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FASTER LAZY LOADING IN REACT ROUTER V7.5+

React Router v7.5 introduces a new granular lazy loading API for routes in Data Mode that allows individual route properties—like loader, Component, and middleware—to be lazy-loaded separately. This change was driven by the need to support middleware without degrading performance. Unlike the previous route.lazy() function that loaded everything at once, the new approach allows for faster, more efficient loading by only fetching what's needed at each navigation step.

ABUSING DUCKDB-WASM BY MAKING SQL DRAW 3D GRAPHICS (SORT OF)

This developer created a text-based 3D Doom clone in the browser using DuckDB-WASM to handle game state and rendering with SQL queries. The core of the rendering engine is a SQL VIEW that performs raycasting via recursive CTEs, with JavaScript handling orchestration, sprite rendering, and Z-buffering. There were some challenges along the way with WASM initialization, SQL dialect differences, query planner limitations, and race conditions, all of which the dev overcame with some creativity.

SCALE YOUR PROJECT WITH LAYERED REACT STRUCTURE

Layered React Structure (LRS) is a method for organizing React projects for better clarity, modularity, and scalability. Unlike Angular's opinionated structure, React doesn't have a formal style guide, which often leads to inconsistent project layouts. LRS solves this by separating concerns into clearly defined layers: “smart” components (business logic) and “dumb” components (UI only), along with organized folders for views, components, hooks, services, utils, and types.

THE 13 SOFTWARE ENGINEERING LAWS

This post goes over 13 software engineering laws relevant to engineers and managers using comics and explanations. Each law is presented with its potential impact on engineering management. The laws range from well-known principles like Parkinson's Law (work expands to fill the time available for its completion) to lesser-known ones such as Zawinski's Law (every program attempts to expand until it can read mail - those programs which cannot expand are replaced by ones which can).

CODING AS CRAFT: GOING BACK TO THE OLD GYM

When stuck on a problem during coding, devs should return to the "old gym" occasionally, where they grapple directly with problems rather than just handing them to AI first. While AI is great for automating mundane tasks like boilerplate generation and documentation, it has the potential to also overtake one's core skills of thinking, designing, and making architectural decisions.

SAPPHIRE

Sapphire is a Rust-powered package manager for macOS inspired by Homebrew. It manages command-line tools (Formulae) and desktop applications (Casks). The project is structured into a core library for handling package management tasks and a command-line interface for user interaction.

CLICKHOUSE GETS LAZIER (AND FASTER): INTRODUCING LAZY MATERIALIZATION

ClickHouse, a fast analytical database, has introduced a new optimization called "lazy materialization" to improve query performance. This technique delays reading column data until it's absolutely necessary, especially benefiting Top N queries with large datasets and LIMIT clauses. An example of lazy materialization showed a query being sped up from 219 seconds to 139 milliseconds without SQL changes.

ROWBOAT

Rowboat is an AI-powered platform that lets users quickly build multi-agent workflows. Users can define a task and then Rowboat automatically generates the necessary agents and tools. It can be integrated into applications using either an HTTP API or a Python SDK.

HOW TO BUILD AN AGENT

This article shows how to create an AI agent using Go and Anthropic's Claude API in about 400 lines of code. The agent is able to use tools to read, list, and edit files through structured function calls.

GOOGLE WON'T DITCH THIRD-PARTY COOKIES IN CHROME AFTER ALL

Google has abandoned its plans to phase out third-party cookies in Chrome and will not roll out a one-click prompt to disable them. The company's Privacy Sandbox initiative, which was supposed to develop a privacy-preserving alternative to cookies for targeted advertising, has essentially been called off. This decision comes after Google struggled to find a universally acceptable solution and has faced increasing antitrust scrutiny regarding its dominance in the ads industry.

SUPABASE SERIES D + AMA (REDDIT THREAD)

Supabase has announced a $200M Series D funding round with Accel, bringing its valuation to $2B.

CSS HELL

15 challenging CSS puzzles where you must align pegs with holes by adding CSS properties to divs.

THE TECH STACK

Kulve is a native and cross-platform Twitch application for Apple platforms that uses a unique tech stack of SwiftUI for the UI and C++ for the backend.

