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Ki Editor - an editor that operates on the AST 252 78 10h ago

Article URL: https://ki-editor.org/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47286311 Points: 252 # Comments: 78 Read

Uploading Pirated Books via BitTorrent Qualifies as Fair Use, Meta Argues 263 151 11h ago

Article URL: https://torrentfreak.com/uploading-pirated-books-via-bittorrent-qualifies-as-fair-use-meta/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47285960 Points: 263 # Comments: 151 Read

QGIS 4.0 162 37 12h ago

Article URL: https://changelog.qgis.org/en/version/4.0/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47285846 Points: 162 # Comments: 37 Read

UUID package coming to Go standard library 298 187 19h ago

Article URL: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/62026 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47283665 Points: 298 # Comments: 187 Read

LLMs work best when the user defines their acceptance criteria first 358 251 19h ago

Article URL: https://blog.katanaquant.com/p/your-llm-doesnt-write-correct-code Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47283337 Points: 358 # Comments: 251 Read

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Tell HN: I'm 60 years old. Claude Code has re-ignited a passion 21h ago

I’m ready to retire. In my younger days, I remember a few pivotal moments for me as a young nerd. Active Server Pages. COM components. VB6. I know these are laughable today but back then it was the greatest thing in the world to be able to call... Read

Plasma Bigscreen – 10-foot interface for KDE plasma 573 177 21h ago

Article URL: https://plasma-bigscreen.org Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47282736 Points: 573 # Comments: 177 Read

Helix: A post-modern text editor 260 122 21h ago

Article URL: https://helix-editor.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47282701 Points: 260 # Comments: 122 Read

this css proves me human 327 100 23h ago

Article URL: https://will-keleher.com/posts/this-css-makes-me-human/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47281593 Points: 327 # Comments: 100 Read

Show HN: Moongate – Ultima Online server emulator in .NET 10 with Lua scripting 1d ago

I've been building a modern Ultima Online server emulator from scratch. It's not feature-complete (no combat, no skills yet), but the foundation is solid and I wanted to share it early.What it does today: - Full packet layer for the classic UO... Read

Galileo's handwritten notes found in ancient astronomy text 187 34 2d ago

Article URL: https://www.science.org/content/article/galileo-s-handwritten-notes-found-ancient-astronomy-text Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47263938 Points: 187 # Comments: 34 Read

Experienced Devs

Ask Experienced Devs Weekly Thread: A weekly thread for inexperienced developers to ask experienced ones 6d 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

Moderation changes 9d ago

Two changes are being applied to moderation: AI/LLM posts will only be allowed on Wednesday and Saturday (UTC). This relies on users' good-will, but we believe it will help with the flood of threads. Naturally, repeatedly trying to avoid this... Read

AI timeline expectations are driving me crazy 5h ago

Clarification: This post was previously submitted but was removed by the moderators because I did not know that AI related posts are only allowed at certain times. It is not like I want to spam this topic. -------------- Hello everyone, I’m curious... Read

Is there a way to have some sort of verification for Rule 1? 10h ago

I don't often post on reddit but when I do I notice a fair few comments / remarks that don't quite line up with an "experienced" developer, e.g. casually suggesting a rewrite or moving to another build system in a big company. These suggestions are... Read

Today had a system design interview today and i think i forgot how to code? 1d ago

guys i’m actually so embarrassed about this. i’ve been prepping for months for this but as soon as the interviewer asked me to scale a basic notification system, i just blanked. like, i know what a load balancer is, but i couldnt explain it to save... Read

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Can we have a poll about removing certain moderators here? 1d ago

EDIT: Just was banned (of course) so can't reply/comment. Presumably by teerre. Reason for perma-ban (again not in the rules as far as I see it): "Repeatedly trying to discuss the same topic about moderation. You have been heard. Your questions... Read

Support group for people who got laid off? 1d ago

Found out a few days ago that my team and I are being laid off. Started job hunting already. I have ~9 years of experience and am seeking DevOpS/infra roles. Live in the SF Bay Area, and am ok with in office jobs, as long as I have a job. Anyone... Read

What architectural decision looked “wrong” at first but turned out to be the right call long-term? 1d ago

At a previous company, we intentionally avoided microservices and kept a fairly large modular monolith even though leadership initially pushed for a service-per-domain approach. At the time it felt like we were being overly conservative. But after... Read

How best to get your team to level up? 1d ago

I wear multiple hats in my company. Till last year I've primarily been the lead engineer/TL responsible for architecture, setting up best practices, coaching the team from time to time, but all from within an IC role. This year I was made... Read

