Daniel - Js Craft

I’ve just seen this post. To be honest, I would be extremely happy if I were able to truly study and assimilate only 1 or 2 of these timeless & deep books.

Oh boy, definitely, I need to check this out!

I've updated my popular persona-based AI-assisted programming post with the models I'm currently using for each role.

https://humanwhocodes.co...

Knowledge Work Is Dying—Here’s What Comes Next While AI devours information-based roles, OpenAI, Alphabet, and Apple are investing in wisdom work—and you can, too

This article has one of the best ideas I’ve read recently. Moral of the story: don't compete with AI on marginal improvements & instead, do things it cannot do. Knowledge work is dying, welcome to the age of wisdom work!

every.to/thesis/knowl...

More than your regular Frontend newsletter Web Weekly covers what the web platform gives you – no package.json required.

Happy Monday party people!

You know the drill. 🫣 Later tonight a new Web Weekly will hit all the inboxes!

If you think that knowing and understanding how the web works remains important in the wild times of AI "stuff" (I do at least), you should check it out!

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LLMs with their NLP features are becoming the UI! You won’t need to wrestle with Excel menus or formulas anymore. You can just say something like, “What’s the average of the top half of the salary column?” and via some MCP style tools you should get the result.

YouTube video by Js-Craft Academy 🎙 Chris Coyier — Making CodePen & CSS Tricks, Lessons from 700 Podcasts, Business as a set of bets

I'm over the moon excited to share my interview with @chriscoyier.net ! We talked about building CodePen & CSS Tricks, why having fun is crucial for a long sustainable career, AI, and much more! Thank you, Chris!

youtu.be/-bLimodCd4M

YouTube video by Js-Craft Academy Using LangChain and LangGraph with local models

Think of LLMs the way you think about DBs. For some cases, a simple like SQLite is ideal; for others, you need a behemoth like Oracle. Context determines the right fit. Bigger isn’t automatically better & smaller, local models will play a bigger role soon.
youtu.be/pKK07kObVnw

YouTube video by Neutron Dev VS Code: Inline Suggestions Delay

This tip in VS Code / Cursor made my life better. Setting a 5-second delay between when you stop typing and when the code completion appears gives you time to think and makes AI-assisted coding much more enjoyable. Thanks @stefanjudis.com for the ideea!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZZz...

Next week, I’ll record an episode for the JS Craft podcast featuring Swizec Teller, author of the Scaling Fast book. To get some context about him, I recommend checking out this really good talk between Bas Steinss and Swizec:

👉 youtu.be/hJ4Yytccl4Q

✍️Pen and paper are becoming a lost luxury! When preparing podcast questions, I’ve found it more enjoyable to take YouTube transcripts, run them through an LLM for formatting, then study & highlight them in print. Less screen time, better focus.

GitHub - paoloricciuti/mcp-add: Universal cli to add an MCP server to a variety of clients Universal cli to add an MCP server to a variety of clients - paoloricciuti/mcp-add

I got tired of figuring out how to add an MCP server over and over to various clients...so I've built mcp-add.

A CLI that knows the right questions to ask and where to put the info in most clients.

You can run it in interactive mode with `npx mcp-add@latest` or by passing args to do it in one go!

YouTube video by Pydantic Pydantic, Jason Liu & MCP Meetup - April 8, 2025

RAG is the most economically impactful application of gen AI. Cursor & Claude Code are, at their core, RAG systems. For example one of Cursor improvements comes from using embeddings to predict where the cursor should move on next. Details in this talk by Jason Liu:
youtu.be/GqufkaLJV44

AGENTS.md AGENTS.md is a simple, open format for guiding coding agents. Think of it as a README for agents.

We’re at the point where every project should probably have an agents.md file. Matt Nigh’s post is a really solid guide if you’re figuring out how to do it well:
github.blog/ai-and-ml/gi...

More than your regular Frontend newsletter. Web Weekly covers what the web platform gives you — no package.json required.

And I'm sitting down to write this week's Web Weekly newsletter.

If you want to stay up to date with the web platform (you know vanilla HTML, CSS, and JS), browser updates and web dev best practices, you should check it out!

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🕹 Books and games are great! While cleaning out my parents' basement, I found the book that started my software development journey 28 years ago. A book on how to code games in Basic. Keep playing and keep reading!

I’ve learned that formulating and asking the right questions is a key skill. In the age of AI, this skill is even more important! Running a podcast forces you to learn how to select and articulate clear questions.

#70 Building a newsletter for JavaScript devs, TOON - the JSON for LLMs, using MCP in DevTools Hello friend! It's Daniel here, author of  Building AI Agents with LangGraph js and  LangChain for JavaScript Developers. It’s hard to believe we’re already in the last month of 2025. For me, this yea...

The 70th edition of the JS Craft Newsletter is out:
- 🎙 Interview with @stefanjudis.com from Web Weekly
- 📰 TOON – the lightweight JSON for LLMs
- ⚙️ MCP in DevTools & how Google Chrome uses it
- 📺 Grounded AI talks: RAG systems vs hype

Read it here → www.js-craft.io/blog/70-buil...

And now LangGraph is at 1 mil downloads per week 🚀. One of the best knowledge stocks you can add to your portfolio!

Oh wow, great topic!

YouTube video by David Perell Sam Altman – OpenAI Founder Reveals His Writing System

Saying we don’t need to learn to write because LLMs can do it is like saying we don’t need to go to the gym because machines can lift for us. Writing is for the mind what exercise is for the body.
Good points youtu.be/6pxmdmlJCG0

🎙 Super pumped to announce a new podcast episode! Preparing the setup for my talk with @chriscoyier.net (Codepen and CSS Tricks). If you have any questions you'd like me to ask Chris, drop them in the comments!

YouTube video by MCP Developers Summit TMCP: A Modern TypeScript Way to Build MCP Servers (Paolo Ricciuti, Mainmatter)

@paolo.ricciuti.me , former guest at the JS-Craft Podcast & core contributor to Svelte.js, gave a really good talk at the MCP Summit on his TMCP project. A great JS approach to building Model Context Protocol servers without the heavy Node/Express baggage.

youtu.be/zV0pcllxevk

YouTube video by Js-Craft Academy 🎙️ Stefan Judis - author of Web Weekly on Career sustainability, AI, and Long term craft

🎙️ Had a ton of fun interviewing @stefanjudis.com , the author of Web Weekly (my favourite JS newsletter). We talked about the process behind building the newsletter to 6k+ subs, the craft of web dev, learning deep vs learning broad, AI, MCP, and more. Enjoy!
👉 youtu.be/_RpYq0ypx68

@stefanjudis.com lol merrrrrry christmas

While recording a podcast yesterday with @stefanjudis.com , we talked about exactly this: submitting a PR fully generated by an LLM without even reading it is like replying to someone’s carefully written email with ChatGPT. It's almost a matter of being polite above anything else.

One Tip a Week: Review GitHub PRs Faster with These Two Keys

Ha, just discovered your One tip a week newsletter. Liked this one in particular: one-tip-a-week.beehiiv.com/p/one-tip-a-...

Oh wow, congratulations for getting Simon Willison!

Oh, I didn't know about Roost. So far I'm pretty happy with this nextstand. Anything that does the trick so that my neck doesn't hurt after half an hour of looking into the laptop :D

Hi Robert! As @naugtur.pl mentioned it's a nextstand. I had it for years and it was great, nothing broke. I think a portable laptop stand is one of the best purchases you can make to save yourself a lot of back pain.