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Entry (Sources) and Additional TopicsDate#
How an Underrated Refactor Saved 90% Memory Usage (kev/tan)139
tanstack, refactoring, memory, metrics
Shipping psql Without psql: A Pure-TypeScript Postgres Client in neonctl138
tooling, ai, postgresql, databases
How Building an HTML-First Site Doubled Our Users Overnight (moh)137
html, web-components, validation, traffic
When AI Builds Itself (ant)136
ai, processes, metrics, quality, efficiency, anthropic
How We Cut Build Times by Two-Thirds by Deleting Our CMS (get)135
migrating, gatsby, astro, content-management, optimization
Optimizing Our Build Times by Migrating From Webpack to Rspack134
migrating, webpack, rspack, building, optimization
Building a General-Purpose Accessibility Agent—and What We Learned in the Process (eri)133
ai-agents, ai, accessibility, lessons, github
We Needed a Screenshot Pipeline—We Got a Design QA Tool Instead (ben/cal)132
tooling, screenshots, quality, playwright
How’s Linear So Fast? A Technical Breakdown131
performance, tech-stacks
I Built a $32,000 AI Platform for Less Than a Penny (hac)130
ai, architecture, economics
How We Optimized Agent Device for Mobile App Automation (thy/cal)129
debugging, optimization, ai
The Uphill Climb of Making Diff Lines Performant128
github, performance, optimization
Seven Years to TypeScript: Migrating 11,000 Files at Patreon127
migrating, javascript, typescript
V7: Typographic Scales and Technical Pens126
design, typography, css
Fixing TypeScript Performance Problems: A Case Study (vig)125
typescript, performance
Tech Talk: Improving Window Resize Behavior (ele)124
electron, resizing, debugging
The Old Ways Are the Best: 100 Lighthouse, 0 ms TBT, 32 ms Queries (per)123
performance
How We’re Protecting Our Newsroom From npm Supply Chain Attacks (rya/pnp)122
npm, dependencies, security
“Sloppy” Code and Accessibility Issues: The Trouble With Trump’s Silicon Valley-Inspired Web Design Project (not)121
design, accessibility, quality
Unifying [Wikipedia’s] Mobile and Desktop Domains (kri/wik)120
wikipedia, refactoring, mobile, desktop, performance, seo, user-experience, infrastructure, link-lists
The Engineer You Never Met: Why Interview Processes Systematically Reject Qualified Engineers119
hiring, economics
Making a Design System That Gets Adopted (cle)118
design-systems
How to Create a Strong Design System and Survive: Case Study117
how-tos, design-systems, lessons
Design Has Never Been More Important: Inside Shopify’s Acquisition of Molly (cod)116
design, ai, ecommerce, shopify
Rebuilding Graphs for Accessibility: Inside Khan Academy’s Inclusive Design (kha)115
accessibility, visualization, information-design
I’m More Proud of These 128 Kilobytes Than Anything I’ve Built Since114
performance, flash-of-x, svg, minification, optimization
4 Untranslatable Words Behind Patreon’s Internationalization Overhaul113
internationalization, localization
We Added Chaos to Our CI/CD Pipelines—It Made Everything More Stable112
ci-cd, ai
6 Ways Slack, Notion, and VS Code Improved Electron App Performance111
electron, performance, slack, vs-code
Behind the Scenes: How We Iterate on UI Copy (aut)110
design, content, microcontent, processes, automattic
How Google Is Accelerating Code Migrations With AI109
studies, research, google, ai, migrating
We Launched Our First Shopify Theme (nic)108
shopify, theming
Integrating Localization Into Design Systems (sma)107
design-systems, localization, figma
Advanced React in the Wild (add)106
react, nextjs, performance
Making Node.js Downloads Reliable (nod)105
nodejs, reliability, refactoring
Accelerating Large-Scale Test Migration With LLMs104
testing, migrating, ai
CDEs Aren’t Just for Developers: How QA, Tech Writers, and Designers Benefit Too (jet)103
code-editors, jetbrains
The Dark Side of UX: Lessons From OnlyFans’ Addictive Design (web)102
lessons, design, dark-patterns, ethics, user-experience
Considerations for Making a Tree View Component Accessible (eri)101
