How long is a second? Yes, that's the very first post, but it's also an interesting read about the broken NPM audit, the new Fetch mocker, and the future of Svelte. There is also a really good one about CSS nesting and CSS design mistakes. Tailwindcss 4 is out, and it's a good read about Electron. Happy reading!
Well, the second itself is just a second, but things are not as simple as you might think.
https://docs.timetime.in/blog/how-long-is-a-second-in-js/
https://overreacted.io/npm-audit-broken-by-design/
https://composehq.com/blog/scaling-websockets-1-23-25
What do you do when you can't find a testing library to mock your fetch() tests? Well, you write your own library, of course. This is what Nicholas C. Zakas did, and that's how the Mentoss testing library was introduced.
https://humanwhocodes.com/blog/2025/01/introducing-mentoss-fetch-mocker/
Not magic, but magical!
https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2025/01/svelte-5-future-frameworks-chat-rich-harris/
https://www.debugbear.com/blog/optimizing-the-critical-rendering-path
This is a fresh view of the latest CSS features. The post focuses on nesting, but there are more. That reminds me of the border-radius and box-shadow CSS properties, which suddenly were used on every website to every possible container on the page. The colourful title technique is now a "must-have" for every portfolio website, and never mind the usage of @layer or @scope.
https://piccalil.li/blog/css-nesting-use-with-caution/
Tiny library to create SVG background patterns with rounded corners.
I never noticed any use case for a multi-column layout, but this post shows an excellent case.
https://css-tricks.com/revisiting-css-multi-column-layout/
https://evilmartians.com/chronicles/how-to-favicon-in-2021-six-files-that-fit-most-needs
https://tailwindcss.com/blog/tailwindcss-v4
3D effect hover card with kind of holographic glow
https://codepen.io/jh3y/pen/wvXvERq
Futuristic objects with three.js
https://codepen.io/wakana-k/pen/VYZRwNb
If we consider that CSS was meant for documents and is 30 years old, then those mistakes are understandable. For example, border-radius should have been corner-radius. RGBA() shouldn't exist; the fourth element should be optional for RGB() and similar. Fun to read.
https://wiki.csswg.org/ideas/mistakes
Nothing is surprising here. The page sizes are getting bigger by the day.
https://www.speedcurve.com/blog/page-bloat-2025/
https://felixrieseberg.com/things-people-get-wrong-about-electron/
If you read this post from Z → A, you would have a step-by-step tutorial on how almost readable code is converted into a very compressed version of 192 bytes.
https://wasmgroundup.com/blog/wasm-compiler-in-a-tweet/
https://whitep4nth3r.com/blog/how-i-learned-to-code-with-my-voice/
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