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Why Go had to hardcode a block on broken certs

#​621 — October 23, 2026 Read the Web Version Go Weekly Interactive Refactoring in gopls — LSP refactorings can't 'ask' you anything, so "Add struct tags" in gopls just guessed json and camelCase. gopls can now pop up dialogs to collect your input. It uses a stateless, form-like protocol extension the Go and Dart teams have proposed as an LSP standard . Hongxiang Jiang (Go Team) 💡 For now it works in VS Code, with Neovim and Emacs support at proof-of-concept stage. A Move declaration refactoring is coming soon, with Change signature to follow. Deploy Self-Healing Apps on Kubernetes — Learn Ku

Golang Weekly · EN

Wails 3 arrives after nearly four years

#​622 — October 30, 2026 Read the Web Version Go Weekly Wails 3.0: Build Desktop Apps with Go and Native Web Views — Nearly four years after its alpha, Wails 3 lets you build desktop apps with a Go backend and web frontend, rendered in a native WebView. 3.0 adds multiple windows, system tray support, an in-app updater, and generated JavaScript and TypeScript bindings for Go services. Mobile support remains experimental. Lea Anthony Stop Hand-Rolling Webhooks in Your Go Service — Your webhooks want one package, one call per event, and idiomatic Go with typed models. Svix handles retries, signin

Golang Weekly · EN

JPEG XL finally ships in Chrome

🚀 Frontend Focus #​761 — October 7, 2026 | Read on the web How Fast is the Web? Exploring Billions of Real-User Measurements — A new free BigQuery dataset of anonymized real user Core Web Vitals from 10,000 large Cloudflare-fronted sites, updated daily and covering Safari/WebKit as well as Chrome. The post covers some of the initial findings, including how downloads are usually the smallest part of a slow LCP. Townsend & Jansma (Cloudflare) Would You Let Your AI Agent Grade Its Own Homework? — Agents write code faster than ever. They even review their own work. But who’s reviewing them? Dropb

Frontend Focus · EN

The best way to use icons in Web UIs

🚀 Frontend Focus #​762 — October 14, 2026 | Read on the web What the iPhone Duo Means for Web Development — The Duo is out next week, so Darius fired up the simulator to try the Device Posture and Viewport Segments APIs (both available behind a flag). Using Video.js components and CSS, he tried to recreate Netflix's folded-player UI, but Apple's fullscreen restrictions made things a tad interesting. Darius Cepulis (Video.js) The Best Way to Use Icons in Web UIs — Lea shows how to insert and tweak icons without touching any HTML, using --icon custom properties, @property , style queries, and m

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Ten CSS features worth voting for

🚀 Frontend Focus #​763 — October 21, 2026 | Read on the web Everyone's Interop 2027 Wishlists Last week we shared that you can now rank the Interop web platform proposals for 2027 . Since then, plenty of folks have shared their own rankings and explained their choices: ⭐ Josh Comeau's The Future of CSS – Josh's top ten, from CSS functions and corner-shape to anchored container queries and scroll-triggered animations, each with live demos, current browser support, and tips you can use today. A particularly good place to start. 🔎 Sara Soueidan's picks put accessibility first. It's a privilege,

Frontend Focus · EN

The spyware hiding in old script tags

🚀 Frontend Focus #​764 — October 28, 2026 | Read on the web 🖼️ HTML-in-Canvas: Interactive DOM Inside 2D, WebGL and WebGPU Canvases — Arriving in stable Chrome next week, this long-incubated API draws real, live HTML into 2D, WebGL and WebGPU canvases, with text selection, form controls, Find-in-Page and screen readers all still working. Three.js, Babylon.js and PixiJS already support it. Chrome-only for now, but a big leap for canvas-heavy UIs. There's a related video here too . Natalia Markoborodova (Chrome) Creating Dynamic Social Media Cards for User Content — Chris digs into how links u

Frontend Focus · EN

Anthropic's AI agent 🤖, Elon's merger 💰, internet security meltdown 👨‍💻

Anthropic's Claude Duet joins a fast-growing field of AI assistants that take actions and perform tasks on their own.

