February 2025 ~ teklinks

February 27, 2025

React Libraries for 2024

Thursday, February 27, 2025 Teklinks

React has been around for quite some time, and over the years, an extensive—yet sometimes overwhelming—ecosystem of libraries has grown around it. Developers transitioning from other languages or frameworks often struggle to navigate all the libraries needed to build web applications with React.

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State of React Native 2024

Thursday, February 27, 2025 Teklinks

2024 was a year of significant updates and improvements in the ecosystem, beyond the New Architecture. All the libraries' authors released many impactful updates, further stabilizing and reshaping parts of the ecosystem.

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Comparing local large language models for alt-text generation

Thursday, February 27, 2025 Teklinks

I have 10,000 photos on my website. About 9,000 have no alt-text. I'm not proud of that, and it has bothered me for a long time. When I started my blog nearly 20 years ago, I didn't think much about alt-texts.

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Learning web extensions

Wednesday, February 26, 2025 Teklinks

I blinked and the first month of 2025 went by. NGL, 2024 was…challenging. So forgive me for choosing to just shut down during the end of last year. But I did do some things that I thought were worth sharing and I have deferred that until now.

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Migrating 160,000 Lines of Production Banking JavaScript to TypeScript with Zero Downtime

Wednesday, February 26, 2025 Teklinks

TypeScript has become the de facto standard for building robust, maintainable, and scalable JavaScript applications. Yet, migrating a large production codebase to TypeScript can be a daunting task, especially when you're dealing with 160,000 lines of mission-critical JavaScript and users with real money in your system, and their tax returns to submit.

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The State of AI in the Cloud 2025

Tuesday, February 25, 2025 Teklinks

Based on the sample size of hundreds of thousands of public cloud accounts, our second annual State of AI in the Cloud report highlights where AI is growing, which new players are emerging, and just how quickly the landscape is shifting. 85% of organizations are using some form of AI.

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My Experience as a Designer Working at Bit

Tuesday, February 25, 2025 Teklinks

As the Senior UX/UI Designer at Bit using Bit’s tools for development, I’ve had the unique opportunity to work in an environment where design and development are seamlessly aligned.

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Automated architecture diagrams

Tuesday, February 25, 2025 Teklinks

Often an organisation’s technical systems have a complex dependency graph, which is not always easy to discover and reason about. And the biggest issue of all -> Are these diagrams still up to date????

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When Imperfect Systems are Good, Actually: Bluesky's Lossy Timelines

Monday, February 24, 2025 Teklinks

Often when designing systems, we aim for perfection in things like consistency of data, availability, latency, and more. The hardest part of system design is that it’s difficult (if not impossible) to design systems that have perfect consistency, perfect availability, incredibly low latency, and incredibly high throughput, all at the same time.

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Svelte 5 is not Javascript

Monday, February 24, 2025 Teklinks

For the last couple of weeks, I've been dealing with the fallout of upgrading a web application to Svelte 5. Complaints about framework churn and migration annoyances aside, I've run into some interesting issues with the migration.

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Visualizing Data Is An Art - We Should Treat It Like One

Friday, February 21, 2025 Teklinks

As we teeter towards a post-truth world, I've been thinking about how we communicate information and specifically the role data visualization plays. In its modern form, it's a surprisingly young field that sits at the intersection of art and science. Much of the lexicon is actively being written and, perhaps counterintuitively, I'm going to advocate for a bit less science and a bit more art.

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How to harness APIs and AI for intelligent automation

Friday, February 21, 2025 Teklinks

APIs have steadily become the backbone of AI systems, connecting data and tools seamlessly. Discover how they can drive scalable and secure training for AI models and intelligence automation.

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How your morning coffee is changing the structure of your brain

Thursday, February 20, 2025 Teklinks

A novel placebo-controlled study has found daily caffeine consumption can significantly reduce the volume of gray matter in the human brain. These findings do not immediately suggest caffeine negatively impacts the brain but instead points to how the drug may induce a temporary neural plasticity that researchers think warrants further investigation.

