No one mourns the package manager, abandoning Microslop, and surviving MIDI keyboard night at your friend's house.

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Google announced Gemini integration directly into Chrome with three main features: a persistent AI sidebar that can reason across open tabs, agentic auto-browsing for multi-step tasks, and built-in image transformation. The newsletter also covers various developer tool updates including Tamagui v2 RC, Astro 5.17, and Rspress v2.0, along with discussions on package management challenges and engineering management practices. A JavaScript quiz demonstrates Unicode emoji composition using zero-width joiners.

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