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October 10, 20267 min read

How to Vet a Freelance Developer When You Can't Read Code

You can't judge code you can't read, so check what you can see: a live app, a paid first milestone, accounts in your name and an outside review. Six checks, in order.

September 24, 20266 min read

Your Developer Disappeared Mid-Project. Do These Things First.

A checklist for founders whose developer stopped replying: secure your accounts, get the code, avoid the panic rewrite, and get an honest audit.

August 16, 20268 min read

React 20 Is Coming — Here's What's Actually Worth Preparing For (and What Isn't)

React 20 previews deeper React Compiler integration, refined Server Components, and better concurrent rendering. Here's what frontend teams should actually plan for ahead of release.

August 14, 20268 min read

Tailwind CSS 4.3 Quietly Fixes the Scrollbar Styling Problem Everyone's Been Hacking Around

Tailwind CSS v4.3 adds first-party scrollbar styling utilities, expanded logical properties, and new zoom and tab-size utilities. Here's what changes for teams maintaining custom CSS workarounds.

July 30, 20269 min read

Chrome 151 Just Deleted the Last of Manifest V2 — and Quietly Shipped Four APIs Worth Your Attention

Chrome 151, released July 28, removes the AllowLegacyMV2Extensions developer override — the last way to load an MV2 extension at all — and ships Declarative Shadow DOM slot assignment, Soft Navigations metrics, and a new usermedia capability element.

July 6, 20268 min read

Angular 21 Finally Kills Zone.js. Signal Forms Are the Bigger Story.

Angular 21 ships Signal Forms, stable zoneless change detection, and Angular Aria. Here's what actually changed, who should upgrade first, and a phased migration plan that isn't a rewrite.

July 1, 20263 min read

Mastra Is Betting That TypeScript Teams Don't Want to Learn Python for AI Agents

Mastra went from launch to 300,000+ weekly npm downloads and production use at PayPal and SoftBank by building AI agent tooling natively in TypeScript. Here's what it actually gives you and where it fits.

July 1, 20263 min read

Vue's Vapor Mode Is Feature-Complete. It's Still Not Ready for Your Production App.

Vue 3.6's Vapor Mode ditches the virtual DOM for compiler-generated direct DOM updates, with benchmarks showing up to 97% faster renders. Here's what's real, what's not stable yet, and how to plan for it.

June 30, 20264 min read

Headless Architecture in 2026 — The Future of Web Development is Already Here

Headless architecture is now mainstream in web development. Learn what it is, why enterprises are adopting it at scale, and how to decide if it's right for your next project.


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