JavaScript

You can capture scrolling events and do your own work with the information in them. It can do cool things, but you’ve got work to do.

Turns out `anchor-scope` is pretty darn useful for button/menu setups that will appear multiple times on the same page.

The GOAT JavaScript library jQuery has gone 4.0 coinciding with, from what I hear, was a lovely reunion party. It’s not wildly different, but it’s gone full ESM and dropped a bunch of old stuff. Minified and gzipped it’s 27.6 kB. Version 3.7.1, the last before this release, was 30.5 kB — so it’s nice […]

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

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 feel like “streaming” will be more and more of a concept in 2026. We can stream HTML, but rarely do. With AI APIs these days, we’re seeing streaming much more commonly. We want to see that LLM kick out an answer word-by-word, as the perceived performance is better that way. What about a JSON […]

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?

Firefox 147 just came out, and the flagship developer feature is clearly anchor positioning support, bringing that “to the baseline” as we’re supposed to say these days. That rules, but I’m also very hyped about CSS module scripts. Remember, they are a way of importing a stylesheet in JavaScript, that is, the only decent way […]

Can you keep a video playing as a view transitions happens? Yes and no. Mostly yes.

I can easily imagine a job interview question being “What’s the difference between TypeScript and Zod and in what circumstances do you need each?” They are both type validation libraries. Would you ever need both? The short answer is that TypeScript is great but can’t help you at runtime, where you might get data from […]