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AI : The Head To Head Debate
AI coding tools promise a productivity revolution, but the data tells a more complicated story. Junior developer hiring has collapsed 60%. A rigorous study shows AI makes developers slower, not… Read more…
Beyond The Framework: Rediscovering The Web
We’re witnessing a fundamental shift in how we think about web development. After decades of working around platform limitations, a new generation of developers is asking: what if we worked… Read more…
Amy Dutton
RedwoodJS
Build Robust Components
We all enjoy simplicity, especially at times when we don’t want to put in more effort than necessary. Our users agree, and yet they are beholden to hundreds of papercuts… Read more…
Enrico Sacchetti
Hypercare
Curious Findings
An exploration of “curiosity” – and its role in our work
Throughout our lives, we hear the word in various forms – as an adjective, a noun, a verb.
But… Read more…
Jason Pamental
Chewy.com
DevSquares
In this riff on the classic game show, contestants join host Will Johnson and expert developer guests including Jason Lengstorf to play tic-tac-toe. Can they outsmart top industry devs to… Read more…
Does Our Technology Still Work For Us?
In the early days of the internet, we existed in a lovely symbiotic relationship with our technology. We created, and various technologies offered us an audience. We used technology to… Read more…
Bryan Robinson
When We Play
From Vibe Coding To Production AI Systems
Everyone’s using AI to code, but most teams are “vibe coding” their way into production—throwing prompts at ChatGPT and hoping for the best. The result? Hallucinations, broken deployments, and the… Read more…
Martin Laws
mlaws.ca
How To Think Like A Performance Engineer
As awareness and tooling around site speed have been improving at a very exciting rate, has performance testing actually become any easier? Any more straightforward?
As someone who spends every… Read more…
Harry Roberts
CSS Wizardry Ltd.
No Frameworks For Old Devs
Once upon a time, we built websites with just HTML, CSS, and a sprinkle of JavaScript. Then came the frameworks, the bundlers, the transpilers, and the Great NPM Dependency Flood… Read more…
Simon MacDonald
Sanity
The Upside Of Being Unreasonable
Jason Lengstorf’s career choices are strange. They might even seem unreasonable. Why drop out of college to pursue life as a musician? Why turn down his first salaried dev role… Read more…
Jason Lengstorf
CodeTV
The Whimsical Animation Toolkit
Animations and interactions are an absolutely critical part of the user experience. When done well, they can make our sites/apps feel polished and premium.
In this talk, Josh W. Comeau… Read more…
Josh W. Comeau
Whimsical Animations
What’s New In React And NextJS In 2025
React and NextJS moved fast in 2025 and it can feel hard to keep up. In this talk, Shruti Kapoor will break down everything that changed, what’s new, what’s updated,… Read more…
Shruti Kapoor