Went from tech lead to senior engineer for more money and i kinda regret it 2d ago

so ive been coding since i was like 9, professionally for 8+ years now. mostly react/frontend stuff but picked up rails and some backend work over the last few years i had this tech lead position at a smaller company before. pay wasnt great but i... Read

Am I crazy for considering switching from full time to contracting? 24h ago

I'm at the stage in my life where w2 contracting seems to make a lot of sense. I'd like to get some advice from people who have done this, or considered it but decided against it. Here's my reasoning: Flexibility. It's easy to get fully remote as... Read

How to deal with non technical managers and culture 1d ago

I’m dealing with a non technical manager who I have had for many years and it has been good for a while. Since he is non technical he lets me do things without micromanaging and I just deliver results and impact and he is happy. Recently a peer... Read

My IT guys didn't care now I messed up software procurement 23h ago

Hi, need some advice maybe its too niche but here we go. I am in charge of procurement of a new vendor software -- acting as a technical lead Procurement timelines were very tight so we worked under pressure to secure this software. There is an IT... Read

The tension between fraud prevention and conversion rate is the most uncomfortable tradeoff I have had to own as an engineer 1d ago

No one tells you when you are building onboarding that you are essentially setting a dial between letting fraudsters in and locking legitimate users out, and that every product decision you make is quietly moving that dial whether you realize it or... Read

Are we entering the Agile era of AI driven software development? 4h ago

So this is a bit of a shower thought I had. It feels like we’re entering the same territory as agile software development with AI. I can’t quite exactly capture it how I want describe it. But a few points. - everything is very prescriptive. Use... Read

How do you navigate a zero feedback environment ? 2d ago

Hi , i (9 YOE) have joined this international company couple months ago , this is a job which has elements of my past experiences and a lot of stuff that i am new at so i needed a bit of tutoring for the first 2-3 weeks and the team was pretty... Read

Senior backend dev struggling with “just ship tickets” culture after working in a strong engineering team 2d ago

I’m a backend engineer with around 12 years of experience, mostly Java, and lately I’ve been going through a bit of a career crisis. I’m curious if others in the industry have experienced something similar. I started my career in a typical Indian... Read

Capacity planning is the one thing I've never seen done well across any team I've been on 2d ago

Every approach I've tried eventually collapses. Sheets with utilization formulas fall apart the second someone gets pulled. Velocity tracking becomes noise when unplanned work keeps bleeding in. Dedicated planning tools require so much upkeep they... Read

Refactoring core piece of code 2d ago

There‘s a very old piece of legacy code at my company that I want to refactor, but I know it’s going to be a big project and a risky challenge because it handles a process that’s pretty integral to our main product. I‘ll call it the flight process... Read

How can I talk to my manager about imcompetent coworker who is dumping work on me w/o threatening that person's employment? 2d ago

So I'm working with someone who I get asked to help them on their tickets. Bro is really dumb, as in, I have to give them step by step exact instructions to do anything: they aren't capable of independent work. But that means I have to figure out... Read

How do I get better at manually testing my features? 2d ago

Hey folks. I'm a SWE of 5 years now, and I've never truly gotten the hang of manually testing my own features. I've mostly worked at very small startups where velocity was the highest priority, so I haven't ever needed to test my own features... Read

How are people here building/maintaining their professional networks these days? 2d ago

This is something I've been struggling with lately, and I'm not sure if it's purely something I'm doing wrong, or if it's purely circumstantial, or if it's a mix of both. For context: I grew up in a small-ish college town in the Midwest. I attended... Read

How are startups handling Cloud Architecture and FinOps without a dedicated DevOps team? 2d ago

In the early stages most startups don’t really have someone responsible for infrastructure architecture. Usually backend developers set things up as they go and it works fine at the beginning. But as the product grows the infrastructure starts... Read

Does anyone work on a team that doesn't require code reviews? 1d ago

I know this is controversial but hear me out. Has anyone worked in an environment where everyone could just merge changes without code review from a human? Maybe with some reviews by request, but not blocking the merge? Code review is a common... Read

Firefighting specialist... 1d ago

I feel kinda shameful, as an experienced developer I still haven't sort this out... Whenever you have a new EM, say... you're joining a new team, or a new EM is joining your team to replace the one who left, what would be your strategy to prevent... Read

The Pragmatic Engineer

The Pulse: Cloudflare rewrites Next.js as AI rewrites commercial open source 2d ago

