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React Won by Default—and It’s Killing Frontend Innovation, by @cheddybop.bsky.social: https://www.lorenstew.art/blog/react-won-by-default #react #svelte #solidjs #qwik #frameworks

A Progressive Complexity Manifesto, by @cheddybop.bsky.social: https://www.lorenstew.art/blog/progressive-complexity-manifesto #manifestos #complexity #webapps #html #htmx

Great article by @cheddybop.bsky.social about front-end frameworks and innovation in this field. Give it a read! www.lorenstew.art/blog/react-w...

📰 Firefox just landed support for native CSS Modules! 🥳 Here's Firefox Nightly with layout.css.module-scripts.enabled running a Codepen that uses standard CSS modules. codepen.io/justinfagnan... * *updated from @chriscoyier.net's original That makes Chrome & Firefox w/ support. Next up Safari 🙏

How fast is fast enough? I'll be exploring this question in my #PerfNow keynote. I hope to see you there! And if you have your own thoughts on this question, I'd love to hear them! #webperf #sitespeed #pagespeed #ux

"It’s time to choose frameworks based on constraints and merit rather than momentum." – @cheddybop.bsky.social Amen 👏 www.lorenstew.art/blog/react-w... #webplatform #webdev #webperf

reading: React Won by Default – And It's Killing Frontend Innovation by @cheddybop.bsky.social www.lorenstew.art/blog/react-w... — some excellent counter arguments to the network effect here 👍

🚀 3.0.0-beta.5 🎨 Added color generation to Theme Builder (pro) 📐 <wa-icon> now works with @fontawesome.com 7 👀 Added <wa-intersection-observer> component 💬 Added the Hindi translation 🐛 Various bug fixes and improvements Changelog: webawesome.com/docs/resourc...

I wrote a post about testable, production-ready middleware for @astro.build . The same concepts can be used in most backend frameworks in JS/TS, Golang, Java, etc. The main idea is the port/adapter pattern. www.lorenstew.art/blog/product...

@mk.gg I am very interested in helping get Lit integration back in Astro. I've seen this page docs.astro.build/en/guides/in... and the link to the code here github.com/withastro/as... Might you or another maintainer be able to help me get started?

Hard to call this engineering, let alone overengineering, because engineering is the practice of designing solutions to problems for users under known constraints. GoFundMe, instead, pretended those constraints didn't exist, and produced bullshit as a result: infrequently.org/2024/11/if-not-r…

Hey y’all! I publish an @htmx.bsky.social extension for declarative optimistic updates: hx-optimistic If you’re an HTMX user, I’d love to hear your thoughts. www.lorenstew.art/blog/hx-opti...

Sundays should be followed by Sunday #2

SvelteKit 3 will drop 17% of dependencies thanks to new APIs now available directly in Node. We could drop another 17% if Node were to add support for cookie parsing and serialization.

🥳 CSS functions have arrived*!!! 🥳 And they are *AWESOME* Now, you can do: @​function --alpha(--color, --opacity) { result: rgb(from var(--color) r g b / var(--opacity)); } div { background: --alpha(red, 80%); } Lean more: una.im/5-css-functi... (*arrived = in the latest stable Chrome)

For our friends in later timezones: pre-orders for JavaScript for Everyone are available now. Get a pre-order copy for £149, saving £100 off the full price of £249 for two weeks only. Pre-orders close again after August 26, 2025. piccalilli.link/js4e-pre-ord...

This post is the culmination of my thinking about (and building) SPA-like apps w minimal JS for the last 2 yrs The ideas are informed in large part by the @infrequently.org blog posts and talks Thanks @htmx.bsky.social and @astro.build for building great tools. www.lorenstew.art/blog/progres...

we just released SvelteKit remote functions. feel like 'minor change' undersells it a little tbh ✅ await in components svelte.dev/docs/svelte/... ✅ remote functions svelte.dev/docs/kit/rem... 🔜 async SSR truly can't wait to ship the rest of this stuff

This essential post by @tammyeverts.com chimes with my experiences; teams I talk with don't understand that there are huge gains to be had when they finally get perf under thresholds that they think of as "impossible" with today's JS-laden stacks: speedcurve.com/blog/web-perform…

> Peak CPU performance was probably hit in 2017. With that perspective, you start... (ahem)... "rethinking best practices". @infrequently.org's @jsnation.gitnation.org talk is pretty worthwhile and digs into the CPU limitations of the main thread. gitnation.com/contents/pro...

The video for that talk is here: gitnation.com/contents/project… And a corresponding blog post about the clashing cultures I saw is here: infrequently.org/2025/06/conferen…

New post inspired by @infrequently.org 's JS Nation talk. I hope y'all find it helpful. www.lorenstew.art/blog/always-...

Apologies, this should have been stated more clearly. This plan will hike your monthly payments. But the average family would see their payments hiked nearly $5,000 *PER YEAR*

Shout out to all the finance bros who didn’t give a shit about democracy, human rights, racism, homophobia, misogyny, the future of the planet or basic human decency and voted for the conman they thought was gonna be good for the economy. You guys are geniuses.

@infrequently.org I’ve been digging into your work to put together some training for devs at my job. I want to be accurate, so I’m wondering if this statement is true: “Building your UI with JS rather than HTML is trading C++/Rust performance for JS performance.”

You should not be using React[1], but if you do, *absolutely* avoid Next.js: eduardoboucas.com/posts/2025-03-25… [1]: infrequently.org/2024/11/if-not-r…

Your wiki is not an SPA. If it comes with a copy of React served to every page, throw it out and start over.

So here’s something I totally missed: Cursor’s composer view has an “agent” mode, giving it more autonomy. Instead of being limited to the files you select, it can open other files, look up docs, run terminal commands, etc. I’ve been using it for a few days, and honestly, it’s pretty great. 😮

Love it when bookshops or libraries arrange their books appropriately...

sesame street isn't supposed to make money. the post office isn't supposed to make money. not everything is supposed to MAKE MONEY

UCLA is creating an entirely AI-generated course. Except apparently the grading won't be AI-generated. 🤔 newsroom.ucla.edu/stories/comp...