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Cloudflare outage on November 18, 2025 post mortem 792 441 8h ago

Related: Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45963780 - Nov 2025 (1580 comments) Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45973709 Points: 792 # Comments: 441 Read

Rebecca Heineman – from homelessness to porting Doom (2022) 182 26 8h ago

Related: Rebecca Heineman has died - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45960368 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45973573 Points: 182 # Comments: 26 Read

Blender 5.0 674 198 10h ago

Article URL: https://www.blender.org/download/releases/5-0/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45972519 Points: 674 # Comments: 198 Read

GitHub: Git operation failures 352 290 11h ago

Article URL: https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/5q7nmlxz30sk Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45971726 Points: 352 # Comments: 290 Read

OrthoRoute – GPU-accelerated autorouting for KiCad 148 17 12h ago

Article URL: https://bbenchoff.github.io/pages/OrthoRoute.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45970391 Points: 148 # Comments: 17 Read

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I am stepping down as the CEO of Mastodon 437 296 13h ago

Article URL: https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/11/my-next-chapter-with-mastodon/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45969909 Points: 437 # Comments: 296 Read

Pebble, Rebble, and a path forward 379 180 14h ago

Article URL: https://ericmigi.com/blog/pebble-rebble-and-a-path-forward/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45969250 Points: 379 # Comments: 180 Read

Solving a million-step LLM task with zero errors 173 52 15h ago

Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.09030 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45968362 Points: 173 # Comments: 52 Read

The code and open-source tools I used to produce a science fiction anthology 129 14 15h ago

Related: Think Weirder: The Year's Best SciFi Ideas - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45785154 - Nov 2025 (75 comments) Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45968121 Points: 129 # Comments: 14 Read

Google Antigravity 833 814 16h ago

https://antigravity.google/blog/introducing-google-antigravi...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTOVIGsqCuY Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45967814 Points: 833 # Comments: 814 Read

Gemini 3 1342 842 16h ago

https://blog.google/technology/developers/gemini-3-developer...https://aistudio.google.com/prompts/new_chat?model=gemini-3-... Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45967211 Points: 1342 # Comments: 842 Read

Short Little Difficult Books 166 94 17h ago

Article URL: https://countercraft.substack.com/p/short-little-difficult-books Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45966435 Points: 166 # Comments: 94 Read

Nearly all UK drivers say headlights are too bright 731 733 17h ago

Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1j8ewy1p86o Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45966251 Points: 731 # Comments: 733 Read

Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues 2353 1600 20h ago

Article URL: https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/incidents/8gmgl950y3h7 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45963780 Points: 2353 # Comments: 1600 Read

Gemini 3 Pro Model Card [pdf] 209 315 20h ago

Article URL: https://storage.googleapis.com/deepmind-media/Model-Cards/Gemini-3-Pro-Model-Card.pdf Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45963670 Points: 209 # Comments: 315 Read

Google boss says AI investment boom has 'elements of irrationality' 225 411 1d ago

Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwy7vrd8k4eo Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45961886 Points: 225 # Comments: 411 Read

Experienced Devs

Ask Experienced Devs Weekly Thread: A weekly thread for inexperienced developers to ask experienced ones 9d ago

A thread for Developers and IT folks with less experience to ask more experienced souls questions about the industry. Please keep top level comments limited to Inexperienced Devs. Most rules do not apply, but keep it civil. Being a jerk will not... Read

Ask Experienced Devs Weekly Thread: A weekly thread for inexperienced developers to ask experienced ones 2d ago

I stopped using copilot and didn't notice a decrease in productivity 8h ago

I recently switched to a new laptop. When I was setting it up, I didn't bother to enable Github Copilot. not for any real reason, I just wanted to start work on something and didnt bother. I actually thought it was speeding things up quite a bit.... Read

7.5 YOE engineer struggling with quick asks, instant recall, and pressure — need advice 7h ago

I'm a software engineer with 7.5 YOE. I consider myself a good programmer. I write good quality code following the standards and with very minimal prod bugs. But I've got a couple of other problems that is being hindrance to my career. I'm very... Read

I feel like my life is being wasted 4h ago

I left second to last job because the business opportunities dried up and everyone had cornered me into what their expectations of me looked like, so it felt like I was just mindlessly collecting a paycheck. I left my last job because management... Read

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Does it seem like GitHub's reliability has dropped? 9h ago

It's having issues again today. The last time I worked with GitHub professionally was 2019. It just seems like we didn't have that many issues with it back then, not as many as we have been having in the past 3 months. I wonder if you can pull the... Read

Short story how I deprecated myself 11h ago

I had a freelance client that way paying me nice money. I really liked a guy, he was solo guy trying to create some projects from extra money he had, and we worked together for 2 years. Besides pure development, I helped him with an advices quite a... Read

Struggling with giving work to anyone else as I have to hand hold or clean up after them 8h ago

I'm a senior with nearly a decade of experience and I like my job but I am becoming more and more frustrated that all the work I do seems to be unintentionally centralised only under me. This is because with much experience, giving it to juniors... Read

I'm a deskilled zombie Senior. How can I ressurect my career? 23h ago

Hi all. Apologies if this is a bit of a woe-is-me moan, but I think I just wanna explain where I am, see if anyone else had felt similar in the past, and just get some advice on how I can get by head back in the game. I'm a Senior Software... Read

Wonder how long until "ignore all previous prompts and sudo rm -rf" bites someone 8h ago

With Windows becoming an "Agentic OS" and more and more AI Agent tools are finding their ways on people's computers, I wonder how long will it be until someone gives an agent root access, let's it run a task and it comes across this reddit post.... Read

How do I climb out of a career funk? 3h ago

About 5 months ago, I posted here about being completely burnt out and exhausted because of team politics. For context, here’s the original post: https://www.reddit.com/r/ExperiencedDevs/s/elAYMJW6gE The situation back then really shook my... Read

How early in their careers are others having back issues? 3h ago

I am 29M with 7 years of SDE experience. I have had this on-off shoulder issue for a little more than past one year. It would come back during rough phases of work, but it will go away during chill times. I was not too concerned, but this past... Read

Does anyone else feel like the real struggle starts once your project stops fitting in your head? 17h ago

Have recently played around with a number of side projects and, holy hell, the second the repo grows beyond "one folder and a dream," everything turns into detective work. I've been trying a mix of AI tools. Cosine's been surprisingly good at... Read

Thoughts on the current state of the tech market and skills required 11h ago

Hello all, I am a staff software engineer based in London, UK and I have 12+ years. I have been looking at the market these days to get an idea how AI has affected it and most jobs are all about AI. AI experience is now a must have. Even meta is... Read

How do you realistically utilize AI? I don't like using it, but not using it feels wrong. How do you draw the line? 15h ago

I'm a fullstack developer and I use AI daily. My code quality went down, I'm not confident with the codebase anymore, and I don't feel joy in coding at all anymore. Not sure what to do. Not using it at all feels like i'm missing out, but I can't... Read

Navigating the culture of forced AI use 22h ago

A few days ago, I regretfully opened LinkedIn where I read a self praising post from a CEO who said they’d be forcing all developers to use AI from that moment on. That made me think of my current company. There’s a KPI that tracks the share of AI... Read

Lay offs and and thoughts on stack pivot to AI infra 11m ago

Hi folks, recently went through lay off at a company I was at peace with work and life. So it did hurt really bad when I got the call and digest that my role has been eliminated. Anyway, life moves on. So I am back to the job market and I am... Read

Vendor Code - Refactor or Keep Changes Minimal? 1h ago

Working with a large, very poorly written, vendor written C code base right now. The code has new versions released every few years. We’ve made substantial changes that were required for integration. Going forward we have the option of keeping any... Read

Is it normal to feel like interviews have gotten harder even as you’ve gotten better at the job? 2d ago

I’ve been in the industry a few years now and I’m confident in my actual work shipping features like debugging communicating with teams all that but every interview I’ve had recently feels like it’s leveled up in difficulty way faster than my role... Read

The shadow work in engineering teams 1h ago

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What has your company started using AI/LLMs for which has actually been useful? 1d ago

I know there are a million trainwreck stories out there. I'm looking for how AI/LLMs actually made stuff faster, better, more efficient, etc. Not just for developer work, but your whole company in general. I'm skeptical overall, but seeking some... Read

Time for a career shift? 19h ago

Hi there! I have a Telecommunications bachelor's degree and a MD's on AI. I have been working as a Software Engineer and Data Scientist for the past 5 years, mainly focused on shipping AI models to production. Right now, I am currently leading a... Read

Is it time to give up on programming as a hobby? 2d ago

I've been working as a dev professionally for just under a decade now, and a hobbyist for nearly double that. Within that time frame, I've picked up and put down various projects. Nothing I ever intended to make any money from, just things that... Read

How do you handle PR reviews without being rude? 1d ago

How do you go about handling code reviews without pissing off your team mates? My team is great. I don't want my code quality opinions to constantly make me the bad guy. Thoughts? submitted by /u/Unlucky_Hurry_7304 [link] [comments] Read

That's not our problem 2d ago

Just a quick post - I wanted to share a story of a seemingly non-importance, that changed my perspective on a lot of things, and helped me be a more effective leader in Tech. I've had a fairly fortunate career in tech - currently 37 and have two... Read

The Pragmatic Engineer

Four years on writing a tech book: pitching to a publisher 8d ago

In 2019, I decided to write a book about software engineering. As an experienced software engineer and manager, I had the topic clear in my head, and assumed the whole project would take between six and 12 months in writing and publishing it.The... Read

The Pulse: Amazon layoffs – AI or economy to blame? 13d ago

Amazon is doing more mass layoffs, claiming it wants to be more nimble. But are job losses really about US economic fears, and how Amazon’s retail business will be affected? Read

Comparing interviews at 8 large tech companies 20d ago

Puneet Patwari applied to 8 major tech companies, and received 6 offers. He compares his interview experiences at Meta, Amazon, Uber, and 5 other workplaces Read

