Subject: 👋 Friend, integrating Firebase into Tuist iOS project 📱, CocoaHeads Tricity ☕

Hi Friend,

welcome to the September 2025 edition of our bright dev newsletter!

In case you missed it - this month comes with an extra spark for us as Bright Inventions has officially joined Framna! 🚀 That means even more friends to code, create, and grow with across Europe and the US. Don’t worry, the Bright spirit stays the same. 🧡

So, what is in for you today?

✨ Bright Inventions Joins Leading Digital Agency Framna ,
🗓️ CocoaHeads Tricity #32 - AI-Powered iOS Coding & SwiftUI Coordinators,

📲 Integrating Firebase into Tuist Project,

💻 The Open-Source Admin Kit For Shadcn,
🤖 Models Cheating? Git History Inflates SWE-Bench Results,

🧠 Understanding the Bigger Picture in Programming. Patryk’s Career Journey,
🙌 How to Develop Solution-Oriented Mindset in Your Life and in Your Team,
👀 OpenAI GPT-5-Codex Gets Smarter, Faster, and More Collaborative,
🎧 Humility in IT - Why Ego Doesn't Always Help.

Happy reading and listening time!
Ula

Bright Inventions Joins Leading Digital Agency Framna

Bright Inventions is now part of Framna - an international digital product agency with 600+ experts across Europe. Framna was formed by top digital agencies, Shape (Denmark), Bontouch (Sweden), and Move (Netherlands). Together we are on a journey to become a global go-to studio for digital products, helping the most ambitious brands bring their visions to life. This move is a natural next step that fits perfectly own ambitions and vision for the future.

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CocoaHeads Tricity ☕️ AI-Powered iOS Coding
& SwiftUI Coordinators

We are back with CocoaHeads Tricity! After a little break we are excited to bring our iOS community together again. This time we have got two great talks lined up by Kamil Buczel, senior iOS developer at Tilt and Łukasz Domaradzki, senior iOS developer XTB online investing.

📅 When: 6th October 📍 Where: Incubator STARTER , Gdańsk
🚨 Please note that registration on Meetup is required.

Integrating Firebase into Tuist Project

Firebase is one of the most commonly used third-party library in iOS development. The article focuses on integrating Firebase Crashlytics into an iOS app, with one caveat: it uses Tuist. Lo and behold, we might run into some strange behaviors!

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The Open-Source Admin Kit For Shadcn

New admin kit from Marmelab! The creators of react-admin have just released shadcn-admin-kit - a fresh alternative for building modern admin panels. If you are starting new projects and looking for something lighter and more up-to-date, this might be worth checking out.

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Models Cheating?
Git History Inflates SWE-Bench Results

🚨 SWE-bench results might be inflated. It turns out the models had access to the full Git history including commits that fixed the very bugs they were supposed to detect. Researchers have already spotted cases where the agent simply “found” the solution in the repo history.

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Understanding the Bigger Picture in Programming - Patryk’s Career Journey

Patryk, our senior backend developer at Bright Inventions, shares his approach to tackling challenges in software development. For him, bad code is anything that’s hard to read or impossible to modify. The key to fixing it? Thinking beyond the immediate task, staying open to future possibilities, and always considering how the code might evolve. Writing clean, understandable, and maintainable code is what makes software truly shine.

How to Develop Solution-Oriented Mindset
in Your Life and in Your Team

Are we focusing too much on problems? Throughout history humans have been wired to spot threats and solve problems – it kept us alive. Today that instinct still drives us, but in a world full of negative news, it’s easy to get stuck in a problem-focused mindset. The truth is that progress comes from solving problems, not dwelling on them. Taking a step back, celebrating wins, and noticing what’s working can help us shift perspective – and make both work and life feel a little brighter.

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OpenAI GPT-5-Codex Gets Smarter, Faster, and More Collaborative

Exciting news for developers! Codex has received major upgrades:

Speed & Reliability: Work faster with more consistent results.
Real-Time Collaboration: Team up seamlessly no matter where you code - terminal, IDE, web, or mobile.
Independent Task Handling: Codex now tackles tasks more effectively, helping you focus on what matters.

Whether you are at your desk or on the go, Codex is ready to boost your development workflow.

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Humility in IT - Why Ego Doesn't Always Help

It is time for a candid conversation about humility in IT. In this podcast episode Ula Stankiewicz chats with Adam Bar - a developer since 2007, tech leader, and mentor - about finding the balance between confidence and humility in tech. Topics include: