What is so wrong with having AI *help us program* instead of replacing us as programmers? Is programming really that bad now that we’ve needed to avoid doing it but just couldn’t till now?

Another benefit of GTS vs other authoring... No "hooks need to be run at first render". Walking through some React code lessons and seeing `useEffect` or component boundaries added just to get around this limitation. In GTS as long as you're not in the teardown you can reference new reactive state

I feel this so much right now!

Vim is part of my identity. I experience great joy using #Vim. I have survived many editor wars. Back then, the Emacs church fought us. Then the IDEs tried to concur us. Then the WYSIWYG crowd tried. Then the Sublime/Atom bros. Then the VS Code cult. And today it’s the AI Agents.

Safari! Release the “using” keyword in #javascript Safari is the last hold out among all the runtimes and has had it in the tech previews for almost a year now! Apple: the “using” keyword isn't a preview feature anymore; it's the standard. Ship it.

"Hay que usar la IA en nuestros desarrollos"

“Trying to predict anything AI related feels like trying to figure out what I did wrong to upset my [partner] this time.” 😲 Peak truth! 👏 youtu.be/46PcZ47StDA?...

Did you know in #vim when you run a :term that is can receive instructions and data via ANSI escape codes that the editor can use? vimhelp.org/terminal.txt...

Spread vs Rest Operators in JavaScript Hello readers 👋, welcome to the 23rd blog in this JavaScript series! In the last post, we discovered how async/await makes asynchronous code feel as natura... #javascript #rest #spread Origin | Interest | Match

I’ve built a far amount of content heavy interactive web pages and I did so with manual HTML editing. I enjoyed it and did not find the HTML difficult to work with. Yet so many tools work so hard to hide HTML in favor of other formats like Markdown etc. Am I OK? Do I need help?

I also have this fear. If anything about the last 50 years of tech has taught us is that poor quality is never a deterrent to cutting corners or doing harm.

Gravity is a renewable resource and we should use it more often.

As of latest Safari Tech Preview (242) support for the dialog closedby attribute is enabled (not enabled for stable yet). If people could give it a test that would be a great help! developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/W...

Read it! Use it! Love it! #JavaScript

Here's a little party trick. Do you know that you can use `Intl` to format numbers with units and currencies? 😅 You're welcome. :) https://www.stefanjudis....

Teaching software engineering has officially FAILED! If you notice most devs of a certain age say AI will help but not replace developers. Meanwhile, younger devs seem to claim AI will eliminate developers. There seems to be a fundamental misunderstanding of software engineering happening here.

Every software team will eventually face a heart-stopping mistake, whether it is a developer accidentally deleting live data during a migration or a junior ops engineer unplugging a production server to use a vacuum cleaner... 😬

I feel I need to put my gen AI on a PIP.

The "Anyone can code" movement (2010s) coincided with a $2.4T technical debt crisis. By democratizing coding without emphasizing engineering fundamentals, we may have traded accessibility for quality. 40% of IT budgets now go to fixing rushed code. kagi.com/assistant/c2...

In light of the NPM supply chain attacks I like to highlight @tiddlywiki.bsky.social as a fantastic full featured wiki with ZERO dependencies!

after much deliberation and giving AI the benefit of the doubt, Wikipedia editors have had enough of AI slop. New policy bans LLM generated content, periodt www.404media.co/wikipedia-ba...

It would be nice if browser automatically load the WebAssembly modules, bind the native web APIs directly (without any JS glue code), and run the module. We could write the code for web apps in any language and then compile it to a WASM. hacks.mozilla.org/2026/02/maki... #wasm #webdev #javascript

"Sunk costs." Is they just MAGA harder, they'll get there. There's got to be a pony under so much bullshit.

marcosmagueta.com/blog/the-los... An absolutely perfect historical opinion. Well done.

... when the puriteens in the fandom get like this, I admit, I do have thoughts of "I have fursonas are older than you."

class … extends EventTarget {} class … extends Event {} Vastly underutilized #JavaScript event mechanics worth having in your tool belt.

I’ve only been shouting this message at the top of the mountain for decades now. youtube.com/shorts/sURAR...

I am so tiered of hearing “seems like a good AI project” for simple things that already have a solution but people could not be arsed to bother.

🦖 Random MDN: AsyncDisposableStack.prototype.defer() 🦖 https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/AsyncDisposableStack/defer The defer() method of AsyncDisposableStack instances takes a callback function to be called and awaited when the… #webdev #JavaScript

Real talk - I’m mostly over functions as a concept. When everything is the same thing factoring, maintainability and composability suffer.

I was thinking this same thing just the other day!

Snake oil gonna snake oil. 🤷‍♂️

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Remember her name: Aliya Rahman Her testimony is everything and it deserves to be heard, by everyone. Decide for yourself. It’s powerful. It’s gut-wrenching. And no one should have to survive what she did. ICE MUST GO‼️

🦖 Random MDN: WritableStream 🦖 https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/WritableStream The WritableStream interface of the Streams API provides a standard abstraction for writing streaming data to a destination, known as a sink. This object comes with built-in backpressure and q… #webdev

Now I know enough about AI to grok what MCP is, it irritates me because fundamentally: Make a cli tool instead! Then a human can use it too. It’s not stateless? That’s what unix sockets are for! Once again we’re reinventing stuff from the 70s and making it worse.

Why is the YouTube app so bad at playing videos?

Tools don’t make great software, thinking does, and every time we outsource understanding to a tool, whether it’s a framework or an AI, we quietly accept worse outcomes later.

AI coding tools like Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Cursor, and ChatGPT are changing how we write software... but are they actually improving long-term software quality, or just accelerating short-term output? We ran a study of 150 software engineer's to find out... WATCH ➡️ youtu.be/b9EbCb5A408

Frustrated with having to escape escape sequences in #JavaScript strings? Try String.raw, the only built-in template tag in the entire language! It processes template tag substitutions like ${foo}, but no escape sequences. 👉 developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/W... #webdev

If the general/popular opinion on the backend is «JavaScript sucks» and we need «less JavaScript» why do so many APIs require forms to be preprocessed through JavaScript to convert the FormData into a JSON payload before calling fetch?

It is up to us to hold our industry to a higher standard, not just relying on AI tools to write the future of software, while we passively sit by. It has always been crucial for engineers to evolve their understanding of the fundamental principles and now is no different.

Can you imagine the fallout if C-Suites had to go through the same mountain of red-tape software developers go through to make a change to their Word Documents?!

Blogged: Code Cleanliness "My first encounter with cleanliness in code: […] Kernighan and Plauger’s 1978 book, The Elements of Programming Style (2nd edition). […] The idea of clean code has been around in one form or another for at least half a century." kevlinhenney.medium.com/code-cleanli...

JavaScript trademark update: - Oracle requested (and we agreed to) a 60-day extension in the cancellation case ttabvue.uspto.gov/ttabvue/v?pn... - We’re deep in discovery, producing extensive evidence that “JavaScript” is used generically across the industry and does not refer to Oracle products.