My favorite from this week is the Static Hermes article, because compiling JavaScript to native code and embedding it in
Rust feels like black magic—but the practical speedup makes it actually useful.
News
Stack Overflow recorded just 6,866 questions last month—matching 2008 launch volumes—as AI assistants devastate Q&A traffic; meanwhile company revenue doubled to $115M through enterprise products and data licensing to AI companies
Tailwind closed a PR adding LLM-optimized documentation after laying off 75% of engineering team; documentation traffic dropped 40% since 2023 despite framework growth, highlighting brutal AI impact on dev tool businesses
Article
Polypane explains the distinction between standardized Web APIs and browser-specific features—important for understanding compatibility and what's actually portable across platforms
Addy Osmani examines how AI reshapes development through 2026—junior hiring declined 9-10% with AI adoption, but roles shift toward orchestration and architecture rather than pure coding; emphasizes T-shaped skills and continuous learning over credentials
Technique for progressive JSON streaming that sends data chunks immediately with placeholders for pending values, resolving them as available using NDJSON format—significantly improves perceived performance for large datasets. It can allow to use something similar to the RSC, but with language agnostic environment.
Case study achieving 79% faster builds and 83% faster type-checking by eliminating complex Kysely ORM helper functions, removing circular dependencies, and killing barrel files; memory usage dropped from 7.1GB to 3.5GB
Devon Govett demonstrates embedding JavaScript tools into Rust by compiling them to C libraries using Facebook's Static Hermes; eliminates the 7x overhead of traditional JS embedding by AOT-compiling to native binaries
Library&tools
Collection of smooth animated icons built with Motion.dev and integrable with shadcn UI—tagline says "Static Icons feel dead now" and honestly they're not wrong
W3C-compliant web runtime enabling developers to build Flutter apps using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript instead of Dart; supports React, Vue, and Svelte with near-native performance and over-the-air updates bypassing app stores
Other
Free, comprehensive TypeScript guide covering 5.2 features from fundamentals to advanced patterns; 9.8K+ GitHub stars and available in multiple languages
Font project simulating pre-1800 English typography with authentic archaic spelling and worn character variations using OpenType—nerdy deep dive into long-s characters and historical printing