An engineer at Cloudflare rewrote most of Vercel’s Next.js in one week with AI agents. It looks like a sign of how AI will disrupt existing moats and business models. Analysis Read

I replaced a $120/year micro-SaaS in 20 minutes with LLM-generated code 37d ago

I used to pay $120/year for a SaaS that hasn’t added new features in four years, and didn’t fix its broken billing system for three years. Using an LLM, I managed to rewrite all the functionality I used to pay for in 20 minutes. Is this bad news... Read

The grief when AI writes most of the code 59d ago

When AI writes almost all code, what happens to software engineering? There is grief involved for us developers, that's for sure. Read

The Pulse: Cloudflare’s latest outage proves dangers of global configuration changes (again) 79d ago

Deja vu: a large Cloudflare outage caused by an instantly rolled-out global config change – two weeks after a similar problem Read

The Pulse: Could a 5-day RTO be around the corner for Big Tech? 84d ago

From next February, workers at Instagram must be in the office, five days a week. This makes Meta the second tech giant after Amazon to mandate a 5-day RTO. Will more big companies do the same? Read

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Downdetector and the real cost of no upstream dependencies 92d ago

During the Cloudflare outage, Downdetector was also unavailable. I got details from the team about why they have a hard dependency on Cloudflare, and why that won’t change anytime soon. Read

A startup in Mongolia translated my book 106d ago

A 30-person startup called Nasha Tech translated The Software Engineer's Guidebook for the benefit of their company and the Mongolian tech ecosystem. Read

The Pulse: Cloudflare takes down half the internet – but shares a great postmortem 107d ago

A database permissions change ended up knocking Cloudflare’s proxy offline. Pinpointing the root cause was tricky – but Cloudflare shared a detailed postmortem. Also: announcing The Pragmatic Summit Read

Four years on writing a tech book: pitching to a publisher 116d 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? 121d 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 128d 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 128d ago

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

What caused the large AWS outage? 135d 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

Creative ways to fund open source projects 198d 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 205d 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

The Astro Blog

What's new in Astro - February 2026 8d ago

February 2026 - Astro shines in the 2025 State of JS, adoption climbs according to HTTP Archive results, and more! Read

What's new in Astro - January 2026 36d ago

January 2026 - Astro joins Cloudflare, Astro v6 beta is released, and more! Read

Astro 5.17 38d ago

Astro 5.17 brings configurable dev toolbar placement, support for partitioned cookies, and powerful new image optimization options. Read

Supporting the future of Astro 46d ago

Help make Astro a sustainable open source project by sponsoring our community maintainers. Read

The Astro Technology Company joins Cloudflare 51d ago

The Astro Technology Company is joining Cloudflare! Astro remains open-source, MIT-licensed, and platform-agnostic. With Cloudflare's support, we're focusing 100% on building the best framework for content-driven websites. Astro 6 beta is available... Read

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Astro 6 Beta 54d ago

A redesigned development server, significant rendering performance improvements, and new built-in APIs for working with CSP, fonts, and live content collections. Read

2025 year in review 55d ago

Revisit everything that happened in Astro last year: new feature releases, ecosystem growth, conference talks, and more! Read

What's new in Astro - December 2025 68d ago

December 2025 - Astro v6 alpha release, and more! Read

What's new in Astro - November 2025 98d ago

November 2025 - Astro powers Webflow's App Gen, Stainless launches a Starlight-powered docs platform, and more! Read

Astro 5.16 108d ago

Astro 5.16 brings experimental SVG optimization with SVGO, interactive CLI shortcuts, and improved developer experience across the board. Read

Stainless Sponsors Astro, Launches Astro-Powered Docs Platform 123d 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 128d 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 136d 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 156d 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 159d ago

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

Astro 5.14 164d 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 166d 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 172d 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 180d 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 180d ago

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

What's new in Astro - August 2025 189d ago

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

Astro 5.13 206d 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 220d ago

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

Astro 5.12 234d ago

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

Starlight 0.35 235d ago

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

Astro 5.11 249d 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 251d 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 255d 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 258d ago

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

Astro Solstice Festival 258d ago

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

Astro 5.10 262d ago

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

Astro 5.9 276d 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 281d ago

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

Astro 5.8 293d 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 312d ago

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

2025 Technical Steering Committee 324d 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 325d ago

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

Astro 5.7 327d 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 328d ago

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

Astro 5.6 339d 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 342d ago

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

Astro 5.5 360d 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 373d ago

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

Astro 5.4 376d 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 384d 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 388d 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 401d ago

