Most AI forecasts today assume two things: AI will replace engineers. AI will write all the code. I think both questions miss the real story. A short forecast for the next year: medium.com/@rdvornov/ai...

AI and the Coming Correction

A forecast for the next year (2026)

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If profiling feels useless in complex apps (systems), maybe that’s not because nothing can be done. But because we’re still looking from the wrong perspective. medium.com/@rdvornov/wh...

Why Profiling Leaves You Guessing

From isolated measurements to understanding execution as a process

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A simple observation that becomes uncomfortable once you take it seriously: Stability and objectivity in complex systems emerge from the structured coexistence of conflicting evaluative perspectives. medium.com/@rdvornov/st...

Stability Comes From Tension

If removing tension feels like improvement, you are probably breaking something important.

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The semver library used in npm, yarn and pnpm could be made 33x faster. Ran into that while wondering why running `npm install` takes so long on the Preact repo. marvinh.dev/blog/speedin...

Speeding up the JavaScript ecosystem - Semver

During the installation process, package managers run a bunch of semver comparisons. The semver library used in npm, yarn and pnpm can be made around 33x faster.

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✍️ New article: Web Streams in Depth – Part 1: The Challenge of Modern Data From callbacks to for await...of, and from Node.js Streams to the Web Streams API — here's how JavaScript evolved to handle massive data efficiently, everywhere.

Web Streams in Depth, Part 1: From Callbacks to Streams

Introduction: The Challenge of Modern Data JavaScript has come a long way from its humble...

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🚀 CPUpro 0.7.0 is here! - Annotated source code view - Code states, inlining, deoptimizations insights - Enhanced "All call frames" table - Raw V8 log support (no conversion needed) - Gzipped profiles support

Release 0.7.0 – Source code view, code states, raw V8 log and gzipped profiles support · discoveryjs/cpupro

CPUpro opens a new chapter in providing deeper insights into how JavaScript code runs, introducing annotated function source code display with per-location precision. This feature is only available...

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Discovery.js 1.0.0-beta.94 Introducing text rendering github.com/discoveryjs/...

Dear @webstorm.jetbrains.com and @jetbrains.com IDEs users who use JS testing framework integrations, A huge refactoring of this subsystem was delivered in EAP 5. It has changes for: - @vitest.dev - Jest - @nodejs.org test runner - @playwright.dev - Cypress - Mocha - Protractor and Karma ...

New in Chrome 133 – which goes stable on Feb 4 – is a new method to move an element around the DOM. Unlike the classic way of removing+reinserting a node, this moveBefore method preserves the element’s state! Iframes remain loaded, animations don’t restart, … DEMO: codepen.io/bramus/full/...

🚀 CPUpro v0.6 After months of research, experiments and refactoring, a first release in a row is here: call stack restoration of inlined code (V8 log), enhanced calculations and presentation, new data model. Release notes (long read): github.com/discoveryjs/... More to come soon!

Release 0.6.0 – Call stack restoration of inlined code, enhanced calculations and presentation, new data model · discoveryjs/cpupro

In the months since the previous release, CPUpro underwent significant refactoring, with major improvements in computations and new feature prototypes. This release introduces enhanced calculations...

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Node.js v23.6.0 is out! 🥳🎉 This release enables the flag --experimental-strip-types by default. Node.js will be able to execute TypeScript files without additional configuration! ⚠️ This feature is experimental, has limitations and is subject to change. nodejs.org/en/blog/rele...

Node.js — Node v23.6.0 (Current)

Node.js® is a JavaScript runtime built on Chrome's V8 JavaScript engine.

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Also, I am looking for active maintainers to help me maintain VueUse. I'd be happy to provide some mentorships if you are interested in that. Doing OSS would be a long process tho, and probably won't make you have financial benefits at the beginning - but could be an interesting experience.

Web performance calendar: Friday the 13th edition with @programmingart.bsky.social's monster 😈 of a post on what's sorely needed in a browser's Network panel today calendar.perfplanet.com/2024/top-8-t...

Top 8 things I want in the Devtools Network Panel

Look, I'm just going to come out and say it: I'm a jealous man. I'm not proud of it, but I'm a jealous man. These past months and years, I've seen great update after amazing update (not you) being rel...

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With the recent Safari 18.2 release, WebAssembly Garbage Collection is now available in all the major browsers 🥳

You can force garbage collection in your JS by starting Chrome with a flag: open "/Applications/Google Chrome.app" --args --js-flags=--expose-gc Now you can call `gc()` to collect the rubbish :)

Discovered a neat trick: converting FormData to a multipart/form-data string (and back!) using the Response API. Seems to be an unknown or little-known approach, though I don’t claim originality. Wrote an article to share how it works: dev.to/rdvornov/con...

Converting FormData to a multipart/form-data String and Back Using Response

While working on another article about converting various values into ReadableStream, I stumbled upon...

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📣 Start linting CSS with ESLint using the brand new eslint/css package! This is a very early edition so feedback is welcome. 🐣 www.npmjs.com/package/@esl...

@eslint/css

CSS linting plugin for ESLint. Latest version: 0.1.0, last published: 5 minutes ago. Start using @eslint/css in your project by running `npm i @eslint/css`. There are no other projects in the npm regi...

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Blink: Intent to Ship: Explicit resource management (sync)

We implemented a new value for `background-clip` called `border-area`. It lets you use CSS fill a border with a background image or gradient. This article explains how it works, and shows up the possibilities in 7 demos. #css #webdesign #webdevelopment #graphicdesign webkit.org/blog/16214/b...

Make creative borders with background-clip border-area

How’d you like to use CSS to easily create a border from an image or gradient?

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Excited to announce Easing Wizard is now live! 🎉 The ultimate CSS easing editor with support for Bézier, spring, bounce, wiggle, and overshoot! 🚀 🔗 easingwizard.com Can you find the hidden easter egg?