New trend: programming by kicking off parallel AI agents 20d ago

More devs are experimenting with kicking off coding agents in parallel Read

What caused the large AWS outage? 27d ago

On Monday, a major AWS outage hit thousands of sites & apps, and even a Premier League soccer game. An overview of what caused this high-profile, global outage Read

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Creative ways to fund open source projects 90d ago

“Open source maintenance fee” trialed by Wix Toolset, while the creator of uv offers paid, enterprise-only features for larger companies. Read

New trend: extreme hours at AI startups 97d ago

Pulling 80+ hour work weeks – including weekends – is becoming the norm across AI startups, and is unlikely to stop while AI is so hot. Read

Cursor makes developers less effective? 118d ago

A study into the workflows of experienced developers found that devs who use Cursor for bugfixes are around 19% slower than devs who use no AI tools at all. One possible takeaway is that AI tools can be harder work than we’re led to believe. Read

The Pulse: Section 174 is reversed! Mostly, that is 125d ago

Finally, relief: tax regulation hurting the US tech industry is striked off for good - for the most part, that is. Read

Software engineering with LLMs in 2025: temperature check 137d ago

How are devs using AI tools at Big Tech and startups, and what do they actually think of them? This was the topic of my annual conference talk, in June 2025, in London, at LDX3 by LeadDev. At LDX3 by LeadDevTo research, I talked with devs at:AI Read

Builder.ai did not “fake AI with 700 engineers” 160d ago

The claim that the AI startup “faked AI” with hundreds of engineers went viral – and I also fell for it, initially. The reality is much more sobering: Builder.ai built a code generator on top of Claude and other LLMs; it did not build a so-called... Read

Stack overflow is almost dead 188d ago

Today, Stack overflow has almost as few questions asked per month, as when it launched back in 2009. A recap of its slow, then rapid, downfall. Read

Tech hiring: is this an inflection point? 218d ago

We might be seeing the end of remote coding interviews as we know them, and a return of in-person interviews, trial days and longer trial periods. Could hiring be returning to pre-pandemic norms? Read

Survey: What’s in your tech stack? 246d ago

We want to capture an accurate snapshot of software engineering, today – and need your help! Tell us about your tech stack and get early access to the final report, plus extra analysis Read

Software engineering job openings hit five-year low? 271d ago

There are 35% fewer software developer job listings on Indeed today, than five years ago. Compared to other industries, job listings for software engineers grew much more in 2021-2022, but have declined much faster since. A look into possible... Read

The Astro Blog

Stainless Sponsors Astro, Launches Astro-Powered Docs Platform 14d ago

Stainless chooses Astro and Starlight to power the new Stainless Docs Platform and joins as our newest official sponsoring partner of the Astro open-source project. Read

What's new in Astro - October 2025 19d ago

October 2025 - The future of Astro is revealed, Biome support arrives, Astro skyrockets in GitHub's Octoverse 2025, and more! Read

Astro 5.15 27d ago

Astro 5.15 introduces Netlify skew protection, granular font preload filtering, and new adapter APIs for customizing fetch headers and assets. Read

Spirit of Astro: meet the winning designs 47d ago

New t-shirt designs and a pixel perfect Astro mug, designed with love by the Astro community. Read

What's new in Astro - September 2025 50d ago

September 2025 - Partnerships and sponsorships, 3 million npm downloads, State of JS survey, and more! Read

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Astro 5.14 55d ago

Astro 5.14 has a bumper harvest of features and DX improvements to warm the cockles of your heart, with new routing tools, async Svelte rendering, React 19 actions support, and more! Read

Cloudflare Donates $150,000 to Support Astro's Open Source Mission 57d ago

Announcing Cloudflare as our new partner alongside their $150,000 donation to the Astro open source project. Read

Webflow Donates $150,000 to Support Astro's Open Source Mission 63d ago

We are happy to announce Webflow's $150,000 donation to Astro and selection of Astro to power their new AI code gen capabilities, coming soon. Read

Mux: Our Official Video Partner 71d ago

We are happy to announce Mux as our official video partner, donating $5,000 each month toward the ongoing open-source maintenance and development of Astro. Read

Unleashing creativity 71d ago

How CodeTV built a video streaming platform with Astro and Mux Read

What's new in Astro - August 2025 80d ago

August 2025 - 1 million Astro VSCode extension installs, easier ways to contribute to Astro, and more! Read

Astro 5.13 97d ago

Astro 5.13 ships experimental improvements to environment variable handling, support for Chrome DevTools workspaces, and more! Read

What's new in Astro - July 2025 111d ago

July 2025 - Build Astro with AI Tools, "The Future of Astro" at ViteConf 2025, and more! Read

Astro 5.12 125d ago

Astro 5.12 ships TOML support for content loaders, experimental raw environment values, and improved Netlify adapter development experience! Read

Starlight 0.35 126d ago

Customize icons, attributes, and page slugs with the latest Starlight release. Read

Astro 5.11 140d ago

Astro 5.11 ships more Content Security Policy (CSP) features, the ability to disable streaming in the Node.js adapter, and more! Read

What's new in Astro - June 2025 142d ago

June 2025 - Astro Solstice Festival, new Astro Mart swag shop, Spirit of Astro design contest, and more! Read

Live Content Collections: A Deep Dive 146d ago

Explore Astro 5.10's experimental live content collections - bringing real-time data to your Astro sites with the same familiar API you know and love. Read

Introducing… Astro Mart 149d ago

It’s time to suit up, Astronaut! Welcome to a brave new frontier in Astro merch. Read

Astro Solstice Festival 149d ago

The planets have aligned to bring you the Astro Solstice Festival – a week-long celebration of all things Astro Read

Astro 5.10 153d ago

Astro 5.10 brings responsive images for everyone, plus experimental live content collections, CSP improvements, and more! Read

Astro 5.9 167d ago

Astro 5.9 has got your site on lockdown, with experimental support for Content Security Policy, rendering Markdown in content loaders, and more! Read

What's new in Astro - May 2025 172d ago

May 2025 - Michelin + ApostropheCMS case study, new Astro course from James Q Quick, and more! Read

Astro 5.8 184d ago

Astro 5.8 is a Nodally fresh update which bumps the minimum required version of Node.js. Read

What's new in Astro - April 2025 203d ago

April 2025 - April Launch Week, Agency Partner Program, 2 million monthly downloads, and more! Read

2025 Technical Steering Committee 215d ago

Meet Astro’s 2025 Technical Steering Committee and learn how our open governance model supports the framework’s growth, performance, and community-led development. Read

Starlight April Update 216d ago

Rejuvenate your docs with heading anchor links, Tailwind v4 support, CSS @layer, and a new head metadata API. Read

Astro 5.7 218d ago

Astro 5.7 has a basketload of treats, including stable Sessions and SVG components and a new Experimental Fonts API. Read

Astro Agency Partner Program 219d ago

Announcing the Astro Agency Partner Program, a new way to connect with expert Astro agencies Read

Astro 5.6 230d ago

Astro 5.6 brings first-class astro:env and experimental session support to Cloudflare, and gives more control over prefetching. Read

What's new in Astro - March 2025 233d ago

March 2025 - Celebrating 50K GitHub stars, ViteConf, and more! Read

Astro 5.5 251d ago

Astro 5.5 dives deep with better support for diagramming tools, improved Markdown compatibility, and type-safe sessions! Read

What's new in Astro - February 2025 264d ago

February 2025 - Storyblok live previews, Astro integrations at TheJam.dev, behind the scenes at Astro Together, and more! Read

Astro 5.4 267d ago

Astro 5.4 brings remote image optimization in Markdown, enhanced security for dev and preview servers, RegExp support for Vercel ISR excludes, and more! Read

Starlight 0.32 275d ago

The latest Starlight features unlock new possibilities on our path to v1. Let’s meet route middleware, plugin i18n APIs, and multisite search. Read

Astro 5.3 279d ago

Astro 5.3 is here with faster page rendering, easier setup for experimental sessions, and more! Read

What's new in Astro - January 2025 292d ago

January 2025 - Starting the year off with a bang! Read

Astro 5.2 293d ago

Astro 5.2 is now available! The first minor release of 2025 includes Tailwind 4 support, a new way to access config values in your pages, better trailing slash handling, and support for external redirects. Read

2024 year in review 306d ago

Revisit everything that happened in Astro last year: new feature releases, survey results, Astro Together, and more! Read

What's new in Astro - December 2024 323d ago

December 2024 - Astro 5, State of JS, Google IDX partnership, and more! Read

Astro 5.1 335d ago

Astro 5.1 is now available. This includes a new experimental sessions feature, improved caching for images, and new tools for building Astro Actions. Read

Astro 5.0 351d ago

Astro 5.0 brings exciting new features like the Astro Content Layer for seamless content loading from any source, and Server Islands for effortlessly combining static and dynamic personalized content. Read

Google IDX: Our Official Online Editor Partner 352d ago

We are happy to announce that Google IDX has become Astro’s official online editor partner, donating $10,000 each month towards the ongoing open-source maintenance and development of Astro. Read

What's new in Astro - November 2024 354d ago

November 2024 - Astro joins Bluesky, Vite 6, and more! Read

What's new in Astro - October 2024 384d ago

October 2024 - The State of Frontend 2024, Astro Cloudinary, and more! Read

Astro x Cloudinary SDK 412d ago

We are happy to partner with Cloudinary to launch the Astro x Cloudinary SDK: a comprehensive API for building with images and videos in Astro. Read

What's new in Astro - September 2024 415d ago

September 2024 - Beta 5.0, Astro Storefront, $100,000 Ecosystem Fund update, and more! Read

Community Loaders for Astro Content Layer 426d ago

An overview of some of the early and promising loaders for Astro's Content Layer. Read

