Max

@maxwellcohen.bsky.social

Everything will be great! Husband, father of 2, professional software engineer during the work week, and trying to be a developer by night. I will check your site's robots.txt and mobile experience. Modern Web, Vue, and React Compiler Fan!

Very excited about this release! It includes the Rust compiler and TypeScript 7, so builds are much faster. I need to test it out, but I am pretty sure there is a 5% to 10% decrease in client JS compared to Next 16.2. Congratulations to the @nextjs.org team on the release!

Next.js@nextjs.org · 2d ago

Next.js 16.3 is now available! • Up to 90% less memory in dev • Faster builds, type checking, and rendering • Better tooling for AI agents • Custom error boundaries • Instant Navigations for SPA-like responsiveness nextjs.org/blog/next-16-3 Here's what's new ↓

I think I only like Anthropic models that have a 5 in their version number: 3.5 -> like 3.7, 3.8, 4, so on -> dislike 4.5 -> like 4.6, 4.7, 4.8 -> dislike 5 (fable and opus) -> like

One of the reasons React has not been dethroned as the top ui libary is that it can be tuned to be very fast. In this benchmark, React was the slowest library. But by using the right primitives and use cases, React can beat the stereotype and be as fast as libraries like SolidJS and Svelte.

Max@maxwellcohen.bsky.social · last wk.

It was useEffect. I switched the React tests to use useLayoutEffects, and React became much more competitive. If you remove the Incremental Render Effect, React becomes the second fastest behind Angular. github.com/NullVoxPopul...

Benchmark showing React as the second fastest

AI can make YOU 100x faster/more productive/smarter; for me,it is just a few quality-of-life improvements that are not really measurable. — every AI speaker

New blog post! I've been building Drop, a small social app, and experimenting with React Server Components for performance and UX. Drop is one of the apps from my "Building SPA-like experiences with Next.js" series, which continues next week! aurorascharff.no/posts/experi...

Experimenting with RSCs for Performance and UX in Next.js | Aurora Scharff

A few Server Component patterns from a small app on the Next.js 16.3 preview: a load more button that leans on the URL, a search field that keeps focus while results stream, and a message composer tha...

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🎉 WOW! Webpack 5.109 is now available 🤯 ✨ Zero-config support for CSS, HTML, TS, and WASM 🎯 `import.meta.glob` and `import.meta.resolve` ⚡ CommonJS module concatenation 📊 Built-in progress bar Learn more: webpack.js.org/blog/2026-07...

Webpack 5.109 | webpack

webpack is a module bundler. Its main purpose is to bundle JavaScript files for usage in a browser, yet it is also capable of transforming, bundling, or packaging just about any resource or asset.

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8 months ago today, Anthropic released Opus 4.5, claiming that 100x AI engineers revolutionized Technology. After the equivalent of 66 agents' years, I have not seen the 100x AI engineers shipping stuff of value.

Eight months into the Fable of Opus 4.5, the Oracles of LinkedIn promised armies of 100x Composers to craft a sonnet of innovation covering all of Terra, Luna, and Sol. Yet after 66 agent years, I still DeepSeek the Muse's Spark of innovation, but it is farther away than a Moonshot to Gemini.