I don't recall any previous transformative technologies that had to be sold to the public so hard. No one in 1999 was going, "Guys. Cell phone? It's coming, whether we like it or not. I think it's important, FOR WOMEN ESPECIALLY, to learn about cell phone. So that we're not left behind!!"

54 days, not quite as good of a run this time…

Declarative data fetching in libs like (p)react really just isn't it... seeing "add an effect" or "add another intermediary state value" from maintainers and face palming as that's far worse for app health than offering a decent imperative API.

This is a fun read leehanchung.github.io/blogs/2026/0...

A gentle reminder that while `pnpm install` (or `bun install`) doesn't run the lifecycle scripts of the dependencies by default, it *does* run them from the repo's own package.json. Let's be mindful when cloning and exploring all those new & exciting projects on our local machines.

We don't need to speed up production. We need to slow down. We don't need to write code faster. We need to think through what we write. We've spent decades working to ship faster, and that's landed us in a world of hurt. Build better products, not faster.

Can someone wake me up when people want to build software for people again? These numbers aren't surprising given the general consensus that software seems to work less and be more error prone across the board.

Shoutout all those dorks who said AI would “fix accessibility”

this is turning out to be one of the onion's all-time classics

After remembering the 'Feed' page exists on GitHub, I wrote myself a little user script to swap out the home page for it and I'm quite happy with that. After months of using it, I find the new home page to be rather bleak; it's a never-ending list of (old) PRs and issues that only really builds.

p75 and p90 JavaScript bytes on the web have exploded since May, 2025—easily the largest 10 month period based on HTTP Archive data since 2023. The long-tail is getting worse, very quickly. Gemini, what happened in May 2025?

It'd be swell if bluesky could actually use anchor tags instead of divs w/ onclick handlers everywhere for navigation, I'd often like to open posts in new tabs but can't easily do that (middle or right click) thanks to current setup

🚨 Calling all web devs: flood the internet with blog posts on why browsers should have a per-site color scheme preference Then send them to Bramus

Spec proposal merged. HTML video and audio lazy loading is now a web standard. github.com/whatwg/html/... html.spec.whatwg.org#the-video-el... html.spec.whatwg.org#the-audio-el...

Yesterday was my last day at Deno. It's rare you get to work with so many highly skilled peers in one place, but I'll be now cheering from the sidelines. Not sure yet what comes yet. I'm officially looking for a job now!

The most disturbing aspect of the AI era is realizing how many people have only ever valued others for their labor and not their humanity.

After a few months of using it, the process of needing `npm login` first prior to `npm publish` (and using the exact same TOTP for both, if you're quick enough) is still incredibly frivolous. What a useless bit of security theater.

github status is getting fucking rediculus.

Found a bot account on GitHub that has created over 620 discussions in the past 24 hours and for some insane reason, GitHub just allows that. No real account history, doing it across hundreds of orgs/repos. It's the big ol' signal fire of a spam bot yet there it roams. Do better GitHub.

🆕 The URL Pattern API is Newly Available! Use it to match and extract parts of URLs, no need to reinvent routing logic. Supports literals, wildcards, named groups, and even regex constraints. Learn how it works 👇 developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/...

We've released an ESLint and OXLint plugin for preact-signals, most of the current rules are footguns we have fallen into ourselves or have seen the issue often. Go try it out! github.com/preactjs/sig...

It has been ~173~ 0 days since a service worker got stuck & continually served outdated content. I want to like service workers, and I'm sure this particular situation is user error, but they seem to always fall far short of what I hope for every time I reach for one.

Current side project I'm working on has built up 14 different `.safari-x-is-bad` classes with hacks to work around their divergent behavior. All are things the Safari team has refused to align on too so I guess I'm stuck with this forever; this is the state of the web when monopolies are allowed.

It's been really liberating finding good time slots to work on Preact and its ecosystem. Some of the recent things that came to be

👋 my recent contracts have ended (and my buffer’s running a bit thin) so I’m looking for what’s next spent the last year focused on OSS work, which I’ve loved, and now open to new opportunities! if you’re looking for a dev, pls to reach out! I've shared more about how I work below 🫡

What are people missing in Preact? I have been going out of my way to provide libraries where I can to help people get unblocked.

