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- Bytes: TypeScript Can Read Your Weird Files — 2026-10-27
What happens when you give a bunch of millennial JavaScript developers White Monsters, gas station Tornados, and access to the internet?
- Bytes: Pouring One Out for PHP — 2026-10-23
So what happened? Well, if you don’t know, you probably have healthier internet consumption habits than me, but the TL;DR is that PHP got ha…
- Bytes: A TypeScript Compiler Journey from Hell — 2026-10-20
It’s only been 3 months since TypeScript 7 aka “the Go port” came out, which was supposed to solve all of our TypeScript perf problems.
- Bytes: TanStack Strikes Back — 2026-10-16
I imagine trying to compete against Next. js feels a little bit like going up against The Galactic Empire.
- Bytes: A Eulogy for Deno — 2026-10-14
On behalf of the JavaScript community, I just want to start by thanking all of you for being here today. Deno always had a special place in…
- Bytes: Deno Joins Cloudflare — 2026-10-09
I woke up this morning ready to do the mental gymnastics necessary to write a story about Theo’s $420k TypeScript slopfork, so when I saw Cl…
- Bytes: Ready to Remiiix — 2026-10-06
One year ago, our dads Ryan Florence and Michael Jackson got up on stage at Remix Jam and revealed Angular 2.
- Bytes: Pi Pilled — 2026-10-02
I’ve always thought that developers loving their tools was a form of Stockholm Syndrome, but over the past year few tools have gotten more a…
- Bytes: Childproofing the ungovernable — 2026-09-29
Which is why it’s wild that the standard way for coding agents to decide whether to do something risky is to just… ask themselves?
- Bytes: Is AI slowing down? — 2026-09-25
After all the big labs agreed it was time to slow down the pace of AI development, OpenAI, Anthropic, and SpaceXAI all released models this…
- Bytes: Vibe-coding bug-free apps (expect bugs) — 2026-09-23
Nothing prepares you for when your co-worker (yes the one with blue hair and snakebite lip rings) sits down next to you at lunch and starts…
- Bytes: Jev’s Paradox — 2026-09-18
The internet is verrry exciiite about a new AI model called Jev that was released earlier this week.
- Bytes: Your AGI good boy — 2026-09-08
AGI is here… at least that’s what Greg Brockman and Jensen Huang told me at brunch last week.
- Bytes: The true cost of Muse Spark — 2026-09-04
You’d think having unlimited data, compute, and money to poach all the best AI talent in the world would make Meta the de facto leader in AI…
- Bytes: 100 years of htmx — 2026-09-01
To start, this version of our beloved hypertext media system was rewritten on top of the fetch API to enable support for streaming, SSE and…
- Bytes: CSS-in-JS is back — 2026-08-28
If you’re not familiar, StyleX is a CSS-in-JS library that Meta announced back in 2019, but it was open sourced in 2023, during peak Tailwin…
- Bytes: Bun’s all in (one) — 2026-08-26
Bun is officially a Rust project as of Bun 1. 4, which fixed over 2,900 issues, made a major jump in Node.
- Bytes: The Git War of 2026 — 2026-08-21
GitHub is having the kind of run I had during my senior year of college: I got mono, got dumped by my girlfriend, and caught swine flu in th…
- Bytes: Cursor dumps Solid, birthday ruined — 2026-08-19
Cursor engineer (and former React Core Team member) Lauren Tan warmly congratulated them on the big launch… then simultaneously confirmed th…
- Bytes: The New Gorky Boy — 2026-08-14
According to the “trust me bro” benchmarks, Grok 4. 6 is at the current frontier, costs 1/10th as much as Fable 5, and is significantly fast…
- Bytes: A love letter to Durable Objects — 2026-08-11
It’s been 6 years since Cloudflare released Durable Objects, and I still have no idea wtf they are (sorry Sunil 🥲).
- Bytes: A browser for agents — 2026-08-07
Cloudflare just wrapped up “Agents Week,” where instead of releasing features for developers, they built a bunch of things for AI agents to…
- Bytes: A Next.js release for the boys — 2026-08-04
It’s been such a quiet year for Next. js—you know, except for the RSC vulns that (maybe) sent Sebastian Markbåge into retirement.
- Bytes: The Atoning for Sins of React — 2026-07-31
Becoming an adult is realizing that buying the things you were denied as a child is a part of your healing journey.
