Posts on development

Compression Dictionary Transport (RFC 9842) lets the browser tell your server which cached file it already has, so a redeployed bundle can arrive as a few-kilobyte delta instead of a full download.

JavaScript can finally turn bytes into base64 and hex (and back) without the String.fromCharCode and btoa dance. Here's how Uint8Array's new encoding methods work and where they replace the helpers you've been copy-pasting.

ES2026's import defer evaluates a module the first time you touch its namespace, not at startup, so you can move heavy work off the cold path without turning half your call stack async.

Next.js 16.3 turned on Turbopack's persistent build cache by default and published numbers as high as 5.5x. Most CI pipelines will see exactly zero of that, because the cache is a directory and containers start empty.

Grid and flexbox let you rearrange a layout without touching the DOM, which quietly breaks keyboard navigation. The reading-flow and reading-order properties finally let CSS tell the browser which order actually counts.

Almost every laptop shipped in the last two years has a neural processing unit sitting idle. WebNN is the only web standard that can actually talk to it…

OneOf Input Objects landed in the September 2025 GraphQL spec, which means the exactly-one-of-these-arguments rule you've been enforcing in resolver code is…

Node's built-in test runner has been stable since v20 and now handles mocking, coverage, watch mode, and TypeScript files.

Snippets let you define reusable chunks of markup inline and render them like functions. They replace slots, kill the let: directive, and mean you stop…