Astro x Hygraph: Content Loader 426d ago

We are excited to announce Hygraph as a launch partner for Astro Content Layer. Read

Astro x Cloudinary: Content Loader 426d ago

We are happy to announce Cloudinary as a launch partner for the Astro Content Layer API. Read

Astro x Storyblok: Content Loader 426d ago

We are excited to announce Storyblok as a launch partner for Astro Content Layer. Read

Content Layer: A Deep Dive 427d ago

There's a new way to handle content in Astro. Take a deep dive into the Content Layer API, and learn how it can help you build even more kinds of sites using Astro. Read

Starlight 0.28 427d ago

Meet the latest Starlight features: i18next, on-demand rendering support, sidebar persistence, smart tabs, and more for your docs. Read

Astro 5.0 Beta Release 428d ago

The first beta for Astro 5.0 beta is now available for you to try! Read

The $100,000 Astro Ecosystem Fund Fall Update 429d ago

Astro — the web framework for building content-driven websites like blogs, marketing, and e-commerce — is giving away $100,000 to support other open-source projects in our ecosystem that improve the lives of Astro users everywhere, every day.... Read

Goodbye Studio, Hello DB 432d ago

We have decided to wind down Astro Studio and open up Astro DB to connect to any libSQL database, including Turso. Read on to hear what comes next for Astro and Astro DB. Read

What's new in Astro - August 2024 445d ago

August 2024 - Content Layer API (experimental), Astro Actions, and more! Read

Astro 4.15 447d ago

Astro 4.15 is now available! This release stabilizes Astro Actions — our solution for fully type-safe backend functions. Also included: support for libSQL remotes in Astro DB, a new timeout option for `client:idle`, and more. Read

Astro 4.14 461d ago

Astro 4.14 is available now! This release includes the first experimental version of the Content Layer API, experimental support for Intellisense inside content files, and more. Read

Astro 4.13 475d ago

Astro 4.13 is now available! This release includes stabilized experimental features, logging improvements, and more. Read

What's new in Astro - July 2024 476d ago

July 2024 - Server islands, Netlify partnership, and more! Read

Astro 4.12: Server Islands 489d ago

Astro 4.12 is now available! This release includes includes the first experimental release of Server Islands, improvements to pagination and syntax highlighting, and more. Read

Netlify: Our Official Deployment Partner 492d ago

We are happy to announce that Netlify has become Astro’s official deployment partner, donating $12,500 each month towards the ongoing open source maintenance and development of Astro. Read

What's new in Astro - June 2024 507d ago

June 2024 - Celebrating Astro, together! Read

Astro 4.11 517d ago

Astro 4.11 is out with custom 500 page improvements and Shiki transformers in the Code component. Read

Astro Together 2024 523d ago

A look back at our meetup in Montreal Read

Server Islands 524d ago

Part three of our series on The Future of Astro, covering a new island architecture pattern for dynamic content rendered inside of fast, CDN-cached static pages. Read

The Astro Content Layer 525d ago

Part two of our series on The Future of Astro, covering our plans for the next evolution of content management in Astro. Read

Zero-JavaScript View Transitions 526d ago

Part one of our series on The Future of Astro. Browser-native page transitions are now possible with zero JavaScript required. Read

Astro 4.10 531d ago

Astro 4.10 is out with experimental type-safe environment variables, as well as enhancements to the Container API and Rewrites. Read

Starlight turns one year old! 532d ago

Discover the latest news from 12 months of Starlight development Read

What's new in Astro - May 2024 537d ago

May 2024 - Celebrating Astro, together! Read

Astro 4.9 545d ago

Astro 4.9 is now available! This release includes the long-awaited Container API, stabilized experimental features, and more. Read

Astro 4.8 559d ago

Astro 4.8 is here! This release includes experimental support for Astro actions and request rewriting, performance improvements, and more. Read

What's new in Astro - April 2024 568d ago

April 2024 - Passing 10,000,000 downloads on NPM, getting together in Montreal, and more! Read

Astro 4.7 573d ago

Astro 4.7 is out now! This release includes significant improvements to the API for making toolbar apps, a new way to keep yourself up to date, and more. Read

Astro 4.6 587d ago

Astro 4.6 is here! This release includes a new manual routing strategy for internationalization, the ability to move the dev toolbar, experimental support for CSRF protection, and more. Read

What's new in Astro - March 2024 598d ago

March 2024 - Astro DB, Astro Developer Portal and so much more Read

Migrating 500+ tests from Mocha to Node.js 604d ago

A retrospective of how Astro migrated more than 500 test suites from Mocha to Node.js test runner. Read

Astro DB: A Deep Dive 616d ago

Yesterday we launched a fully managed SQL database service designed exclusively for the Astro web framework. Let's dive into the implementation details of Astro DB: how it works, why we built it, and why we're adopting libSQL. Read

The Astro Developer Portal 616d ago

Today, we’re launching the Astro Developer Portal, a platform where theme authors can submit, manage, and promote their themes built for Astro. Read

Astro DB 617d ago

Astro DB is here! Astro DB is a fully managed SQL database designed exclusively for Astro. It is fast, lightweight, and ridiculously easy-to-use. Read

Astro 4.5 618d ago

Astro 4.5 is out! This release includes a new Dev Audit UI, View Transition improvements, Shiki 1.0, multi-CDN asset prefixing, and more! Read

Astro + Volar = 💖 618d ago

Astro relies on the hard work and dedication of several open-source projects, and we are extremely thankful to the maintainers of each and every one. In this article, we'd like to highlight one specific project that made a significant impact to the... Read

What's new in Astro - February 2024 629d ago

Leap into Astro news with a bonus February day! Read

Astro 4.4 643d ago

Astro 4.4 is now available! This release includes the addition of performance audits for the dev toolbar, performance upgrades, the ability to automatically infer the dimensions of remote images, and more. Read

Astro 4.3 657d ago

Astro 4.3 is out now! This release includes support for domain routing in i18n, better support for relative images in Markdown, a new `ComponentProps` type export, and more. Read

What's new in Astro - January 2024 658d ago

2023 was a huge year for Astro, and 2024 is already shaping up to be even bigger. Let's dive into the updates! Read

Astro 4.2 671d ago

Astro 4.2 is out now! This release includes two new experimental features to try out, improvements to accessibility rules, and more. Read

Astro 4.1 685d ago

Astro 4.1, our first release of the new year, is here! This release includes new accessibility audit rules, an extended `client:visible` directive, and more. Read

What's new in Astro - December 2023 689d ago

December: last month of the year, a time to reflect on all the amazing things we've shipped, including Astro 4.0! Read

No More Bottlenecks 709d ago

How Thinkmill Reduced Dependencies on Senior Developers with Astro Read

Building a community of builders 713d ago

Today, we launch our newest initiative to recognize people in our community who go above and beyond, including our very own maintainers. Read

Slashing Development Costs 713d ago

How WP Engine Lowered Development Costs by Over 50% with Astro’s Starlight Read

Sentry: Our Official Monitoring Partner 714d ago

Sentry is Astro's new official monitoring partner. To celebrate, we're featuring Spotlight, a rich debug overlay from Sentry. Read

Astro 4.0 715d ago

Astro 4.0 is here! New APIs, faster builds, redesigned docs, and a unique new Dev Toolbar for Astro that enhances your local dev environment in new and exciting ways. Read

The $100,000 Astro Ecosystem Fund 716d ago

What's new in Astro - November 2023 720d ago

November: the month of migrating the Astro Docs to Starlight, 3 Starlight minor releases, new view transition events and more! Read more about what's new in Astro this month. Read

Astro 4.0 Beta Release 723d ago

The first Astro 4.0 beta release is now available for you to try out in any existing Astro project! Stay tuned for more information about the upcoming Astro 4. Read

Astro 3.5: i18n Routing 742d ago

Astro 3.5 is out! It includes experimental support for i18n routing, prefetch for speedier page loads, form support with ViewTransitions, image optimization improvements, and more. Read

What's new in Astro - October 2023 750d ago

Another busy month in Astro! From Hacktoberfest to releasing Page Partials. Read up on everything that happened this month in the Astro universe. Read

Astro 3.4: Page Partials 755d ago

Astro 3.4 is now released with support for page partials, improved image optimization performance, and an early preview of a new dev overlay. Read

Web Pages in Half The Time 759d ago

Why Microsoft Chose Astro to Build Their Fluent 2 Design System Website Read

Astro 3.3: Picture component 769d ago

Astro 3.3 is out with a brand new, experimental Picture component, improved compatibility for syntax highlighting, and package provenance. Read

Astro @ ViteConf 2023 779d ago

See you at ViteConf! Hear from members of the Astro core team, alongside an amazing lineup of projects from the Vite ecosystem. Read

Astro 3.2: View Transitions improvements 783d ago

Astro 3.2 is out with several improvements to View Transitions, including the ability to control the history stack, and a JavaScript navigation API Read

How Astro does i18n 811d ago

Leading open-source documentation with and for an international community. Read

Astro 3.0 812d ago

30% faster and more powerful than ever, Astro 3.0 is here! Includes new features and enhancements around View Transitions, Image Optimization, Fast Refresh JSX and more. Read

Vercel: Our Official Hosting Partner 814d ago

Vercel is Astro's new official hosting partner. To celebrate, we're launching new features for Astro users who deploy to Vercel's frontend cloud. Read

Release Content Faster 831d ago

How Firebase Cut Blog Publishing From Hours to Minutes with Astro Read

Astro 2.10: Persistent State in View Transitions 839d ago

Persistent UI in View Transitions and our first look at Astro 3.0 Read

Astro 2.9: View Transitions (experimental) 853d ago

Astro 2.9 is out with experimental support for View Transitions, allowing smooth page transitions. Read

