Performance

SpaceX Buys Cursor, The Fable Ban & Apple's Container Machines — The Weekly Diff #3

The US government orders Anthropic to suspend Fable 5 and Mythos, SpaceX acquires Cursor for $60 billion, Homebrew 6.0 ships with macOS 27 support, an AI agent racks up a massive bill unsupervised, Apple enters the container space, going HTML first doubles a startup's users, and a LinkedIn job offer hides a backdoor. [...]

TypeScript Switches To Go — What Does This Mean for Developers?

TypeScript team unveiled the biggest update yet, announcing a switch from JavaScript to Go, making it 10 times faster, on March 11th, 2025. This is a huge win for developers as it will drastically cut down editor start-up time for significantly large projects as well as improve build time. [...]

React Compiler Integration With Astro (Vite)

Astro, which is a meta-framework and uses Vite, can be integrated with the React compiler to improve the performance of your React application — and that's exactly what I will be showing you how to. React compiler is now stable and compatible with versions of React 17+ with the help of react-compiler-runtime. [...]

Static Sites Are Good

For the most part, static-first sites are the go to thing if your application doesn't involve much complexity. However, you are free to choose the right tool for your application — but choose wisely. [...]

Builder.io's Partytown with 11ty

Exploring builder.io's partytown and integrating it with 11ty! It is nothing but a library which uses web workers to separately execute third party scripts. [...]