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The React data-table I always wanted

Thursday, February 20, 2025 Teklinks

We have release our react data-table based on shadcn/ui a couple of months ago. While there's still in development, the PR #11 marks an important second milestone after the initial release a few months ago. We now have a solid foundation to focus on the component API design and data fetching.

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ESLint now officially supports linting of CSS

Thursday, February 20, 2025 Teklinks

Back in July of 2024 we announced our plan to make ESLint a more general-purpose linter that is capable of linting any language. In October 2024, we announced linting support for JSON and Markdown, delivering on that vision.

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Why I rebuilt ProseMirror’s renderer in React

Tuesday, February 18, 2025 Teklinks

For almost five years, I worked on the New York Times’ rich text editor, Oak. It’s used by over a thousand journalists at the Times to author nearly every story that’s published to the site.

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How React Router works under the hood

Tuesday, February 18, 2025 Teklinks

This post dives into how React Router as a framework works under the hood. Remix recently merged with React Router. React Router is now not only a routing library but also a full-stack web framework.

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The End of Programming as We Know It

Tuesday, February 18, 2025 Teklinks

There’s a lot of chatter in the media that software developers will soon lose their jobs to AI. I don’t buy it. It is not the end of programming. It is the end of programming as we know it today. That is not new. The first programmers connected physical circuits to perform each calculation.

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From Rust to TypeScript: A New Chapter for Prisma ORM

Monday, February 17, 2025 Teklinks

The Prisma query engine, written in Rust, has always been a core part of Prisma ORM. It was developed for the future, but is no longer compatible with Prisma ORM’s current direction. Read on to learn more about our rewrite from Rust to TypeScript.

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You should not use URLPattern to route HTTP requests on the server

Friday, February 14, 2025 Teklinks

URLPattern is a Web Specification, which recently landed in Node.js thanks to the outstanding work of Yagiz Nizipli and Daniel Lemire in Ada v3. It will soon be available in Node.js v23. You can see the evolution of the spec at https://github.com/whatwg/urlpattern.

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Move on to ESM-only

Friday, February 14, 2025 Teklinks

Three years ago, I wrote a post about shipping ESM & CJS in a single package, advocating for dual CJS/ESM formats to ease user migration and trying to make the best of both worlds.

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Things people get wrong about Electron

Thursday, February 13, 2025 Teklinks

I dedicated years bringing web technologies and desktop apps closer together. The most recent and most successful project in that vein is Electron, which I've spent the last ten years working on.

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Building a semantic movie search demo with pgvector and Next.js

Thursday, February 13, 2025 Teklinks

If you are having trouble keeping up with recent developments in AI, you’re not alone. So many things are happening so quickly at the same time, it’s easy to miss how cool each individual innovation is. One of them I want to talk about today is vector embeddings. 1

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Monorepos in JavaScript & TypeScript

Thursday, February 13, 2025 Teklinks

This is a comprehensive tutorial on Monorepos in JavaScript/TypeScript --- which is using state of the art tools for these kind of architectures in frontend applications. You will learn about the following topics from this tutorial:

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Tutorial: publishing ESM-based npm packages with TypeScript

Wednesday, February 12, 2025 Teklinks

During the last two years, ESM support in TypeScript, Node.js and browsers has made a lot of progress. In this blog post, I explain my modern setup that is relatively simple – compared to what we had to do in the past: Feedback welcome: What do you do differently? What can be improved?

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Single Responsibility Principle in React: The Art of Component Focus

Tuesday, February 11, 2025 Teklinks

We’ve covered Dependency Inversion, Interface Segregation, Liskov Substitution, and Open-Closed. Now it’s time for the foundation of SOLID: the Single Responsibility Principle (SRP).

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There are a lot of ways to break up long tasks in JavaScript.

Tuesday, February 11, 2025 Teklinks

It's not hard to bork your site's user experience by letting a long, expensive task hog the main thread. No matter how complex an application becomes, the event loop can still do only one thing at a time.

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