24 January, 2026

NextWork Changelog | Updates and improvements.

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Projects

• Saturday 17th: Build Multi-Region Apps on AWS

• Sunday 18th: Build an AI Security Guard for AWS

• Monday 19th: Build Instant Failover with CloudFront Origin Groups

• Tuesday 20th: Multi-Cloud Disaster Recovery with Pulumi

• Wednesday 21st: Build Your First Azure Function

• Thursday 22nd: Build AI Chat Moderator with Gemini

• Friday 23rd: Orchestrating Parallel Event Streams with Azure

• 21 projects in 21 days nearing completion; last Azure project shipped (noted as very challenging, queued for clarity updates)

• Standardised project intro patterns defined (30‑second summary, track selection, “what you’ll build”), with detailed guidelines for titles, bullets, emojis, and structure

• Ongoing quality pass across projects (intros, steps, policies) to bring them to a consistent standard

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Features

• Added back in download markdown options (by popular demand!)

• Automatic OS-aware instructions: Mac/Windows tabs now auto-select based on the user’s operating system, with a fallback to manual tabs when detection fails

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Marketing

• x7 Youtube videos

• x7 Shorts

• x7 Emails

• x7 Landing Pages

• x7 Project Step Carousels

• Internal “nano banana”/Napkin‑based image generator prototype for on‑brand diagrams and assets (Markdown + brand‑guidelines aware)

• Mobile signup modal removed to reduce friction; follow‑up analysis planned on impact to sign‑ups and re‑engagement

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Community

• 5 community calls and 2 pre‑built labs run over the weekend

• New build labs delivered, including Krishna’s Azure lab (called out as “next level”)

• Project Spotlight launched with community members (e.g. Okasha)

• Organic learner‑led labs emerging (e.g. Azure project club, DevOps + AI series)

• New community members joining and immediately engaging via live sessions (e.g. Germany, San Diego)

• Early city/community group experiments underway (towards “50 groups in 50 states”)

• New record: 30 hours of live community time this week

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Quality of Life fixes

• Multiple quality-of-life fixes and code cleanup: PDF download bugs fixed, ~2k lines of unused code removed, and React modal migration underway (expected to remove another 2–3k lines)

• Editor no longer needs a full page refresh to show saved content (removing the need to spam “Reset changes”)

• YouTube comment sync live: pulls new comments ~every 3 hours (≈12 runs/day) into a single internal discord channel with direct “Watch video” links. Goal is to increase the replies we can give to our wider community, create a great experience/interaction with NextWork.

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