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

Astro 5.2 402d 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 415d 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 432d ago

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

Astro 5.1 444d 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 460d 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 461d 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 463d ago

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

What's new in Astro - October 2024 493d ago

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

Astro x Cloudinary SDK 521d 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 524d ago

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

Community Loaders for Astro Content Layer 535d ago

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

Astro x Hygraph: Content Loader 535d ago

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

Astro x Cloudinary: Content Loader 535d ago

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

Astro x Storyblok: Content Loader 535d ago

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

Content Layer: A Deep Dive 536d 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 536d 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 537d 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 538d 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 541d 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 554d ago

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

Astro 4.15 556d 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 570d 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 584d 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 585d ago

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

Astro 4.12: Server Islands 598d 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 601d 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 616d ago

June 2024 - Celebrating Astro, together! Read

Astro 4.11 626d ago

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

Astro Together 2024 632d ago

A look back at our meetup in Montreal Read

Server Islands 633d 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 634d 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 635d 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 640d 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! 641d ago

Discover the latest news from 12 months of Starlight development Read

What's new in Astro - May 2024 646d ago

May 2024 - Celebrating Astro, together! Read

Astro 4.9 654d ago

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

Astro 4.8 668d 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 677d ago

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

Astro 4.7 682d 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 696d 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 707d ago

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

Migrating 500+ tests from Mocha to Node.js 713d 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 725d 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 725d 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 726d 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 727d 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 = 💖 727d 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 738d ago

Leap into Astro news with a bonus February day! Read

Astro 4.4 752d 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 766d 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 767d 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 780d 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 794d 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 798d 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 818d ago

How Thinkmill Reduced Dependencies on Senior Developers with Astro Read

Building a community of builders 822d 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 822d ago

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

Sentry: Our Official Monitoring Partner 823d 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 824d 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 825d ago

What's new in Astro - November 2023 829d 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 832d 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 851d 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 859d 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 864d 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 868d ago

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

Astro 3.3: Picture component 878d 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 888d 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 892d 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 920d ago

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

Astro 3.0 921d 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 923d 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 940d ago

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

Astro 2.10: Persistent State in View Transitions 948d ago

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

Astro 2.9: View Transitions (experimental) 962d ago

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

Content for Everyone 983d ago

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

Better Images in Astro 1005d 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 1006d 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 1025d ago

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

Astro 2.4 1039d ago

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

Astro 2.2 1068d ago

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

CloudCannon announces official support for Astro 1087d ago

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

Astro 2.1 1096d ago

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

2023 Web Framework Performance Report 1097d 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 1098d 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 1129d 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 1136d 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 1137d 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 1138d 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 1139d 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 1186d ago

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

Announcing the Astro Tutorial 1220d ago

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

Hacktoberfest with Astro Docs 1224d ago

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

Astro 1.5.0 Release 1242d ago

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

Astro @ ViteConf 2022 1245d 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 1256d ago

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

Storyblok Becomes Astro's Official CMS Partner 1278d 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 1279d 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 1307d 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 1371d 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 1389d ago

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

Astro on Netlify Edge Functions 1419d ago

Announcing support for the new Netlify Edge Functions platform Read

The Astro 1.0 Hackathon is Here 1430d ago

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

Introducing The Astro Showcase 1430d ago

Explore beautiful community websites built with Astro. Read

Astro Contributor Day 1431d 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 1432d ago

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

Server-Side Rendering with Astro 1433d ago

Announcing experimental support for server-side rendering in Astro Read

Astro 1.0 Beta Release 1434d 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 1441d ago

incoming transmission // attention space cadets... Read

Astro 0.25 Release Notes 1442d ago

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

Astro 0.23 Release Notes 1478d ago

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

Scaling Astro to 10,000+ Pages 1503d ago

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

Announcing The Astro Technology Company 1516d 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 1570d ago

Astro v0.21.0 is finally here! Read

Astro 0.21 Preview: Vite + WASM = ⚡️ 1614d 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 1630d 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 1633d ago

The power of Astro, right in your browser. Read

Netlify Becomes Astro's Official Hosting Partner 1641d 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 1663d ago

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

Astro 0.18 Release 1685d ago

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

Introducing Astro: Ship Less JavaScript 1734d 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 515d 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 531d 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 578d 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 592d 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 606d 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 627d 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 637d 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 642d 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 662d 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 #508 34d ago

View on sreweekly.com SRE Weekly will be going on hiatus for 6 weeks, while I’m on leave caring for my partner after her kidney transplant surgery this week. It’s incredible that the National Kidney Registry’s Paired Exchange program allowed me to... Read

