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Embassy: Modern embedded framework, using Rust and async 121 44 5h ago

Article URL: https://github.com/embassy-rs/embassy Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46547740 Points: 121 # Comments: 44 Read

Richard D. James aka Aphex Twin speaks to Tatsuya Takahashi (2017) 100 29 6h ago

Article URL: https://web.archive.org/web/20180719052026/http://item.warp.net/interview/aphex-twin-speaks-to-tatsuya-takahashi/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46546614 Points: 100 # Comments: 29 Read

Sopro TTS: A 169M model with zero-shot voice cloning that runs on the CPU 154 72 7h ago

Article URL: https://github.com/samuel-vitorino/sopro Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46546113 Points: 154 # Comments: 72 Read

How to Code Claude Code in 200 Lines of Code 367 153 8h ago

Article URL: https://www.mihaileric.com/The-Emperor-Has-No-Clothes/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46545620 Points: 367 # Comments: 153 Read

Google AI Studio is now sponsoring Tailwind CSS 515 182 8h ago

Related: Creators of Tailwind laid off 75% of their engineering team - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46527950 - Jan 2026 (810 comments) Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46545077 Points: 515 # Comments: 182 Read

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The Unreasonable Effectiveness of the Fourier Transform 159 68 9h ago

Article URL: https://joshuawise.com/resources/ofdm/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46544981 Points: 159 # Comments: 68 Read

He was called a 'terrorist sympathizer.' Now his AI company is valued at $3B 105 123 9h ago

Article URL: https://sfstandard.com/2026/01/07/called-terrorist-sympathizer-now-ai-company-valued-3b/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46544276 Points: 105 # Comments: 123 Read

Digital Red Queen: Adversarial Program Evolution in Core War with LLMs 105 11 11h ago

Article URL: https://sakana.ai/drq/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46542761 Points: 105 # Comments: 11 Read

AI coding assistants are getting worse? 243 391 12h ago

Article URL: https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-coding-degrades Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46542036 Points: 243 # Comments: 391 Read

Bose has released API docs and opened the API for its EoL SoundTouch speakers 2151 318 12h ago

Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/01/bose-open-sources-its-soundtouch-home-theater-smart-speakers-ahead-of-eol/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46541892 Points: 2151 # Comments: 318 Read

The Jeff Dean Facts 415 154 14h ago

Article URL: https://github.com/LRitzdorf/TheJeffDeanFacts Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46540498 Points: 415 # Comments: 154 Read

Dell admits consumers don't care about AI PCs 439 326 1d ago

Article URL: https://www.pcgamer.com/hardware/dells-ces-2026-chat-was-the-most-pleasingly-un-ai-briefing-ive-had-in-maybe-5-years/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46527706 Points: 439 # Comments: 326 Read

Lights and Shadows (2020) 226 30 6d ago

Article URL: https://ciechanow.ski/lights-and-shadows/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46468338 Points: 226 # Comments: 30 Read

Experienced Devs

Ask Experienced Devs Weekly Thread: A weekly thread for inexperienced developers to ask experienced ones 11d ago

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

Ask Experienced Devs Weekly Thread: A weekly thread for inexperienced developers to ask experienced ones 4d ago

They said our positions were safe when they brought in 40+ offshore contractors. Today half my team got slagged. Record profits too rn too. This is fine. 9h ago

No point to this post, just reeling and venting. Updoot if you can relate I guess. We are a Canadian/American mostly remote company. About a year ago, our company got acquired by VC. A few months later, some new leadership choices. Then, there was... Read

Feeling disillusioned with tech, considering a career break. Looking for perspectives 3h ago

Hey folks, I’m 28 and have been working for about 6.5 years since graduating university, all at the same company. Professionally, things are objectively going well: I’ve moved up to a senior role, a staff position is within reach, I like my team,... Read

Whats the craziest code review you had with a junior? Were you surprised positively or negatively? 4h ago

Im still reeling from a code review I did today. It was horrible. Dude literally copy pasted from chatgpt. Didnt even think to delete the obvious AI comments. I tried making him tell me what his code does and he literally couldnt tell me. I asked... Read

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Worry about AI companies illegally training on existing enterprise codebases 14h ago

Won't the likes of claude code need to upload the code base to their servers for them to work and what's the guarantee that they won't use them to train illegally like they did with pretty much everything else they could get their hands on?? Also... Read

AI usage part of performance reviews 12h ago

Currently working at a role for 5 years, ~7yoe. Our company like many others is pushing big on AI, after pushing for RTO and letting go of a lot of staff for not complying. The other day, my manager told me that for promotion cases they want to see... Read

I am tired of being ordered to perform miracles and getting all the blame. 1d ago

I have 25yoe. All 3 jobs I've had after the pandemic have been so, so fucking bad. I feel like I'm taking crazy pills. Here is my latest nightmare: Laid off from a contract. Unemployed for 3 months. Old coworker has a job opening but hed be my... Read

cursor ceo says vibe coding will make your app crumble. hes not wrong but also kinda ironic 20h ago

michael truell from cursor gave an interview warning about vibe coding. basically says if you let ai build stuff without understanding the code, things fall apart as complexity grows. his analogy was building a house without understanding... Read

