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How Software Engineers Actually Use AI
March 31, 2025
We surveyed 730 coders and developers about how (and how often) they use AI chatbots on the job. The results amazed and disturbed us. Source: How Software Engineers Actually Use AI | WIRED...
Read MoreData Fetching Patterns in Single-Page Applications
March 28, 2025
When a single-page application needs to fetch data from a remote source, it needs to do so while remaining responsive and providing feedback to the user during an often slow query. Five patterns help ...
Read MoreThe Software Engineering Identity Crisis
March 28, 2025
To understand this identity crisis, we need to look at how deeply the craft of coding has shaped who we are. At its core, writing code is about mastery and control – skills we’ve spent years p...
Read MoreDeep Dive into LLMs like ChatGPT – YouTube
March 27, 2025
This is a general audience deep dive into the Large Language Model (LLM) AI technology that powers ChatGPT and related products. It is covers the full training stack of how the models are developed, a...
Read MoreHow to think about Baseline and polyfills
March 27, 2025
Polyfills have long been a part of the web developer experience, as they attempt to provide support for web features that aren’t supported in all browsers. It would seem that polyfills are an in...
Read MoreKeep Product Teams Shipping Faster with Successful Frontend Migrations
March 27, 2025
The company wants more features, faster. You go to your boss and suggest that reducing build times could increase the team’s shipping velocity. They tell you that they aren’t willing to in...
Read MoreAI Native Developer Tools Landscape
March 27, 2025
Your Guide to the AI Development Ecosystem Source: AI Native Developer Tools Landscape...
Read MoreThe <select> element can now be customized with CSS
March 27, 2025
From Chrome 135, web developers and designers can finally unite on an accessible, standardized and CSS styleable element on the web. This has been many years in the making, many hours of engineering a...
Read MoreThe environmental impact of the web we build
March 26, 2025
Source: The environmental impact of the web we build | Go Make Things...
Read MoreA Field Guide to Rapidly Improving AI Products
March 26, 2025
Source: A Field Guide to Rapidly Improving AI Products – Hamel’s Blog...
Read MoreLeading Effective Engineering Teams in the Age of GenAI
March 25, 2025
Using AI in software development is not about writing more code faster; it’s about building better software. It’s up to you as a leader to define what “better” means and help your team nav...
Read MoreLevels of user onboarding | Krystal Higgins
March 25, 2025
Discussion about user onboarding often focuses on teaching new users how to use a product’s interface. There are dozens of third-party plugins that offer various ways to point out product navigation...
Read MoreThe 4 patterns of AI Native Dev
March 25, 2025
AI is fundamentally reshaping software development roles and activities. While the change is obvious, understanding the actual shifts taking place remains challenging. In this article, we introduce a ...
Read MoreWeb Performance: Fast, Responsive, Stable in 2025
March 25, 2025
Web Performance is one of those topics that’s constantly discussed as crucial for the modern web. It’s often framed as a key factor for user experience (UX), conversions, SEO, and overall success ...
Read MorePreviewing Content Changes In Your Work With document.designMode — Smashing Magazine
March 24, 2025
You probably already know that you can use developer tools in your browser to make on-the-spot changes to a webpage — simply click the node in the Inspector and make your edits. But have you tried d...
Read MoreReact Trends in 2025
March 24, 2025
Every year I discuss the most important trends in the world of React. In this article, we will explore the React trends in 2025 that you should be aware of. Whether you are a beginner or an experience...
Read MoreAI Blindspots
March 24, 2025
Blindspots in LLMs I’ve noticed while AI coding. Sonnet family emphasis. Maybe I will eventually suggest Cursor rules for these problems. Source: AI Blindspots...
Read MoreHow to Get a Standing Ovation as a Conference Speaker | akos.ma
March 24, 2025
I keep on attending otherwise interesting talks and conference sessions being flushed down the toilet by appalling deliveries. This is my plea to you: please, please, PLEASE: if you have to speak in p...
Read MoreRuntime compatibility across JavaScript runtimes
March 24, 2025
Display APIs compatibility across different JavaScript runtimes Source: Runtime compatibility across JavaScript runtimes...
Read MoreSSR Deep Dive for React Developers
March 24, 2025
Explore step-by-step how Server-Side Rendering (SSR), pre-rendering, hydration, and Static Site Generation (SSG) work in React, their costs, performance impact, benefits, and trade-offs. Source: SSR D...
Read MoreQuick Reminder That :is() and :where() Are Basically the Same With One Key Difference | CSS-Tricks
March 24, 2025
I’ve seen a handful of recent posts talking about the utility of the :is() relational pseudo-selector. No need to delve into the details other than to say it can help make compound selectors a lot m...
Read MoreRevisiting CSS border-image | CSS-Tricks
March 22, 2025
Since then, I’ve used border-image regularly. Yet, it remains one of the most underused CSS tools, and I can’t, for the life of me, figure out why. Is it possible that people steer clear of border...
Read MoreIntroducing command and commandfor
March 21, 2025
Buttons are essential to making dynamic web applications. Buttons open menus, toggle actions, and submit forms. They provide the foundation of interactivity on the web. Making buttons simple and acces...
Read MoreNot all AI-assisted programming is vibe coding (but vibe coding rocks)
March 21, 2025
Vibe coding is having a moment. The term was coined by Andrej Karpathyjust a few weeks ago (on February 6th) and has since been featured in the New York Times, Ars Technica, the Guardian and countless...
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