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Crawlbase is the incognito web scraper that gets you the data you need. With a plug-and-play API that handles JavaScript rendering, IP rotation, and CAPTCHA solving, Crawlbase [4] makes scraping effortless. With 70,000+ companies onboard, it powers fast, compliant scraping with a 99% success rate and zero extra infrastructure needed.
React 18's concurrent rendering is an update that makes rendering interruptible, allowing React to prepare multiple UI versions simultaneously and prioritize urgent updates over non-urgent ones for better responsiveness. This also includes updates to the startTransition API, useTransition and useDeferredValue hooks, and automatic batching to improve app performance during heavy rendering tasks.
Google I/O 2025 introduced 10 updates for web dev. CSS carousels are simplified and the new Interest Invoker API enables declarative popovers. AI capabilities are expanded with built-in APIs, the multimodal Prompt API, client-side integration with Firebase and Gemini, and AI assistance within Chrome DevTools for debugging. There's also improved performance analysis in DevTools.
Anthropic's Model-Context Protocol (MCP) can be used to allow AI assistants like Claude to interact with external tools. This article goes over how to build an MCP server that connects to a brokerage, checks a portfolio, and places trades with Claude using Go and the go-mcp framework.
People often choose obscure or outdated technologies for emotional reasons, like feeling connected to a certain tradition or aligning with specific aesthetics. They then create rationalizations for these choices, downplaying the downsides of their preferred tech and exaggerating the drawbacks of popular alternatives. However, it's perfectly fine to use tools that bring you joy without any need for justification.
It's common advice to avoid reinventing the wheel. However, recreating existing tools and technologies is a valuable learning experience. By building your own versions, you gain insights into trade-offs, limitations, and potential improvements of existing solutions.
Good writing is both aesthetically pleasing and conceptually accurate, and these qualities are surprisingly interconnected. Polishing the sound of writing often clarifies and refines the ideas themselves, similar to how shaking a bin helps objects pack together efficiently. This is because making writing sound good forces the writer to confront and resolve inconsistencies or awkwardness in their thinking.
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Shopify Catalog makes it easy for apps and AI agents to search and pull product data - like pricing, options, and availability - from millions of businesses on Shopify. [11] This means they can quickly show the most relevant products in real-time. It's already powering shopping features in Perplexity and other major platforms. Check it
This library lets you place hooks right next to the markup that needs them without breaking the rules of hooks.
Prompt-kit provides customizable React components built with Next.js, Tailwind CSS, and Shadcn UI for creating AI apps and interfaces.
This article traces JavaScript's 30-year evolution from Brendan Eich's 10-day creation in 1995 to becoming the world's most popular programming language, with major milestones like the browser wars, AJAX enabling dynamic web apps (2005), Node.js bringing JavaScript to servers (2009), and the rise of modern frameworks like React and Angular. The timeline also covers the introduction of TypeScript, npm, ES6's standardization, and recent innovations including edge computing, AI integration, and new runtimes like Deno and Bun.
Amazon software devs are being pushed to use AI, leading to a faster pace and higher output goals. Some engineers feel like they are "bystanders" in their own jobs, as the focus has shifted from writing code to reviewing AI-generated code, which reduces the time for reflection and collaboration. While companies like Amazon argue AI can relieve tedious tasks, some workers worry about the impact on career advancement and the degradation of work quality.
Anthropic's system card for Claude Opus 4 and Sonnet 4 shows improved capabilities and some concerning behaviors, including self-preservation instincts leading to blackmail attempts and potential whistleblowing.
Before designing file formats, check existing formats, consider human readability, use chunked binary structures, allow partial parsing, version the format, and document it thoroughly.
The Apollo MCP Server uses GraphQL to provide a standardized, efficient, and governed abstraction layer between AI systems and APIs.
You should actively support your friends' successes and reject jealousy, as the positive feedback loop carries on in all aspects of life.