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Posts tagged #web-apis — Page 5
A mix of technical deep-dives, career reflections, and dispatches from the road.
tag: #web-apis
developmentMay 9, 2026· 3 min
CSS Anchor Positioning: Stop Using JavaScript for Tooltips
A deep dive into the CSS Anchor Positioning API — how anchor-name, position-anchor, position-area, and position-try-fallbacks let you build tooltips and…
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developmentMay 8, 2026· 3 min
CSS Customizable Select: Finally Style It Without the Hacks
A guide to the CSS customizable select — how appearance: base-select unlocks full styling of native dropdowns including custom icons, rich option content…
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developmentMay 3, 2026· 2 min
JavaScript Temporal API: Dates Are Finally Fixed
A practical introduction to the JavaScript Temporal API — the ES2026 replacement for Date that gets types right, handles timezones properly, and makes date…
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developmentApr 19, 2026· 1 min
Edge Functions: Running Code Where Your Users Are
Edge functions run your code in data centers close to users, eliminating the latency of a centralized origin server.
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developmentApr 18, 2026· 1 min
Progressive Web Apps in 2026: Offline-First Patterns That Actually Work
PWAs have matured significantly. Between Workbox's caching strategies, the Background Sync API, and the Web App Manifest improvements, building…
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developmentMar 7, 2026· 1 min
Web Workers: Keeping Your UI Smooth When the Work Gets Heavy
JavaScript is single-threaded, but that doesn't mean your UI has to freeze during heavy computation.
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developmentJan 4, 2026· 2 min
JavaScript Signals: The New Reactivity Primitive Coming to the Platform
Signals are already powering reactivity in Solid, Preact, and Angular. Now there's a TC39 proposal to bring them to the JavaScript language itself — here's…
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developmentDec 29, 2025· 2 min
The View Transitions API: Smooth Page Animations Without a Framework
The View Transitions API lets you animate between page states with just a few lines of CSS and JavaScript. Here's how it works and where it shines.
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developmentDec 26, 2025· 2 min
AI in the Browser: Running Real Models with Transformers.js
You don't need a backend to run AI anymore. Transformers.js lets you run Hugging Face models directly in the browser or Node.js — here's how to get started.
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