Knowledge Updates

Observations while developing web applications and creating great software.

Ladybird considering Swift

We've been evaluating a number of C++ successor languages for @ladybirdbrowser, and the one best suited to our needs appears to be @SwiftLang ?

Over the last few months, I've asked a bunch of folks to pick some little part of our project and try rewriting it in the different…
— Andreas Kling (@awesomekling) August 10, 2024

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WordPress Playgrounds and Studio

Very helpful for my father-in-law who uses WordPress as a giant personal knowledge base. He can now run it from his computer using Studio which uses this technology. I still use Roots for my own sites.

? As seen from State of the Word, WordPress Playground has made remarkable progress. Hundreds of stability patches now support far more plugins than before. Playground is no longer temporary; you can save and revisit your projects anytime.

Try it today: https://t.co/FlsA2Jtxpb pic.twitter.com/AzrBTM2qFt
— WordPress (@WordPress) December 26, 2024

Studio is quite nice as well.

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React Hydration Errors in SSR due to Browser Extensions

React hydration breaks because of `cz-shortcut-listen="true"` added by an extension called "Colorzilla"

How should @nextjs go about attributing these? AI could explain the error potentially. https://t.co/nHQdRzHWTB
— Guillermo Rauch (@rauchg) December 23, 2024

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Rolldown v1 Beta

And for Vite integration: we are now passing all relevant tests in https://t.co/dKO4g2MNLC, the temporary fork of Vite that runs on Rolldown instead of esbuild / Rollup. Expect a proper release early 2025!
— Rolldown (@rolldown_rs) December 25, 2024

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Hook Ergonomics with GraphQL

We are in interesting times. Colocation is good. How to best do this is being figured out.

We are rewriting our front-end stack from first principles, and as part of that, decided to switch from Apollo to Relay. This is very interesting times in front-end land here, and I can't wait to write more on this topic.

For now, feel free to ask any questions you may have 🙂
— Marcelo Terreiro (@marceloterreiro) December 22, 2024

that’s him. he said graphql was a good idea. https://t.co/tO4Iy444sY pic.twitter.com/vf6uWAj2iX
— trash (@trashh_dev) December 20, 2024

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Knowledge Updates

Ladybird considering Swift

WordPress Playgrounds and Studio

React Hydration Errors in SSR due to Browser Extensions

Rolldown v1 Beta

Hook Ergonomics with GraphQL