Loren Stewart

We all could use a refresher on all the HTML tags and their usage

AI is horrible at creating code that matches a design. Sure it can produce UIs when few requirements are there, but producing a pixel perfect design just isn’t happening yet. Kinda happy about that honestly

The death of browsing is part of the reason art is the way it is now. Our opinions are largely fed to us by algorithms. Spending a spare 15 minutes wandering around a bookstore or comic shop or video rental place was how you found stuff you wouldn't ordinarily pick up and thereby expanded your taste

If you want a simple distillation of how broken today's frontend discourse is, consider this component: a YT embed control that talks up how small it is *while assuming you are going to include all of React*; Preact/vanilla/WC compat not mentioned, natch:

github.com/ibrahimcesar/rea…

Andy is a legend, and the course he has produced alongside some brilliant people including his team at @piccalil.li are top notch.

If you have a project in mind for 2026, hit up @set.studio

And/Or maybe make upskilling your Holiday treat to yourself this December!

The Performance Inequality Gap, 2026 - Infrequently Noted Embedded in this year's network and device estimates is hopeful news about the trajectory of devices and networks. It has never been easier to deliver pages quickly, but we are not collectively…

One of my hopes for 2026 is that browser vendors take more responsibility for today's pervasively bad experiences. Nobody wants a slow site, but they also don't want to dismiss a mailing-list pop-up that blocks scrolling. Browsers need to step in:

infrequently.org/2025/11/perf...

From the Poetry community on Reddit Explore this post and more from the Poetry community

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The end of Bukowski’s poem Dinosauria, We is an excellent illustration of the billionaires move to space trope.

Yesterday at TPAC I publicized my draft proposal for adding a declarative templating API to the DOM.

github.com/justinfagnan...

The repo has:

📖 Explainers for the templating API and DOM scheduler API
🏗️ Full prototype implementations
⚗️ a JSX transform
⚛️ a mini React-like framework

Heads up! I have a big update coming soon. All apps are deployed and I'm testing with playwright now. The overall lesson is the same, but I will include information on CSS strategies as well.

Bundle size is still the major factor but poor use of CSS can destroy an apps performance.

I would say that we should keep it as is. Angular’s strong suit is being batteries-included. If we remove the “batteries”, then we are no longer following Angular conventions

In order to move beyond our industry's recurring dependence on libraries built for yesterday's browsers, we need more standards-based alternatives to the many visually-compelling resources like reactbits.dev. The influence these resources have on decison-making design engineers right now is massive.

Watch @atila.io demonstrate SolidStart's features like "single-flight mutations" and unveils the SolidStart 2.0 roadmap, which involves a deeper integration with Vite's native APIs and a shift towards a more modular, primitive-based architecture

Full video: youtu.be/L0w0bnwzjGg

I love how decorators are used in NestJS.

The update is live!

excellent! i'll run the metrics scripts, regenerate the chart, and update the post

::view-transition-group(*) { animation-duration: 3000ms; } ::view-transition-group(*) { outline: 1px solid blue } ::view-transition-image-pair(*) { outline: 1px solid yellow } ::view-transition-old(*) { outline: 1px solid red } ::view-transition-new(*) { outline: 1px solid green }

This little snippet made debugging view transitions a lot easier

And thanks to all the maintainers who helped me!

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i'll take it

It’s still in (pre?) alpha with no docs. I’m very very curious!

Thanks Robert! I just discovered Marko myself and I’m excited about it

*often downloaded in full. The main concern I have is seeing all these apps that are ~2MB. That's a terrible load experience out in the wild.

You guessed right, there are two separate apps (public facing vs agent facing). Since we're working on it frequently (deploying frequently), initial load is has to be downloaded in full.

JavaScript top-level await is no longer considered 'baseline' due to a pretty big Safari bug caniuse.com/mdn-javascri...

The module graph fails in cases where two modules import a third at the same time. Demo: random-stuff.jakearchibald.com/bug-repros/t...

It's best to avoid the feature for now 😔

Service workers are great and can be used with MPAs!

You’re thinking the consumer side of the app. The agent side is more focused on data. You can certainly manipulate images but that is only a small part of what agents are doing

Do you mind submitting a PR? I'm happy to run the metrics scripts and regenerate the chart in the post once the new code is in

@solidjs.com @svelte.dev @qwik.dev @nuxt.com @vuejs.org @nextjs.org @analogjs.org

Thanks to @infrequently.org for reading an earlier draft!

I built the same app 10 times: evaluating frameworks for mobile performance

New post!

www.lorenstew.art/blog/10-kanb...