Stefan Judis

Web Weekly — your friendly web dev newsletter.

You know the drill. 🫣

I'm just about to get ready to sit down to write this week's Web Weekly newsletter. If you're into webdev news close to the platform (you know vanilla HTML, CSS and JS), join the fun. 👇

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If it helps also happy to jump on call or give feedback. :)

Alex asked me how I record, edit and publish my YouTube videos, so I wrote down my process and setup. Maybe it's valuable for someone.

www.stefanjudis.com/blog/how-i-r...

How I record, edit and publish YouTube videos My video recording process and setup.

Here you go. 👇

www.stefanjudis.com/blog/how-i-r...

I'm unsure if I'll use this, though, because it feels very busy to me and I've already pretty nice auto-completion thanks to my ZSH setup 🤷

💡 Quick VS Code tip: if you use the built-in terminal, there's a new preview feature: IntelliSense for terminal auto-completion.

Flip these two flags in your `settings.json` to turn it on:

```
"terminal.integrated.shellIntegration.enabled": true,
"terminal.integrated.suggest.enabled": true,
```

👇

That's helpful. Thanks!

haha... 🫣

Do you have any more questions Alex? I've a fairly chilled day today and blogging about my video flow has been on the list for ages, so I might give it a shot today.

YouTube video by stefan judis Import maps work in Node.js since v14!

💡 TIL: Import maps are a thing in Node.js. And they're supported since v14 (we're currently on v22 LTS).

www.youtube.com/shorts/VChlk...

A funny blob hanging out of a washing machine.

This might not be the most efficient or best way to remove the background from photos, but I promise it'll be the most satisfying one.

tools.dverso.io/bgremove/

No biggie. I have the code still in front of me. ;)

VS Code autocompleting a custom import path

As far as I tested it, VS Code does yes. 🎉

YouTube video by stefan judis Import maps work in Node.js since v14!

💡 TIL: Import maps are a thing in Node.js. And they're supported since v14 (we're currently on v22 LTS).

www.youtube.com/shorts/VChlk...

Web Weekly 164 - The aria-label translation problem - Speculation rules - The anatomy of a web component - Logical assignment operators - The State of HTML survey - Stacked CSS transforms

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If you want to stay up to date with the web platform (you know— good old HTML, JS, and CSS), you should check it out. 👇

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Thanks for the shout out Craig. ❤️

Agreed. 🤝

Your Strengths Are Your Weaknesses The qualities you value most in engineers are also creating your biggest problems. Here’s how to handle this paradox.

Saw this one in @stefanjudis.com's Web Weekly newsletter. It's a really interesting read that might change your perspective on each other's strengths and weaknesses in a positive way.

Your Strengths Are Your Weaknesses terriblesoftware.org/2025/03/31/y...

It really does change your thinking, doesn't it? I think about this all the time after reading this article. 😅

Web Weekly 164 - The aria-label translation problem - Speculation rules - The anatomy of a web component - Logical assignment operators - The State of HTML survey - Stacked CSS transforms

The new Web Weekly is about to hit all the inboxes in just a little bit. 📫 🥂

If you want to stay up to date with the web platform (you know— good old HTML, JS, and CSS), you should check it out. 👇

www.stefanjudis.com/blog/web-wee...

Web Weekly — Your friendly web dev newsletter.

I took a bit of a break but I'm at my desk already to write the next Web Weekly.

If Frontend news very close to the platform (you know HTML, CSS & JS) are you thing, you should check it out. 👇

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Web Weekly — Your friendly web dev newsletter.

I took a bit of a break but I'm at my desk already to write the next Web Weekly.

If Frontend news very close to the platform (you know HTML, CSS & JS) are you thing, you should check it out. 👇

webweekly.email

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A ❤️ for RSS.

> Using RSS is a way to regain control over the information you read online. 💯

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Thx @molly.wiki

Sorry to hear that. :/ I hope you keep writing because I think you publish good stuff! 🫵

👋 Not sure I follow. May I ask what privileges we're talking about? 😅

Version 26 Safari 26.0 Beta Release Notes Released July 7, 2025 — 26.0 beta (20622.1.18) Version 18 Safari 18.6 Beta Release Notes Released July 1, 2025 — 18.6 beta (20621.3.7)

I can't be the only one being constantly confused about the Safari version jump from 18.6 to 26, can I?

My brain sees "26", and is like "Huh?!" and it takes like ten seconds until I remember the change. 😅

fun news! I was laid off from Twilio.

going to take this weekend to chill out, and will start looking for roles next week.

if you or someone you know is looking for staff/principal level Developer Advocacy, OSPO, dev infra, or similar roles pass them along!

reposts from tech folks appreciated <3

Senior Backend Engineer - Toronto, ON - Indeed.com vlt technology inc.

So what now? I've gone with the best of the worst & made an "unpromoted" job on Indeed for free (because that's a thing you can do there, unlike LinkedIn). If you know anyone in the GTA that likes server-side JS or likes what we're doing at vlt.sh, please share: ca.indeed.com/job/senior-b...

"Sorta"; bachelor of science in "Media Computing" (Medieninformatik). I had some web courses but the majority was about programming basics (Java, C++), exotic things like video editing & 3d modeling, and some ethics.

It was good to get me hooked but pretty useless to get me ready for the industry.

Yes, this makes sense. :)

re the reading list: I learned about this feature when I was done, looking at the final summary. 🤦‍♂️

That's probably on me, but yeah... Read later definitely helps out here. :)

State of HTML 2025 Take the State of HTML survey

Alright, I skipped some things at the end because they're not for me (USB, Payment, NFC, etc)...

But, as always, the survey is time worth spend to learn about new stuff, but also to tell browser vendors about your pain points. Go and fill it out now. 🫵 ✌️

survey.devographics.com/en-US/survey...