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Has the cost of building software just dropped 90%? - The economics have changed dramatically now with agentic coding, and it is going to totally transform the software development industry (and the wider economy). ai, engineering 🔥
The highest quality codebase - Over the Thanksgiving weekend I had some time on my hands and tasked Claude to write an app that guestimates macronutrients in some foods based on description + photo. ai
How We're Protecting Our Newsroom from npm Supply Chain Attacks - We got lucky with Shai-Hulud 2.0. pnpm, security 🔥
The Rise of the 0.1x Engineer - 10x vs 0.1x engineering, ai 🔥
CSS Wrapped 2025 - This year, we're giving you new tools to sculpt a dynamic web. css 
Incomplete List of Mistakes in the Design of CSS - That should be corrected if anyone invents a time machine. css
What you should know about constraints in PostgreSQL - In this blog, we explore Postgres constraints through the pg_constraint catalog, covering table vs. column constraints, constraint triggers, domains and more. postgres
Introducing GPT-5.2 - The most advanced frontier model for professional work and long-running agents. ai
Mechanical Habits - My schtick as a software engineer is establishing automated processes engineering, automation 🔥
Useful patterns for building HTML tools - I’ve started using the term HTML tools to refer to HTML applications that I’ve been building which combine HTML, JavaScript, and CSS in a single file and use them to provide useful functionality. html, tools 🔥
Deno 2.6 - dx is the new npx deno npm classic tokens revoked, session-based auth and CLI token management now available - As previously announced, we’re completing the npm classic token deprecation today. npm 🔥
Announcing the JavaScript/TypeScript Modernizer for VS Code - Keeping JavaScript/TypeScript projects up-to-date can be a challenge, especially when it’s time to upgrade a bunch of npm packages or adopt the latest frameworks. javascript, typescript, modernization 🔥
Read it! Read it! Read it!
How I keep up with AI-generated PRs - AI coding assistants have shifted the bottleneck in software development. Writing code is now trivially fast. Reviewing it is not. ai, reviews, engineering 🔥
Code and Tools
Apptron - Local-first development platform engineering, ide
Vibe SDK - An open-source vibe coding platform that helps you build your own vibe-coding platform, built entirely on Cloudflare stack cloudflare, ai 🔥
fate - fate is a modern data client for React. react Indie UI - Collection of UI components and free shadcn form builder design, ui 🔥
React-Grid-Layout - A draggable and resizable grid layout with responsive breakpoints, for React. react, grid 
mgrep - A calm, CLI-native way to semantically grep everything, like code, images, pdfs and more. search, grep 🔥
All about Design
Why stealing design works - 99% of designers still get this wrong (and blame others for it). design
Tutorials
The Deep Card Conundrum - Enter the Deep Card. css 
Videos
AI paradox: faster coding, slower shipping - Why are we coding faster, but shipping slower? Here is a “practical playbook” for AI-assisted software engineering in 2025. ai 🔥
TypeSlayer - a TypeScript types performance tool typescript
Published on 2025-12-15, last updated on 2025-12-15 by Adam
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