SRE Weekly Issue #507 41d ago

View on sreweekly.com A message from our sponsor, incident.io: incident.io lives inside Slack and Microsoft Teams, breaking down emergencies into actionable steps to resolution. Alerts auto-create channels, ping the right people, log actions in... Read

SRE Weekly Issue #506 48d 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 #505 55d ago

View on sreweekly.com A message from our sponsor, Hopp: Paging at 2am? 🚨 Make incident triage feel like you’re at the same keyboard with Hopp. crisp, readable screen-sharing no more “can you zoom in?” click + type together bring the incident... Read

SRE Weekly Issue #504 62d ago

View on sreweekly.com Finding the grain of sand in a heap of Salt Salt is Cloudflare’s configuration management tool. How do you find the root cause of a configuration management failure when you have a peak of hundreds of changes in 15 minutes on... Read

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The Spacebar

How to use the Galaxy XR with PC VR and VRChat 25d ago

Everything you need to use the Galaxy XR for PC VR gaming. Read

I used an original iPod Nano in 2026, and it worked surprisingly well 32d ago

Nearly 20 years after its introduction, the iPod Nano is still a perfectly functional music player. Read

That time Apple sent everyone a U2 album: 'I DONT WANT YOU.' 60d ago

The release of U2's album Songs of Innocence spawned jokes, backlash, and arguably, a worse music industry. Read

Is Android really the next big desktop operating system? 110d 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 142d ago

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

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This is every Ubuntu Linux default wallpaper 154d 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 156d ago

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

I hacked Microsoft Edge to make my ideal Chromium web browser 180d ago

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

We hate AI because it's everything we hate 203d 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 220d 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 251d 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 265d 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 284d ago

John Madden. John Madden. Aeiou. Aeiou. Read

The worst tech event ever: looking back at Google I/O 2024 299d ago

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

Data hoarding is more important than ever 311d ago

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

Keyboard Builders' Digest

Best-selling keyboard switches of February 2026 1d ago

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

DASIC 2d ago

Yuburoll's DASIC is a symmetrical Alice-style split keyboard with reversible PCB. Read

RAII RP2040 & RAII Wireless 2d ago

Two Sweep derivatives with splay: RAII by unspecworks – wired or wireless. Read

Ground Control 40 3d ago

Nick Coughlin's Ground Control 40 is a 40% open-source ortho keyboard designed for rapid prototyping. Read

Womier SK80 Pro Kanagawa review 9d ago

The tri-mode wireless Womier SK80 Pro comes with Great Wave overdose, including a matching mouse pad and wrist rest. Read

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Bobslei keycaps 9d ago

A new ergo keycap profile for columnar layouts: Bobslei by Beelb0u. Read

Underset 11d ago

A spartan split keyboard with some considerable pinky offset: Underset by humanplayer2. Read

Chitin 11d ago

Scybin's Chitin is an open-source wireless split with a tiny trackball. Read

Koumori 11d ago

Dane Lipscombe's Koumori is a low-profile unibody split keyboard with trackpad. Read

Behind the scenes #206 22d ago

Behind the scenes with the IQUNIX Magi65 Pro review, open-source and commercial projects, keyboard art, meetups, lots of new vendors and discounts. Read

IQUNIX Magi65 Pro review 24d ago

The Magi65 Pro by IQUNIX is easily the most refined 65% wireless low-profile aluminum keyboard to cross my desk. Read

Snake 24d ago

The Snake is a 40% semi-ortho keyboard. PCB by 1000eyes, extra case by Technofrikus. Read

Aphelo30 25d ago

The aphelo30 is MajinEvelyn's open-source, wireless split keyboard design – without thumb keys for a reason. Read

Dabao 25d ago

Justin Lam's Dabao is an open-source, low-profile keyboard, usable both as a unibody or split device. Read

ObiWanStenobit 25d ago

An open-source, low-profile, portable, pseudo-split steno keyboard: ObiWanStenobit by ivndbt. Read

ANSIC 25d ago

Yuburoll's ANSIC is a uniformly row-staggered 40-42 key split keyboard. Read

Lapka 42 26d ago

Nikita Shirokov's Lapka 42 is a wireless low-profile split keyboard with splay. Read

GlassToKey - Apple Magic TouchStreamLP 26d ago

The GlassToKey by disarmyouwitha is an attempt to use the Apple Magic Trackpad as a keyboard (and mouse). Read