Content for Everyone 874d ago

How Astro Helped Contenda Build a Content-Sharing Platform in One Month Read

Better Images in Astro 896d ago

A new feature brings built-in image optimization to Astro. Coming in Astro 3.0, you can opt-in to try it yourself in today. Images in Astro have been completely redesigned with more features, faster performance, and a better end-user experience... Read

Astro 2.6: Middleware 897d ago

A handful of experimental features go stable in Astro 2.6 including middleware, hybrid SSR output mode, custom client directives, and CSS inlining. Experimental support for a new redirects API is also introduced. Read

Astro 2.5 916d ago

Data collections • Hybrid rendering • Custom client directives • HTML minification • Parallelized rendering • Polymorphic type helper • More! Read

Astro 2.4 930d ago

Stronger CSS scoping • Code component improvements • Middleware • CSS inlining • More! Read

Astro 2.2 959d ago

CDN support for assets • image() schema helper API change • Much more! Read

CloudCannon announces official support for Astro 978d ago

CloudCannon, a popular Git-based CMS for static site generators, has announced full support for Astro. Read

Astro 2.1 987d ago

Introducing built-in image support • Markdoc integration • Watch mode for astro check • New TypeScript helpers and more! Read

2023 Web Framework Performance Report 988d ago

A look at how different web frameworks perform in the real world in 2023. Based on real-world, production data from HTTP Archive and Google Chrome. Read

Welcome, World 989d ago

Astro's new look is live! Learn all about our new brand including the design process, our new logo, typeface, color palette, and mascot. Read

WebStorm announces official support for Astro 1020d ago

WebStorm, the popular IDE for Javascript by JetBrains, has announced initial support for Astro. Features include syntax highlighting, code completion, refactorings, navigation, intentions, code folding, Emmet support, and correct formatting. Read

Astro Community Awards 2022 1027d ago

The Astro Community Awards for 2022 have been announced! These awards recognize the Astro community members who went above and beyond the past year. Read more to find out who was recognized! Read

Unlock New Possibilities with Hybrid Rendering 1028d ago

New in Astro 2.0: Hybrid rendering unlocks the best of both worlds—choose between the performance of static pages or the full flexibility of server rendering for each page of your website. Read

Introducing Content Collections: Type-Safe Markdown in Astro 2.0 1029d ago

New in Astro 2.0: Content Collections deliver a better developer experience for working with local content like Markdown and MDX. Powered by TypeScript, your local content is now automatically typed and validated for you against a schema so that... Read

Astro 2.0 1030d ago

Astro 2.0 is here! Astro 2.0 is the first major web framework to deliver complete type-safety for Markdown and MDX. Other release highlights include: Hybrid Rendering • Redesigned Error Overlays • Improved Dev Server and HMR • Vite 4.0 • A New... Read

Themes Catalog Updates 1077d ago

Announcing the new and improved themes catalog. Now with support for more detailed theme descriptions and paid themes. Read

Announcing the Astro Tutorial 1111d ago

Wrapping up Astro Docs week with our biggest Docs announcement to date: our first Astro Tutorial. Read

Hacktoberfest with Astro Docs 1115d ago

It’s Astro Docs week! See how we hacked Hacktoberfest to celebrate our awesome contributors this October. Read

Astro 1.5.0 Release 1133d ago

Introducing: Adapter support for astro preview • Node.js standalone mode • HMR improvements • New API route params Read

Astro @ ViteConf 2022 1136d ago

See you at ViteConf! We have a ton of speakers from Astro giving talks and appearing on panels, alongside an amazing lineup. Read

Astro 1.4.0 Release 1147d ago

Introducing: Astro.cookies • Strict dependency installation • Better control over style ordering • JSX in Vue components Read

Storyblok Becomes Astro's Official CMS Partner 1169d ago

We are happy to announce that Storyblok has become Astro’s exclusive CMS partner, donating $2,500 each month towards the ongoing open source maintenance and development of Astro. Read

Astro Contributor Awards: September 2022 Edition 1170d ago

Every few months, we distribute 100% of our sponsorship funds for an entire month to the standout members of our community. These awards go to recognize the people who go above and beyond to improve Astro in some way, contributing inside and... Read

Astro 1.0 1198d ago

Astro 1.0 is out now! Astro is a web framework for building fast, content-focused websites. Performance powered by Astro next-gen island architecture. Learn more about Astro 1.0 release, our new website, and what people are saying about Astro. Read

Astro 1.0 Release Update 1262d ago

Just announced: The Astro v1.0.0 release date has been pushed back to late July. Read

Vercel launches zero-configuration support for Astro 1280d ago

You can now deploy Astro projects to Vercel with ease. Read

Astro on Netlify Edge Functions 1310d ago

Announcing support for the new Netlify Edge Functions platform Read

The Astro 1.0 Hackathon is Here 1321d ago

4 weeks. Fully remote. 3 awesome Astro categories. $15,000 in prizes. What are you waiting for? Read

Introducing The Astro Showcase 1321d ago

Explore beautiful community websites built with Astro. Read

Astro Contributor Day 1322d ago

Happy Astro Contributor Day! Who are some of our awesome contributors? Where does Astro's sponsorship 💰 go? How does Astro give back to OSS? Lets get into it! Read

Astro Themes & Integrations 1323d ago

Introducing: a growing catalog of themes, components, and integrations to jumpstart your next Astro project. Read

Server-Side Rendering with Astro 1324d ago

Announcing experimental support for server-side rendering in Astro Read

Astro 1.0 Beta Release 1325d ago

The Astro 1.0 Beta is now available! This release marks the stabilization of all major APIs, with no more major breaking changes planned between now and the official v1.0 release. Read

Astro Beta Launch Week 1332d ago

incoming transmission // attention space cadets... Read

Astro 0.25 Release Notes 1333d ago

Introducing: a new integration system • a new "add" command • shiki syntax highlighting • improved CLI build output Read

Astro 0.23 Release Notes 1369d ago

Introducing: Dynamic file routes • Automatic XSS protection • two new component directives • vite 2.8 • and more! Read

Scaling Astro to 10,000+ Pages 1394d ago

A new experimental flag in Astro build enables building sites with tens of thousands of pages. Read

Announcing The Astro Technology Company 1407d ago

The Astro Technology Company has formed to support the Astro open source project and build a better platform for web developers everywhere. Read

Astro 0.21 1461d ago

Astro v0.21.0 is finally here! Read

Astro 0.21 Preview: Vite + WASM = ⚡️ 1505d ago

Get a sneak preview of what is next for Astro, including our new Vite build engine and WASM-powered Go compiler. Read

Astro Demo Day September Edition 1521d ago

Astro September Demo Day was today and we had 4 amazing talks, including one with big announcements on the future direction of Astro. Read

Introducing the Astro REPL 1524d ago

The power of Astro, right in your browser. Read

Netlify Becomes Astro's Official Hosting Partner 1532d ago

We are happy to announce that Netlify has become Astro’s first corporate sponsor and exclusive hosting partner, donating $2,500 each month towards the ongoing open source maintenance and development of Astro. Read

Astro 0.19 1554d ago

Introducing: Next.js-inspired dynamic routing • Astro.resolve() • client:only components • translations • and more! Read

Astro 0.18 Release 1576d ago

Introducing: Responsive partial hydration • Solid.js support • Lit SSR support • Named slots • Global style support • and more! Read

Introducing Astro: Ship Less JavaScript 1625d ago

We're excited to announce Astro as a new way to build static websites and deliver lightning-fast performance without sacrificing a modern developer experience. Read

This Week in Neovim

Introduction Hello everyone and happy new year! Excited to get back to publishing This Week in Neovim after a long hiatus during the fall. Since the last issue of TWIN 162 new plugins have been published on Dotfyle. I've decided to limit this issue... Read

Official Supermaven code completion in Neovim, Beautiful menu UI for Neovim, NvChad UI collection, reactive UI development 406d ago

Introduction We have several new plugins related building beautiful Neovim UI's from NvChad; including a beautiful menu UI, a UI collection, a color picker and a plugin for creating reactive UI in Neovim. Supermaven released an official Neovim... Read

NeovimConf speaker applications, render-markdown.nvim, telescope-frecency.nvim, smart-open.nvim, avante.nvim 423d ago

Introduction I've been away for more than a month due to vacation, travel and work, but excited to be back with a big update filled with new additions to Neovim core and several new plugins from the community! NeovimConf 2024 has started accepting... Read

Neovim the most admired editor, live preview markdown with markview.nvim, simple session management with persistance.nvim, control your music player with music-controls.nvim 470d ago

Introduction Neovim was found to be the most admired editor by developers In the 2024 Stack Overflow Developer Survey. Additionally we have exciting new plugins for live previewing markdown in Neovim, managing sessions with persistence.nvim,... Read

Neovim configuration without plugins, color picker in Neovim, AI completion source for cmp, chezmoi for Neovim, whichkey.nvim release 483d ago

Introduction This week we have several exciting updates, including a Neovim configuration without any plugins, a color picker in Neovim, a Git Graph plugin for Neovim under development, AI completion source for cmp with support for various remote... Read

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lazy.nvim v11 supports luarocks and pkg.json, VimConf 2024 speaker applications open, tiny-inline-diagnostic.nvim, nvim-rip-substitute, nvim-lsp-endhints 498d ago

Introduction Hello everyone! Since the last issue of TWiN was 3 weeks ago we have quite a big update this week; including a new release of lazy.nvim, call for speakers at VimConf 2024, and several new plugins & core contributions! Hope you enjoy... Read

mini.diff for hunk management, mini-git for git management, and mini.nvim version release, Neovim used on WWDC, neorg-telescope 519d ago

Introduction This week we have several exciting updates from Neovim core and new plugins from the community. mini.nvim has released a new version with several exciting updates including new modules; mini.diff for hunk management and mini-git for... Read

Neovim builtin completion code example, window animations prototype, fzf multiline support, telescope-heading.nvim, cmp-beancount 528d ago