Is Safari ever going to stop requesting `apple-touch-icon-precomposed.png`? It has served no purpose since iOS 7 but to this day, if you open the 'Share' menu, Safari will blindly request it. I feel like that can be trimmed out now.

All this interop stuff with scroll events, scroll snapping, etc. Think someone could sneak in a fix for locking body scrolling on ios? github.com/adobe/react-... Look at `usePreventScroll` from React Aria which is probably one of the most robust solutions...like how is this still a problem...

Twice a year I get contacted by someone who believes they've solved open source funding. It's usually a new app or licensing scheme. Both miss the point. Most companies see sponsoring open source as "charity" or an unnecessary expense, and until that changes, no solution will make a difference.

Woke up this morning to a dozen notifications from @jovidecroock.com advancing @preactjs.com & its integrations. He’s often single-handedly pushing the ecosystem forward and I wanted to show some appreciation on behalf of all users — without him, Preact would be no where near as successful.

to make a slightly grander statement, two things people should do more often: - read and write your own dependencies - vendor code rather than installing it from npm

Well, we shipped it! @preactjs.com is joining the party with an official @tanstack.com Query adapter 🎉 Huge shoutout to @thvdnta.bsky.social, who drove this effort 🙌 Welcome, @preactjs.com 👋

Models is worth calling out separately, it's something we introduced in signals to allow separating your logic from the view. preactjs.com/guide/v10/si...

Here is one of the dumbest things about vibe coding that I don't see a lot of people talking about Imagine you're an open source maintainer and someone opens up a pull request against your repository that they vibe coded. They may or may not tell you they vibe coded it; it doesn't really matter… 🧵

opening github links on mobile is exciting, it’s broken in a new and different way every single day now

I think it's time for unopinionated formatters to make a comeback. After quite a few years of reading code, most people will build preferences for how they structure certain things for better readability in the future; this is deeply subjective and we all differ to a sizable degree. Adhering

Blink: Intent to Prototype: Lazy loading for video and audio elements

The new update to signals-debug and the devtools now includes highlights of computeds/signals causing component re-renders! Play with it at stackblitz.com/edit/vitejs-...

Wanted to see whether preact could finally replace insertBefore with moveBefore but turns out... it's still broken issues.chromium.org/issues/45482...

Just a PSA: "muted" text colors should be used extremely sparingly for footnotes and asides on the web, it should not be the standard color for the entire site. When only the title of a page has passing contrast, the page becomes a mess of muddled grays with no obvious place for focus to land.

"SAFARIIII", he screams, after battling a bug (and the complete lack of visibility that Apple gives to iOS devices) that was caused by the lack of support for `requestIdleCallback`. It's only been 10 years guys, c'mon.

Droppin' this here for anyone else who has absolutely 0 interest in GitHub's new "Agents" tab added to the top of every repo: github.com/orgs/communi...

UI toolkits .. sometimes feel like having ultra processed food paulmakeswebsites.com/writing/shad...

I've never bumped treesitter without immediately regretting it. Whilst I'm appreciative of what those maintainers do, at least once a quarter my editor becomes unrecognizable and I have to decide to downgrade or spend hours clawing back my old config. Fundamental grammar shouldn't often change.

The debugging experience in signals should be great, I've been working a lot on it and I would like to share some first versions of the debugging improvements I've been working on. Feedback and contributions are always appreciated! jovidecroock.com/blog/signals...

64% of WebKit non-Apple contributions, 20% of Chromium non-Google, 27% of Servo, 39% of test262, and it goes on. And doing all this as a worker-owned, employee-run cooperative. The world would be a very different place if companies like Igalia were the norm rather than the exception in tech.

Released a new markdown rendering library for Preact called preact-md. It currently uses the general unified remark/rehype by default and sanitises inputs.

Some friction is healthy in our online interactions. You shouldn't be able to send a bug report without a reproduction. You shouldn't be able to create a PR without understanding the issue (and the solution). You should (try to) be aware of their context before replying to an unknown person online.

To recap, NPM allows 2FA TOTP token reuse within the token’s validity window. I reported this and was told it’s a “known low-risk issue” and that they “don’t consider this to present a significant security risk.” So, let’s look at how this seemingly small issue could be leveraged by a phisher. 1/

Just show the prompt and save us all time and resources. distantprovince.by/posts/its-ru...