Loren Stewart | Cheddy
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https://www.lorenstew.art/ https://cheddy.chat/
My talk from React Summit in July was just published. Thanks again to the organisers and the whole @gitnation.bsky.social team for inviting a somewhat radical perspective: gitnation.com/contents/buildin…
Building Bridges to a Post-SPA Future by Alex Russell
The speaker reflects on professionalism, tech collaboration deficiencies, and changing perspectives. They discuss React community involvement, cultural implications of technology choices, and the impa...
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Chinese company Z.ai released their new open weight model GLM 5.2 While it’s not quite as good as the latest Claude or GPT, it’s very close, as good as those were just a few months ago And it’s open-weight so anyone can download and use it
wow — gang, we gotta get those sveltekit numbers up npmx.dev/package/@sve.... click the 🧡 in the top right! don't let @danielroe.dev embarrass us
@sveltejs/kit - npmx
SvelteKit is the fastest way to build Svelte apps
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Philippe Serhal@philippeserhal.com · 2mo agoNew on @npmx.dev: 🥇🥈🥉 npmx.dev/leaderboard/... Why? Honestly, because we can just do fun things on the web. 🍿 Will the crown get to @rich-harris.dev's head? Will @danielroe.dev point out that ackshually SvelteKit is a fairer comparison and look how low the poor thing is? Will Astronauts organize?
There are two kinds of "framework-agnostic": 1️⃣ Agnostic at runtime → ship your own reactivity, adapt it into every framework 2️⃣ Agnostic at build time → compile the framework's native primitive into the core Almost everyone does 1️⃣. It's why you get a subscribe layer and a bundle tax.
I'm driven to distraction by the persistent failure of our regulatory and reportage classes to understand a simple fact: browsers are the most successful alternative app store ever devised. infrequently.org/2026/04/the-...
The stream is back tomorrow! The SolidStart team joins me from around the world to talk about the upcoming SolidStart 2.0 release and more: www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7Sc...
Let's Talk: SolidStart 2.0
YouTube video by Ryan Carniato
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not an april fools joke: svelte is no longer just a web framework (or rather, won't be once we merge @paolo.ricciuti.me's magnum opus). have seen some extremely cool demos of this
matia 🇭🇷@joyofcode.xyz · 4mo agoSvelte is taking a leap towards supporting other rendering targets besides the DOM like terminals and native mobile apps
I love this: “Here is a question most frontend developers rarely think to ask: why is this running in the browser? Why is this code running on hardware I’ve never seen, competing for resources with 47 other tabs, on a device I can’t profile or reproduce bugs on?”
Loren Stewart | Cheddy@cheddybop.bsky.social · 4mo agoSometime conventional wisdom isn't so wise www.lorenstew.art/blog/i-do-th...
My co-workers will see a lot of my recommendations for chat UIs that don't suck in this post. I tend to add "use web components for upgrades and delay loading" to the prescription, along with @jakearchibald.com's streaming hack, but the core choices are spot on: www.lorenstew.art/blog/i-do-th...
ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini Render Markdown in the Browser. I Don't | Loren Stewart
ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini ship markdown parsers, syntax highlighters, and LaTeX renderers to every user's browser, draining CPU, memory, and battery. Cheddy Chat avoids these resource-hungry pattern...
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It's a good list but #3 should be "End qualified immunity, full stop." The idea that ICE is special (and doesn't include CBP!?) is a sizable part how we got here.
Ro Khanna@rokhanna.bsky.social · 6mo agoCongress is not powerless. Democrats must unify around an actual agenda. 1. Vote no on DHS funding bill. 2. Repeal the multi-year $75 billion funding for ICE. 3. End qualified immunity for ICE agents. 4. Investigate and prosecute every single ICE agent who broke the law.
Wrote a whole post on this, but the TL;DR is to just try a few things in a minimal test case: infrequently.org/2024/11/if-n... @cheddybop.bsky.social did this brilliantly recently: www.lorenstew.art/blog/10-kanb...
If Not React, Then What? - Infrequently Noted
Frameworkism is now the dominant creed of today's frontend discourse, and it's bullshit. We owe it to ourselves and to our users to reject dogma and embrace engineering as a discipline that strives to...
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wrote some things I've been thinking about ai ... and it ended up feeling very personal roe.dev/blog/the-go...