HIDING ELEMENTS THAT REQUIRE JAVASCRIPT WITHOUT JAVASCRIPT

Elements that require JavaScript can be hidden when JavaScript is disabled with the use of a d-js-required class and a noscript tag.

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TESLA LEAK SHOWS THAT MUSK'S VISION IS TREMBLING

Tesla sales are down considerably worldwide. Banks say that Elon Musk has created a 'code red situation' by overinvesting his time in the US Department of Government Efficiency. Tesla's brand has taken a hit due to Musk's public persona and many customers have returned their vehicles to distance themselves from him. Musk's bet on the future of self-driving tech over cheaper vehicles has lowered investor confidence in his vision. Musk announced that there will be a live company update during the earnings call today.

THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT AND GOOGLE BATTLE OVER HOW TO FIX A SEARCH ENGINE MONOPOLY

It was nearly a year ago when US District Judge Amit Mehta ruled that Google had acted illegally to maintain a monopoly - over the next several weeks, lawyers for Google and the Justice Department will face off again to determine what penalties will be levied against Google. Google maintains that it will appeal the decision once the remedies phase of the trial is complete. The company argues that the Department of Justice's proposed remedies would hurt American customers, the economy, and US tech leadership and innovation.

CRYPTO KNOCKS ON THE DOOR OF A BANKING WORLD THAT SHUT IT OUT

President Trump's pledge to make the US a bitcoin superpower has set the stage for crypto to become more intertwined with the banking system. Several crypto firms are planning to apply for bank charters or licenses. Some are interested in national trust or industrial bank charters, which would enable them to operate more like traditional lenders, while others are after relatively narrow licenses that would allow them to issue stablecoins. Firms that obtain a bank charter will become subject to stricter regulatory oversight.

DOZENS OF NOBEL-WORTHY INNOVATIONS AWAITING BIOMANUFACTURING 2.0

Biomanufacturing is a fragmented field, but the diffusion of these technologies is a 'when, not if' question. This article discusses more than 40 Nobel-worthy technologies that could further the field. The premise of synthetic biology remains compelling as its applications are wide-ranging with large markets and the underlying tech continues to improve non-linearly. Whoever figures out how to combine these technologies will have access to massive markets.

PYTHON'S NEW T-STRINGS

Python 3.14, which will ship in late 2025, will contain a feature called template strings (t-strings) that opens the door to safer and more flexible string processing in Python. f-strings have become a very popular way to format strings and are being used for everything - even when they shouldn't. t-strings are a generalization of f-strings that must be processed before they can be used. This post provides a quick overview of how to use the new feature.

EVENT-HIDDEN ARCHITECTURES

Events are a useful mechanism for transmitting state and data among application resources, but they are a miserable experience for developers and operators alike. The event-driven approach was necessary early in the decade but it isn't any longer. Today's modern abstractions mean that developers don't need to learn the unique quirks of low-level infrastructure or understand the overall application architecture just to build or enhance their part of the application. Event-hidden grants engineers new powers while simplifying engineering. It enables developers to build feature-rich, scaled, and distributed applications without having to interact with events, queues, and the industry of patterns, frameworks, and consultants that came with them.

WHAT I'D DO AS A COLLEGE FRESHMAN IN 2025

While many are spooked by large language models, college freshmen should still study computer science - being supported by AI tools is not a substitute for mastery. Tech rewards leverage, not shortcuts. Freshmen should optimize for momentum and stack useful skills, relationships, and systems. Understand trends but don't chase them - ride the ones that match your strengths and learn to take a step back and aim for depth, clarity, and direction.

IMPACT, AGENCY, AND TASTE

High-leverage work has two interrelated components: agency (a combination of initiative/proactiveness and relentlessness and resourcefulness) and taste (a good intuition for what things will work and what won't). These can be improved through practice. This article contains specific advice on how to improve on these dimensions. It is important to be able to reflect on your own work and thought processes and figure out how to improve them.

THOUGHTS ON BLUESKY VERIFICATION

Bluesky has rolled out blue checks, a verification system that lets people confirm that you are who you say you are.

THE ALWAYS-ON ECONOMY: AI'S REAL IMPACT IN THE NEXT 5-7 YEARS

AI's real impact in the next five to seven years is about removing temporal constraints from the economy, which will create new opportunities while challenging traditional business models and work patterns.