Digital nomad from US/Canada 33m ago

Hi there. Any of you gray heads working in digital nomad setups (hired in the US or Canada but living abroad) could please comment on how you got the gig plus tax headaches and other issues? Thanks in advance. submitted by /u/zica-do-reddit ... Read

What are some more stable alternate jobs/careers that a software developer could easily get into? 1d ago

I'm 45 years old, and I've been a software engineer for 22 years. Although I like doing software development, I've been laid off multiple times in my career, and I'm getting a bit tired of that. I've wondered what other jobs & careers I could... Read

Are there any companies zigging while everyone else is (AI) zagging? 1d ago

Wondering if anyone knows of any companies that are going against the grain and are actively against AI use in their engineering and/or products. Any that are taking a big fat audacious bet against the AI trend? Seems like it would be a huge gamble... Read

How do you mitigate bad design caused by bad process at larger companies? 9h ago

I've noticed a pattern in some of the companies I've worked for so far where system design becomes a monstrosity due to bad process. At my current job, the system we maintain is made up of (what are supposed to be) modular components that are... Read

Should I leave legacy ? 17h ago

I’m currently stuck working with an ancient, niche language that’s basically a career dead-end. The only reason I’m still here is that it’s chill. I spend at least half my day on side projects with a modern microservices stack and reading SWE... Read

Starting to hate my job 1d ago

I used to love working here. First job out of college, good environment to learn and grow, good coworkers, great WLB, well-known company (not a big household name but people know it when i mention it). But in the last 2 years, things have slowly... Read

What technology have you incorporated that has radically improved your development process? 4h ago

I use Kotlin, Argo, Helm and GCP but are there any new techs that make your life a lot easier? submitted by /u/niversalite [link] [comments] Read

Postgres B-tree vs GIN Index Performance 14h ago

Hey Devs, Another day, another benchmark. I was curious to compare the performance gain delivered by a conventional B-tree Index vs Inverted Index (GIN) in Postgres. To learn that, I have prepared a database with 15 000 000 rows; each row having... Read

what project were you proud of in 2025 question 5h ago

hi, i frankly dont have a lot of recent projects under my belt or at least not the ones i need to pass interviews apparently. Whenever i get asked that question tell me about a project you are proud of, i have a story about building an outbound... Read

How to handle office conflict 20h ago

How should I handle an active conflict in a discussion that escalated as an observer or bystander? Context: two of my colleagues who are. seniors on the team disagreed on a technical approach to solving a problem and were discussing it in our small... Read

best jira alternatives for smaller dev teams? 18h ago

we have been on jira for a long time, but lately it feels like overkill for lean projects. we tested a few agile tools but still couldnt decide. what other Jira alternatives are teams liking right now? submitted by /u/SlightReflection4351 ... Read

Am I doing something wrong or are some people either delusional or straight up lying? 2d ago

I keep seeing posts like this, all the time https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1q5lt9g/developer_uses_claude_code_and_has_an_existential/ I use Claude Code, daily. Yes it's great. But it also consistently (although not very often) makes... Read

Secure Coding? 22h ago

I am just wondering. Do your companies really emphasize OWASP Top Ten or secure coding? Once I heard that some companies did it for compliance purpose. What's your take on it? submitted by /u/Inner-Chemistry8971 [link] [comments] Read

Will enshittification disrupt established players? 1d ago

I feel like every app I use now is bad. YouTube, via my smart TV, only shows the exact content they want, is filled with advertisements, and the user interface is excruciating. I know that we are at a point where capitalism is more about extraction... Read

Develop first and fast; seek consensus later? 23h ago

Hi, I'm seeking opinions on something that I think is highly dependent on the environment where someone is working, but I'm interested in getting perspectives on this. I work in a team on a platform of three teams. We can mostly work independently,... Read

How legitimate is this post? Is it this easy for AI to work effectively? 48m ago

Came across this LinkedIn post: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/champouxmaxime\_for-the-past-6weeks-the-entirewell-team-activity-7414957640696360960-Yfnm?utm\_source=share&utm\_medium=member\_ios&rcm=ACoAABU9x1gBXsoSrzGGngiQMUGMPBSHrBAHf7A CTO... Read

The Pragmatic Engineer

The grief when AI writes most of the code 1d 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) 21d 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? 27d 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

Downdetector and the real cost of no upstream dependencies 35d 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 49d 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

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The Pulse: Cloudflare takes down half the internet – but shares a great postmortem 49d 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 59d 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? 63d 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 70d 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 70d ago

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

What caused the large AWS outage? 77d 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 140d 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 147d ago