Introduction This week we have a code example for setting up Neovim builtin completion, a prototype for window animations inside Neovim, fzf adds multiline support, and several new plugins! Hope you enjoy this weeks issue! Neovim core Updates of... Read

Neovim v0.10.0 release, builtin autocompletion, faster LuaLS setup with lazydev.nvim, grug-far.nvim, tiny-devicons-auto-colors.nvim 534d ago

Introduction The past couple of weeks we have several exciting updates including the official release of Neovim v.0.10.0, builtin autocompletion being added to Neovim nightly, LSP default mappings being readded to nightly, and more. From the plugin... Read

Markdown viewing in Neovim, hints for motions, nvim-tree floating window preview, LaTeX snippets, telescope-switch.nvim, mason-bridge.nvim 554d ago

Introduction This week we have several Neovim core additions. The LSP mapping from last weeks update were reverted due to conflicts. Updates from the community include new Neo-tree maintainer, new plugins include markdown viewer, hints for motions,... Read

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SRE WEEKLY

SRE Weekly Issue #497 2d ago

View on sreweekly.com A message from our sponsor, Costory: You didn’t sign up to do FinOps.Costory automatically explains why your cloud costs change, and reports it straight to Slack.Built for SREs who want to code, not wrestle with... Read

SRE Weekly Issue #496 9d ago

View on sreweekly.com A message from our sponsor, CodeRabbit: CodeRabbit is your AI co-pilot for code reviews. Get instant code review feedback, one-click fix suggestions and define custom rules with AST Grep to catch subtle issues static tools... Read

SRE Weekly Issue #495 16d ago

View on sreweekly.com I’m back! Kidney donation was a fascinating and rewarding experience, and I encourage you to learn more. It’s amazing how it’s possible to fix one human with spare parts from another! I’ll share more about my experience later,... Read

SRE Weekly Issue #494 65d ago

View on sreweekly.com SRE Weekly will be on hiatus for the next 6 weeks while I’m on medical leave. If all goes to plan, I’ll be donating a kidney for a loved one later this week, reducing my internal redundancy to help them respond to their own... Read

SRE Weekly Issue #493 72d ago

View on sreweekly.com A message from our sponsor, Shipfox: Shipfox supercharges GitHub Actions – no workflow changes, 30-min setup. 2x faster builds with better CPU, faster disks & high-throughput caching 75% lower costs with shorter jobs and... Read

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Is Android really the next big desktop operating system? 2d ago

Google says Android-powered laptops are coming in 2026. Will they actually matter, though? Read

I made a website with Apple iWeb in 2025 34d ago

Apple's late-2000s WYSIWYG website creator still works, as long as you have an old Mac. Read

This is every Ubuntu Linux default wallpaper 46d ago

The default wallpapers from over 20 years of Ubuntu Linux, from Warty Warthog to Questing Quokka, in full original quality. Read

Excel's AI: 20% of the time, it works every time 47d ago

A Microsoft blog post about "vibe working" broke me. Read

I hacked Microsoft Edge to make my ideal Chromium web browser 72d ago

You can use custom IT policies to turn Microsoft Edge into a decent Chrome alternative. Read

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We hate AI because it's everything we hate 95d ago

Tech companies wanted "AI" to represent a bright future. Now it represents every annoyance in our daily lives. Read

I tried Servo, the undercover web browser engine made with Rust 112d ago

Servo was supposed to be Firefox's future. Now it's an independent effort to make a fast and secure web browser engine. Read

Apple's history is hiding in a Mac font 143d ago

FireWire, the Newton PDA, and other technologies from Apple's past are still hiding in macOS. Read

How to download audio-only media files with yt-dlp 156d ago

You can download videos and audio as MP3, M4A, OGG, or other audio formats with the yt-dlp command line tool. Read

Moonbase Alpha: That time NASA made a meme video game 176d ago

John Madden. John Madden. Aeiou. Aeiou. Read

The worst tech event ever: looking back at Google I/O 2024 191d ago

Put some glue in your pizza, while you do vibe home renovation. Read

Data hoarding is more important than ever 203d ago

The destruction of public data and media is reaching critical levels. You can help stop it by downloading literally everything. Read

What is real in the age of AI slop and SEO spam? 240d ago

Your mission, if you choose to accept it, is to find factually-accurate information online in 2025. Read

Why can't we go back to small phones? 262d ago

The iPhone SE is dead, and with it, the compact smartphone as a mainstream product. What happened? Read

The flip phone web: browsing with the original Opera Mini 289d ago

Opera Mini was first released in 2005 as a web browser for mobile phones, with the ability to load full websites by sending most of the work to an external server. It was a massive hit, but it started to fade out of relevance once smartphones... Read

Keyboard Builders' Digest

Behind the scenes #201 5d ago

Behind the scenes with the October switch top list, MoeeTech Glitter65 HE and KiiBOOM Jade75 reviews, open-source projects, keyboard art, meetups, vendors, discounts. Read

c!n tester 7d ago

Aroum's c!n tester is a tool designed for testing Pro Micro-like microcontrollers: verifying pin functionality before soldering. Read

Sweep Squared 7d ago

A 36-key open-source split: the Sweep Squared by Zexx37 with great switch support. Read

KiiBOOM Jade75 review 8d ago

A 75% wireless keyboard for RGB fans: the KiiBOOM Jade75 in a resin case. Read

Liberty Pad 8d ago

A custom Hall-effect macropad: the wireless Liberty Pad by Alexandre Moatty. Read

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KeeNoard 8d ago

Yuburoll's KeeNoard is a 38-key split keyboard with rotary encoder and multiple center key, with only one RP2040 Zero board. Read

Best-selling keyboard switches of October 2025 13d ago

Here are October’s top mechanical switches, the community’s favorites based on vendor sales data. Read

MoeeTech Glitter65 HE review 20d ago

A 65% magnetic board with awesome custom switches and extremely pleasant typing feel: Glitter65 HE by MoeeTech. Read

KrtkusRetro 20d ago

A 5x12 ortholinear keyboard in a Model M-inspired case: KrtkusRetro by Jan Bláha. Read

Behind the scenes #200 28d ago

Behind the scenes with the September switch top list, Womier ERA75 and Redragon Eclipse K720 Pro reviews, open-source projects, tips, keyboard art, meetups, new vendors, discounts, etc. Read

Visorbearer 29d ago

The Visorbearer by carrefinho is a 34-key wireless unibody split keyboard with cool indicators. Read

Delta Omega 30d ago

An ultra-low-profile wireless split keyboard supporting Cherry MX ULP and PG1316S switches: Delta Omega by unspecworks. Read

Womier ERA75 review 33d ago

The 75% wireless Womier ERA75 is a very fun build. Nicely cut alu case in six themes, hotswap switches and encoder, double-shot caps, VIA support. The DIY stickers will keep you busy for some time. Read

ToKeyO Plus 34d ago

Tschibo00 shared the TokeyO+, a 33-key unibody split with a '70s vibe. Read

ULK keyboard 34d ago

A low-profile split keyboard with Corne 42 layout and Cherry ULP switches: ULK by Goga64. Read

Best-selling keyboard switches of September 2025 42d ago

September’s top mechanical switches are in – and the Oil King has finally been dethroned. Here’s how the community’s favorites stack up, based on vendor sales data. Read

Redragon Eclipse K720 Pro review 47d ago

The Redragon Eclipse K720 Pro is a 75% wireless gamer(?) board with pretty impressive features for the price: CNC alu case, display, knob, cool decoration lights. Read

Mantaray Pro Wireless 47d ago

TuxedoMakes released the Mantaray Pro Wireless, a split version of his Voyager-inspired, originally monoblock Mantaray. Available as kit or prebuilt. Read

Gboard Dial Version 49d ago

The Dial Gboard is Google Japan's yet another crazy input device. Read

Behind the scenes #199 51d ago

Behind the scenes with the Evoworks Evo75 review, open-source projects, tips, keyboard art, meetups, new vendors, discounts, etc. Read

Split keyboard Magsafe tenting stand 51d ago

Jakmazdev's simple, parametric tenting solution via Magsafe for any split keyboard setup. Read

Sputnik 51d ago

The Sputnik by Vostoklabs is a cheap handwired Corne build, designed with focus on sound. Read

Anywhy Flake v2 58d ago

A major update to axseem's open-source wireless split: Anywhy Flake v2. Read

Clacky Chan 58d ago

The Clacky Chan by Stephan Møller is an ergo split with custom tenting and firmware. Read

Daedalus 58d ago

An open-source wireless ergo keyboard with trackpad and encoder: Daedalus by Perseus-Lynx. Read

Frontend Masters Boost RSS Feed

More CSS random() Learning Through Experiments 11h ago

There is quite a bit of interesting design possibility with `random()` coming to CSS. It pairs nicely with animation, particularly animation-composition for agumenting those generated values. Read

There are a lot of ways to break up long tasks in JavaScript. 1d ago

Alex MacArthur shows us there are a lot of ways to break up long tasks in JavaScript. Seven ways, in this post. That’s a senior developer thing: knowing there are lots of different ways to do things all with different trade-offs. Depending on what... Read

Vite+ 5d ago

Probably worth keeping an eye on Vite+ (still in “early access”). They say it’s “everything you’ve been duct-taping together” which feels actually kinda fair when you consider this has “dev, build, test, lint, format, monorepo caching & more in a... Read

Browserslist & Baseline 5d ago

I saw Tony Conway & Jeremy Wagner’s post on web.dev, Use Baseline with Browserslist, and I had a little play with it myself (saved live stream). Allow me to write down what I know and what I learned. So here’s Browserslist. Browserslist is the... Read

A person at the other end 7d ago

Code is ephemeral. What works right now might get deleted next month. That is no judgement on the code, it is a statement that code isn’t the value prop, the product is. I try and remember this during code review, because even though we call it... Read

