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Welcome to 2025 PAPAFAM! 🚀 Presenting our new Dev100 Challenge! 🙌 I've seen tons of you currently crushing the Dev75 Challenge, and you’re in luck—you can carry over your progress into this new challenge and keep the momentum going strong. For those who haven’t started a challenge yet, this is THE perfect time to join, set your resolutions, and make 2025 the year of transformation and growth for your dev career! 🔥 The Dev100 Challenge is a 100-day roadmap designed to help you build unstoppable habits, supercharge your coding skills, and connect with our amazing PAPAFAM Community. Whether you’re continuing from Dev75 or starting fresh, this challenge will keep you motivated and on track to achieve your goals for the foreseeable future! 🌟 Your Daily Tasks For the next 100 days, complete these 7 steps daily to master the Dev100 Challenge: 1️⃣ Morning Power-Up: Start your day with intention and energy! Share how you prepared yourself for success—whether it’s journaling, planning, meditating, or tackling a morning routine that fuels productivity. 2️⃣ Plan Your Path: Use a productivity tool like Notion, Trello, or a simple to-do list to organise your tasks for the day. Share your top priorities and how you’ll stay on track. 3️⃣ Deep Learning Session (45 minutes): Level up your knowledge by diving into a blog, video, podcast, course, or book. Share what you learned and how it impacts your coding journey. 4️⃣ Code & Build: Dedicate focused time to coding. Whether it’s fixing a bug, building a feature, or learning a new framework, share your progress, challenges, or wins. 5️⃣ Reset & Recharge: Keep your mind and body fresh with a 10–30 minute break for exercise, mindfulness, or relaxation. Share how you’re staying balanced. 6️⃣ Community Contribution: Give back to the University of Code or any other community by sharing insights, offering help, or celebrating someone else’s success. 7️⃣ Reflect: Share one lesson learned during the day and link your previous day’s post to keep the streak going strong!

Watch the Live here: https://youtube.com/live/KdYci4gA2os Join me as I show you how to build a powerful AI Agent with Next.js 15 that can interact with various tools and services. In this comprehensive build, you'll learn: 👉 How to implement Prompt Caching for optimized AI responses using Anthropic's caching feature (Drastically reduces token usage) 👉 How to integrate IBM's wxflows tooling to make any data source a tool in seconds, including YouTube transcripts and Google Books APIs! 👉 How to use LangChain and LangGraph for sophisticated tool usage, including: - State management with StateGraph - Tool orchestration with ToolNode - Memory management with MemorySaver - Intelligent message trimming for context management 👉 Build custom streaming solutions for Next.js 15, working around LangChainAdapter limitations when working with Custom Tools - Real-time token streaming - Tool execution feedback - Proper error handling for failed tool calls 👉 Create a modern chat interface with: - Real-time updates - Message history management - Tool interaction visualization 👉 Implement authentication with Clerk and integrate it with Convex database for: - User management - Chat history persistence - Real-time data synchronization 👉 Leverage Claude 3.5 Sonnet for advanced AI capabilities with: - Tool-augmented responses - Context-aware conversations - Efficient token management (4096 token context window) 👉 Deploy your application to production via Vercel with: - Environment variable management - Production-ready configurations - Performance optimization + MORE! I'll see you there PAPAFAM! ✌️

Happy Holidays to you all! Enjoy the festivities and time with family & I’ll see you all soon to crush the new year!!! Let me know what you’re up to for Christmas!👇🏽 - Love Sonny & Kenji 🤍

In this tutorial, you'll learn how to use Arcjet effectively to enhance security in app development. I’ll show you how Arcjet's security features help prevent issues like SQL injection, bot attacks, cross-site scripting, and more. I'll show you how Arcjet simplifies implementing security solutions like Rate Limiting, Shield WAF Protection, Email Validation, Bot Protection, and, PII Detection — all while ensuring sensitive user data is handled securely. Plus, I’ll highlight Arcjet’s free tier, making advanced app security features accessible to developers at no additional cost! Tune in PAPAFAM, Peace! ✌️