- Bytes: Something worse than semver — 2026-07-28
I am a little ashamed to admit that, for a long time, semver, my arch-nemesis, has been a helpful tool for deciding what to write about.
- Bytes: One way ticket to TypeScript hell… and back — 2026-07-24
Why is that helpful? Vanilla TypeScript™️ is great at telling you if something is a number but useless at telling you which number.
- Bytes: Turso does it again — 2026-07-22
After successfully rewriting SQLite in Rust, the Turso team is feeling the Tyrone Biggums itch to do it again. But this time, they’re rewrit…
- Bytes: Feminine Energy — 2026-07-17
Today, we’re focusing on Inkling. This is certainly a decision, given that Kimi K3 is beating Fable 5 on many key benchmarks, but that might…
- Bytes: The Model Roundup — 2026-07-15
Who knew that slamming Mega Mouth Mountain Dews and eating Warheads until my tongue blistered as a kid was going to give me the perfect comb…
- Bytes: TypeScript 7 is here — 2026-07-10
Usually when we write about TypeScript releases, it takes everything in me to pretend to be excited about things like “inferred type predica…
- Bytes: React Router gets another major — 2026-07-07
Some people drink, some people smoke, but for me, the vice I can’t seem to quit is writing about React Router.
- Bytes: By the numbers — 2026-07-01
That, and well, it’s been a bit dry on the tech front since the U. S.
- Bytes: Everything but the runtime — 2026-06-26
When Bun came into the picture in 2021 and we were riding the high of becoming Dogecoin millionaires, it was hard not to be excited about th…
- Bytes: What’s next for Nx — 2026-06-23
If a guy comes up to you at a conference and asks you if you want to see pictures of his pigs, you say yes.
- Bytes: Next.js for agents — 2026-06-19
The New York Knicks just won the NBA championship, World Cup fans are experiencing the joys of free refills and ranch, and Vercel just launc…
- Bytes: Claude Fable Pt 2 — 2026-06-16
Shortly after the model was released, security researchers were able to jailbreak the model and get around the safety classifiers.
- Bytes: Claude Fable 5 — 2026-06-12
Four days after frantically warning the world to stop building AI because it’s becoming too powerful and dangerous (again), Anthropic droppe…
- Bytes: Angular’s new mantra — 2026-06-09
Every morning when I wake up, I look in the mirror and say “I am enough, everything I need is within me”.
- Bytes: The VC-backed Open Source Endgame — 2026-06-05
Cloudflare announced that they are acquiring VoidZero (the company behind Vite, Vitest, OXC, and Rolldown), and normally this is where we li…
- Bytes: Making Jam for the love of the game — 2026-06-02
It’s pretty rare these days to see someone building a project like this from scratch (without AI), but Rapha is like the teenage Juggalo who…
- Bytes: Deno’s biggest minor release ever — 2026-05-29
Ryan Dahl is sick of being vegan, and as much as the man wants to enjoy a juicy steak, he can’t because he’s a man of principle.
- Bytes: Google I/O 2026 - The Good Parts — 2026-05-26
Google made over 100 new product announcements at I/O last week.
- Bytes: AI’s Love Language — 2026-05-22
This past week, when Chris Tate announced Zero, a love programming language designed for agents, it brought me back to that time in college…
- Bytes: What Claude Mythos showed Cloudflare — 2026-05-19
This was because it was (allegedly) so powerful that it had (allegedly) discovered thousands of high-severity vulnerabilities across critica…
- Bytes: Bun goes full Leeeerroyyyy Jenkins — 2026-05-15
Why did they do this? The main motivation was that Bun had been experiencing memory leaks and unpredictable crashes that were extremely diff…
- Bytes: TanStack Attack — 2026-05-13
So the next time a legitimate release ran, it restored that poisoned cache, and the attacker’s code extracted an OIDC token directly from ru…
- Bytes: The new CEO of agent harness frameworks — 2026-05-08
Wtf is an agent harness? Thankfully, it’s not as kinky as it sounds.
- Bytes: pnpm 11 cuts the npm umbilical cord — 2026-05-05
But behind the scenes, it was still outsourcing core commands like publish, login, and dist-tag to the npm CLI.
