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Error chaining in JavaScript: cleaner debugging with Error.cause - Matt Smith Use JavaScript

Error.cause for cleaner error handling - JavaScript keeps getting better at the fundamentals!

https://allthingssmitty.com/2025/11/10/error-chaining-in-javascript-cleaner-debugging-with-error-cause/

You Need To Become A Full Stack Person · Den Delimarsky AI tools are commoditizing single-skill roles. The future belongs to people who can think, build, and ship across the entire stack.

T-shaped is dead, long live π-shaped - two deep spikes on a broad base is the new career moat!

https://den.dev/blog/full-stack-person/

40 years of wisdom distilled into pure career gold - it's not a sprint, it's a diary!

https://codefol.io/posts/the-forty-year-programmer/

GitHub - microsoft/SandDance: Visually explore, understand, and present your data. Visually explore, understand, and present your data. - microsoft/SandDance

Microsoft's visual data exploration tool - exploring data has never looked this good!

https://github.com/microsoft/SandDance

GitHub - iagooar/qqqa: Fast, stateless LLM for your shell: qq answers; qa runs commands Fast, stateless LLM for your shell: qq answers; qa runs commands - iagooar/qqqa

Fast stateless LLM for your shell - qq answers, qa runs commands!

https://github.com/iagooar/qqqa

GitHub - toon-format/toon: 🎒 Token-Oriented Object Notation (TOON) – Compact, human-readable, schema-aware JSON for LLM prompts. Spec, benchmarks, TypeScript SDK. 🎒 Token-Oriented Object Notation (TOON) – Compact, human-readable, schema-aware JSON for LLM prompts. Spec, benchmarks, TypeScript SDK. - toon-format/toon

JSON for LLM prompts at half the tokens - every token saved is money saved!

https://github.com/toon-format/toon

GitHub - privatenumber/type-flag: ⛳️ Typed command-line arguments parser for Node.js ⛳️ Typed command-line arguments parser for Node.js - privatenumber/type-flag

Bringing type safety to command-line parsing - finally!

https://github.com/privatenumber/type-flag

High-Performance Syntax Highlighting with CSS Highlights API Learn how to implement blazing-fast code syntax highlighting using the CSS Custom Highlight API without creating DOM nodes for each token.

CSS Custom Highlight API for syntax highlighting - browser APIs keep getting better!

https://pavi2410.com/blog/high-performance-syntax-highlighting-with-css-highlights-api/

The overlooked power of URLs - finally someone appreciating the fundamentals!

https://alfy.blog/2025/10/31/your-url-is-your-state.html

Immutable releases are now generally available - GitHub Changelog GitHub releases now support immutability, adding a new layer of supply chain security. With immutable releases, assets and tags are protected from tampering after publication, so the software you publish—and…

GitHub adds supply chain security with tamper-proof releases - no more tag manipulation!

https://github.blog/changelog/2025-10-28-immutable-releases-are-now-generally-available/

From micro to macro management in coding - the async future is here!

https://addyo.substack.com/p/conductors-to-orchestrators-the-future

Comprehensive case study with real performance benchmarks and cost analysis - the Rust migration guide everyone needs!

https://wxiaoyun.com/blog/rust-rewrite-case-study/

Solved By Modern CSS: Section Layout Building a typical section design with modern CSS.

Container queries, grid, and subgrid working together - this is modern CSS layout done right!

https://ishadeed.com/article/modern-css-section-layout

A competition celebrating terrible design - sometimes you need to laugh at the pain!

https://badux.lol/

A competition celebrating terrible design - sometimes you need to laugh at the pain!

https://badux.lol/

GitHub - shajidhasan/spoilerjs: A framework-agnostic web component for creating beautiful spoiler effects with Telegram-inspired particle animations. A framework-agnostic web component for creating beautiful spoiler effects with Telegram-inspired particle animations. - shajidhasan/spoilerjs

Loving this effect!

https://github.com/shajidhasan/spoilerjs

GitHub - skatkov/devtui: A Swiss-army app for developers A Swiss-army app for developers. Contribute to skatkov/devtui development by creating an account on GitHub.

One TUI to rule them all - bringing together the tools terminal developers actually use daily!

https://github.com/skatkov/devtui

GitHub - sgb-io/fta: Rust-based static analysis for TypeScript projects Rust-based static analysis for TypeScript projects - sgb-io/fta

TypeScript analysis in Rust - finally someone bringing proper performance to the TS tooling ecosystem!

https://github.com/sgb-io/fta

GitHub - aidenybai/react-grab: Grab any element on in your app and give it to Cursor, Claude Code, etc Grab any element on in your app and give it to Cursor, Claude Code, etc - aidenybai/react-grab

Drag elements straight into your AI editor - this is the developer UX innovation we needed!

https://github.com/aidenybai/react-grab

Octoverse: A new developer joins GitHub every second as AI leads TypeScript to #1 In this year’s Octoverse, we uncover how AI, agents, and typed languages are driving the biggest shifts in software development in more than a decade.

TypeScript overtook Python and JavaScript - this is the biggest language shift in a decade!

https://github.blog/news-insights/octoverse/octoverse-a-new-developer-joins-github-every-second-as-ai-leads-typescript-to-1/

Comprehension debt is the perfect term - you save time upfront but pay it back with interest when debugging!

https://www.cubic.dev/blog/the-real-problem-with-ai-coding

Optimizing repos for AI | Tom Bedor's Blog A colleague recently complained to me about the hassle of organizing information in AGENTS.md / CLAUDE.md. This is the mark of a real adopter - she has gone through the progression from being impressed by coding agents to being annoyed at the next bottleneck.

Practical strategies without the fluff - just for repeated commands and docs/ organization that actually works!

https://tombedor.dev/optimizing-repos-for-ai/

39x bundle size difference! This is the framework comparison we've been waiting for - real data without the hype!

https://www.lorenstew.art/blog/10-kanban-boards

A decade of dotfiles distilled into pure utility - these are the scripts that actually get used daily!

https://evanhahn.com/scripts-i-wrote-that-i-use-all-the-time/

Five comments max per review - finally someone saying it! This is the code review reality check every team needs!

https://www.seangoedecke.com/good-code-reviews/

Kafka is fast -- I Why you should just use Postgres instead of Kafka for small-scale message queuing and pub-sub patterns. Benchmarks and practical tests included.

Comprehensive benchmarks with real production scenarios - this is the Small Data movement with actual data!

https://topicpartition.io/blog/postgres-pubsub-queue-benchmarks

GitHub - vercel/workflow: Workflow DevKit: Build durable, resilient, and observable workflows Workflow DevKit: Build durable, resilient, and observable workflows - vercel/workflow

Functions that pause for months and survive crashes? Durability without the infrastructure complexity!

https://github.com/vercel/workflow

Steve Klabnik is betting on jj - this is getting more and more popular!

https://jj-vcs.github.io/jj/latest/

The price of mandatory code reviews Challenging the unwritten law of software engineering

Challenging the unwritten law with actual data from 400+ companies - quality reviews matter more than quantity!

https://newsletter.manager.dev/p/the-price-of-mandatory-code-reviews

Built-in durability: Introducing Workflow Development Kit - Vercel The Workflow Development Kit (WDK) makes async workflows in TypeScript reliable, durable, fault-tolerant, and portable across any cloud.

Built-in durability as a language concept - this could be huge for AI agents and data pipelines!

https://vercel.com/blog/introducing-workflow