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Alex Patterson

Hi I am the Founder of CodingCat.dev, a web development community. I love all things Web!

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MS Computer Information Systems, Grand Valley State University

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Introducing the AI-Powered App Testing Agent in Firebase: Web Architecture & Implementation Guide

Introducing the AI-Powered App Testing Agent in Firebase: Web Architecture & Implementation Guide

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Announcing Firebase Genkit 1.0 for Node.js: Web Architecture & Implementation Guide

Announcing Firebase Genkit 1.0 for Node.js: Web Architecture & Implementation Guide

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Data Connect Pricing in Firebase: Web Architecture & Implementation Guide

Data Connect Pricing in Firebase: Web Architecture & Implementation Guide

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Announcing Genkit for Python and Go in Firebase: Web Architecture & Implementation Guide

Announcing Genkit for Python and Go in Firebase: Web Architecture & Implementation Guide

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Live text search with Firestore pipelines and React in Firebase: Web Architecture & Implementation Guide

Live text search with Firestore pipelines and React in Firebase: Web Architecture & Implementation Guide

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Bringing Google Maps to Friendly Meals with Firebase AI Logic: Web Architecture & Implementation Guide

Bringing Google Maps to Friendly Meals with Firebase AI Logic: Web Architecture & Implementation Guide

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Antigravity and Firebase MCP accelerate app development: Web Architecture & Implementation Guide

Antigravity and Firebase MCP accelerate app development: Web Architecture & Implementation Guide

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Unveiling Firestore Pipeline operations in Firebase: Web Architecture & Implementation Guide

Unveiling Firestore Pipeline operations in Firebase: Web Architecture & Implementation Guide

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Coffee with Firebase Studio's App Prototyping agent: Web Architecture & Implementation Guide

Coffee with Firebase Studio's App Prototyping agent: Web Architecture & Implementation Guide

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App Hosting has faster deployments, route-based monitoring, and improved CI/CD setup in Firebase: Web Architecture & Implementation Guide

App Hosting has faster deployments, route-based monitoring, and improved CI/CD setup in Firebase: Web Architecture & Implementation Guide

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What's new in Firebase at I/O 2025: Web Architecture & Implementation Guide

What's new in Firebase at I/O 2025: Web Architecture & Implementation Guide

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Announcing Gemini 2.5 in Firebase Studio: Web Architecture & Implementation Guide

Announcing Gemini 2.5 in Firebase Studio: Web Architecture & Implementation Guide

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App Hosting updates: rollbacks, SDK auto-configuration, and more in Firebase: Web Architecture & Implementation Guide

App Hosting updates: rollbacks, SDK auto-configuration, and more in Firebase: Web Architecture & Implementation Guide

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How Relationships Work in Data Connect in Firebase: Web Architecture & Implementation Guide

How Relationships Work in Data Connect in Firebase: Web Architecture & Implementation Guide

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CodingCat.dev Podcast - Holiday Special Live December 20 9a ET

CodingCat.dev Podcast - Holiday Special Live December 20 9a ET

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PHP2Shell (CVE-2026-109618): How AI Found a Decade-Old Bug in 70% of the Web

PHP2Shell (CVE-2026-109618): How AI Found a Decade-Old Bug in 70% of the Web

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What the F*ck is Firebase Now?

What the F*ck is Firebase Now?

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Sanity Knowledge Bases

Sanity Knowledge Bases

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The Five Layers of Agentic Context: Why Canon Only Turns When Someone Signs Off

The Five Layers of Agentic Context: Why Canon Only Turns When Someone Signs Off

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Live Coding with the Amplify UI team

Live Coding with the Amplify UI team

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Dockerless Serverless GPUs: How I Built a Fast, Cheap AI SaaS with RunPod Flash

Dockerless Serverless GPUs: How I Built a Fast, Cheap AI SaaS with RunPod Flash

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Why We Are Absolutely Obsessed with Sticker Mule’s Holographic Stickers

