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January 15, 2025

Introducing TanStack Start

Wednesday, January 15, 2025 Teklinks

The best way to think about TanStack Start is that it’s a thin server layer atop the TanStack Router we already know and love; that means we don’t lose a single thing from TanStack Router.

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January 14, 2025

Things we learned about LLMs in 2024

Tuesday, January 14, 2025 Teklinks

A lot has happened in the world of Large Language Models over the course of 2024. Here’s a review of things we figured out about the field in the past twelve months, plus my attempt at identifying key themes and pivotal moments. This is a sequel to my review of 2023.

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Refactoring with Codemods to Automate API Changes

Tuesday, January 14, 2025 Teklinks

Refactoring is something developers do all the time—making code easier to understand, maintain, and extend. While IDEs can handle simple refactorings with just a few keystrokes, things get tricky when you need to apply changes across large or distributed codebases, especially those you don’t fully control.

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5 tips to effectively optimize INP in React

Tuesday, January 14, 2025 Teklinks

In this post, let’s consider several optimization techniques for improving Core Web Vitals metrics for sites that are built with React. We are a team of speed consultants from the Czech Republic and in this article we would like to share some experiences from the many front-end performance optimizations we did for our clients.

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Building effective agents

Tuesday, January 14, 2025 Teklinks

Over the past year, we've worked with dozens of teams building large language model (LLM) agents across industries. Consistently, the most successful implementations weren't using complex frameworks or specialized libraries. Instead, they were building with simple, composable patterns.

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January 12, 2025

JavaScript Benchmarking Is a Mess

Sunday, January 12, 2025 Teklinks

I hate benchmarking code, just like any human (which, at this point, most viewers of this probably aren’t ¯\_(ツ)_/¯). It is much more fun to pretend that your caching of a value increased performance 1000% rather than testing to see what it did.

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You don't need Next.js

Sunday, January 12, 2025 Teklinks

My tweet about this blew up, so I thought it'd be helpful to break down exactly why we made this move. I started ComfyDeploy as an open source project (GitHub) - a full stack app with Next.js doing all the heavy lifting for both frontend and backend.

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