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You might need to know this someday: you can style a div, put the div into SVG, then put the SVG in to CSS and use it as a repeating background.

To avoid page loading jank, there are things we can do to avoid content from shifting around, even if repainting is still necessary.

You can style anything you want on the entire page when any given details element is open or closed.

Putting a YouTube video inside a closed details element means it won’t load until that details element is opened. We can use that.

The Canary version of React has a special component for ViewTransitions. Does it help?

Senior engineers actually have a massive advantage with AI tools once they learn the basics. They know what questions to ask. They understand edge cases. A junior dev accepts the first output. A senior dev knows what’s missing.

This post introduces a middleware approach that allows efficient data refetching. The middleware enables the attachment of query keys and server functions, enhancing scalability and flexibility.

I created jQuery UI Datepicker, the most used UI component on the internet for over a decade. I made about $500 from it. Open source has always had a sustainability problem. We’re continuing our $50K annual commitment to help fix it.

What if we could mutate data *and* get all the data back we need to properly update the UI in just one network round-trip?