Why We Are Absolutely Obsessed with Sticker Mule’s Holographic Stickers

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AJ is Loving Sticker Mule

AJ is Loving Sticker Mule

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JAMStackGR

JAMStackGR

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Updating AJonP's Brand

Updating AJonP's Brand

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Sanity.io to Builder.io Data Transfer

Sanity.io to Builder.io Data Transfer

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Supabase, Next.js and Builder.io

Supabase, Next.js and Builder.io

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The Purrfect Beginning

The Purrfect Beginning

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GenAI for Engineers, What's Real, What's Not and What's Coming

GenAI for Engineers, What's Real, What's Not and What's Coming

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How OAuth, MCP, and the OpenAI Apps SDK, Power the Next Generation of Interactive AI Experiences (with Stytch & OpenAI)

How OAuth, MCP, and the OpenAI Apps SDK, Power the Next Generation of Interactive AI Experiences (with Stytch & OpenAI)

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Firebase SQL with Data Connect

Firebase SQL with Data Connect

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Identity in AI Agents

Identity in AI Agents

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Firebase Firestore vs. Data Connect: Unlocking Your Data's Full Potential

Firebase Firestore vs. Data Connect: Unlocking Your Data's Full Potential

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Running the Cloud on Your Desktop with LocalStack

Running the Cloud on Your Desktop with LocalStack

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Build a Custom No-Code App in 90 Minutes

Build a Custom No-Code App in 90 Minutes

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How to Automate Your Work and Free Your Time

How to Automate Your Work and Free Your Time

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Secure AI Access Control Using: SpiceDB

Secure AI Access Control Using: SpiceDB

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Stop Building Authz, Start Building Value: A Deep Dive into Authorization, REBAC, and SpiceDB

Stop Building Authz, Start Building Value: A Deep Dive into Authorization, REBAC, and SpiceDB

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Autoshow - Automatic Show Notes for Podcasts and Videos

Autoshow - Automatic Show Notes for Podcasts and Videos

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AI for Peeps Scared of AI

AI for Peeps Scared of AI

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AI-Powered Persuasion Engineering with Ben Bressington

AI-Powered Persuasion Engineering with Ben Bressington

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supastarter and Indie Hacking with Jonathan Wilke

supastarter and Indie Hacking with Jonathan Wilke

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Stop Killing your Largest Contentful Paint score with images!

Stop Killing your Largest Contentful Paint score with images!

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How to add Sentry to Next.js the right way!

How to add Sentry to Next.js the right way!

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Unlocking your ADHD Superpowers

Unlocking your ADHD Superpowers

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Building Successful Open Source Projects

Building Successful Open Source Projects

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Infrastructure Driven Development

Infrastructure Driven Development

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WebDev Fundamentals | React, Angular, and Vue

WebDev Fundamentals | React, Angular, and Vue

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Turning Documentation into a Product: Best Practices for Success

Turning Documentation into a Product: Best Practices for Success

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How to Secure Vercel Cron Job routes in Next.js 14 (app router)

How to Secure Vercel Cron Job routes in Next.js 14 (app router)

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AI for System Design and Architecture Documentation

AI for System Design and Architecture Documentation

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JAMStackGR \#2-Git Your Build System Right vs. Deploying Fast

JAMStackGR \#2-Git Your Build System Right vs. Deploying Fast

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Google I/O Flutter Updates and Firebase

Google I/O Flutter Updates and Firebase

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Using Firebase with Communication APIs

Using Firebase with Communication APIs

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What's A Firebase Developer Advocate

What's A Firebase Developer Advocate

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Secure Coding - Beyond the Surface with Snyk

Secure Coding - Beyond the Surface with Snyk

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Live Coding Clerk, into Next.js with James Perkins

Live Coding Clerk, into Next.js with James Perkins

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Twitter Profile Banner Part 1

Twitter Profile Banner Part 1

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VDO Ninja woes and Overlay Setup

VDO Ninja woes and Overlay Setup

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GitHub CMS

GitHub CMS

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