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

Cursor makes developers less effective? 168d ago

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

The Pulse: Section 174 is reversed! Mostly, that is 175d ago

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

The Astro Blog

What's new in Astro - December 2025 10d ago

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

What's new in Astro - November 2025 40d ago

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

Astro 5.16 50d 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 65d 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 70d ago

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

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Astro 5.15 78d 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 98d 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 101d ago

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

Astro 5.14 106d 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 108d 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 114d 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 122d 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 122d ago

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

What's new in Astro - August 2025 131d ago

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

Astro 5.13 148d 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 162d ago

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

Astro 5.12 176d ago

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

Starlight 0.35 177d ago

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

Astro 5.11 191d 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 193d 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 197d 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 200d ago

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

Astro Solstice Festival 200d ago

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

Astro 5.10 204d ago

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

Astro 5.9 218d 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 223d ago

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

Astro 5.8 235d 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 254d ago

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

2025 Technical Steering Committee 266d 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 267d ago

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

Astro 5.7 269d 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 270d ago

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

Astro 5.6 281d 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 284d ago

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

Astro 5.5 302d 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 315d ago

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

Astro 5.4 318d 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 326d 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 330d 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 343d ago

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

Astro 5.2 344d 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 357d 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 374d ago

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

Astro 5.1 386d 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 402d 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 403d 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 405d ago

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

What's new in Astro - October 2024 435d ago

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

Astro x Cloudinary SDK 463d 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 466d ago

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

Community Loaders for Astro Content Layer 477d ago

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

Astro x Hygraph: Content Loader 477d ago

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

Astro x Cloudinary: Content Loader 477d ago

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

Astro x Storyblok: Content Loader 477d ago

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

Content Layer: A Deep Dive 478d 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 478d 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 479d 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 480d 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 483d 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 496d ago

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

Astro 4.15 498d 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 512d 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 526d 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 527d ago

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

Astro 4.12: Server Islands 540d 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 543d 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 558d ago

June 2024 - Celebrating Astro, together! Read

Astro 4.11 568d ago

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

Astro Together 2024 574d ago

A look back at our meetup in Montreal Read

Server Islands 575d 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 576d 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 577d 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 582d 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! 583d ago

Discover the latest news from 12 months of Starlight development Read

What's new in Astro - May 2024 588d ago

May 2024 - Celebrating Astro, together! Read

Astro 4.9 596d ago

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

Astro 4.8 610d 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 619d ago

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

Astro 4.7 624d 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 638d 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 649d ago

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

Migrating 500+ tests from Mocha to Node.js 655d 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 667d 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 667d 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 668d 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 669d 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 = 💖 669d 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 680d ago

Leap into Astro news with a bonus February day! Read

Astro 4.4 694d 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 708d 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 709d 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 722d 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 736d 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 740d 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 760d ago

How Thinkmill Reduced Dependencies on Senior Developers with Astro Read

Building a community of builders 764d 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 764d ago

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

Sentry: Our Official Monitoring Partner 765d 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 766d 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 767d ago

What's new in Astro - November 2023 771d 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 774d 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 793d 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 801d 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 806d 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 810d ago

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

Astro 3.3: Picture component 820d 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 830d 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 834d 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 862d ago

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

Astro 3.0 863d 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 865d 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 882d ago

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

Astro 2.10: Persistent State in View Transitions 890d ago

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

Astro 2.9: View Transitions (experimental) 904d ago

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

Content for Everyone 925d ago

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

Better Images in Astro 947d 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 948d 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 967d ago

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

Astro 2.4 981d ago

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

Astro 2.2 1010d ago

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

CloudCannon announces official support for Astro 1029d ago

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

Astro 2.1 1038d ago

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

2023 Web Framework Performance Report 1039d 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 1040d 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 1071d 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 1078d 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 1079d 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 1080d 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 1081d 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 1128d ago

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

Announcing the Astro Tutorial 1162d ago

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

Hacktoberfest with Astro Docs 1166d ago

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

Astro 1.5.0 Release 1184d ago

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

Astro @ ViteConf 2022 1187d 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 1198d ago

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

Storyblok Becomes Astro's Official CMS Partner 1220d 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 1221d 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 1249d 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 1313d 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 1331d ago

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

Astro on Netlify Edge Functions 1361d ago

Announcing support for the new Netlify Edge Functions platform Read

The Astro 1.0 Hackathon is Here 1372d ago

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

Introducing The Astro Showcase 1372d ago

Explore beautiful community websites built with Astro. Read

Astro Contributor Day 1373d 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 1374d ago

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

Server-Side Rendering with Astro 1375d ago

Announcing experimental support for server-side rendering in Astro Read

Astro 1.0 Beta Release 1376d 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 1383d ago

incoming transmission // attention space cadets... Read

Astro 0.25 Release Notes 1384d ago

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

Astro 0.23 Release Notes 1420d ago

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

Scaling Astro to 10,000+ Pages 1445d ago

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

Announcing The Astro Technology Company 1458d 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 1512d ago

