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TLDR WEB DEV 2025-04-14

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01GENERAL

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02ARTICLES & TUTORIALS

ADVANCED REACT IN THE WILD

Companies like Vio, DoorDash, Preply, GeekyAnts, and Inngest have tackled performance and architecture challenges in large React and Next.js apps. This post uses these companies as case studies for techniques such as optimizing Interaction to Next Paint (INP), migrating from CSR to SSR, using React Server Components, and adopting the Next.js App Router.

largeapps.dev34 min read

MORE ACCURATE DEVTOOLS PERFORMANCE DEBUGGING USING REAL-WORLD DATA

Chrome DevTools now includes CPU throttling calibration, allowing devs to generate accurate performance presets for low- and mid-tier mobile devices based on their own hardware. This helps simulate real-world user experiences more reliably, especially for CPU-bound tasks. DevTools also integrates field data from CrUX to suggest realistic settings and highlight mismatches between lab and real-user performance.

developer.chrome.com8 min read

SOME NICE THINGS WITH SVG

This post goes over SVG animation techniques with code examples written in JSX. It shows how to create animated wires using SVG lines, masks, and CSS animations using methods like masking animated blocks.

fuma-nama.vercel.app4 min read

03OPINIONS & ADVICE

CLEVER CODE IS PROBABLY THE WORST CODE YOU COULD WRITE

Clear, readable code is more valuable than clever code in the long run. Even though clear code might seem trivial, it's actually more difficult to write and maintain. Documentation is important for demonstrating the complexity of the work.

read.engineerscodex.com6 min read

A REDDIT BOT DROVE ME INSANE

An AI-powered Reddit bot was faking human connection to secretly promote AI-illustrated books. It went viral because it sounded so human-like.

posthuman.blog4 min read

43 THINGS WE'VE LEARNED ABOUT HIRING AT POSTHOG

PostHog has reviewed 30,000 applications, interviewed 2,000 candidates, and hired 65 people in a year. The best advice it has for hiring is to write job ads that actually stand out, make interview processes simpler, pay candidates for their time, be transparent about salary, and focus on culture fit over credentials.

newsletter.posthog.com5 min read

04LAUNCHES & TOOLS

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DASHBOARDS DON'T FIX BUGS. ARE YOUR OBSERVABILITY TOOLS ACTUALLY HELPING?

Observability tools overwhelm you with data, and at the end of the day you still don't know where your code went wrong. Instead of just showing you another graph about how something's broken, Sentry hands you real context about your code [12] with stack traces, replays, and

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FASTIFY VITE

This Fastify plugin allows you to run Vite's development server as middleware and expose your Vite app to your Fastify application. It has configuration hooks to simplify router integration and other customizations.

github.comGitHub repository

EXPO SDK 53 BETA IS NOW AVAILABLE

Expo SDK 53 beta is now available with support for React Native 0.79 and React 19. It has the New Architecture enabled by default. Edge-to-edge display is also enabled by default for new Android projects, with plans to extend this to existing projects in SDK 54. There's also a new experimental Expo UI package for integrating Swift UI and Jetpack Compose, alongside experimental support for caching local builds for faster development.

expo.dev19 min read

WEBTUI

WebTUI is a CSS library that allows devs to create visually appealing Terminal-like UIs within web browsers.

webtui.ironclad.shTool

05MISCELLANEOUS

WRITING CURSOR RULES WITH A CURSOR RULE

Devs can use Cursor rules to provide LLMs with consistent project-specific instructions. The best strategy is to create a "meta-cursor rule" – a template that guides AI in generating new rules based on conversations or specific ideas. This approach makes rule creation easier and is more efficient.

adithyan.io16 min read

ESSAYS ON PROGRAMMING I THINK ABOUT A LOT

This is an index of programming essays along with summaries of what they're about. The essays cover topics like approaches to software development, how to make technical decisions, how to succeed as an engineer at a startup, and more. Each entry in the list includes a bit about the lessons learned from the essay along with an excerpt.

benkuhn.net13 min read

WHAT ARE AI AGENTS? WHY DO THEY MATTER?

AI agents are autonomous programs that use AI models and tools to achieve specific goals through a series of interactions, unlike traditional AI models that usually have single input-output exchanges. This autonomy allows agents to understand their environment, make decisions, take actions, and maintain context over time, letting them handle complex, multi-step tasks. New standardized protocols like MCP and A2A show that agents are going to be more prominent in the future.

addyo.substack.com18 min read