THIS BLOG IS HOSTED ON A NINTENDO WII

There is a Wii option listed on the NetBSD website - the latest stable release is from December 2024.

AMAZON FOLLOWS MICROSOFT IN RETREAT FROM AMBITIOUS AI DATA CENTER PLANS

Meta and xAI continue to aggressively build out data centers to fuel their AI models.

WHEN YOU SHOULD LIE TO THE LANGUAGE MODEL

Always pretend that your work was produced by someone else when working with AIs - current-generation AIs are too agreeable, making it difficult to receive genuine critical feedback.

VITALIK BUTERIN PROPOSES REPLACING ETHEREUM'S EVM WITH RISC-V

Transitioning Ethereum to the open-source RISC-V architecture would greatly improve the efficiency of the Ethereum execution layer, resolving one of the primary scaling bottlenecks, and simplify the execution layer.

OUR APPROACH TO UNDERSTANDING AND ADDRESSING AI HARMS

Anthropic unveiled a multidimensional framework to assess and mitigate AI harms, addressing both catastrophic and everyday risks. The approach evaluates physical, psychological, economic, societal, and autonomy impacts, guiding policy, testing, and enforcement strategies. This initiative, aiming for adaptable, proportionate safeguards as AI capabilities evolve, complements its Responsible Scaling Policy.

INSTAGRAM AI-BASED TEEN PROTECTION

Meta is using AI to identify teens on Instagram and automatically place them in restricted teen account settings, which now include even stronger default protections and require parental approval for changes.

O3 OVER OPTIMIZATION IS BACK

This post explores the challenge of the new crop of reasoning models and presents evidence to suggest that OpenAI is over-optimizing on certain objectives that make its models brittle and prone to hallucinations.

VERIFIABLE REWARDS FOR WRITING

Writing quality reward models (WQRM) are a way to evaluate the quality of creative writing. They can be used to train creative writing models. WQRMs are a new development for RL-trained models with verifiable rewards. This thread shows a case where WQRM correlated strongly with overall writing quality.

AI ASSISTED SEARCH-BASED RESEARCH ACTUALLY WORKS NOW

Recent advancements in LLMs like OpenAI's o3 and o4-mini have made them effective for search-based tasks, avoiding past issues with hallucinations. Unlike earlier models, these LLMs integrate search results into their reasoning process, providing reliable real-time insights. This progression diminishes reliance on traditional search engines and suggests shifts in the Web's economic model.

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FAST CONFORMAL PREDICTION

LOO-StabCP boosts the speed of conformal prediction by using leave-one-out stability, providing scalable uncertainty estimation without sacrificing accuracy.

ROBUST AUTONOMY EMERGES FROM SELF-PLAY

This study presents a simulated self driving agent that went 2 years between collisions. It was trained fully with self-play and is a substantial improvement over the state-of-the-art trained on Gigaflow.

ALPHAGEOMETRY 2

DeepMind has released the next version of its geometry model, which answers 84% of questions correctly, up from 54% by prior methods. The main improvements come from the Gemini language model and better search.

HACKATHON FOR NON-DEVS AND VIBE CODERS

Stackblitz, the creators of Bolt, is hosting the world's largest hackathon for non-devs and vibe coders on 5/30 for anyone around the world to participate.

MAGI 1 - AUTOREGRESSIVE VIDEO GENERATION AT SCALE (HUGGING FACE HUB)

The MAGI 1 model is a new autoregressive video generation model that can generate long form and consistent videos. It performs on par with Wan video generation while being slightly below some closed models.

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GOOGLE AI ACADEMY FOR INFRASTRUCTURE STARTUPS

Google is inviting AI startups focused on U.S. infrastructure to apply for its six-month accelerator, offering mentorship, technical support, and strategic guidance.

OPENAI HINTS AT NATIVE SHOPIFY CHECKOUT INTEGRATION IN CHATGPT

New code strings in ChatGPT's web bundle reference “buy_now” buttons and a “shopify_checkout_url,” suggesting OpenAI is building a native purchase flow into the assistant.

MERCOR GRADUATE FELLOWSHIP

Mercor launched a $50,000 fellowship for PhD students and postdocs in STEM focused on identifying raw talent based on ideas, not pedigree or connections.