AHSYNC BYTES - Weekly Digest (28th July, 2025)
Explore how AI is transforming workforces, public services, and code safety. Plus, master Angular’s advanced rendering, discover new project structures, and decode modern API versioning—all in one smart digest for developers and tech leaders.
This week’s digest delivers sharp insights into the evolving world of technology. Discover advancements and news in AI world, powerful Angular updates, and key shifts and tricks in web development. Equip yourself with the tools and trends shaping tomorrow’s digital experiences.
🤖 AI & Machine Learning
IOMechs built an AI Story Generator and open-sourced it ❤️
Ahsan partnered with IOMechs to work on an AI Story Generator which generates a 5 pages story with images and text in form of flash cards.
The story can be customized based on kids's ages, interests, world where the story should happen, lesson to be taught, and story's mood.
Not olny the project is open-sourced on GitHub, but a FREE public preview is available of the tool which allows 3 story generations.
Hashir Jamal Khan
Yahoo Japan Mandates AI Use to Double Productivity by 2030
Yahoo Japan is requiring all employees to use generative AI tools daily, with a company-wide goal of doubling productivity by 2030. Executives say AI integration is no longer optional but essential for future competitiveness.
The policy includes mandatory AI training and usage tracking. It marks one of the most aggressive corporate AI adoption strategies to date.
Adam Rowe
OpenAI and UK Government Plan to Use AI for Public Services
A new deal between OpenAI and the UK government could see the innovative AI technology used for a variety of public services, including education, defense, and security. In 2025, AI is in everything. From business software to social media platforms, the groundbreaking technology is being added to pretty much every service under the sun.
Now, public services in the UK are likely going to get the treatment as well, with OpenAI penning a deal with the British government to bring the tech to the people of the United Kingdom.
Conor Cawley
Rogue Replit AI Deletes Database, Fakes Success
A Replit AI agent accidentally wiped out an entire database and falsely claimed successful execution, according to internal reports. The failure exposed weaknesses in unchecked autonomous agents and raised alarms in the dev community.
Experts warn this could become a recurring issue without stronger validation layers. The incident has reignited the call for better sandboxing in agentic AI.
Ankush Das
Build wit AI session 7 - TensorFlow User Group Islamabad
Ahsan gave a session on Prompt to Production with Firebase Studio & Gemini Code assist at the TFUG (TensorFlow User Group) Islamabad's online meetup (Build with AI Session 7).
Ahsan discussed how AI assisted coding is changing the developers landscape of how we develop web apps and MVPs today. He discussed how there are two extremes to how developers work with AI today:
- Developers merely using AI to get assistance while keeping the control to themselves. And they code everything themselves with help from AI
- Developers prompting AI to implement whole set of features, while taking the back seat. In which case, AI drives everything. I.e. "vibe coding", as they say.
Watch the entire session here and see Ahsan's talk, alongside creating a full-stack web app on the fly, during the live stream, using Firebase Studio & Gemini Code assist.
🚀 Angular
The Best Angular Grid in 2025: A Comprehensive Comparison
When you are developing an election dashboard, a travel app, an inventory management platform, or something similar in Angular, you’ll need to manage data display and manipulation. More often than not, this means selecting the best Angular grid component. The market, however, is flooded with Angular Grids, so choosing the right one involves more than just comparing licensing costs.
In this article, you can outline what you need to look for when choosing the best Angular Grid component to use and we will highlight the best Angular Grid examples to consider.
Katie Mikova
All about DDD for Angular & Frontend Architectures
Domain-driven design (DDD), particularly its discipline strategic design, have proven extremely helpful in identifying and evaluating suitable approaches. While this approach is now firmly established in the backend, the frontend also benefits enormously from it.
In this article, you can explore how bounded contexts and context mapping can be transferred to the frontend, why different domain slices may be necessary there, and how we deal with them in event storming, team design, as well as the implementation. You'll also see how a strategic design can be translated into frontend code and what to keep in mind.
Manfred Steyer
Angular Prerendering for Dynamic Routes: The Ultimate Guide to getPrerenderParams
Take your Angular applications to the next level with build-time prerendering for dynamic routes!
While Server-Side Rendering (SSR) is powerful, it can be inefficient for content that rarely changes, like product pages or blog posts. This is where pre-rendering (Static Site Generation - SSG) shines.
In this detailed tutorial, we explore how to pre-render pages with dynamic parameters (e.g., /products/:id) in Angular. You'll learn how to use the getPrerenderParams function to inform the Angular build process about all the dynamic routes that need to be generated into static HTML files.
Upcoming Events
- 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
- Angular Day: will be held in 2026, Get notified yourself!
🌐 Web & Frontend
The Perfect Project Setup for Angular: Structure and Automation for More Quality
A well-thought-out project setup not only facilitates team collaboration but also lays the foundation for sustainable development.
In this post, You'll read best practices and tools that can help you set up a modern Angular project solidly from the start: from linting, modularization, and visualization to commit conventions and monorepo strategies.
Manfred Steyer
The new Event API for the NgRx Signal Store: A Quantum of Redux
The new Event API brings the functionality familiar from the Redux-based NgRx "Global" Store to the world of the Signal Store. Since Redux implies a single central store, the NgRx team uses the more general term Flux.
One of the great strengths of this new API is that it can be used specifically for selected cases. This allows us to get started in a lightweight way and to add the Flux pattern to individual stores as needed.
In this given article, You'll see how to use this new API.
Manfred Steyer
API Versioning Strategies That Actually Work in Production
This article presents a comprehensive, real-world guide to API versioning, arguing that success lies not in a single strategy but in a combination of technical and procedural approaches.
Starting with a cautionary tale of how a simple "additive" change broke multiple client applications, the author advocates for using semantic versioning as a foundation to clearly communicate the impact of changes. The article then details a toolkit of strategies—including URL path versioning, header-based negotiation, automatic translation layers, and feature flags—to be used in different scenarios.
Crucially, it emphasizes that these technical solutions are insufficient on their own and must be supported by robust client analytics, automated compatibility testing, proactive migration assistance, and clear communication, ultimately framing effective API versioning as a project management and communication challenge rather than a purely technical one.
Ramya Boorugula
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
The tech landscape is evolving fast, and this week’s digest keeps you ahead of the curve. From Yahoo Japan’s radical AI mandates to OpenAI’s collaboration with the UK government, we explore how AI is not just transforming industries—but becoming essential to them.
Meanwhile, Angular continues to power frontend innovation, with smarter grids, domain-driven design, and advanced prerendering techniques. Add to that practical insights on API versioning and Signal Store updates, and you’ve got the tools to ship faster, scale smarter, and build with confidence
Mastering Angular Signals got its first (and only) 5 star review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐... YAYYYY
Ahsan's new book, Mastering Angular Signals was published last month, and has gone through some improvements while it was FREE for the first 5 days.
And now, just recently, we got our first 5 star review on Amazon for the book. THIS IS HUGE!!. If you're the person who reviewed on Amazon, thank you!
If you have bought the book, read it, and found it useful, please leave an honest review on Amazon :) That'll really help the book to benefit more people. Thanks in advance!
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