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Node.js 26.10 adds debounce and throttle to the runtime
October 2026
What I think a new engineer’s first month should be for
September 2026
India capability center hiring is up, the roles changed
September 2026
The new accessibility draft reports by impact, not by level
September 2026
The challenges of evaluating AI coding tools
September 2026
A team made mentoring part of the path to promotion
September 2026
Interop 2027 proposals are open for three weeks
September 2026
The 3 p.m. problem: what a three-continent team needs
September 2026
Developer jobs projected to grow 10% through 2035
September 2026
React 19.3 makes View Transitions and Fragment Refs stable
September 2026
Why the component library is a front-end team’s best lever
September 2026
A review of the vibe coding research, and what it agrees on
September 2026
AI raised coding output 180% and releases 30%
September 2026
Writing technical standards people follow
September 2026
Passkeys are a settled standard, the rest is product work
August 2026
The rules linters check for accessible markup were updated
August 2026
Choosing a front-end framework for a ten-year product
August 2026
One maintainer account reached 515 million weekly downloads
August 2026
84% of developers feel faster with AI, 20% measure it
August 2026
What a very large audience taught me about web performance
August 2026
Coding agents sped up the task and weakened understanding
August 2026
Next.js 16.3 turned on several new defaults in a minor
August 2026
Helping offshore teams own their work
August 2026
A platform capability is done when it is used
August 2026
The :has() selector and CSS nesting are now widely available
August 2026
What educational technology taught me about leading teams
August 2026
CSS Color Level 4 settles its gamut mapping text
August 2026
Senior roles are 69% of software development postings
July 2026
Why I think you should talk to users before a rewrite
July 2026
Agent pull requests merge at 65%, humans at 85%
July 2026
AsyncAPI compromise ran its payload at import time
July 2026
The roles I think a web team needs now
July 2026
Debugging is mental model building, not tool use
July 2026
Developers projected to add 267,700 jobs by 2034
July 2026
Why I plan more when a team is new to a technology
July 2026
The 2026 Stack Overflow survey is open, for humans only
July 2026
Node.js June patches reach into hostname checks
July 2026
The challenges of measuring developer productivity
July 2026
ECMAScript 2026 is approved, what I would allow first
July 2026
Adoption of coding agents at Microsoft spread through peers
July 2026
Recognition I think engineers actually value
July 2026
Read more links pass the audit and still fail the reader
June 2026
A quarter of US paid workdays are still worked from home
June 2026
Where I think Node.js fits in a Java organization
June 2026
A third of managers are considering a return to coding
June 2026
The 1.3 draft of the accessibility roles spec adds two roles
June 2026
Why I think accessibility belongs in the component library
June 2026
AI writes nearly a third of new US software functions
June 2026
Pointer Events Level 3 heads for Recommendation
June 2026
Why I think time zones are a planning problem
June 2026
Third parties were involved in nearly half of breaches
June 2026
Angular 22 picks the modern path for you
June 2026
What I think the single-page app era got right and wrong
June 2026
Section 504 web deadline moves a year, standard unchanged
June 2026
Most engineering leaders say AI raised velocity by a quarter
May 2026
The boundaries I think keep a large React codebase workable
May 2026
Fewer international job seekers are clicking on US dev roles
May 2026
The TanStack packages were published by the real pipeline
May 2026
What I think about bringing two engineering teams together
May 2026
pnpm 11 waits a day before installing a new version
May 2026
Scaling the social system of a software organization
May 2026
What I think reviewers should look for in agent-written code
May 2026
An AGENTS.md file cut agent runtime by a quarter
May 2026
Node.js 26 turns Temporal on by default
May 2026
Questions I think a team should ask before an AI tool trial
May 2026
98% more pull requests, 91% longer reviews, flat delivery
May 2026
Trust predicted remote productivity, training did not
May 2026
What I think a team needs before adopting an AI coding tool
April 2026
contrast-color() makes text contrast a browser guarantee
April 2026
The public web accessibility deadline moved a year
April 2026
What teaching kids Pong taught me about onboarding
April 2026
Tech employment fell in March while job postings rose
April 2026
Remote teams underestimate barriers for disabled developers
April 2026
Why I think design tokens are a management tool
April 2026
Experts and the public disagree on what AI does to jobs
April 2026
React 19.2.5 is another Server Components hardening patch
April 2026
How I think about rewrite, wrap, or retire
April 2026
Agent pull requests: task type matters more than the agent
April 2026
Nearly 96% of top home pages still fail accessibility checks
April 2026
What I think engineers should understand about compliance
April 2026
Node.js patches nine issues, two of them old-fix bypasses
March 2026
Interop 2025 took the browser score from 25 to 95
March 2026
Why I treat security as part of the pipeline
March 2026
Vite 8 puts one bundler under development and production
March 2026
State of JavaScript 2025: TypeScript keeps winning
March 2026
Deciding what documentation is worth carrying forward
March 2026
Safari’s Interop 2026 list, read for component libraries
March 2026
With AI, developers coded more and collaborated far less
March 2026
The challenges of scaling management as a team grows
March 2026
The AI productivity study that found a slowdown is changing
March 2026
In hybrid teams, the Agile ceremonies became the anchors
March 2026
Quick prototypes, and keeping them off the roadmap
March 2026
Growing a leadership team: lessons from a QCon talk
March 2026
A native HTML sanitizer arrives in Firefox and Chrome
February 2026
What a good engineering interview is trying to learn
February 2026
Interop 2026: twenty web features the browsers agree to fix
February 2026
How coding agents describe pull requests matters
February 2026
What I kept from being a scrum master
February 2026
State of React 2025: a third of teams use no state library
February 2026
ESLint 10 removes the old config system for good
February 2026
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