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Vite 8 + Rolldown: Rust-Powered Builds That Are 10–30x Faster thumbnail
developmentMay 23, 2026· 4 min
Vite 8 + Rolldown: Rust-Powered Builds That Are 10–30x Faster
Vite 8 replaces its dual esbuild/Rollup pipeline with Rolldown, a Rust-based bundler that delivers 10–30x faster production builds — and real teams are already seeing dramatic results.
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CSS Scroll-Driven Animations: No JavaScript Required thumbnail
developmentMay 22, 2026· 4 min
CSS Scroll-Driven Animations: No JavaScript Required
CSS scroll-driven animations let you create silky-smooth scroll effects — progress bars, reveal animations, parallax — using pure CSS with zero JavaScript.
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Connecting Wallets the Right Way: wagmi v2 and EIP-6963 thumbnail
developmentMay 19, 2026· 4 min
Connecting Wallets the Right Way: wagmi v2 and EIP-6963
The old window.ethereum trick breaks when users have multiple wallets installed. Here's how EIP-6963 and wagmi v2 solve multi-wallet discovery cleanly, with real TypeScript examples.
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TypeScript 7.0: The Go Compiler That Makes TS 10x Faster thumbnail
developmentMay 16, 2026· 4 min
TypeScript 7.0: The Go Compiler That Makes TS 10x Faster
TypeScript 7.0 rewrites the compiler in Go, cutting build times by up to 10x. Here's what changed, what it means for your projects, and how to try it right now.
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React Compiler v1.0: Automatic Memoization Without the Headache thumbnail
developmentMay 12, 2026· 4 min
React Compiler v1.0: Automatic Memoization Without the Headache
React Compiler v1.0 landed in production-ready form and it automatically handles the memoization patterns you used to write by hand — here's what changed, how to set it up, and what it means for your day-to-day React code.
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Svelte 5 Runes: Reactive State That Actually Makes Sense thumbnail
developmentMay 9, 2026· 4 min
Svelte 5 Runes: Reactive State That Actually Makes Sense
An introduction to Svelte 5 runes — the explicit reactive primitives ($state, $derived, $effect, $props) that replace Svelte 4's magic $: syntax and make reactivity predictable, composable, and no longer limited to .svelte files.
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CSS Anchor Positioning: Stop Using JavaScript for Tooltips thumbnail
developmentMay 9, 2026· 4 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 floating elements entirely in CSS, no JavaScript or Floating UI required.
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CSS Customizable Select: Finally Style It Without the Hacks thumbnail
developmentMay 8, 2026· 4 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, and picker pseudo-elements, without sacrificing accessibility or dropping in a JS library.
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Biome: The Fast All-in-One ESLint and Prettier Replacement thumbnail
developmentMay 6, 2026· 3 min
Biome: The Fast All-in-One ESLint and Prettier Replacement
Biome is a Rust-based toolchain that replaces ESLint and Prettier with a single fast binary. Here's what it does well, where it falls short, and how to migrate.
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JavaScript Temporal API: Dates Are Finally Fixed thumbnail
developmentMay 3, 2026· 4 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 arithmetic readable without moment.js or date-fns.
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