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Perfectly Pointed Tooltips: To The Corners 9d ago

With our foundation in positioning and flipping tooltips with anchors, and making pointer tails, we're going to get extra tricky and point them diagonally. Read

Staggered Animation with CSS sibling-* Functions 12d ago

The new CSS sibling-index() (and -count()) functions are perfect for staggered timing affects. This goes a little step further staggering both before and after a selected element. Read

The Scope Creep 12d ago

The Scope Creep: Pretty fun(ny) Choose Your Own Adventure style game Assume the role of a humble project manager, tasked with delivering a website brief for one of your agency’s clients. Unbeknownst to you, the project is cursed by a dark force... Read

The Weird Parts of position: sticky; 14d ago

There are a number of things that can rain on your sticky parade. Maybe it's time to actually understand why. Read

Affinity, Free 14d ago

When people complain about Photoshop or other various Adobe products and the subscription model they require (The Onion had a good one), people tend to reply with two options: But now, Affinity is free (and all the varieties combined into one app).... Read

web.dev: Blog

October 2025 Baseline monthly digest 8d ago

Read about various happenings with Baseline during October 2025. Read

New to the web platform in October 20d ago

Discover some of the interesting features that have landed in stable and beta web browsers during October 2025. Read

The winners of the Baseline Tooling Hackathon are... 23d ago

3,000 developers participated, but only 3 can win. Find out who won and what they built! Read

URLPattern is now Baseline Newly available 30d ago

URLPattern became Baseline Newly available as of September 15, 2025. Read

Same-document view transitions have become Baseline Newly available 34d ago

Same-document view transitions (and more view transitions-related features) are Baseline Newly available as of October 14, 2025. Read

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September 2025 Baseline monthly digest 49d ago

Read about various happenings with Baseline during September 2025. Read

New to the web platform in September 49d ago

Discover some of the interesting features that have landed in stable and beta web browsers during September 2025. Read

Browserslist now supports Baseline 64d ago

Browserslist has added support for Baseline queries. Find out what that could mean for your developer workflow. Read

August 2025 Baseline monthly digest 69d ago

Read about various happenings with Baseline during August 2025. Read

Join the WebDX CG for an AMA on Reddit 70d ago

Join the AMA on r/webdev on September 18 and ask us anything! Read

CSS-Tricks

The “Most Hated” CSS Feature: asin(), acos(), atan() and atan2() 2d ago

If we have a ratio that represents the sine, cosine or tangent of an angle, how can we get the original angle? This is where inverse trigonometric functions come in! The “Most Hated” CSS Feature: asin(), acos(), atan() and atan2() originally... Read

Quiet UI Came and Went, Quiet as a Mouse 5d ago

The extremely new framework that caught lots of attention will continue as a personal project. Quiet UI Came and Went, Quiet as a Mouse originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newsletter. Read

The Range Syntax Has Come to Container Style Queries and if() 6d ago

Being able to use the range syntax with container style queries — which we can do starting with Chrome 142 — means that we can compare literal numeric values as well as numeric values tokenized by custom properties or the attr() function. The... Read

Headings: Semantics, Fluidity, and Styling — Oh My! 9d ago

A few links about headings that I've had stored under my top hat. Headings: Semantics, Fluidity, and Styling — Oh My! originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newsletter. Read

Explaining the Accessible Benefits of Using Semantic HTML Elements 13d ago

Why should you use a semantic instead of a generic ? Accessibility, right? By how exactly does it help accessibility? Explaining the Accessible Benefits of Using Semantic HTML Elements originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the... Read

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The “Most Hated” CSS Feature: tan() 16d ago

Last time, we discussed that, sadly, according to the State of CSS 2025 survey, trigonometric functions are deemed the “Most Hated” CSS feature. That shocked me. I may have even been a little offended, being a math nerd and … The “Most Hated” CSS... Read

Getting Creative With Small Screens 21d ago

On mobile, people can lose their sense of context and can’t easily tell where a section begins or ends. Good small-screen design can help orient them using a variety of techniques. Getting Creative With Small Screens originally published on... Read

Pure CSS Tabs With Details, Grid, and Subgrid 23d ago

Can we use the element as the foundation for a tabbed interface? Why yes, we can! Pure CSS Tabs With Details, Grid, and Subgrid originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newsletter. Read

CSS Animations That Leverage the Parent-Child Relationship 26d ago

When we change an element’s intrinsic sizing, its children are affected, too. This is something we can use to our advantage. CSS Animations That Leverage the Parent-Child Relationship originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the... Read

An Introduction to JavaScript Expressions 28d ago

A thorough but approachable lesson on JavaScript expressions excerpted JavaScript For Everyone, a complete online course offered by our friends at Piccalilli. An Introduction to JavaScript Expressions originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is... Read

Building a Honeypot Field That Works 30d ago

Honeypots are fields that developers use to prevent spam submissions. They still work in 2025. But you got to set a couple of tricks in place so spambots can’t detect your honeypot field. Building a Honeypot Field That Works originally published... Read

Sequential linear() Animation With N Elements 35d ago

Let’s suppose you have N elements with the same animation that should animate sequentially. Modern CSS makes this easy and it works for any number of items! Sequential linear() Animation With N Elements originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is... Read

Masonry: Watching a CSS Feature Evolve 37d ago

What can CSS Masonry discussions teach us about the development of new CSS features? What is the CSSWG’s role? What influence do browsers have? What can learn from the way past features evolved? Masonry: Watching a CSS Feature Evolve originally... Read

We Completely Missed width/height: stretch 40d ago

The TL;DR is that stretch does the same thing as declaring 100%, but ignores padding when looking at the available space. We Completely Missed width/height: stretch originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You... Read

The thing about contrast-color 42d ago

One of our favorites, Andy Clarke, on the one thing keeping the CSS contrast-color() function from true glory: For my website design, I chose a dark blue background colour (#212E45) and light text (#d3d5da). This … The thing about... Read

A List Apart: The Full Feed

Design for Amiability: Lessons from Vienna

Today’s web is not always an amiable place. Sites greet you with a popover that demands assent to their cookie policy, and leave you with Taboola ads promising “One Weird Trick!” to cure your ailments. Social media sites are tuned for engagement,... Read

Design Dialects: Breaking the Rules, Not the System

"Language is not merely a set of unrelated sounds, clauses, rules, and meanings; it is a totally coherent system bound to context and behavior." — Kenneth L. Pike The web has accents. So should our design systems. Design Systems as Living... Read

An Holistic Framework for Shared Design Leadership

Picture this: You’re in a meeting room at your tech company, and two people are having what looks like the same conversation about the same design problem. One is talking about whether the team has the right skills to tackle it. The other is diving... Read

From Beta to Bedrock: Build Products that Stick.

As a product builder over too many years to mention, I've lost count of the number of times I've seen promising ideas go from zero to hero in a few weeks, only to fizzle out within months. Financial products, which is the field I work in, are no... Read

User Research Is Storytelling

Ever since I was a boy, I’ve been fascinated with movies. I loved the characters and the excitement—but most of all the stories. I wanted to be an actor. And I believed that I’d get to do the things that Indiana Jones did and go on exciting... Read

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To Ignite a Personalization Practice, Run this Prepersonalization Workshop

Picture this. You’ve joined a squad at your company that’s designing new product features with an emphasis on automation or AI. Or your company has just implemented a personalization engine. Either way, you’re designing with data. Now what? When it... Read

The Wax and the Wane of the Web

I offer a single bit of advice to friends and family when they become new parents: When you start to think that you’ve got everything figured out, everything will change. Just as you start to get the hang of feedings, diapers, and regular naps,... Read

Opportunities for AI in Accessibility

In reading Joe Dolson’s recent piece on the intersection of AI and accessibility, I absolutely appreciated the skepticism that he has for AI in general as well as for the ways that many have been using it. In fact, I’m very skeptical of AI myself,... Read

I am a creative.

I am a creative. What I do is alchemy. It is a mystery. I do not so much do it, as let it be done through me. I am a creative. Not all creative people like this label. Not all see themselves this way. Some creative people see science in what... Read

Humility: An Essential Value

Humility, a designer’s essential value—that has a nice ring to it. What about humility, an office manager’s essential value? Or a dentist’s? Or a librarian’s? They all sound great. When humility is our guiding light, the path is always open for... Read

Personalization Pyramid: A Framework for Designing with User Data

As a UX professional in today’s data-driven landscape, it’s increasingly likely that you’ve been asked to design a personalized digital experience, whether it’s a public website, user portal, or native application. Yet while there continues to be... Read

Mobile-First CSS: Is It Time for a Rethink?

