The new Cookie Store API

Historically, in a browser, programmatic access to cookies has revolved around the document.cookie API, which is simply a string getter/setter. To read a single cookie from that string, you must parse the whole string into a structured format.

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Why does JSON have commas?

As it happens, I already wrote a post on why Commas are Bad. We did not arrive at any specific conclusion apart from commas maybe being worth rethinking and replacing with some other things. Among all the languages and formats that could do with fewer of them...

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Chopped: AI Edition - Building a Meal Planner

As a dad of two toddlers with very particular tastes—one constantly wants treats for dinner and the other refuses anything that isn’t beige—I view dinnertime at my house as a nightly episode of “Chopped: Toddler Edition.

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Fastify + React is 7x Faster than Next.js April 9, 2025

Remember the SSR Performance Showdown? And Theo's coverage of it? Now that @fastify/vue and @fastify/react reached 1.0.0, it's time for a revisit. Especially because we didn't test metaframeworks back then. We were just looking at the raw performance of frontend frameworks. Now, how do Vue and React fare when used in Fastify, Nuxt and Next? Let's find out.

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Open-source AI: Are younger developers leading the way?

In March, over 1,000 developers and technologists gave us insights into what they think about open source and the role it plays with AI. The emergence of powerful and cost-effective open-source models has intensified the debate between open-source and proprietary AI.

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Tauri vs. Electron: performance, bundle size, and the real trade-offs

At Hopp, we're building a cross-platform remote control application designed for a low-latency remote pair programming experience. Providing the best possible user experience is our top priority. Early in the development journey, the decision came to use either Tauri or Electron to build the app.

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Tech hiring: is this an inflection point?

It is easy to assume that hiring solid engineers has never been simpler because fewer businesses are posting jobs and more engineers are competing for roles. But I’ve been talking with engineering managers, directors, and heads of engineering at startups and mid-sized companies, and got a surprise: they say the opposite is true! In fact, many report that in 2025 they find it harder to hire than ever. This seems like a contradiction worth digging into, so that’s what we’re doing today, covering..

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