Best-selling keyboard switches of January 2026 29d ago

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

Shoedler54 30d ago

A purely declarative split keyboard designed via ergogen: Shoedler54 by Simon Schödler. Read

Behind the scenes #205 40d ago

Behind the scenes with the KiiBOOM Meow keycap set and AM Infinity mouse reviews, plus open-source projects, keyboard art, meetups, lots of new vendors, and discounts. Read

MX Unsaver 40d ago

The MX Unsaver is a custom keyboard and numpad by nearestexit: inspired by the vintage IBM "Unsaver". Read

KiiBOOM Meow Pudding PC keycap set review 43d ago

A combined review of the cute KiiBOOM Meow Pudding PC keycap set and the blue KiiBOOM Phantom 81 Lite keyboard. Read

Xavient 43d ago

An open-source wireless split keyboard by yyevax: Xavient is available both in 36-key or 42-key configs. Read

Yolochka Remastered 43d ago

A 36-key monoblock split based on the Yolochka: Yolochka Remastered by turtle_bazon – with PCB. Read

Frontend Masters Boost RSS Feed

The Big Gotcha of Anchor Positioning 2d ago

As it stands, you have to think about the layout engine and whether an element is "fully laid out" before an anchor is allowed to apply to it. Boooooo. Read

A Brief History of JavaScript 3d ago

A Brief History of JavaScript from the Deno team, celebrating JavaScript being 30 now. Interesting that the first web request tech was Internet Explorer 5 in 1999, then it took 5 years to get Gmail in 2004, then we started calling it AJAX in 2005,... Read

Post Mortem: Rewriting AgnosticUI with Lit Web Components 4d ago

A framework-agnostic component library, designed to be styled. It can be done. Read

The Odometer Effect (without JavaScript) 5d ago

We can take a value set in an HTML attribute and use it in CSS, even extracting each individual digit in order to animate separately. Read

Evaluating Frameworks for Mobile Performance 7d ago

Loren Stewart built the same (kanban) app 10 times and wrote about it, trying to figure out which JavaScript framework is best for his team. The focus is on mobile web performance. The implementations were reviewed by others. Here’s my own summary... Read

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Lessons Learned from Failed Demos: Pure CSS Nav Thumb Flip on Scroll 9d ago

A list of items with thumbnails that flip into place as needed. Can we ditch the JavaScript? Read

Working with Legacy Code 10d ago

From Nicholas C. Zakas’s regularly interesting newsletter: The best way to work with legacy code is to approach it patiently—understand small parts, write tests, and document what you learn. My favorite line about legacy code, which I’ve probably... Read

How I Set Up Production-Grade Deployment for My (Somewhat) Vibe-Coded App 11d ago

Some solid advice from a couple of Frontend Masters courses made for a fast, secure, and ready to scale deployment system. Read

Virtual Scroll-Driven 3D Scenes 12d ago

You can capture scrolling events and do your own work with the information in them. It can do cool things, but you've got work to do. Read

Death to Scroll Fade! 15d ago

David Bushell is very sick of the “scroll fade” effect. It’s the effect where, as you scroll down a page, elements slide into place. Often, all the elements. I agree it’s overplayed since it’s usually movement for the sake of it, not adding... Read

web.dev: Blog

January 2026 Baseline monthly digest 6d ago

Read about various happenings with Baseline during January 2026 Read

New to the web platform in February 10d ago

Discover some of the interesting features that have landed in stable and beta web browsers during February 2026. Read

Navigation API - a better way to navigate, is now Baseline Newly Available 19d ago

The Navigation API is now Baseline Newly available, providing a better way to handle navigation in single-page applications. Read

Interop 2026: Continuing to improve the web for developers 24d ago

Learn about the features included in Interop 2026. Read

Start our latest course, Learn AI! 31d ago

Learn how to build a responsible AI system for your website or web application. Read

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New to the web platform in January 37d ago

Discover some of the interesting features that have landed in stable and beta web browsers during January 2026. Read

December 2025 Baseline monthly digest 41d ago

Read about various happenings with Baseline during December 2025. Read

LCP and INP are now Baseline Newly available 81d ago

LCP and INP are now Baseline Newly available as of December 12, 2025. Read

New to the web platform in December 82d ago

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

Vote for the web features you want to see 87d ago

Have you ever wished you could just poke the browser vendors and say, "Hey, I need this!"? Well, now you can. Read