- Bytes: Zed’s not dead — 2026-05-01
While it’s a bit ironic that their biggest competitors are built on top of the cross-platform framework they created and rejected, the Zed t…
- Bytes: The Spiritual Successor to JSX — 2026-04-29
You might be tempted to question the legitimacy of the TypeScript conclave, but Dominic has worked on both the React and Svelte core teams,…
- Bytes: Smoking that Rspack — 2026-04-27
But it makes sense. Rspack’s initial pitch was that its Rust-based build tool would provide a 10x faster version of webpack that was still c…
- Bytes: The TypeScript 7.0 prophecy is fulfilled — 2026-04-23
For the past 13 years, TypeScript has been built on a steady foundation of… more TypeScript.
- Bytes: Agent-chella 2026 — 2026-04-20
Building agents is a lot like going to Coachella: it sounds fun to do what all the cool kids are doing, but before you know it you’re drowni…
- Bytes: TanStack Start gets RSC — 2026-04-14
While Cloudflare and others have been busy trying to clone Next.
- Bytes: React Native solves some real problems — 2026-04-10
While Anthropic was busy locking down its new doomsday model with the help of the big tech oligarchy, React Native was over here shipping a…
- Bytes: Cloudflare built its own WordPress — 2026-04-07
On April 1st, Cloudflare released an open-source TypeScript CMS that they called the spiritual successor to WordPress.
- Bytes: Pretext fixed the web — 2026-04-03
Unless you’ve been touching a lot of grass this week (jealous), you’ve probably already heard about Pretext – the fast, accurate, and compre…
- Bytes: RedwoodSDK 1.0 is Cloudflare-maxxing — 2026-04-01
The best time to plant a Redwood was 150 years ago, but the best time plant RedwoodSDK into the hearts and minds of developers was last mont…
- Bytes: TypeScript 6.0 is your final warning — 2026-03-27
That’s because this is the last TypeScript version built on its existing JavaScript codebase, before it graduates to its fancy new Go compil…
- Bytes: Waiting and dating — 2026-03-13
If it feels like you’ve been hearing about the Temporal API for the past decade, it’s because you have.
- Bytes: Astro 6.0 goes full Cloudflare — 2026-03-11
The headliner is a complete rewrite of the Astro dev server and build pipeline, which is now powered by Vite’s Environment API. Previously,…
- Bytes: Another Prettier killer has entered the villa — 2026-03-09
Quick review: As you might’ve guessed from the name, Oxfmt is the formatter arm of the Oxc toolchain that’s behind Oxlint and a few other Ru…
- Bytes: Making React Native actually native — 2026-03-04
That eventually turned into a subtle diss from the mobile dev masochists purists, but last week’s SDK 55 comes with the stated goal of makin…
- Bytes: Cloudflare rebuilt Next.js on Vite — 2026-02-27
They call it vinext (“vee-next”) because it’s built on Vite, and because they apparently didn’t want to burn any more tokens generating a ca…
- Bytes: Vercel is gonna buy Tailwind (probably) — 2026-02-25
When the Tailwind team launched Tailwind UI back in Feb 2020, they made $400k on day one.
- Bytes: TanStack Hotkeys near me — 2026-02-20
Hotkeys might seem like unlikely territory for TanStack’s 15th library, but it comes with enough small gotchas that can add up to a lot of a…
- Bytes: Interop 2026 browser scoreboard — 2026-02-18
At the start of every group project in high school, I always insisted on drafting a signed charter that outlined each person’s responsibilit…
- Bytes: Markdown for Agents™️ — 2026-02-13
I’m (mostly) joking, because this does solve a real problem: AI agents currently waste a lot of compute sifting through div soup, script tag…
- Bytes: ESLint 10 is making moves — 2026-02-11
They just shipped v10. 0.
- Bytes: Breaking Babel — 2026-02-06
For those keeping score at home, this is the 29th minor release since Babel 7 launched back in August 2018, a simpler time when nobody had h…
- Bytes: Firefox is cooking again — 2026-01-28
It’s particularly refreshing after last month, when Mozilla’s CEO surprised everyone by announcing his threat vision for Firefox to evolve i…
- Bytes: Stop, Drop and Rolldown — 2026-01-26
Building Rolldown in Rust does make it fast.
- Bytes: Nothing can kill jQuery — 2026-01-22
It doesn’t matter how many fancy coding agents or next-gen frameworks you throw at it – the $ God remains eternal. And it just celebrated it…