtle signs of low-quality AI-generated text, understand why certain writing habits unfairly get labeled as "AI-sounding," and gain practical strategies for improving your own writing—whether you're typing it yourself or collaborating with an LLM. This is a must-read for anyone navigating the evolving intersection of technology and communication.
A Podcast on Gemini's Coding Capabilities
Connie Fan, Product Lead for Gemini's coding capabilities, and Danny Tarlow, Research Lead for Gemini's coding capabilities, join host Logan Kilpatrick for an in-depth discussion on how the team built one of the world's leading AI coding models
Learn more about the early goals that shaped Gemini's approach to code, the rise of 'vibe coding' and its impact on development, strategies for tackling large codebases with long context and agents, and the future of programming languages in the age of AI.
🚀 Angular
Best Tools for Angular Project Maintenance
Explore the best tools for maintaining your Angular projects with this comprehensive review. Discover features, benefits, and tips for optimal project management. Utilizing a package management system like NPM is a strategic choice for organizing dependencies in your development workflow.
As of 2025, approximately 90% of React and Angular developers rely on NPM for seamless installation and management of libraries. This service aids in maintaining consistent environments across multiple team members and CI/CD pipelines.
Vasile Crudu
Angular 2025: Signals, Remote Data, and the Queries You Pose
In this blog post, you’ll find responses to the questions from the community about how to communicate with remote servers in modern Angular applications. With the framework evolving — introducing Signals, the Resource API, and changes in best practices — it’s easy to feel overwhelmed.
Also you’ll learn about using toSignal(), whether the async pipe is still relevant, when subscribe() is okay, and how to think about mutability and state.
Fabian
Angular 20: SSR vs CSR vs Pre-rendering
Understanding rendering strategies in Angular is crucial for building high-performance, SEO-friendly web applications. In this in-depth guide, we) break down Server-Side Rendering (SSR), Client-Side Rendering (CSR), Pre-rendering (Static Site Generation - SSG like), and the role of Hydration in Angular v20.
Discover the differences, benefits, and practical implementation of each rendering mode. Learn how to set up an Angular v20 project with SSR, explore the key configuration files, and see live demonstrations of how renderMode (Server, Client, Prerender) impacts your application's behavior and output.
Mastering Angular Signals
As you've been following Angular's journey, you understand already how crucial Angular Signals, and Signal APIs are. Understanding them to their core is an absolute necessity if you want to work on complex Angular apps. And it is not just about writing code, it is about thinking in the reactive paradigm and being able to test your code.
For this, keep an eye out for my upcoming book "Mastering Angular Signals". We're just waiting for some final touches before it gets published to Amazon. Read about it here.
Upcoming Events
- Advanced Angular Day: July 1st 2025, Online Event
- Angular Connect 2025: September 13, London, UK - Tickets already available
- ng-conf 2025: October 17-18, Baltimore, USA - Moving closer to Europe with JSConf North America preceding it
🌐 Web & Frontend
Announcing HTMLPad 2025
Blumentals introduced HTMLPad 2025, the latest evolution of their code editor. Designed for modern web developers, HTMLPad 2025 integrates game-changing Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology to significantly enhance your coding efficiency and creativity. Other major features include updated Chrome preview, new Edge preview, updated coding standards and updated HTML, CSS, JavaScript support.
HTMLPad 2025 offers a smarter and contemporary coding experience, facilitating quicker and more seamless development:
- Single-click / shortcut access to AI
- Generate small or large code fragments with AI
- Extend your existing code with AI
- and much more!
Biome v2 - The JS/TS Linter
We are happy to announce that Biome v2 is officially out! Biome v2—codename: Biotype, the first JavaScript and TypeScript linter that provides type-aware linting rules that doesn’t rely on the TypeScript compiler! This means that you can lint your project without necessarily installing the typescript package.
Average exe is ~70-80MB (depending on your code) so it's lighter than most compilers. Using upx you can go down up to ~30MB. It's aiming to compile servers (express, fastify) or CLIs (commander) so it's not a replacement of electron. For now it only compiles windows applications. (working on macOS and linux)
Emanuele Stoppa
Top 7 News Data APIs in 2025
Access to real-time news data, insights, and trends is no longer a luxury – it’s a necessity. News Data APIs play a pivotal role in delivering structured, actionable news feeds and data streams directly to businesses, developers, and researchers.
A news API (Application Programming Interface) is a tool that provides programmatic access to news and media content from publishers, aggregators, and other sources. These APIs allow developers and businesses to integrate fresh, accurate, and relevant news updates into their applications, websites, or analytical tools.
Brian Wallace
Upcoming Events
- TECHSPO London 2025: August 28 – 29, 2025 at Sofitel London Heathrow Hotel
- TechCrunch Disrupt 2025: October 27 – 29, 2025 - Premier startup showcase and competition
- AWS re:Invent 2025: December 1 – 5, 2025 - Global cloud computing conference
TechCrunch Events
💡 Bottom Line Up Front
From Midjourney’s leap into AI-generated video to Google’s new interactive voice search and Gemini’s transformative impact on code generation, this week’s digest delivers high-impact updates for developers and tech enthusiasts alike.
Angular continues its rapid evolution with Signals, rendering strategies, and state management best practices, while frontend workflows are further empowered by intelligent tools like HTMLPad 2025 and the lightweight, type-aware Biome v2 linter.
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