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Corbin Crutchley @crutchcorn.dev · 10/09/2026

Pinned shas are important for security. Releases are mutable.

Corbin Crutchley @crutchcorn.dev · 09/09/2026

React 19.3 is out! Really hyped about Fragment refs and browser APIs. Cool to see ViewTransitions stable too. react.dev/blog/2026/09...

react.dev

React 19.3 – React

The library for web and native user interfaces

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Corbin Crutchley @crutchcorn.dev · 08/09/2026

We aren't crazy heavy users, but @playfulprogramming.com is confirmed working perfectly fine with Preact 11 without any changes. Awesome work!

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Corbin Crutchley @crutchcorn.dev · 07/09/2026

That's the real crux of the problem. OAI probably poisoned their training data with the smallest bit of my code 😭💔

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Corbin Crutchley @crutchcorn.dev · 07/09/2026

To be fair to OAI here (GPT-6 is very good): It transferred code from another non-React system and didn't add deps from elsewhere to make it better. IMO there should've been more gaurdrail following, but this is not exactly "generate from scratch" output

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Corbin Crutchley @crutchcorn.dev · 07/09/2026

"Use GPT-6 Astra" they said "It's AGI" they said

Atrocious React code reimplementing TanStack Query, stores, and more in a single component.

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Vitest @vitest.dev · 03/09/2026

Vitest 5 is here! 🎉 - Big performance improvements (vm pools up to 53% faster, ~18% boost across the board including Browser Mode) - New builtin Trace View in Browser Mode - Nested projects support - New benchmarking API - New `vi.when` API - Better defaults - And a lot of bug fixes!

vitest.dev

Announcing Vitest 5.0

Vitest 5.0 Release Announcement

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Corbin Crutchley @crutchcorn.dev · 03/09/2026

ICYMI, Nvidia bought Hugging Face today. I have concerns. Nvidia is doing better than anyone else to build out a wholesale ecosystem around AI. But they've historically been a poor host to open ecosystems. See: Linux support. I suspect HF Cloud to be Nvidia locked in 6 months.

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Corbin Crutchley @crutchcorn.dev · 03/09/2026

Ha! I'm not surprised; Anthony is a legend

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Corbin Crutchley @crutchcorn.dev · 03/09/2026

I still cannot believe that PNPM can interactively upgrade GitHub actions the same way it upgrades other NPM deps. SO good! pnpm.io/cli/update#u...

Corbin Crutchley @crutchcorn.dev · 29/08/2026

Earlier this year I had the opportunity to help teach a bootcamp based on curriculum from my book and broader Playful content. Just a dream come true; a full-circle moment for me. I'm so grateful for everyone who helped out, and to our students for being part of our journey.

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Corbin Crutchley @crutchcorn.dev · 26/08/2026

You could've stopped after three words. Incredible colleague and great dude overall.

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Corbin Crutchley @crutchcorn.dev · 24/08/2026

Incredible cool things are shipping very soon.

The Playful Programming site with a theme picker including colors of the site, OpenDyslexic font, light/dark theme, and more

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Corbin Crutchley @crutchcorn.dev · 20/08/2026

I think about `browser()`: react.dev/reference/re... And its `use`age the same way I think about `infer` in TS: `use(browser()) ~= Runtime<infer browserInfo>` It's a way to unwrap the inner value from another container with a built-in wait mechanism while it retrieves the info

react.dev

browser – React

The library for web and native user interfaces

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Corbin Crutchley @crutchcorn.dev · 17/08/2026

This is technically the second post in the thread but I do not care; I am so so so excited that we're finally putting our color scheme back in the oven to bake this out further We've strived for excellent A11Y from day one, but there's always room for growth and this one excites me. Fonts too WIP!

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Corbin Crutchley @crutchcorn.dev · 11/08/2026

GitHub or our Discord (#form-v2-alpha) is best!

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Corbin Crutchley @crutchcorn.dev · 11/08/2026

There's a fairly new proposal to Git to allow a sparse clone using a single command syntax: ``` git clone --only=frontend,tests/frontend <repo> ``` Seems incredibly cool, I hope it goes somewhere: public-inbox.org/git/CALE2CrT...

public-inbox.org

[RFC] clone: allow sparse-checkout paths to be specified during clone - Pushkar Singh

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Corbin Crutchley @crutchcorn.dev · 11/08/2026

You were one of the best to ever do it and we as a community at large owe you a great debt of gratitude. I hope you and I continue to stay in touch despite this ✨

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Corbin Crutchley @crutchcorn.dev · 10/08/2026

Btw, we released the v2 alpha publicly: bsky.app/profile/crut... If y'all get a chance to look at it; we'd love your feedback!

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Corbin Crutchley @crutchcorn.dev · 10/08/2026

TanStack Form v2 is now in alpha! 📝 It brings drastically improved performance, far more flexible validators, even stronger type safety, and more! We're excited to get it into your hands and to start testing it. Try it out & let us know your thoughts: tanstack.com/blog/announc...

tanstack.com

Form v2 is here: All you need to know about the alpha | TanStack Blog

The TanStack Form v2 alpha is here with more flexible validators, schema-oriented forms, safer form composition, and simpler SSR.

