Day 107 I have a long‑running series of daily web‑dev diary on LinkedIn, but I decided to move it to a more developer‑related community, so here is how my day...

Small-scale wind energy has always faced a challenge: accurately estimating how much power a turbine will produce at a specific location. While solar energy ben...

Retention policies no longer delete the latest preview deployment for branches with open or unmerged pull requests. Previously, deployments for active branches...

Zo Computer on Vercel Death by a thousand adapters AI SDK + AI Gateway: two layers, one integration 20x improvement in reliability Scaling to a million personal...

What’s the deal with flat‑looking CSS transitions? The default ease timing function works, but it’s generic. Real‑world motion has character—it bounces, oversho...

Introduction Hey! Before we start — have you ever built something with JavaScript and thought: > “Why is this getting so complicated so fast?” You’re not alone...

Building an Interactive N-Queens Visualizer with React + TypeScript Amandeep Singh Apr 5 react typescript algorithms visualization 5 reactions Add Comment 5 min...

Why frontend used to feel complex - Many distinct parts - Each layer had a clear responsibility - Boundaries were easy to identify What changed in modern front...

Introduction I recently implemented a liquid glass lens post‑processing effect in react-canvas with three goals: - A clear magnification feel at the lens cente...

Memory / concentration / 神経衰弱 — every culture has a name for the same game. Flip two cards, see if they match, try to clear the board. The game logic is about 1...

This is a submission for the DEV April Fools Challengehttps://dev.to/challenges/aprilfools-2026 😂 What I Built I built a completely useless but slightly evil w...

I've shipped production apps with both. Here's the honest breakdown. The 30‑Second Answer SWR – Simpler API, smaller bundle ~4 KB, made by Vercel – native Next....

!Stadium Control Center interfacehttps://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/xv14rw17wg5dlfv6x4cq.png Introduction Have you ever been at a major sp...

Why use CSS + SVG animations Modern browsers have a powerful, underappreciated animation system built right in: SVG + CSS keyframes. No runtime, no bundler mag...

Why do you need 3 layers of CSS variables? Just use brand-800 directly. That was me. Here’s what changed my mind. The problem with a single “reverse the palette...

Introduction In Europe, web accessibility became mandatory in June 2025 under the European Accessibility Act EAA. While the EU requires compliance, it does not...

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Introduction Terry Davis had a point. Not the most comfortable quote to open with in 2025, but the idea sticks: if you rely on tools without understanding them...

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The Initial Love for React Initially, I was seduced by React's robust ecosystem and steady backing from Facebook. Its component architecture offered me the fle...

For the past months I’ve been working on a side‑project that started as a tiny experiment and slowly grew into something much bigger — a clean, fast and multili...

Overview Dinosaur Eats is a Chrome extension that drops a tiny pixel dinosaur onto any webpage and makes it eat the visible text line by line. It doesn’t targe...

The Golden Rule: Animate Transform and Opacity Only tsx // Bad — triggers layout recalculation expensive // Good — GPU‑composited, no layout cheap Properties t...

Unhandled render errors crash your entire React tree. Error boundaries contain the damage. Here’s how to use them effectively in production. The Problem tsx //...

Accessibility isn’t a feature you add at the end — it’s a quality signal that correlates with better code overall. Well‑structured, accessible apps tend to have...

Description Based off of a beautiful old web color “KiloChart” poster from 2002, which I purchased a long time ago. It was put out by the now‑defunct Visibone...

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I think a lot of founders hear “optimize your images” and still don’t know what that means in practice. Usually it’s a mix of wrong format, wrong dimensions, du...

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text // Production build output: // styles.css — 0 classes generated // ERROR: @tailwind directives treated as plain text This happens when you set up Tailwind...

The problem If your ring size is 2, 3, or 4, most jewelry brands don't make your size. I'm 153 cm tall with size 3 ring fingers and a 13.5 cm wrist. Standard r...

İkonografinin Tanımı Web tasarımında ikonografi, görsel iletişimi güçlendiren ve kullanıcı deneyimini iyileştiren simgeler bütünüdür. Doğru seçilmiş ikonlar, s...

What I Built I built a fake CAPTCHA game called I'm Not a Robot. It starts like a normal human verification flow: - click the checkbox - solve the image challe...

The Problem The absolute worst message you can get from a user is “the checkout is broken” with zero additional context—no browser info, no console logs, nothi...

I think a lot about CSS… not because I enjoy suffering, but because I enjoy when things finally look right. CSS is one of those things that looks simple on the...

Overview This is a submission for the 2026 WeCoded Challenge: Frontend Art. It is an interactive frontend artwork where: - The left side represents calm. - The...

The bug I spent most of today's session on a bug that turned out to be architectural, not logical. frandy.dev has an animated timeline section. Cards sit in a...

The Problem You're halfway through a long form—maybe a job application, an insurance quote, or a school registration—and you accidentally close the tab. Or the...

My Subway Calorie Calculator Just a single HTML file with a ton of JavaScript, a massive JSON‑like data structure, and a stubborn refusal to let a bad UI ruin...

Introduction I was tired of vague cricket debates that went in circles, so I built a tool to settle them with data. Most “Kohli vs Rohit” arguments are based o...

2026 F1 Drivers Custom Select using appearance: base-select Chris Bolson crafted one of the most impressive custom selects I've seen. It doesn’t even look like...

Introduction For decades, frontend development focused on building interfaces: buttons, forms, pages, and menus. Now, the role of the frontend is shifting. Mod...

If you’ve ever felt overwhelmed by what to learn in web development, you’re not alone. There’s always a new framework, tool, or trend appearing, and it’s easy t...