Web Dev

Modern web development from someone who builds it. CSS, JavaScript, web standards, and the patterns that actually scale.

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pdfcn renders your PDF invoice in 26 ms with no Chrome

pdfcn PDF components for React copy into your codebase like shadcn, render invoices in 26 ms with no headless Chrome, and work on Takumi or Forme.

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Instatic wants to replace Webflow at version 0.0.14

Instatic self-hosted visual CMS runs the editor, content engine, and publisher in one Bun server and ships plain HTML. It is still version 0.0.14.

JavaScript's Temporal API kills Date and date-fns for good

JavaScript's Temporal API kills Date and date-fns for good

The Temporal API replaces buggy JavaScript Date with immutable, timezone-aware types. The core types, DST-safe arithmetic, and migration paths.

Neon gives every pull request its own Postgres copy

Neon gives every pull request its own Postgres copy

Neon branches isolate a full Postgres instance per PR in one second via copy-on-write. Disposable like Git. No shared staging, no data collisions.

Build a serverless API on SQLite with Cloudflare D1

Build a serverless API on SQLite with Cloudflare D1

Cloudflare D1 makes SQLite serverless at the edge. Covers Wrangler setup, building a CRUD REST API in a Worker, and the real 2026 free-tier limits.

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Impeccable names the 59 tells of AI-made web design

Impeccable design detector rules name 59 tells of AI-made frontends. I ran the scanner: 41 rules fire on source files, 50 on a real browser render.