Astro v0.21.0 is finally here! Read

Astro 0.21 Preview: Vite + WASM = ⚡️ 1556d 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 1572d 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 1575d ago

The power of Astro, right in your browser. Read

Netlify Becomes Astro's Official Hosting Partner 1583d 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 1605d ago

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

Astro 0.18 Release 1627d ago

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

Introducing Astro: Ship Less JavaScript 1676d 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 457d 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 473d 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 520d 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 534d 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 548d 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 569d 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 579d 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 584d 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 605d 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 #504 4d 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

SRE Weekly Issue #503 11d ago

View on sreweekly.com The Abstraction Debt in Infrastructure as Code Abstraction is meant to encapsulate complexity, but when done poorly, it creates opacity—a lack of visibility into what’s actually happening under the hood. RoseSecurity Fun... Read

SRE Weekly Issue #502 18d ago

View on sreweekly.com Eliminating Cold Starts 2: shard and conquer Cloudflare reduced their cold-start rate for Workers requests through sharding and consistent hashing, with an interesting solution for load shedding. Harris Hancock — Cloudflare... Read

SRE Weekly Issue #501 25d ago

View on sreweekly.com A message from our sponsor, Depot: “Waiting for a runner” but the runner is online? Depot debugs three cases where symptoms misled engineers. Workflow permissions, Azure authentication, and Dependabot’s security context all... Read

SRE Weekly Issue #500 32d ago

View on sreweekly.com A message from our sponsor, Depot: Stop hunting through GitHub Actions logs. Depot now offers powerful CI log search across all your repositories and workflows. With smart filtering by timeframe, runner type, and keywords,... Read

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The Spacebar

That time Apple sent everyone a U2 album: 'I DONT WANT YOU.' 2d 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? 52d 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 85d ago

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

This is every Ubuntu Linux default wallpaper 97d 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 98d ago

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

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I hacked Microsoft Edge to make my ideal Chromium web browser 123d 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 146d 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 163d 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 194d 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 207d 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 227d ago

John Madden. John Madden. Aeiou. Aeiou. Read

The worst tech event ever: looking back at Google I/O 2024 242d ago

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

Data hoarding is more important than ever 254d ago

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

What is real in the age of AI slop and SEO spam? 291d ago

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

Why can't we go back to small phones? 312d ago

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

Keyboard Builders' Digest

Best-selling keyboard switches of December 2025 2d ago

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

Epomaker RT82 review 3d ago

Displays on keyboards? Meh. The retro-looking Epomaker RT82 is raising the stakes with a detachable TV. Read

Cheap03xD 3d ago

The wireless Cheap03xD is an affordable open-source split by Lander03xD. Read

TrueStrike42 3d ago

An open-source Hall-effect unibody split keyboard: TrueStrike42 by Choi Byungyoon. Read

Best keyboards of 2025 -- a personal top list 16d ago

My favorite keyboards from those I tested in 2025 – in a couple of made-up categories. :) Read

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VoidPointer 16d ago

Rafael Furlanetto Casamaximo released his wireless 65% voidPointer with exposed diodes. Read

Slump52 16d ago

A diodeless unibody split by Peter J. A. Cock: Slump52 with number pad. Read

Lapa v25 16d ago

The 2025 version of lya Leonov's Lapa, an ergo split keyboard-mouse. Read

KiiBOOM Cybrix 29 23d ago

The Cybrix 29 by KiiBOOM is a wired 29-key hotswappable Hall-effect gaming (half-)keyboard with lots of RGB effects. Read

Dierya DK81E review 28d ago

This affordable 75% board arrived from Kemove: Dierya DK81E with gaskets, rotary knob, and nice lights. Read

Behind the scenes #203 30d ago

Behind the scenes with the November best-seller switches, the Dry Studio Battleye review, plus open-source projects, keyboard art, meetups, vendors, discounts. Read

Noname split 30d ago

A clean and simple open-source split keyboard by Terence-1. Read

Suutari20 30d ago

An RP2040-based modular macropad system by Juho T.: the Suutari20 using TRRS sockets and jacks. Read

Best-selling keyboard switches of November 2025 35d ago

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

Dry Studio Battleye 74.5 RT review 36d ago

A head-turning 75%-ish Hall-effect board with circular display and knob: the Battleye 74.5 RT by Dry Studio – for sophisticated gamers. Read

Baikal 36d ago

Vostok Labs' Baikal is a beginner-friendly, handwired, wireless Corne build with step-by-step instructions. Read

Tentacle 37d ago

Gareth Gummow's ortholinear Tentacle is using the author's SquidHID firmware. Read

ArcBoard mk20 38d ago

The next iteration of Chris Trotter's ArcBoard is here. Mk20 comes with a lot of improvements. Read

KaSe keyboard 38d ago

An Atreus-inspired monoblock keyboard by Mae Pugin: the wireless KaSe with OLED. Read

