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Claude Code Removed From Pro Plan Claude Code was removed from the Pro Plan, causing serious backlash online. But this was misunderstood. When I first saw this online, I tried it on my terminal, and it turned out that Claude Code was still working with the Pro subscription plan. Press enter or click to view image in full size You can see I have authenticated with Pro; it’s still working, so what was really happening here? On April 21, 2026, Anthropic updated the pricing page and removed Claude Code from the $20/month Pro tier. The support docs were also updated — from “Using Claude Code with your Pro or Max plan” to “Using Claude Code with your Max plan.” Within hours, the developer community blew up, and I came across this tweet from Anthropic Staff that gave some clarification on what was happening:

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  Looking to catch up on all the announcements, deployment strategies, and hands-on guides on “Gemma 4”, here is a reading list to get you up to speed. Press enter or click to view image in full size Announcement Post To summarize, most intelligent open model family yet. It can handle handle deep reasoning, multi-step planning, and agentic workflows and fully released under a commercially permissive Apache 2.0 license. Gemma 4: Byte for byte, the most capable open models Gemma 4: our most intelligent open models to date, purpose-built for advanced reasoning and agentic workflows. blog.google Gemma 4 on Google Cloud If you are looking to these models into production, Richard Seroter breaks down the myriad of ways you can deploy Gemma 4 on Google Cloud. You can spin it up on Vertex AI for direct infrastructure control, leverage Cloud Run for serverless scaling, use GKE for highly customizable environments, or tap into Google Cloud TPUs for massive scale. Gemma 4 available on Google C...

  A few days ago, I found myself thinking about the magic of contactless payments. You know the drill: a quick tap of your card or phone, a satisfying beep, and boom — transaction done. It’s so seamless that it almost feels like wizardry. As a developer, I couldn’t help but wonder:   How hard would it be to build something like that myself using React Native?   Spoiler alert: it’s totally doable, and I’m here to walk you through how I made it happen. In this article, I’ll share my journey of building a simple “ Tap to Pay ” screen that reads raw card details from a any of popular credit card using the  react-native-nfc-manager  library. We’ll cover the setup, the code, and a few gotchas I stumbled into along the way. Whether you’re a curious tinkerer or a dev looking to add NFC magic to your app, let’s dive in! Why NFC and React Native? First off, why NFC? Near Field Communication (NFC) is the tech behind contactless payments, key cards, and even those cool “tap...