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OpenAI Signal leaks 💬, Alexa Tablet 💻, formal software verification 👨‍💻

Three OpenAI safety researchers were fired after security officers discovered Signal chats with disappearing messages turned on on their personal devices.

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iPhone Duo 📱, SpaceX military access 🛰️, ambitious software 👨‍💻

Apple's iPhone Duo is a miniature tablet that can be folded up into a phone. SpaceX has been granted access to restricted space tracking data by the US…

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Anthropic IPO 💰, OpenAI disproves ETH 👨‍💻, end of the internet 🌍

Anthropic unveiled its IPO paperwork yesterday, putting it on track to go public as soon as the week before Thanksgiving.

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M6 MacBook Pro 💻, Amazon anti-tokenmaxxing 📉, advice for junior SWEs 👨‍💻

The iMac and the entry-level 14-inch MacBook Pro are both getting the M6 chip. Amazon has released a memo to staff saying that token usage and code…

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Touchscreen MacBook Pro 💻, Gemini 4 Carbon 🤖, Slack Code API 👨‍💻

The new MacBook Pro has an OLED touchscreen display. Gemini 4 Carbon promises improvements in cybersecurity and complex software engineering.

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DoorDash buys Instacart 🛒, Reddit requires login 👽, making agents faster ⚡

DoorDash will acquire Instacart for $17 billion. Reddit will start testing a logged-in-only experience in select non-US markets in Q4.

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OpenAI funding issues 💰, Cisco rewrites code 👨‍💻, hiring junior devs 💼

OpenAI's latest funding round received tepid interest from investors. Cisco has given Padmanabhan Krishnamurthy, a 27-year-old ex-startup founder who…

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12 Node built-ins that replace npm packages

#​642 — September 24, 2026 Read on the Web ⚠️ We're taking a week off next week, so we'll be back on Thursday, October 8. __ Your editor, Peter Cooper Node.js Built-ins That Replaced npm Packages — A practical tour of 12 Node built-ins that replace packages like axios , dotenv , nodemon and chalk . Each is explained with its stability level in Node 24 LTS and gotchas that might make you want to stick with your existing dependency anyway. Flavio Copes CodeAF: The Open-Source Software Factory for Open Models — Instead of juggling a terminal for every agent, you get one window for every project.

Node Weekly · EN

When worker threads beat processes for Node efficiency

#​643 — October 8, 2026 Read on the Web 📝 We're back after taking last week off – you didn't miss an issue :-) If you want one neat thing to check out today, look for the voice synth package below, it's a fun way to relive a bit of 80s nostalgia! __ Peter Cooper, your editor How Booking.com Cut the Cost of Its Biggest Node.js Service by 38% — The online travel company moved its biggest React SSR service from pm2’s process-based cluster approach to Platformatic’s Watt and worker threads, then tuned load balancing and V8’s GC to get noteworthy gains. Ilya Malyavin (Booking.com) 100+ Search Engi

Node Weekly · EN

The NodeConf EU 2026 talks are online

#​644 — October 15, 2026 Read on the Web 📝 We're taking next week off and will be back on Thursday, October 29. __ Peter Cooper, your editor Skia Canvas 4.0: A Fast Canvas Environment for Node — Based on Google's Skia graphics engine, it produces results similar to Chrome's own canvas. GPU accelerated and can render images, paths, fonts, shapes, etc. both to static images and live in a native window. v4.0 is faster, lighter, and adds native PDF loading. GitHub repo. Christian Swinehart Cut Your GitHub Actions Times and Costs in Half — Faster Node builds with better hardware, unlimited concurr

Node Weekly · EN

Node security releases to fix a Brotli flaw

#​645 — October 29, 2026 Read on the Web Node.js 26 'Lithium' Is Now the Active LTS Line — Node.js 26.13.0 promotes Node 26 to long-term support, with updates through April 2029, making it the new line to target for production. Node 24 has moved into maintenance and 22 remains in maintenance until April 2027 – the Node releases page has a neat graph to visualize this. Node.js Release Team 💡 Meanwhile, Node 27's first alpha , the first release under Node's new annual release schedule , is being prepared and should land later today. Build an Agent that Never Sleeps — Most agents stop when you c

Node Weekly · EN

Why don't more developers 'use the platform'?

