You know when you're asking for advice or whatever from people and then they reply with "I asked ChatGPT and here's what it said"
That's less than helpful! It's like horrendously wasteful on every single axis and also spectacularly literally thoughtless!
Why does working with AI agents in legacy systems feel so much harder than in all those vibe coding demos on YouTube? 🤔
Part of the answer:
😊 Popular language + Greenfield ☘️ = "AI heaven"
😯 Niche language + Brownfield 🟫 = "AI hell"
More about this topic: markusharrer.de/blog/2026/02...
Here is one of the dumbest things about vibe coding that I don't see a lot of people talking about
Imagine you're an open source maintainer and someone opens up a pull request against your repository that they vibe coded. They may or may not tell you they vibe coded it; it doesn't really matter… 🧵
Anything you can do in Obsidian you can do from the command line.
Obsidian CLI is now available in 1.12 (early access).
Introducing Public Beta for Shaders ✨
The wait is over 🎉 Try it now for @vuejs.org , @react.dev , @svelte.dev & @solidjs.com
Facebook launched 22 years ago this week.
In 2025, Meta paid an effective federal tax rate of 3.5% — its lowest on record.
Meanwhile, Meta is pumping at least $65 million into super PACs to stifle regulation of AI and tech.
Trickle-down economics isn't just a hoax, it's corrosive to democracy.
My contract is ending at the end of February and so I’d like to find a new role ASAP.
I am a senior-level design systems developer / design technologist / front-of-the-frontend developer that specializes in web accessibility.
I work remotely from my home in Winnipeg, Canada. 🇨🇦
Shares appreciated!
My boss vibe coded this over the weekend and now it’s my problem is going to be its own genre of developer complaints in the coming years.
“Software reliability is down across the industry; failure rate is up: and batch size is up.” @lauratacho.com + @nathenharvey.bsky.social
Basically, AI is generating larger changes (batch size) and we know from research (eg DORA) that larger batch size tends to result in exactly this!
🆕 npx unbarrelify
At last, an easy way get rid of barrel files!
Rewrites consumers to import directly from source, then deletes the barrels.
Safe and fully automated, read all about it at github.com/webpro/unbar...
📣 New blog post: The complete map of project anatomies
andreipfeiffer.dev/blog/2026/pr...
Finally, after several months of iterations, I've managed to publish my analysis on files and folders structure evolution in software projects and popular approaches applicability at different scales.
> Europeans enjoy more free time than Americans, a higher life expectancy and lower levels of inequality – all with roughly comparable productivity.
The next two years of Software Engineering - addyosmani.com/blog/next-tw... ✍🏻
Oh hey, come work with me!
We're seeking an earlier-career front-end dev who is able to work in-office (multiple US locations).
Check it out if you have interest and experience in: #designsystems #CSS #a11y #webcomponents
adobe.design/jobs/job-pos...
A new academic paper from CMU analysing ~800 OSS repos shows AI is still making code worse.
AI speeds up code generation briefly, but code quality degrades quickly. Complexity rises faster than the amount of code added.
I wrote up the findings and my thoughts 👇
We just scheduled our next tim.js edition. Meet us on Nov 26th for a topic that goes beyond JavaScript. www.meetup.com/tim-js/event...
ECMAScript excitement 😉
Congrats to Eemeli Aro @mozilla.org on advancing Import Text to Stage 2 at TC39 today 🎉
It uses an import attribute for easy loading.
import text from "path/to/file.txt" with { type: "text" };
github.com/eemeli/propo...
Storybook-MCP-early-access-program
🧵 (1/3) Most AI-generated code looks good until you try to merge it. Wrong props, odd states, subtle regressions.
Storybook MCP fixes that.
It turns your stories, docs & tests into machine-readable context so agents actually follow your patterns.
This could be a pretty interesting way to understand and learn new repositories
📰 Today, I'm writing about the difference between Vitest Browser Mode and Playwright. Learn what makes them similar but also completely different, from their purpose to how they work under the hood.
A must read.
www.epicweb.dev/vitest-brow...
Did not paid to much attention to it until now, but StyleX looks like a pretty good solution for CSS in large projects/repos 🤔
JavaScript top-level await is no longer considered 'baseline' due to a pretty big Safari bug caniuse.com/mdn-javascri...
The module graph fails in cases where two modules import a third at the same time. Demo: random-stuff.jakearchibald.com/bug-repros/t...
It's best to avoid the feature for now 😔
I built a fun Spanish learning app this morning, check it out! linguabot.pages.dev
⚓ Oxlint now supports plugins written in JavaScript ⚓
Developers can customize and extend Oxlint using JavaScript, but at a speed approaching Rust, due to 'raw transfer' between Rust and JS, and other breakthroughs
Many ESLint plugins can run without any modification.
Read the full post👇
We’re live!! My brand-new course, “Whimsical Animations”, is now available. 🥳🎉
whimsy.joshwcomeau.com
I’m so excited to share all of my animation tools and techniques with y’all. 😄
Parallel linting is here! We'd love to hear how it's improved the performance of your ESLint CLI runs. Please add your details to this discussion:
https://github.com/eslin...
Just published Redux Toolkit 2.9.0! It rewrites the RTKQ internal subscription / polling system for better perf, adds abort handling when a cache entry is removed, adds a `builder.addAsyncThunk()` method, and fixes several assorted issues:
github.com/reduxjs/redu...
We're now accepting guest authors on Piccalilli!
Up to now, we've reached out to guest authors, but we have the systems in place now to ensure quality.
Of course, we pay writers too.
piccalil.li/guest-author...