DYA Dash 40d ago

The DYA Dash is a nice wireless split project by Cormoran: low-pro, touch sensors, trackball. Read

Boardloaf 40d ago

Yuburoll's Boardloaf is an open-source 36-key split keyboard with MX keys. Read

Behind the scenes #202 44d ago

Behind the scenes with the Womier SK71 Pro and Dareu COOL60 reviews, also the Clackify stand, plus open-source projects, keyboard art, meetups, vendors, discounts. Read

Gamma Omega Hesse 44d ago

A Bluetooth diode-free 36-key ergonomic keyboard PCB by Peter Cock: Gamma Omega Hesse – using graph theory. Read

Dareu COOL60 44d ago

An ultra-affordable 60% HE keyboard: Dareu COOL60 – frosted case, matching caps, per-key RGB, wrist strap. 8KHz reporting rate, 0.01mm RT resolution for gamers. For just $42?! Read

Modubu 44d ago

Yuburoll's modubu is a semi-staggered 38-key split keyboard – made for Korean layout. Read

Frontend Masters Boost RSS Feed

Popover Context Menus with Anchor Positioning 10h ago

A context menu is like a tooltip in that it opens right next to the the thing that opened it. Here, we animate the opening and ensure it opens somewhere where it doesn't get cut off. Read

React has changed, your Hooks should too 1d ago

Matt Smith: React Hooks have been around for years, but most codebases still use them the same way: a bit of useState, an overworked useEffect, and a lot of patterns that get copy-pasted without much thought. […] Read

RSCs 2d ago

Despite some not-great recent news about security vulnerabilities, React Server Components (RSCs) are likely in pretty high volume use around the internet thanks to default usage within Next.js, perhaps without users even really knowing it. I... Read

How to @scope CSS Now That It’s Baseline 3d ago

There is a way to declare a scope on a specific selector, a specific selector *down to* another selector, or with no Read

A first look at the Web Install API 7d ago

Bruce Lawson: I was excited to see that the proposed new Web Install API has entered Origin Trial in Chromium. It kind of works in Chromium Canary, but is most complete in Microsoft Edge beta […] The reason I was excited is because I read the Web... Read

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!important and CSS Custom Properties 7d ago

The `!important` part doesn't become part of the value, the whole declaration is treated as !important; Read

Preserve State While Moving Elements in the DOM 8d ago

Bramus wrote this almost a year ago, but I’d still call it a relatively new feature of JavaScript and one very worth knowing about. With Node.prototype.moveBefore you can move elements around a DOM tree, without resetting the element’s state. You... Read

How I Write Custom Elements with lit-html 11d ago

You can use a smaller part of Lit to build web web components that still take advantage of some of it's best features, particularly if you're cool with Light DOM. Read

Toggle `position: sticky` to `position: fixed` on Scroll 16d ago

Fixed and sticky positioning behave very differently, but we can switch between the two at exact points for some unusual looking effects. Read

Exploring Multi-Brand Systems with Tokens and Composability 20d ago

Exploring a Card component made hyper flexible though use of easily changeable custom properties, props, and slots. Read

web.dev: Blog

LCP and INP are now Baseline Newly available 23d ago

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

New to the web platform in December 24d 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 29d ago

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

November 2025 Baseline monthly digest 31d ago

Read about various happenings with Baseline during November 2025. Read

Announcing Baseline in action 38d ago

Baseline in action is a new series developed to help developers learn how to use Baseline features together to build better user experiences. Read

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New to the web platform in November 44d ago

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

WebGPU is now supported in major browsers 45d ago

Read about the biggest web graphics launch since WebGL. WebGPU is supported across major browsers, bringing unparalleled performance to the web. Read

October 2025 Baseline monthly digest 59d ago

Read about various happenings with Baseline during October 2025. Read

New to the web platform in October 71d ago

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

The winners of the Baseline Tooling Hackathon are... 74d ago

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

CSS-Tricks

Future CSS: :drag (and Maybe ::dragged-image?) 2d ago

Have you ever struggled to style an element while it's being dragged? Sunkanmi explains some ways it could become easier in the future. Future CSS: :drag (and Maybe ::dragged-image?) originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the... Read

What’s !important #2: Conditional View Transitions, CSS/SVG Text Effects, the Best of CSS Bluesky, and More 8d ago

2026 is almost upon us. I know we’re all itching to see the clock strike midnight (cue The Final Countdown by Europe), but not without recapping the best CSS-related things that happened over the last two weeks! What’s !important #2: Conditional... Read

Thank You (2025 Edition) 16d ago

This is the best job I've had in my life and it's only possible because you keep showing up each day to read, learn, share, and discuss all-things-front-end (and a little CSS, of course) with us. Thank You (2025 Edition) originally published on... Read

text-decoration-inset is Like Padding for Text Decorations 18d ago

The text-decoration-inset property solves a problem that we’ve had since the beginning of the web, which is that text decorations such as underlines extend beyond the first and last characters, resulting in vertical... Read

