Google is good now?

It’s been a while!

Building, youtubing, all of that… It made me forgot I had this cool newsletter.

So let’s dive into this weeks’ cool stuff!

Build

So, Vercel, the folks behind Next.js, just launched something called Fluid. The idea is to make websites feel instant. Not something you would assume with React apps…

How do they do it? Well, it's kinda clever.

Normally, when you go to a website, your browser has to download a bunch of stuff before you see anything. Vercel Fluid changes that by streaming the website to you in a smarter way. Instead of waiting for everything to load, it starts showing you the important parts first.

They're using something called Streaming Server Components. Sounds techy, but basically, it means parts of the website are prepared on the server and sent to your browser piece by piece, as you need them. This way, your browser isn't stuck waiting for one massive download. It gets bits of the website super quickly and starts showing them to you.

Another cool thing is Selective Hydration. Hydration is when the website becomes interactive – you can click buttons, fill out forms, etc. Fluid makes this process smarter too. It only makes the interactive parts interactive when you actually need them. So, if you're just reading text on a page, it doesn't waste time making everything interactive right away. It waits until you scroll down to a button or a form before making those parts active. This saves a lot of loading time upfront.

Vercel says Fluid is built right into Next.js, so if you're already using Next.js, you can take advantage of this speed boost without a ton of extra work.

WIth all that, I’m strongly considering giving Next.js a try. My SvelteKit SaaS starter is based on Svelte 4, so I need to switch to newer version anyway. And all the AI tools work better with React… I’ll keep you updated!

Innovate

So, who’s innovating this week? Well, I’d say it’s Google. Yeah. Really.

Their new Gemini Flash 2.0 models are impressive.

Let’s take a look at performance first:

Gemini is green. We’re reaching almost OpenAI o1/o3 levels of performance, with a fraction of the price:

To compare, here are OpenAI prices:

Thank you DeepSeek for bringing back competition!

Glad to see the prices dropping down and…

Google looks promising!

Grow

I can’t recall where I heard this, but it stuck in my mind:

Choose a phrase you want to own.

Whatever it might be, having something uniquely defining you, will change your life.

I’m still trying to find mine, although I have something on my mind…

I hope you learned something! And as always:

Stay Inspired,

Victor Jaro