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Issue #40:

EA Command & Conquer's source code is now on GitHub (time to ~~waste your weekend~~ study classic game architecture)
Safari finally gets CSS anchor positioning while Firefox keeps dragging its feet
Could terminal mastery actually make you a worse developer?
If you're not hacking your home, what are you even doing?

CSS Anchor Positioning coming to Safari

wEs's link

The new CSS anchor spec, which allows you to position elements relative to other arbitrary elements (think tooltips and card decorations), has been merged into Safari. That only leaves you, Firefox.

Command & Conquer Source Code Released

selected by CJ

EA released the source code of classic C&C titles like Tiberian Dawn, Red Alert, Renegade, and Generals. Browse them all now on Github.

Gooey CSS Effect

PICKED by WES

Neat approach to make gooey transitions in CSS using high contrast and blur filters.

Why we ditched Next.js and never looked back

cj's find!

The authors of this post ran into many SEO and performance issues with Next.js - this post talks about how they switched to hand rolled SSR for better performance and rankings.

3 ECMAScript Proposals have advanced to Stage 4

cj ALWAYS SHOWS UP WITH THE LINKS

RegExp Escaping, Float16Array, and Redeclarable global eval vars are all coming in the next version of ECMAScript!

The modern way to write JavaScript servers

SURPRISE, CJ AGAIN!

Using the web standard Request and Response objects for building servers is the modern way to do it and can even work in Node with a Polyfill.

All Hail The Algorithm

Some good stuff™ we posted this week

The Feed

New episodes 2×/week + other new video content!

Aaron Francis is putting PHP in Your JS Files

CSS Battle - Re-create an Image with CSS in the Fewest Characters | Experts Compete in CSS Code Golf

How To Create A React App in 2025

Web Components, Self Hosting and Home Hacking with the Creator of Home Assistant

SHAMELESS PLUG

Hands-on debugging session: instrument, monitor, and fix

Join Lazar for a hands-on session where you’ll build it, break it, debug it, and fix it. You’ll set up Sentry, track errors, use Session Replay and Tracing, and leverage some good ol’ AI to find and fix issues fast.

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sunil pai

@threepointone

my spiciest tech opinion is that knowledge of terminal commands is deeply overrated, and not only does it _not_ improve programming fluency or efficacy at all, but it actually makes you _worse_ by taking over the parts that could be caring about building something good instead.

2:10 PM • Feb 20, 2025

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Sunil thinks that focusing on terminal commands is overrated and will make you a worse programmer.

We need an Open Governance Definition

... because Open Source means too many different things

Just as the Open Source Definition set the minimum requirements for user freedoms which must be preserved for a project to qualify as open source, an Open Governance Definition would set the minimum requirements for user power which must be available for a project to quality as open governance.

Chad Whitacre

did you notice that the swag shop got a redesign? new drops coming soon