components, accessibility, keyboard-navigation, aria
Designing for Clarity: How We Restructured Intercom’s Information Architecture100
design, information-architecture
Building Design Consistency: A Deep Dive Into Figma Variables at JW Player99
deep-dives, design, design-systems, design-tokens, consistency, figma, variables
Don’t Let Your Redesign Ruin Performance: A Case Study (mac/per)98
performance, redesigning
A Leap in the Evolution of Airtable’s Codebase: Scaling TypeScript to Thousands of Projects97
typescript, scalability
Blast From the Past: 2advanced.com (web)96
design, flash, history
How a BBC Navigation Bar Component Broke Depending on Which External Monitor It Was On (jos)95
debugging, javascript
“We Were Wrong”: An Oral History of WIRED’s Original Website (vir/wir)94
podcasts, history
How Vercel Adopted Microfrontends93
vercel, micro-frontends
How Is This Website So Fast!? (wes)92
videos, performance
Prioritizing Design Systems91
design-systems, prioritization, processes
Breaking Into UX Research: Non-Traditional Paths to Success90
user-experience, career
How We Built a Design System in 2 Weeks89
design-systems
Why Gumroad Didn’t Choose htmx (shl/htm)88
htmx
Pfizer’s Future of Development (lau)87
outlooks, prioritization, processes, culture
Tackling a System’s Accessibility Without Testing (jbu+)86
accessibility, wcag, heuristics
Mutation-Testing Our JavaScript SDKs (get)85
javascript, testing
Improving the Screen Reader Experience for “Learn WCs” (and)84
accessibility, user-experience, screen-readers, assistive-tech, apple, voiceover
The Evolution of Attention83
design
Faster Continuous Integration Builds at Canva82
ci-cd, efficiency, optimization
Designing Design Systems: Constructing an Icon System81
design, design-systems, icons, images
Growing a Design System Organically80
design-systems, scalability
Enhancing The New York Times Web Performance With React 1879
performance, react
uBlock Origin: Let’s Read the Code! (ant)78
videos
How We’re Building More Inclusive and Accessible Components at GitHub (eri)77
components, accessibility, dei, github
How Slack Automates Deploys76
deploying, automation, slack
The Evolution of Figma’s Mobile Engine: Compiling Away Our Custom Programming Language (fig)75
figma, programming, typescript, migrating
Web Accessibility in the 2024 [US] Presidential Campaigns (web)74
accessibility
Hello Bun: How Sveld Now Deploys 2× Faster on GitHub and Render73
bun, deploying, performance
Purging Design System “Rot” From Our Checkboxes (chu)72
design-systems, maintenance, quality, accessibility
Modern CSS Patterns in Campfire71
css
Diving Into the Node.js Website Redesign (bri/nod)70
redesigning
Names Are Complex: Displaying Initials for an Avatar Component in a Design System (hey)69
naming, design
High-Level System Architecture of Booking.com68
architecture, microservices
How We Reduced CSS Size and Improved Performance Across GOV.UK67
css, performance, optimization
CSS Scroll Snapping Aligned With Global Page Layout: A Full-Width Slider Case Study (uti/sma)66
sliders, css, scrolling, layout
How I Brought LCP Down to Under 350 ms for Google-Referred Users on My Website (paw)65
performance, web-vitals, optimization
Baseline’s Evolution on MDN (pep/mdn)64
browsers, support, web-platform, documentation, mdn
Jimdo’s Engineering Guidelines63
guidelines, processes, collaboration, onboarding
Comparison of Accessibility of E-Government Websites in Europe (cer)62
accessibility, comparisons
4 Web Devs, 1 App Idea (whi+)61
videos, web-apps
How Bear Does Analytics With CSS60
analytics, metrics, css
CSS Findings From Photoshop Web Version (sha)59
html, css, adobe, photoshop
How We Optimized Package Imports in Next.js58
nextjs, dependencies, optimization
Skip Links on ikea.com (mat)57
accessibility, skip-links
Hashnode’s Overall Architecture (has)56
architecture
Greenwashing and the COP28 Website (mic)55
sustainability
CSS Findings From The Threads App II (sha)54
css
