24 January, 2026
NextWork Changelog | Updates and improvements.
Projects
Monday 19th: Build Instant Failover with CloudFront Origin Groups
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
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
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
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
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.



Love the transparancy in these updates. The auto-detect OS feature for Mac/Windows tabs is subtle but huge for UX, cuts down on that "wait which command am I supposed to run" friction. 30 hours of live community time in a week is wild, that kind of engagement doesn;t scale easy.