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Definitely worthwhile reading these anecdotes from actual tech works with boots on the ground:

Still a week left to take the State of CSS survey! The survey hasn't got as many responses as last year, so any help sharing will be much appreciated :) survey.devographics.com/en-US/survey...

Very interesting results from the first State of Devs survey: 2025.stateofdevs.com/en-US

Some great tips on things to avoid in JavaScript, and alternatives to use instead: waspdev.com/articles/202...

Good points about lint rules, suppressions of suppressions: overreacted.io/suppressions...

Oxlint sounds like a very promising alternative to ESLint: voidzero.dev/posts/announ...

I definitely still love React and I'm excited about its future. Some good insights here: blog.isquaredsoftware.com/2025/06/reac...

Neat!

What engineers get wrong about communication: newsletter.posthog.com/p/what-engin...

The 2025 State of CSS survey is now open! survey.devographics.com/en-US/survey...

TIL you can style image alt text: piccalil.li/blog/you-can...

This is cool, a "hold to delete" button: emilkowal.ski/ui/building-... Probably doesn't make much sense from an accessibility standpoint though.

It eeems like dissatisfaction with the status quo has led to an interesting transitional period for React meta frameworks and other web frameworks πŸ€”

How well do you know JavaScript? Guess the output in this tricky quiz! I knew a couple of these, but they're all really tricky πŸ˜… douiri.org/quizzes/java...

People love to complain about anything that's popular. This website explains in a humorous (and profane) manner why you should get over it and "Just Fucking Use React" πŸ˜‚ justfuckingusereact.com

An interesting breakdown of generator functions in JavaScript: macarthur.me/posts/genera...

Gotta be careful when buying produce. I bought some apples from the Product of Ontario section, and just noticed that two out of three actually have an American sticker. Annoying!

Congratulations Australia on your election result! Elbows up! πŸ‡¦πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦

A really cool explanation of React Server Components (and beyond): what does "use client" do? overreacted.io/what-does-us...

Definitely excited to try building with Astro at some point! Here's another compelling reason: alan.norbauer.com/articles/ast...

React useEffect callbacks in child components always run before those in their parent components: frontendmasters.com/blog/react-i...

Interesting! You can serialize a promise in React: twofoldframework.com/blog/you-can...

This year's State of Devs 2025 survey is now open! survey.devographics.com/survey/state...

Avoiding Skill Atrophy in the Age of AI: addyo.substack.com/p/avoiding-s...

Some interesting musings on AI, "AI ambivalence": nolanlawson.com/2025/04/02/a...

Good vs great animations: emilkowal.ski/ui/good-vs-g...

Thank you Canada for uniting when it counts β™₯️ πŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦ The win by Mark Carney's Liberals is a huge relief compared to the alternative.

Huge and very consequential day πŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦. Make it count! πŸ—³οΈ

A great watch: www.youtube.com/watch?v=49-X...

It's great seeing more and more alternatives to American products in stores, and selling better than the American products πŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦

If you haven't voted yet, make sure you vote on Monday! πŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦ www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4io...

An interesting take on the present and future of AI: koomen.dev/essays/horse...

Some good tips on securing your GitHub actions: blog.rafaelgss.dev/securing-git...

Summary of survey results for the state of web dev AI: dev.to/sachagreif/w...

Extremely long wait at my local voting location. Hopefully that bodes well for voter turnout! πŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦

Advance polling starts today. They will be open tomorrow, Sunday, and Monday as well. If you can’t vote on Election Day (April 28), be sure to vote in the advance polls. This election is too important to sit out.

Carousels are always annoying to work with, this one looks pretty nice: www.embla-carousel.com

Whoa this looks useful, a natural language date parser: github.com/wanasit/chrono

A nice quick breakdown of the JavaScript nullish coalescing (??) operator and how it compares to the logical OR (||) operator: allthingssmitty.com/2025/04/10/m...

Some features that every JavaScript developer should know in 2025: waspdev.com/articles/202...

5 GitHub actions every maintainer needs to know: github.blog/open-source/...

Some interesting experimentation with CSS-only blurry image placeholders: leanrada.com/notes/css-on...

An interesting breakdown of the front-end and full-stack job market right now: tsev.dev/posts/2025-0...

Finished another side project! Think you have what it takes to solve the affordable housing crisis? Prove it in this incremental clicker game! housingsolver.com

Nearly 5 years after graduating from web development bootcamp, I've been promoted to Senior Software Engineer! πŸŽ‰

Another short Carney ad with Mike Meyers: m.youtube.com/watch?v=NVR9...

Another great ad: m.youtube.com/watch?v=al9y...

Had a decent first experience using Hovr instead of Uber/Lyft. #ElbowsUp