CSS-Tricks

The Different Ways to Select <html> in CSS 2d ago

Sure, we can select the element in CSS with, you know, a simple element selector, html. But what other (trivial and perhaps useless) ways can we do it? The Different Ways to Select in CSS originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the... Read

Popover API or Dialog API: Which to Choose? 5d ago

Choosing between Popover API and Dialog API is difficult because they seem to do the same job, but they don’t! After a bit lots of research, I discovered that the Popover API and Dialog API are wildly different in terms of accessibility and we'll... Read

What’s !important #6: :heading, border-shape, Truncating Text From the Middle, and More 8d ago

Despite what’s been a sleepy couple of weeks for new Web Platform Features, we have an issue of What’s !important that’s prrrretty jam-packed. The web community had a lot to say, it seems, so fasten your seatbelts! What’s !important #6: :heading,... Read

Yet Another Way to Center an (Absolute) Element 8d ago

TL;DR: We can center absolute-positioned elements in three lines of CSS. And it works on all browsers! Yet Another Way to Center an (Absolute) Element originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the... Read

An Exploit … in CSS?! 10d ago

Read an explanation of the recent CVE-2026-2441 vulnerability that was labeled a "CSS exploit" that "allowed a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code inside a sandbox via a crafted HTML page." An Exploit … in CSS?! originally published on... Read

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A Complete Guide to Bookmarklets 10d ago

Browsers don't just let you bookmark web pages. You can also bookmark JavaScript, allowing you to do so much more than merely save pages. A Complete Guide to Bookmarklets originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean... Read

Loading Smarter: SVG vs. Raster Loaders in Modern Web Design 12d ago

Let’s get nuanced in this article and discuss the capabilities of both SVG and raster imaged so that you can make informed decisions in your own work. Loading Smarter: SVG vs. Raster Loaders in Modern Web Design originally published on CSS-Tricks,... Read

Potentially Coming to a Browser :near() You 15d ago

Danny has several ideas for how we could use :near(), a proposed pseudo-class that detects when the pointer is near an element. Potentially Coming to a Browser :near() You originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean... Read

Distinguishing “Components” and “Utilities” in Tailwind 17d ago

The distinction between "components" and "utilities" seems clear at first glance, but gets a little blurred when working with them in Tailwind. Distinguishing “Components” and “Utilities” in Tailwind originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is... Read

Spiral Scrollytelling in CSS With sibling-index() 18d ago

Lee accepts a challenge: arranging text in a spiral that animates as a vortex on scroll... all in CSS. Spiral Scrollytelling in CSS With sibling-index() originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get... Read

Interop 2026 18d ago

Interop 2026 is officially a thing and there's plenty of new (and even old) CSS features that we can look forward to being cross-browser compatible and consistent! Interop 2026 originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean... Read

What’s !important #5: Lazy-loading iframes, Repeating corner-shape Backgrounds, and More 22d ago

This issue of What’s !important is dedicated to our friends in the UK, who are currently experiencing a very miserable 43-day rain streak. Presenting: the five most interesting things to read about CSS from the last couple of weeks. Plus, the... Read

Making a Responsive Pyramidal Grid With Modern CSS 23d ago

This is the second part of a small two-part series. In this article, we will explore another type of grid: a pyramidal one. We are still working with hexagon shapes, but a different organization of the elements., while exploring other different... Read

Approximating contrast-color() With Other CSS Features 24d ago

The new contrast-color() function is not fully supported yet. But can we still implement it in a cross-browser friendly way using other new CSS features? Approximating contrast-color() With Other CSS Features originally published on CSS-Tricks,... Read

Trying to Make the Perfect Pie Chart in CSS 26d ago

Can we make pie chart that's semantic, with flexible markup, and avoids using a JavaScript library? Here's how I tackled it. Trying to Make the Perfect Pie Chart in CSS originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family.... 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

Sprites on the Web 12d ago

In game development, it’s common to use spritesheets for animation, but this technique isn’t as widely used on the web these days. Which is a shame, because we can do some pretty cool stuff with sprites! In this post, we’ll share the niche CSS... Read

Brand New Layouts with CSS Subgrid 102d ago

Subgrid allows us to extend a grid template down through the DOM tree, so that deeply-nested elements can participate in the same grid layout. At first glance, I thought this would be a helpful convenience, but it turns out that it’s so much more.... Read

Springs and Bounces in Native CSS 130d 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 166d 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 180d 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

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An Interactive Guide to SVG Paths 201d 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 229d 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