#​805 — October 6, 2026 Read on the Web JavaScript Weekly Why Don't More Developers 'Use the Platform'? — A thoughtful look at why we often rebuild what browsers already offer, from someone usually on the platform's side. It kicked off an extensive Hacker News discussion , with many arguing native controls and APIs are too limited or awkward to depend on. Nolan Lawson Free Course: Build Ambitious Modern Interfaces Faster with OpenAI Codex — Join Katia Gil Guzman for this free Codex course and learn how agentic coding has changed frontend development. You'll cover setup, prompting, feedback, sk

JavaScript Weekly · EN

Ryan Dahl: 'Why reimplement Node? It works.'

#​806 — October 13, 2026 Read on the Web JavaScript Weekly Deno is Joining Cloudflare (But…) — Maybe David Bushell saw the writing on the wall , as the Deno team isn't joining Cloudflare to keep working on Deno , but to fold celld into workerd so Durable Objects can be self-hosted ( more on that here ). The Deno runtime will get a final year of official fixes, Deno Deploy closes in six months, and JSR moves to Cloudflare's infrastructure. Ryan Dahl 💡 On Hacker News , Ryan Dahl noted that Deno "has been sucked into the gravity well of Node compatibility" before asking: "Why reimplement Node? I

JavaScript Weekly · EN

The up to 8x faster Rust port of TypeScript

#​807 — October 20, 2026 Read on the Web JavaScript Weekly tsrs: Cloudflare and VoidZero's Rust Port of TypeScript — A Rust port of the Go-based TypeScript 7 compiler, built with some input from the TypeScript team and heading into Oxc . Benchmarks claim up to 8x the speed of TypeScript 7.0 and it runs in WebAssembly. Experimental, but npx tsrs works. Chen, Mitropoulos and Nakazawa (Cloudflare / VoidZero) 💡 Max Schwenk started the port with agents writing the code, and tells the full tale here , including how it took his company's typecheck from 80 seconds to 7. Send Webhooks from Your TypeSc

JavaScript Weekly · EN

Rebuilding the original GTA engine in JavaScript

#​808 — October 27, 2026 Read on the Web JavaScript Weekly TanStack AI 1.0: The Vendor-Neutral AI Toolkit Goes Stable — TanStack's framework-agnostic AI toolkit reaches 1.0, with stable APIs for chat, tools and media, plus 23 provider adapters. A new agent harness supports long-running sessions, but its APIs remain experimental. Tuzlak, Herrington, et al. (TanStack) Would You Let Your AI Agent Grade Its Own Homework? — Agents write code faster than ever. They even review their own work. But who’s reviewing them? Dropbox, Notion & ElevenLabs don’t take the risk. With Meticulous, every change is

JavaScript Weekly · EN

From open source hits to OpenAI

This week I'm talking with Max Stoiber, currently working on ChatGPT's plugin directory and app platform at OpenAI. We discuss the hundreds of open source projects nobody remembers alongside the big ones like react-boilerplate and styled-components, how Spectrum became part of GitHub and eventually helped shape GitHub Discussions, the founder growth that came from building Stellate, the GraphQL cache that turned into a dual acquisition by Shopify and The Guild, and why ChatGPT apps feel like a new surface for software.

Changelog · EN

Canary tokens and digital tripwires

Haroon Meer is back! Haroon is the Founder of Thinkst, the ~50-person bootstrapped company behind Canary and Canarytokens — honeypots and tripwires you sprinkle inside your network and forget about until an attacker touches one. We talk about the AWS API key token attackers just can't resist trying, the real credit card token backed by an actual bank partnership, Breadcrumbs (their brand-new feature that leads intruders straight to your canaries), a live demo where a hardware Canary becomes a Synology NAS in one click, and how a company with zero outbound sales and no price increase in ten yea

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