Masonry Layout is Now grid-lanes 20d ago

It's settled! A new CSS display property keyword called grid-lanes will trigger a masonry layout mode. Masonry Layout is Now grid-lanes originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newsletter. Read

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Search CSS-Tricks Raycast Extension 21d ago

Jelte Lagendijk built a Raycast extension for searching CSS-Tricks articles where you simply type and a get a solid set of real-time results. Search CSS-Tricks Raycast Extension originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean... Read

Responsive List of Avatars Using Modern CSS (Part 2) 23d ago

In this article, we follow up the work we did to create responsive rows of circular images in a previous article by arranging the images around a circle with a clean hover effect. Responsive List of Avatars Using Modern CSS (Part 2) originally... Read

What’s !important #1: Advent Calendars, CSS Wrapped, Web Platform Updates, and More 23d ago

The best CSS news from around the web from the last two weeks. In this edition: advent calendars, CSS Wrapped 2025, and the latest Web Platform Updates. What’s !important #1: Advent Calendars, CSS Wrapped, Web Platform Updates, and More originally... Read

Toon Title Text Generator 24d ago

Andy Clarke with a brand-new resource. It generates the sort of fun typography that Andy commonly uses in his own work that's geared towards cartoon headings. Toon Title Text Generator originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the... Read

Responsive List of Avatars Using Modern CSS (Part 1) 24d ago

A list of rounded images that slightly overlap each other is a classic web design pattern. The main idea is not complex, but the new thing is the responsive part. that dynamically adjusts the overlap between the images so they fit inside the... Read

What Else Could Container Queries… Query? 28d ago

How far can we really go with container queries? There are dozens of media queries now, so what if there were dozens of container queries as well? What could we use them for? What Else Could Container Queries… Query? originally published on... Read

Creating Scroll-Based Animations in Full view() 30d ago

It’s not that hard to do! Preethi shows you how it's really the same old animation you’re used to writing in CSS, only applied on a view timeline instead of a normal timeline. Creating Scroll-Based Animations in Full view() originally published on... Read

CSS Wrapped 2025 30d ago

The Chrome Dev Team recaps the new CSS features that shipped in Google Chrome this past year in one amazingly designed webpage. They cover new functionality for creating more customizable components, next-gen interactions, and optimizing... Read

Fit width text in 1 line of CSS 31d ago

The Chrome team recently prototyped a working solution for fitting text to the width of a container in CSS using a text-grow property. Fit width text in 1 line of CSS originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family.... Read

That Time I Tried Explaining HTML and CSS to My 5-Year Old Niece 32d ago

I would like to tell you what I learned from a five-year old child about HTML and CSS. It’s funny how explaining something you do almost naturally teaches you about yourself and what you take for granted. That Time I Tried Explaining HTML and CSS... 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

Brand New Layouts with CSS Subgrid 45d 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 73d 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 109d 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 123d ago

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

An Interactive Guide to SVG Paths 144d 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

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A Friendly Introduction to SVG 172d 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 213d 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 242d 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 270d 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 319d 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 347d 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 403d 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 409d 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 431d 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 472d 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 487d 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 585d 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 606d 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 634d 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 696d 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 780d 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 844d 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 856d 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 948d 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 991d 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 1026d 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 1040d 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 1096d 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 1138d 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 1144d 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 1186d 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 1228d 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 1242d 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 1278d 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 1292d 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 1333d 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 1347d 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 1361d 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 1383d 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 1396d 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 1459d 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 1508d 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” 1515d 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 1579d 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 1592d 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 1614d 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 1635d 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 1663d 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 1725d 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 1746d 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 1773d 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?? 1782d 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 1795d 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 1810d 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! 1824d 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 1852d 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 1859d 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! 1873d 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 1894d 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 1906d 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 1922d 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 1936d 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 2054d 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 2061d 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 2073d 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 2076d 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 2080d 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 2088d 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 2097d 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 2103d 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 2111d 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 2125d 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 2139d 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 2145d 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 2180d 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 2188d 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 2213d 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 2230d 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 2248d 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 2426d 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 2788d 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 3615d 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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Architecture Weekly

Rebuilding Event-Driven Read Models in a safe and resilient way 3d ago

And what distributed locking, PostgreSQL Advisory Locks have to do with that Read

Architecture Weekly is 5 years old! 🎉 11d ago

Yup, I just realised that it happened! Let's do a small celebration and recap how I got here! Read

Multi-tenancy and dynamic messaging workload distribution 24d 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 32d 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 38d 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

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Requeuing Roulette in Event-Driven Architecture and Messaging 52d 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 66d 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 80d 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 88d 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 95d 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 109d 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 116d ago

After getting tone of questions on the last week's webinar, I did Q&A on PostgreSQL superpowers! Check to learn more on PostgreSQL partitioning, logical replication and know what I think about "What misuse of PostgreSQL (feature or in general) has... Read