Partial Keyframes 270d 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 299d 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 327d 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 376d 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 404d 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 460d 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 466d 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 488d 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 529d 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 544d 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 642d 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 663d 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 691d 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 753d 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 837d 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 901d 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 913d 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 1005d 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 1048d 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 1083d 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 1097d 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 1153d 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 1195d 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 1201d 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 1243d 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 1285d 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 1299d 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 1335d 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 1349d 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 1390d 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 1404d 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 1418d 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 1440d 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 1453d 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 1516d 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 1565d 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” 1572d 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 1636d 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 1649d 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 1671d 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 1692d 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 1720d 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 1782d 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 1803d 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 1830d 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?? 1839d 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 1852d 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 1867d 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! 1881d 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 1909d 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 1916d 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! 1930d 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 1951d 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 1963d 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 1979d 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 1993d 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 2111d 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 2118d 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 2131d 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 2134d 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 2137d 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 2146d 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 2154d 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 2160d 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 2168d 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 2182d 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 2196d 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 2203d 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 2237d 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 2245d 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 2270d 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 2287d 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 2306d 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 2484d 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 2845d 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 3673d ago

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

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Parse, Don't Guess 5d ago

Last time, I shared with you how sneaky I was on transaction handling.. Today, the opposite: I’ll tell you how I fixed the issue when I tried to be too sneaky. I already told you that Sneaky Code Bites Back. The moral? Do as I tell, not how I do. Read

How I cheated on transactions 19d ago

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On rebuilding read models, Dead-Letter Queues and Why Letting Go is Sometimes the Answer 47d ago

In the last article, I explained how to rebuild Event-Driven Read Models in a safe and resilient way. I asked readers to let me know if they find any blind spots in my design. Read

Rebuilding Event-Driven Read Models in a safe and resilient way 61d ago

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Multi-tenancy and dynamic messaging workload distribution 82d ago

This time, I discussed how to setup and scale message processing when you have multi-tenant environment or other dynamic setup. You'll see considerations where to scale horizontally, where vertically and why that matters to you Read

Checkpointing the message processing 89d ago

I realised that checkpointing our (message) processing is similar to using cheat codes in Super Frog and similar old games.We need to recover and use the code to get where we were. Of course, sometimes that means going through the half of the level... Read

Consumers, projectors, reactors and all that messaging jazz in Emmett 96d ago

Let me show you today how I designed messaging abstractions in Emmett, and why I split them into Consumers and Processors. Why I added abstractions like Projector and Reactor, and the trade-offs I chose. I think this can be a good learning... Read

Requeuing Roulette in Event-Driven Architecture and Messaging 110d ago

I’m always saying that there’s a thin line between good and bad practice, and this thin line is named “Context”. That’s also true for the (anti-)pattern I’m calling “Requeuing Roulette”.What’s the Requeuing Roulette? As the name suggests, this... Read

Handling Events Coming in an Unknown Order 124d ago

In the last article we discussed on the scenario where you know what events you should receive, just not the order. But what if you don't know that? That's the question I got from Ben, let's answer that today and explain how using revisions can... Read

Dealing with Race Conditions in Event-Driven Architecture with Read Models 138d ago

My events came out of order! What should I do? Are you familiar with the term "phantom record" and its benefits? No? Let me explain it to you today. Let's discuss how to embrace the chaos and learn to deal with it. Read

On Messaging and Distributed Systems with Ian Cooper 146d ago

Why do we still need to learn messaging? Why isn’t it a commodity yet? How to shape boundaries, and how data on the insight, and data on the outside can help in that. This and more we discussed with Ian Cooper learning also how he started his... Read

New Recording on Event modelling anti-patterns from DDDEU 152d ago

Have you heard about Passive Aggressive Events or CRUD sourcing? Or maybe about the Clickbait event?If you don't, check the recording of my talk, as knowing only best practices is one side of the coin. Knowing what NOT to do can be even more... Read

Sneaky Code Bites Back 166d ago

I was adding SQLite support to Pongo when I realised that I'm talking to myself, and what I heard was insane. I was trying to understand and recap what I just built, an extremely clever and sneaky solution to handle multiple databases. I realised I... Read

PostgreSQL partitioning, logical replication and other Q&A about PostgreSQL Superpowers 173d ago

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“Just use SQL”, they say. “No need for ORMs”, they add. And they may be right, but… Let's look on how this can lead to accidental complexity piling on, derailing our initially simple problem. Read

My thoughts on Vertical Slices, CQRS, Semantic Diffusion and other fancy words 194d ago

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Requiem for a 10x Engineer Dream 208d ago

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