The golden thread
AI can serve us as a force multiplier, augmenting our own agency and making the most of our own effort, hard work and value. Not by replacing it.
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🙇 Let's make AI write Svelte even better! File an issue for tasks where LLMs are struggling to help us fix them!
Svelte Society@sveltesociety.dev · 7mo agoThe svelte bench 2.0 is coming along, we already ported the old benchmark tests (thanks @khromov.se) but now we need to fill it up with a bunch of difficult svelte tasks and we need YOUR HELP! Go to github.com/sveltejs/ai/... and open an issue with ideas on tests that we can add (or open a PR)!
Should we drop a dedicated open-source project comparing ALL major schema libs? 🤔 We could test: ⏱️ Initialization speed ✅ Validation speed ⚡ Parsing speed 📦 Download time (bundle size) If this gets traction… we launch it 🚀📊
Fabian Hiller@fabianhiller.com · 7mo agoJust updated the @valibot.dev comparison guide to also including the new Zod Mini. Bundle sizes for a typical login schema: 🤖 Valibot: 1.37 kB 💎 Zod: 17.7 kB 💎 Zod Mini: 6.88 kB
I've been getting back into Python, and boy oh boy things have changed! New post on Python's FastAPI www.lorenstew.art/blog/fastapi...
All student debt should be canceled. All medical debt should be canceled. All K-12 school lunch debt should be canceled. These are all debts that don't exist in most nations.
Researchers have found two new vulnerabilities in React Server Components while attempting to exploit the patches last week. These are new issues, separate from the critical CVE last week. The patch for React2Shell remains effective for the Remote Code Execution exploit.
i did not know this was a thing but it is, browsers can now handle sanitizing HTML without a library 🤯 keith.is/post/html-sa...
We all could use a refresher on all the HTML tags and their usage
Jens Oliver Meiert@meiert.com · 8mo agoHTML Semantics: The Short Descriptions of All 113 Elements: A complete overview: How the HTML spec defines the meaning of all current HTML elements.
The death of browsing is part of the reason art is the way it is now. Our opinions are largely fed to us by algorithms. Spending a spare 15 minutes wandering around a bookstore or comic shop or video rental place was how you found stuff you wouldn't ordinarily pick up and thereby expanded your taste
violet allen@blipstress.bsky.social · 8mo agoBookselling is like the most "people go to the store and buy what looks cool to them without a particular agenda" type business left, and your purchases have a huge influence on what is ordered, what is displayed, and what is recommended.
If you want a simple distillation of how broken today's frontend discourse is, consider this component: a YT embed control that talks up how small it is *while assuming you are going to include all of React*; Preact/vanilla/WC compat not mentioned, natch: github.com/ibrahimcesar/rea…
Andy is a legend, and the course he has produced alongside some brilliant people including his team at @piccalil.li are top notch. If you have a project in mind for 2026, hit up @set.studio And/Or maybe make upskilling your Holiday treat to yourself this December!
Andy Bell@bell.bz · 8mo agoA bit of a vulnerable post by me but we need your help to get us through what has been a more difficult period than 2020. It would be really appreciated if you could read and share in your networks too 💛 bell.bz/its-been-a-v...
One of my hopes for 2026 is that browser vendors take more responsibility for today's pervasively bad experiences. Nobody wants a slow site, but they also don't want to dismiss a mailing-list pop-up that blocks scrolling. Browsers need to step in: infrequently.org/2025/11/perf...
The Performance Inequality Gap, 2026 - Infrequently Noted
Embedded in this year's network and device estimates is hopeful news about the trajectory of devices and networks. It has never been easier to deliver pages quickly, but we are not collectively…
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Yesterday at TPAC I publicized my draft proposal for adding a declarative templating API to the DOM. github.com/justinfagnan... The repo has: 📖 Explainers for the templating API and DOM scheduler API 🏗️ Full prototype implementations ⚗️ a JSX transform ⚛️ a mini React-like framework
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Watch @atila.io demonstrate SolidStart's features like "single-flight mutations" and unveils the SolidStart 2.0 roadmap, which involves a deeper integration with Vite's native APIs and a shift towards a more modular, primitive-based architecture Full video: youtu.be/L0w0bnwzjGg