Just use SQL they say... Or how accidental complexity piles on 123d ago

“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 137d ago

Vertical Slices in software architecture are pictured right now as the best thing since sliced bread. I won’t try to hide that, like it. I've written about CQRS and Vertical Slices over the years - how to slice the codebase effectively, shown... Read

Compilers Aren't Just for Programming Languages 144d ago

...but also for building Adaptive Streaming Pipelines. I wrote today on how building event-driven pipeline lead me to writing my own compiler. Oh well, small one, simple one, but still. Learn on surprising places besides programming languages when... Read

Requiem for a 10x Engineer Dream 151d ago

People claim they get 10x productivity boosts with AI coding tools. After my recent experiments with Claude Code, I'm starting to think we're not using these tools the same way. Or that they’re just lying. Or both. See my story, and learn why you... Read

Why Open Source Isn't Always Fair. Dual licenses explained 158d ago

The current Open Source model assumes symmetry between all users, but... When the OSI insists cloud providers deserve equal treatment to individual developers, it forces projects into defensive positions. Lets discuss the dual license movement,... Read

Workflow Engine design proposal, tell me your thoughts 164d ago

This week I want to tell you about the design proposal for the workflow engine. I want to provide the lightweight way to handle business processes in durable, observable and resilient way. Check what I brewed and tell me your thoughts! Read

The Order of Things: Why You Can't Have Both Speed and Ordering in Distributed Systems 179d ago

Ordering or performance, pick one wisely! Selecting both is impossible. At least in distributed systems, aiming to handle a bigger load. Why? We discussed this in detail today, taking PostgreSQL, MongoDB, and Kafka, and analysing the tradeoffs they... Read

Dealing with Eventual Consistency, and Causal Consistency using Predictable Identifiers 186d ago

Let's follow up today on fighting with eventual consistency, causal consistency and how predictable ids can help you with that. We'll take on my real project: decoupling file upload from linking it in various places in the application. Read

Terminal Trove Tool of the Week

pacsea 2d ago

Fast TUI for searching, inspecting, and queueing pacman/AUR packages. Read

dotstate 9d ago

A modern, secure, and user-friendly dotfile manager. Read

sqlit 16d ago

A user friendly TUI for SQL databases. Read

superseedr 23d ago

A BitTorrent client in your terminal. Read

qo 30d ago

An interactive minimalist TUI to query JSON, CSV, and TSV using SQL. Read

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oeis-tui 36d ago

A TUI and CLI for exploring the On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences (OEIS). Read

kyanos 44d ago

A simple & powerful eBPF-based network issue, analysis and tracing tool. Read

gitlogue 51d ago

A git commit history replay tool for the terminal. Read

podliner 58d ago

Podcasts in any terminal. Fast, clean, offline. Read

mcat 65d ago

Parse, convert & preview images, videos & markdown in your terminal. Read

cronboard 72d ago

A terminal tool for managing cron jobs locally and on servers. Read

tuios 79d ago

A TUI window manager for managing multiple terminal sessions. Read

gobackup 86d ago

A CLI tool to backup your databases, files to cloud storage. Read

intelli-shell 93d ago

Like IntelliSense, but for shells! Read

flowrs 100d ago

A TUI application for Apache Airflow. Read

lue 107d ago

A TUI ebook reader with Text-to-Speech (TTS). Read

lazyssh 114d ago

A terminal-based SSH manager. Read

dirsearch 121d ago

A web path scanner for finding hidden files and directories. Read

dcv 128d ago

A TUI viewer for docker-compose. Read

doxx 135d ago

A viewer for Microsoft Word .docx files in the terminal. Read

jocalsend 142d ago

A TUI file-sharing tool based on the LocalSend protocol. Read

cariddi 149d ago

A tool to crawl urls, scan endpoints, secrets, api keys, file extensions, tokens and more. Read

exosphere 156d ago

A CLI / TUI for aggregated patch reporting & system status monitoring via SSH. Read

