You No Longer Need JavaScript

CSS has evolved dramatically and become pleasant to write with QOL features like nesting, relative colors, and new viewport units. Lyra shows how CSS-only solutions load faster, consume less battery, and provide smoother user experiences, especially on low-end devices and high-refresh displays.

By Lyra Rebane →

An Interactive Guide to TanStack DB

TanStack DB introduces Collections, Live Queries, and Transactional Mutations to solve Query's relationship and optimistic update challenges. The new primitives offer SQL-like APIs for filtering and joining data, while mutations become optimistic by default with automatic rollback capabilities. TanStackDB can be adopt incrementally without backend changes.

By Maxi Ferreira →

Why Do Browsers Throttle JavaScript Timers

JavaScript timer abuse led browsers to implement 4ms minimum delays and aggressive background tab throttling. Learn how modern scheduling APIs provide precise control without the performance penalties of legacy setTimeout.

By Nolan Lawson →

Apple's Liquid Glass Shatters Typography

What looks innovative actually demonstrates how not to handle typography in user interfaces. Users must dig into accessibility settings to find "Reduce Transparency" to make text actually readable. This approach treats accessibility as an add-on instead of building it into the core design from the start.

By Oliver Schöndorfer →

Ripple 

Ripple is a TypeScript UI framework combining React, Solid, and Svelte features with reactive state management using $ prefixed variables, JSX-like syntax, component-based architecture, and fine-grained rendering for high performance.

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StyleSpark 

StyleSpark generates design systems, curated color palettes, HDR gradients, and extracts colors from images to help create designs with precision.

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GitHub Script

GitHub Script is a GitHub Action that enables writing JavaScript workflows using the GitHub API and workflow context, providing pre-authenticated clients and access to Actions toolkit packages for automating repository tasks.

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