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Corbin Crutchley @crutchcorn.dev · 05/08/2026

Say, that's funny because I'm a big fan of yours too ✨❤️😄 Thanks for sharing!

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Corbin Crutchley @crutchcorn.dev · 03/08/2026

Yo! Since you're going to be in Cali, want to meet up around that time?

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Corbin Crutchley @crutchcorn.dev · 02/08/2026

It just looks better that way, okay? More text alignment than not. 😤 (Fixing now!)

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Corbin Crutchley @crutchcorn.dev · 01/08/2026

Over the past few months, we've been working incredibly hard on @tanstack.com Form v2. We're working hard on getting an alpha your way (maybe even within the week 👀) but can already share some of the updates we recorded earlier this week. Check it out: www.youtube.com/live/eMBGraf...

youtube.com

TanStack is Doing What?

YouTube video by TanStack

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Corbin Crutchley @crutchcorn.dev · 31/07/2026

We are gearing up to do private testing VERY soon, maybe we could onboard y'all to the process as a greenfield project? Up to y'all, we know it's a gamble on your end, but you'd have direct comms with our team of course.

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Corbin Crutchley @crutchcorn.dev · 31/07/2026

There was! Timestamp here: www.youtube.com/live/eMBGraf... It'll likely be a couple of months (2? Maybe?) before we have something public to test. I suspect our v2 beta phase will be short (I have decent confidence even in our internal stability today), but still worth flagging.

youtube.com

TanStack is Doing What?

YouTube video by TanStack

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Corbin Crutchley @crutchcorn.dev · 29/06/2026

Especially in a garden notorious for looping paths! (IE: All of entrepreneurship)

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Corbin Crutchley @crutchcorn.dev · 29/06/2026

Was just telling this to a colleague at my new job this. Friction is a tool. Leverage it wrong, and you slow down more than you need to be. Leverage it right, and you prevent yourself from going down the wrong paths that could ultimately kill your project/biz/etc. I know which one I'd prefer there

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Corbin Crutchley @crutchcorn.dev · 09/06/2026

Claude Mythos is GA!... Kinda. www.anthropic.com/news/claude-... They just announced Fable 5, a "Mythos class" model. It scores 80.3% on SWE bench vs Opus' 69.2%... The catch is that it's 2x the cost of Opus 5.8.

anthropic.com

Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5

Today we’re launching Claude Fable 5: a Mythos-class model that we’ve made safe for general use.

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Corbin Crutchley @crutchcorn.dev · 08/06/2026

Really appreciate the kind words 😄

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Corbin Crutchley @crutchcorn.dev · 07/06/2026

This week I joined Stord as the Senior Engineering Manager of their AI team! I wrote a "Working with Me" for my team & thought it'd be fun to share with the rest of you as well: playfulprogramming.com/posts/workin... I'm excited to join the team and scale us to the next level! To the future! 🥂

playfulprogramming.com

Working with Me

A working-with-me guide for new teammates, covering how I communicate, lead, give feedback, and build trust on engineering teams.

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Corbin Crutchley @crutchcorn.dev · 31/05/2026

I don't agree. I don't expect a "This is what happened" post, but "We are investigating" on public comms is crucial.

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Corbin Crutchley @crutchcorn.dev · 31/05/2026

I don't know unfortunately :( Their status page is extremely scant on details and they've said nothing on comms AFAICT. I like genuinely don't know how they could have gotten my master password. It's never been reused from anything else

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Corbin Crutchley @crutchcorn.dev · 31/05/2026

I'm not saying that you need to have answers immediately. But you absolutely MUST disclose that an incident is occurring if people have their entire livelyhoods entrusted to you. Hiding an announcement behind a hard-to-find status page is not sufficient public comms.

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Corbin Crutchley @crutchcorn.dev · 31/05/2026

@dashlane.com, I was one of the customers who received a "someone attempted a login" email. Frankly, I find the lack of official comms deeply upsetting and will likely be the reason I change password managers after the incident resolves. No site banner, no socials. Unacceptable.

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Wilco @wilco.npmx.social · 26/05/2026

In @npmx.dev you can now view a package's changelogs currently only package's that use Github to host their releases or changelog.md are supported but support for others are planned

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Corbin Crutchley @crutchcorn.dev · 19/05/2026

I know/understand the ecosystem's qualms with Chrome's prompt API Today they introduced the WebMCP experiment which, on first glance, makes me think that this could serve as a more model agnostic prompt API support; offloading LLM to browser itself Seems neat developer.chrome.com/docs/ai/webmcp

developer.chrome.com

WebMCP | AI on Chrome | Chrome for Developers

WebMCP has two APIs that allow browser agents to take action on behalf of the user.

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Corbin Crutchley @crutchcorn.dev · 14/05/2026

Brandon kinda rocks, as it turns out?! ;)

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Sara Joy :happy_pepper: @sarajw.front-end.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/05/2026

Ooooh what, contrast-color() is newly available across browsers?!: webstatus.dev/features/contrast-col…

webstatus.dev

Web Platform Status

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