apisnip 163d ago

A TUI tool for trimming OpenAPI specifications down to size. Read

bitchat-tui 170d ago

A TUI client for bitchat. Read

taproom 177d ago

An interactive TUI for Homebrew. Read

mcp-probe 184d ago

Advanced MCP Protocol Debugger & Interactive TUI. Read

vi-mongo 191d ago

A TUI for managing MongoDB databases. Read

smassh 198d ago

Smassh your Keyboard, TUI Edition. Read

e1s 205d ago

A TUI for managing AWS ECS Resources. Read

deletor 212d ago

Manage & delete files efficiently with an interactive TUI & scriptable CLI. Read

tldx 219d ago

A Domain Availability Research Tool. Read

kdash 226d ago

A simple and fast dashboard for Kubernetes. Read

basalt 233d ago

A TUI for managing Obsidian vaults and notes. Read

nerdlog 240d ago

A fast, remote-first, multi-host TUI log viewer. Read

daylight 247d ago

Track sunrise and sunset times in the terminal. Read

andcli 254d ago

A 2FA TUI for your shell. Read

ticker 261d ago

A terminal stock ticker with live updates and position tracking. Read

parllama 268d ago

TUI for ollama and other LLM providers. Read

xan 275d ago

The CSV magician. Read

wtfis 282d ago

Passive hostname, domain and IP lookup tool for non-robots. Read

euporie 289d ago

Jupyter notebooks in the terminal. Read

mani 296d ago

A CLI tool to help you manage multiple repositories. Read

ddv 303d ago

A TUI to view Amazon DynamoDB in the terminal. Read

bibiman 310d ago

A simple TUI for handling your BibLaTeX database. Read

loggo 317d ago

A powerful terminal app for structured log streaming. Read

forgit 324d ago

A utility tool powered by fzf for using Git interactively. Read

flamelens 331d ago

An interactive flamegraph viewer in the terminal. Read

godap 338d ago

A complete terminal user interface (TUI) for LDAP. Read

bagels 345d ago

A powerful expense tracker that lives in your terminal. Read

isd 352d ago

A keyboard-focused, highly customizable systemd units TUI. Read

wiper 359d ago

A TUI disk analyser and cleanup tool. Read

sunbeam 366d ago

A general purpose command-line launcher. Read

textual-paint 380d ago

MS Paint in your terminal. Read

tuistash 387d ago

A terminal user interface for Logstash. Read

kl 394d ago

An interactive Kubernetes log viewer for your terminal. Read

television 401d ago

A blazingly fast general purpose fuzzy finder TUI. Read

sshclick 408d ago

Terminal based assisted management of your SSH config files. Read

wireman 415d ago

A TUI gRPC client for the terminal. Read

ddgr 422d ago

DuckDuckGo from the terminal. Read

mqttui 429d ago

A TUI tool to publish/subscribe MQTT messages from the terminal. Read

cy 436d ago

A time traveling terminal multiplexer. Read

tenere 443d ago

A TUI interface for LLMs. Read

monolith 450d ago

A CLI tool for saving complete web pages as a single HTML file. Read

lychee 457d ago

A fast, async link checker written in Rust. Read

binsider 464d ago

Analyze ELF binaries like a boss. Read

spiel 471d ago

Display richly-styled presentations using your terminal. Read

pik 478d ago

A TUI for interactively stopping processes. Read

gitnr 485d ago

A CLI / TUI to generate .gitignore files using templates. Read

gama 492d ago

Manage your GitHub Actions from the terminal. Read

atuin 499d ago

Sync, search and backup shell history. Read

moneyterm 506d ago

TUI expense and budget tracker. Read

tgt 513d ago

A simple TUI for Telegram. Read

chdig 520d ago

Dig into ClickHouse with TUI interface. Read

rustscan 527d ago

The Modern Port Scanner. Read

posting 534d ago

A powerful HTTP client that lives in your terminal. Read

sampler 541d ago

Visualization for any shell command. Read

kaskade 548d ago

A text user interface (TUI) for Apache Kafka. Read

pillager 555d ago

Pillage filesystems for sensitive information. Read

ktop 562d ago

A top-like tool for your Kubernetes clusters. Read

fq 569d ago

jq for binary formats. Read

lnav 576d ago

An ncurses-based log file viewer for the terminal. Read

pug 583d ago

Drive terraform at terminal velocity. Read

oterm 590d ago

A text-based terminal client for ollama. Read

flawz 597d ago

A TUI for browsing CVE security vulnerabilities. Read

atac 604d ago

A simple API client (postman like) in your terminal. Read

tinboard 611d ago

A terminal-based client for pinboard.in Read

jwt-ui 618d ago

A CLI and TUI for decoding/encoding JSON Web Tokens. Read

sttr 625d ago

A CLI/TUI tool to perform 30+ string transformations on text. Read

termscp 632d ago

A feature rich terminal file transfer tool. Read

fnug 639d ago

Run all your lints, tests and commands at once, in the terminal. Read

openapi-tui 646d ago

Browse and run APIs defined with OpenAPI v3.0 in the TUI Read

bandwhich 653d ago

Terminal bandwidth utilization tool Read

crates-tui 660d ago

A TUI for exploring crates.io Read

age 667d ago

A simple, modern and secure file encryption tool. Read

dolphie 674d ago

Realtime MySQL health monitoring in the terminal. Read

kalker 681d ago

A scientific terminal calculator with math syntax. Read

jless 688d ago

A command-line JSON viewer. Read

tiptop 695d ago

Command-line system monitoring Read

wiki-tui 702d ago

A fast Wikipedia CLI/TUI client Read

trippy 709d ago

A TUI network diagnostics tool Read

eget 716d ago

Easily install prebuilt binaries from GitHub. Read

gdu 723d ago

Pretty fast disk usage analyzer Read

aider 730d ago

AI pair programming in your terminal. Read

harlequin 737d ago

The SQL IDE for Your Terminal. Read

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