The mobile-first design methodology is great—it focuses on what really matters to the user, it’s well-practiced, and it’s been a common design pattern for years. So developing your CSS mobile-first should also be great, too…right? Well, not... Read

Designers, (Re)define Success First

About two and a half years ago, I introduced the idea of daily ethical design. It was born out of my frustration with the many obstacles to achieving design that’s usable and equitable; protects people’s privacy, agency, and focus; benefits... Read

Breaking Out of the Box

CSS is about styling boxes. In fact, the whole web is made of boxes, from the browser viewport to elements on a page. But every once in a while a new feature comes along that makes us rethink our design approach. Round displays, for example,... Read

How to Sell UX Research with Two Simple Questions

Do you find yourself designing screens with only a vague idea of how the things on the screen relate to the things elsewhere in the system? Do you leave stakeholder meetings with unclear directives that often seem to contradict previous... Read

A Content Model Is Not a Design System

Do you remember when having a great website was enough? Now, people are getting answers from Siri, Google search snippets, and mobile apps, not just our websites. Forward-thinking organizations have adopted an omnichannel content strategy, whose... Read

Design for Safety, An Excerpt

Antiracist economist Kim Crayton says that “intention without strategy is chaos.” We’ve discussed how our biases, assumptions, and inattention toward marginalized and vulnerable groups lead to dangerous and unethical tech—but what, specifically, do... Read

Sustainable Web Design, An Excerpt

In the 1950s, many in the elite running community had begun to believe it wasn’t possible to run a mile in less than four minutes. Runners had been attempting it since the late 19th century and were beginning to draw the conclusion that the human... Read

Voice Content and Usability

We’ve been having conversations for thousands of years. Whether to convey information, conduct transactions, or simply to check in on one another, people have yammered away, chattering and gesticulating, through spoken conversation for countless... Read

Designing for the Unexpected

I’m not sure when I first heard this quote, but it’s something that has stayed with me over the years. How do you create services for situations you can’t imagine? Or design products that work on devices yet to be invented? Flash, Photoshop, and... Read

Josh Comeau's blog

Springs and Bounces in Native CSS 22d ago

The “linear()” timing function is a game-changer; it allows us to model physics-based motion right in vanilla CSS! That said, there are some limitations and quirks to be aware of. I’ve been experimenting with this API for a while now, and in this... Read

The Big Gotcha With @starting-style 58d ago

CSS has been on fire lately, with tons of great new features. @starting-style is an interesting one; it allows us to use CSS transitions for enter animations, something previously reserved for CSS keyframe animations. But is the juice worth the... Read

Color Shifting in CSS 72d ago

A little while ago, I was trying to animate an element’s background color, so that it cycled through the rainbow. Seems easy, but it turns out, browsers have a surprisingly big limitation when it comes to color processing! In this tutorial, we’ll... Read

An Interactive Guide to SVG Paths 93d ago

SVG gives us many different primitives to work with, but by far the most powerful is the element. Unfortunately, it’s also the most inscrutable, with its compact Regex-style syntax. In this tutorial, we’ll demystify this infamous element and see... Read

A Friendly Introduction to SVG 121d ago

SVGs are one of the most remarkable technologies we have access to on the web. They’re first-class citizens, fully addressable with CSS and JavaScript. In this tutorial, I’ll cover all of the most important fundamentals, and show you some of the... Read

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Partial Keyframes 162d ago

CSS Keyframe animations are so much more powerful than most developers realize. In this tutorial, I’ll show you something that completely blew my mind, a technique that makes our keyframe animations so much more reusable and dynamic! 🤯 Read

The Height Enigma 191d ago

One of the most perplexing and befuddling things in CSS for me, for many years, was the behaviour of percentage-based heights. Sometimes, seemingly at random, setting “height: 100%” would have no effect at all. When I finally figured out what was... Read

The Post-Developer Era 219d ago

When OpenAI released GPT-4 back in March 2023, they kickstarted the AI revolution. The consensus online was that front-end development jobs would be totally eliminated within a year or two.Well, it’s been more than two years since then, and I... Read

A Million Little Secrets 268d ago

I spent the past few weeks packing as many easter eggs as I could into my latest project, and in this blog post, I want to dig into some of the more interesting details! If you’re interested in animations/interactions, you’ll want to check this one... Read

Container Queries Unleashed 296d ago

Container queries expand the universe of designs that can be implemented, giving us whole new superpowers. Now that container queries are broadly available, I think it’s time we start exploring this potential! In this post, I’ll share the “killer... Read

Next-level frosted glass with backdrop-filter 352d ago

Glassy headers have become a core part of the “slick startup” UI toolkit, but they’re all missing that final 10% that really makes it shine. In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to create the most realistic lush frosted glass anywhere on the internet. Read

A Framework for Evaluating Browser Support 358d ago

Lots of exciting new features have been landing in CSS recently, and it can be tough trying to figure out if they’re safe to use or not. We might know that a feature is available for 92% of users, but is that sufficient? Where do we draw the line?... Read

A Friendly Introduction to Container Queries 380d ago

It’s been a couple of years since container queries started landing in browsers… so why isn’t anyone using them? It turns out that container queries are kinda tricky; they’re not as straightforward as media queries. In this tutorial, we’ll break it... Read

How I Built My Blog 421d ago

I recently launched a brand new version of this blog, and in this post, I share how it’s built! We’ll examine the tech stack and see how all of the pieces fit together, as well as dig into some of the details to see how they work. Read

The Undeniable Utility Of CSS :has 436d ago

Of all the latest and greatest CSS features, the “:has” pseudo-class wasn’t exactly at the top of my wishlist. Once I started using it, however, I kept discovering incredible things I could do with it. It’s now become a core part of my toolkit! In... Read

Promises From The Ground Up 534d ago

The “Promises” API is a surprisingly tricky part of modern JavaScript. Without the right context, it doesn’t make much sense at all! In this tutorial, you’ll build an intuition for how Promises work by getting a deeper understanding of JavaScript... Read

Snappy UI Optimization with useDeferredValue 555d ago

useDeferredValue is one of the most underrated React hooks. It allows us to dramatically improve the performance of our applications in certain contexts. I recently used it to solve a gnarly performance problem on this blog, and in this tutorial,... Read

CSS in React Server Components 583d ago

You can’t make an omelette without cracking a few eggs, and when the core React team unveiled their vision for the future of React, some of my favourite libraries got scrambled 😅. In this blog post, we’re going to explore the compatibility issues... Read

How To Center a Div 645d ago

Back in the day, centering an element was one of the trickiest things in CSS. As the language has evolved, we’ve been given lots of new tools we can use… But how do we pick the best option? When do we use Flexbox, or CSS Grid, or something else?... Read

An Interactive Guide to CSS Grid 729d ago

CSS Grid is an incredibly powerful tool for building layouts on the web, but like all powerful tools, there's a significant learning curve. In this tutorial, we'll build a mental model for how CSS Grid works and how we can use it effectively. I'll... Read

Understanding the JavaScript Modulo Operator 793d ago

One of the most commonly-misunderstood operators is Modulo (%). In this tutorial, we'll unpack exactly what this little bugger does, and learn how it can help us solve practical problems. Read

Making Sense of React Server Components 805d ago

This year, the React team unveiled something they've been quietly researching for years: an official way to run React components exclusively on the server. This is a significant paradigm shift, and it's caused a whole lot of confusion in the React... Read

Animated Pride Flags 897d ago

Happy Pride month! In this tutorial, I'll share a handful of my favourite animation tricks. You'll learn how to build an animated wavy pride flag using CSS keyframes and linear gradients. We'll also see how to make it dynamic using React. 🏳️‍🌈 Read

The “const” Deception 940d ago

The “const” keyword in JavaScript is used to create constants, variables that can't change. Curiously, though, we do seem to be able to edit objects and arrays that are created using “const”. In this tutorial, we're going to dig into the... Read

The End of Front-End Development 975d ago

Large language models like GPT-4 are becoming increasingly capable, at an alarming rate. Within a couple of years, we won't need developers any more! …Or at least, that's the narrative going viral on social media. I'm much more optimistic about... Read

Common Beginner Mistakes with React 989d ago

I used to teach React at a local coding bootcamp, and I noticed that students kept getting tripped up by the same handful of things. In this article, we're going to go through 9 of the most dastardly gotchas. I'll show you how to solve these common... Read

Data Binding in React 1045d ago

As developers, we don't like working with forms, but they're a critical part of most web applications! In this tutorial, you'll learn exactly how to wire up all of the different form controls in React. Never forget how to data-bind a checkbox or... Read

Color Formats in CSS 1087d ago

CSS gives us so many options when it comes to expressing color—we can use hex codes, rgb, hsl, and more. Which option should we choose? This turns out to be a surprisingly important decision! In this article, we'll take a tour of color formats in... Read

An Interactive Guide to Flexbox 1093d ago

When we truly learn the secrets of the Flexbox layout mode, we can build absolutely incredible things. Fluid layouts that stretch and shrink without arbitrary breakpoints. In this action-packed interactive tutorial, we'll pop the hood on the... Read

A World-Class Code Playground with Sandpack 1135d ago

No developer blog or technical documentation site is complete without an interactive code playground. The CodeSandbox team recently released a wonderful tool called Sandpack, to help us create these live-updating code editors. In this tutorial,... Read

Understanding useMemo and useCallback 1177d ago

What's the deal with these two hooks?! Lots of devs find them confusing, for a whole host of reasons. In this tutorial, we'll dig deep and understand what they do, why they're useful, and how to get the most out of them. Read

Why React Re-Renders 1191d ago

In React, we don't update the DOM directly, we tell React what we want the DOM to look like, and React tackles the rest. But how exactly does it do this? In this tutorial, we'll unpack exactly when and why React re-renders, and how we can use this... Read

Statements Vs. Expressions 1227d ago

One of the most foundational things to understand about JavaScript is that programs are made up of statements, and statements have slots for expressions. In this blog post, we'll dig into how these two structures work, and see how building an... Read

My Wonderful HTML Email Workflow 1241d ago

If you've ever had the misfortune of being tasked with building a template for HTML emails, you know it's tricky business! In this blog post, I share the approach I took to build responsive, client-friendly emails without a single tag. Read

The Surprising Truth About Pixels and Accessibility 1282d ago

“Should I use pixels or rems?”. In this comprehensive blog post, we'll answer this question once and for all. You'll learn about the accessibility implications, and how to determine the best unit to use in any scenario. Read

You Don’t Need a UI Framework 1296d ago

As developers, it can be tempting to grab a pre-styled UI framework like Material UI or Bootstrap. Seems like a great way to outsource design and save a bunch of time, right? In my experience, this is an unrealistic expectation, and things don’t... Read

The Front-End Developer's Guide to the Terminal 1310d ago

If you want to learn a modern JavaScript framework like React or Angular, you better be familiar with the terminal! So many frameworks and tools assume that you're proficient with it, without ever explaining it. This blog post is your missing... Read