From Silos to Design Systems53
design-systems, processes
Case Study: Rebuilding TechCrunch Layout With Modern CSS (sha)52
refactoring, css
Optimizing Speed on ebay.com (add)51
performance, optimization, web-vitals, ebay
How We Optimized Performance to Serve a Global Audience (sma)50
performance, optimization
CSS Findings From the Threads App (sha)49
css, facebook+meta
End-to-End Tracing48
observability, tracing
How We Created an Accessible, Scalable Color Palette47
colors, color-palettes, accessibility, scalability
Simple Things Make Things Simple (pjo)46
simplicity
Moving From Vue 1 to Vue 2 to Vue 3: A Case Study of Migrating a Headless CMS System (sma)45
vuejs, migrating, headless, content-management
How We Built Our Multi-Platform Design System at Booking.com44
design-systems, theming, scalability
Caching at DEV43
caching, performance
Our Future CSS Strategy42
css, javascript, css-in-js, strategies
Early Learnings for Early Hints at Shopify (sia/per)41
videos, shopify, performance, hints
How We Improved React Loading Times by 70% With Next.js40
react, performance, nextjs
Wired.com: 20 Years Later (sto)39
design, retrospectives
A Delightful Guide to Culture at Mamo (Inspired by Khalil Gibran)38
guides, culture
How We Designed an Accessible Color Palette From Scratch37
accessibility, colors, color-palettes
How We Think About Browsers (kei)36
browsers
Accessibility Monitoring: How We Test35
accessibility, monitoring, testing
Improving the Performance of Wix Websites (Case Study) (sma)34
performance, monitoring, culture
Design Systems at Replit: Better Tokens33
design-systems, design-tokens
How We Improved Our Design System Delivery32
design-systems, processes, optimization
Using Monorepos Is Not That Bad31
monorepos
How We Reduced Next.js Page Size by 3.5× and Achieved a 98 Lighthouse Score30
performance, nextjs, lighthouse, google
How We Built React Components for Any Front End29
react, components
Reducing HTML Payload With Next.js (Case Study) (sma)28
nextjs, html, performance
Updating React at Etsy27
react, preact, frameworks
A Netflix Web Performance Case Study (add)26
performance, netflix
Removing jQuery From GitHub.com Frontend25
github, jquery, javascript, processes, refactoring
Improving the Accessibility of 24 Ways (pau/css)24
accessibility
Why We Didn’t Use a Framework (sma)23
frameworks
PWA Stats (clo)22
websites, web-apps, progressive-web-apps, metrics
How Mail.ru Reduced Email Storage From 50 to 32 PB (sma)21
storage, email, optimization
A Redesign With CSS Shapes (mey/ali)20
css, shapes, redesigning
Building Social: A Case Study on Progressive Enhancement (sma)19
javascript, progressive-enhancement
How We Use Prototyping, and How It Made Us More Efficient (sma)18
design, prototyping, processes, efficiency
Building the UI for the New “The Times” Website17
design, collaboration, architecture, css, documentation
Move Fast and Fix Things16
technical-debt, git, github, processes
How We Get Things Done15
project-management, processes
Tour of a Performant and Responsive CSS Only Site (css)14
css, parallax, effects, performance
Getting Started With Pattern Libraries (ali)13
introductions, design, documentation, pattern-libraries
Controlling Heavy Weight Websites12
performance, user-experience
Building the New Financial Times Web App (A Case Study) (sma)11
web-apps, css, scrolling
HTML5 Quake to Shake Up Flash (mis)10
html, canvas, websockets, webgl, flash
IKEA and the Font Fiasco9
typography, fonts
Better Web Forms: Redesigning eBay’s Registration (gar/dig)8
forms, design, ebay
WaSP Interviews Dan Cederholm (sim)7
interviews, design, standards
An SVG Case Study: Integrated, Dynamic Avalanche Forecasting6
perl, html, sql, databases, svg, images
W3C Home Page Table-Less Layout (don/w3c)5
w3c, redesigning, css, floats
Anil Dash Does Amazon (sim)4
html, conformance
The Birth of Design Is Kinky (dig)3
design
Access for All2
accessibility, w3c
MSNBC Makes News by Making HTML Dynamic (zdn)1
microsoft, html, java, dhtml