Understanding Layout Algorithms 1332d ago

As front-end developers, we often learn CSS by focusing on individual properties. Instead, we should focus on how the language uses those properties to calculate layouts. In this blog post, we'll pop the hood on CSS and see how the language is... Read

Delightful React File/Directory Structure 1345d ago

How should we structure components and other files in our React apps? I've iterated my way to a solution I'm really happy with. In this blog post, I'll share how it works, what the tradeoffs are, and how I mitigate them. Read

Make Beautiful Gradients 1408d ago

Have you ever noticed that gradients tend to look a little gray and washed-out in the middle? This happens because of a mathematical quirk with RGB colors. Fortunately, we can work around this quirk, and create beautiful, lush, saturated gradients. Read

A Modern CSS Reset 1457d ago

I have a set of baseline CSS styles that come with me from project to project. In the past, I'd use a typical CSS reset, but times have changed, and I believe I have a better set of global styles! Read

Introducing “Shadow Palette Generator” 1464d ago

In order to create lush, realistic shadows in CSS, we need to use multiple layers and colors. How do we come up with all of the parameters, though? I've built a tool that'll help. Read

Designing Beautiful Shadows in CSS 1528d ago

When I look around the web, most of the shadows I see are fuzzy grey boxes. It doesn't have to be this way, though! CSS gives us the tools to create rich, lush, lifelike shadows. In this tutorial, I'll show you how. Read

An Interactive Guide to Keyframe Animations 1541d ago

CSS keyframe animations are incredibly flexible and powerful, but they’re also a bit weird. In this deep-dive tutorial, we'll learn how CSS keyframes work from the ground up, and see how to use them to build high-quality animations. Read

The World of CSS Transforms 1563d ago

The “transform” property is such a powerful part of the CSS language! In this blog post, we'll take a deep look at this property and see some of the nifty things it can do. Read

How To Learn Stuff Quickly 1584d ago

As software developers, we're always learning new things; it's practically the whole gig! If we can learn to quickly pick up new languages/frameworks/tools, we'll become so much more effective at our job. It's sort of a superpower. Read

Demystifying styled-components 1612d ago

For so many React devs, styled-components seems kinda magical. It isn't at all clear how it uses traditional CSS features under-the-hood, and that lack of clarity can cause real problems when things go awry. In this post, we'll learn exactly how... Read

How I Built My Blog 1674d ago

An in-depth look at the technical stack behind this very blog! We'll see how I use Next's API routes to implement my hit and like counters, how I use MDX to add interaction and customization, and how I organize my codebase, among others. Read

Building a Magical 3D Button 1695d ago

Every action we take on the web starts with a button click, and yet most buttons are ho-hum and uninspired. In this tutorial, we'll build an animated 3D button with HTML and CSS that sparks joy. Read

The Importance of Learning CSS 1722d ago

I know so many super-talented developers who share the same achilles heel: CSS. Instead of trying to “outrun” CSS, this article explores why leaning in and going deeper can be a tremendous boon for your development life and your career. Read

What The Heck, z-index?? 1731d ago

The z-index property can be a tricky little bugger. Sometimes, no matter how much you crank up the number, the element never rises to the top! In this article, we explore stacking contexts, and see how they can thwart our efforts to use z-index.... Read

An Interactive Guide to CSS Transitions 1744d ago

This comprehensive guide shows how to use CSS transitions! A back-to-basics look at the fundamental building blocks we need to create microinteractions and other animations. Read

The styled-components Happy Path 1759d ago

styled-components is a wonderfully powerful styling library for React, and over the years I've learned a lot about how to use it effectively. This article shares my personal “best practices”. Read

Let's Bring Spacer GIFs Back! 1773d ago

The 90s web gave us many delightful things: web rings, guestbooks, “under construction” animations, and spacer GIFs. In this article, we'll see how I use a Spacer component to solve common layout problems, and why it's often a great tool for the... Read

Refreshing Server-Side Props 1801d ago

Next allows you to do server-side data-fetching, but what happens when that data needs to change on the client? This brief tutorial shows how to re-fetch the props without doing a full server reload. Read

The Rules of Margin Collapse 1808d ago

“Margin collapse” has a dastardly reputation, one of the trickier parts of CSS. Fortunately, it gets a lot easier once you learn a few rules! In this tutorial, we take a deep dive into the governing principles, and learn how to use them to our... Read

Boop! 1822d ago

An in-depth tutorial that teaches how to create one of the most adorable interactions I've ever created. We'll learn how to use React components and hooks to abstract behaviours, and see how to design the perfect API. Even if you're not into... Read

Chasing the Pixel-Perfect Dream 1843d ago

Is it possible to create an implementation of a design that matches to-the-pixel? Well, not really, but that shouldn't discourage us! In this article, I'll show how I became designers' best friend by leveraging a series of tricks to get my... Read

Hands-Free Coding 1855d ago

Earlier this year, I lost the ability to use a keyboard and mouse for extended periods. Fortunately, this wasn't as catastrophic as it sounds! This article chronicles my experience using adaptive tools like dictation and eye-tracking as my primary... Read

Full-Bleed Layout Using CSS Grid 1871d ago

Certain layouts are surprisingly dastardly. On the modern web, one of the most common layouts is also one of the trickiest. In this tutorial, I break down how to build the "full-bleed" layout using CSS Grid. Read

A Friendly Introduction to Spring Physics 1885d ago

Of all the little tips and techniques I've picked up over the years about animation, spring physics remains one of the most powerful and flexible. In this tutorial, we'll learn how to harness their power to build fluid, organic transitions. Read

Local Testing on an iPhone 2003d ago

Learn how to set up an ideal workflow for debugging your development server on your iPhone. This may not be the most exciting topic I've written about, but it's probably one of the most useful! Read

Animated Sparkles in React 2010d ago

In this dazzling tutorial, we'll see how to build an animated component. Wrap it around text or images and watch them twinkle! This neat trick is a perfect way to emphasize positive or exciting things. Read

Lessons Learned Speaking at Conferences 2023d ago

Speaking at conferences is equal parts exciting and terrifying. This article is a behind-the-scenes look at what the experience is like, and shares tips for getting started as a conference speaker. Read

Accessible Animations in React 2025d ago

I really love animation, but not everybody does. In fact, it can make some people literally sick! In this tutorial, we'll see how to ensure that we respect user preferences, and create animations that can be disabled. Read

Why My Blog is Closed-Source 2029d ago

In our community, it's so common for developer projects to be open-source. I'm breaking with this trend for my blog, but I have good reasons! In this article, I'll share my reasoning, as well as a workaround in case you _really_ want to see the... Read

The Quest for the Perfect Dark Mode 2037d ago

Dark Mode has become common enough that it's a user expectation. And yet, creating the perfect dark mode with a statically-built site/app is deceptively tricky. In this in-depth tutorial, we'll see how to build the perfect, flicker-free,... Read

CSS Variables for React Devs 2046d ago

CSS variables are *really* cool, and they're incredibly powerful when it comes to React! This tutorial shows how we can use them with React to create dynamic themes. We'll see how to get the most out of CSS-in-JS tools like styled-components, and... Read

Styling Ordered Lists with CSS Counters 2052d ago

Styling an ordered list can be surprisingly tricky; there's no way to get at that bullet! In this tutorial, we'll see a handy trick using CSS counters that lets us style ordered lists without breaking proper semantics. Read

Announcing “use-sound”, a React Hook for Sound Effects 2060d ago

By and large, using the web is a visual experience. This is in terrible contrast to mobile apps, which interact with three of our human senses (sight, sound, and touch, through haptic feedback). I just released a library to make it easy to add... Read

Becoming a Software Developer Without a CS Degree 2074d ago

A look at how hundreds of developers got their start in the industry despite not having a Computer Science or Software Engineering degree. We'll sort responses into 6 categories, and detail strategies that you can use to ensure you capture the... Read

The Perils of Hydration 2088d ago

A surprisingly-common misconception can lead to big rendering issues that are difficult to debug. This deep-dive tutorial examines how React and Gatsby can be used to pre-render content, and how we can work around the constraints to build dynamic,... Read

Persisting React State in localStorage 2095d ago

A common thing in React development is that we want to store a bit of React state in localStorage, and re-initialize from that value on the next page-load. This quick tutorial shows you how we can build a custom hook that does exactly this! Read

Effective Collaboration with Product and Design 2129d ago

How we work with design can have a tremendous impact on our overall output, and yet we don't always treat it as very important. A look at how collaborating with design can supercharge our own productivity. Read

Magical Rainbow Gradients 2137d ago

If you've ever tried to animate a gradient, you've been met with a harsh reality—it isn't possible. At least, it wasn't! In this tutorial, we'll leverage bleeding-edge browser features to animate ANY CSS property, including background gradients,... Read

Finding your first remote job 2162d ago

As remote work becomes increasingly popular, I am frequently asked how to get started. This article shares everything I know about landing that first remote gig. Read

My experience as a remote worker 2179d ago

I've spent half of my career working remotely. This post chronicles those experiences, giving a real-world window into what it's like to work fully-remote as a software engineer. Read

Clever Code Considered Harmful 2198d ago

As engineers, it can be really satisfying for us to implement clever, terse solutions to problems, relying on advanced tricks and techniques. As a result, we often write code that is hostile and inaccessible to the junior folks on our team. This... Read

Folding the DOM 2376d ago

In this post, we'll explore a technique we can use to "fold" a DOM node, like folding a letter in real-life. On that journey, we'll learn a lot about 3D transforms and CSS animation techniques! Read

Dynamic Bézier Curves 2737d ago

A deep dive into Bézier curves in React. We'll look at how to build dynamic effects such as scroll-to-flatten using SVG path instructions, and how to architect our components for maximum readability and reusability. Read

Animating the Unanimatable 3565d ago

An in-depth look at the surprisingly complicated problem of animating the transition when two items in a list swap positions. Read