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Dev Wells @wlls.dev · 16/09/2026

why do dentist offices all seem to have crazy tech? dentist office: 1s i'ma to stick this wand in your mouth that lets me build a 3D rendering of your entire mouth in real time PCP office: please step on this scale from the 90s and let me tap on your back three times

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 14/09/2026

Your regular reminder: If the Russians stop fighting, the war ends. If the Ukrainians stop fighting, their land will be occupied, their leaders will be killed, their history and language will be erased, their children will be kidnapped to serve Russia.

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Dev Wells @wlls.dev · 11/09/2026

@ryansolid.bsky.social thanks for the discussion on stream today! You asked on stream today to show you a trello or otherwise sufficiently complex app in datastar. Here is that as as well as a few others that opened my eyes a bit, as a former skeptic. kanban.jsonbateman.com

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Dev Wells @wlls.dev · 08/09/2026

my mind skips a beat every time i hear someone emphasize the RE in React instead of the ACT

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Dev Wells @wlls.dev · 06/09/2026

"To paraphrase Karl Marx, progressive enhancement allows designers to ask from each browser according to its ability, and to deliver to each device according to its needs." resilientwebdesign.com/chapter5/

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Resilient Web Design—Chapter 5

Chapter Five: Layers

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Dev Wells @wlls.dev · 06/09/2026

we shape our tools and thereafter our tools shape us

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Dev Wells @wlls.dev · 24/08/2026

damn this datastar thing is kind of good

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Dev Wells @wlls.dev · 13/06/2026

i've recently started tinkering in game development and occasionally I will use AI to help rubber duck some game design idea I have noticed that LLMs are obsessed with "bells" in their game design. "Bell wisp" enemy design, "Bell Mage", "Bell Knight". I never mentioned any bells anywhere

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Zed @zed.dev · 14/05/2026

Big diff go brrrrr

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Dev Wells @wlls.dev · 12/05/2026

Where can I find info about @tangled.org outages? Having trouble creating repos.

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Dev Wells @wlls.dev · 12/05/2026

The more I experiment with AI the more convinced I am the real moat in Software Dev will be folks who still practice primarily coding by hand.

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Dev Wells @wlls.dev · 11/05/2026

"Agentic engineering forces me to engage with my problem in both formal and informal languages." So does literate programming and that's been around for decades. But with literate programming someone else can read the informal train of thought after the formal construct is produced.

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Dev Wells @wlls.dev · 03/05/2026

Alright, trying out @tangled.org I still don't really understand AT Proto, but looks like it's time to look seriously at getting off GH. An tips for a convert/newcomer?

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Evan You @evanyou.me · 13/03/2026

Vite+ is open source under MIT and free for everyone.

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Philippe Serhal @philippeserhal.com · 29/01/2026

I'm working on adding this to a certain stealthy OSS npm package browser. Would you use this? What's missing?

Screenshot of a comparison table showing vue, svelte, and solid-js, three npm packages, with side-by-side facets: downloads/wk, package size, install size, module format, typescript status, engines, vulns, last updated, license, and num of dependencies

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danielroe @danielroe.dev · 27/01/2026

🔥 amazing PR just merged from @wlls.dev using @deno.land's docs package to generate docs for any package on the npm registry ....

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Hugo @hugorcd.com · 27/01/2026

Your project deserves docs. $ npx skills add nuxt-content/docus Then: "/create-docs" Full doc site with SEO, MCP, copy page, llms.txt, everything automatic. Your AI can now read your docs. Your users can search it. Google can index it. In less than 2 minutes, give it a try👇

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patak @patak.cat · 26/01/2026

when you collaborate in open source teams, you need to unlearn a lot of what your company work taught you

a screenshot from the #contributing channel in a new project discord server. patak says:

@Emanuele you can choose by the way, commenting is good, and start doing an issue directly also works.
If two people work on the same issue at the same time, for OSS is actually a good thing. It is different than when you are working on a company and would like to maximize output. Here, if you start implementing something, and someone beats you to it and sends a PR, the knowledge you gained while trying is very valuable. You can help review the PR and make the implementation better in that way. Maintainers can even add you as co-author.

And both of you will then have more experience on that part of the codebase, that is great for later.

you can also think that there are now 30+ devs checking and working on the repo
so if you want to coordinate that in a fine-grained way, you introduce a lot of bottlenecks
it is more efficient to just let everyone do what they feel is more important and help each other when they collapse
and you'll be surprised by how little collapse ends up happening, because there is a lot of side comms here too that arranges things naturally

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danielroe @danielroe.dev · 25/01/2026

so we just added support for @tangled.org in our npmjs ui. plus: - bitbucket - @gitlab.com - gitee - @gitea.com - codeberg - sourcehut which others am I missing?

a package information dashboard showing a range of stats for eslint-formatter-gitlab, including a star count and number of forks

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danielroe @danielroe.dev · 23/01/2026

I'm asking because I'm building an alternative to npmjs.com, including the admin ui piece I have a working mvp, although of course it's very 🚧 if this is something you'd like to contribute to, and you've experienced any of these pain points, let me know - always more fun to build together! 🙏

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Dev Wells @wlls.dev · 05/01/2026

Each year, I try to single out a word to mark my upcoming year. Last year's word was "craft", meaning "to make by hand" and connoting skill or excellence. An ironic word, given the times. This year, my word is "simple", in the Rich Hickey vein, deriving from "sim-plex" meaning "one fold".

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Dev Wells @wlls.dev · 29/12/2025

If I didn't know better, I might assume that car websites are openly hostile to users.

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Dev Wells @wlls.dev · 20/12/2025

I need to stay off of LinkedIn y'all. The amount of borderline web development hype-driven disinformation is getting ridiculous. I'm going to lose it if I see one more AI-generated comparison image of how the React `use` API CHANGES DATA FETCHING FOREVERRRR (no disrespect to the use API)

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Avdi Grimm @avdi.codes · 19/12/2025

Testing server-rendered HTML: Make a request, look at the result. Testing React et al: Make a request. Receive HTML. Ignore it! It also contains a string. The string is attached to a bird The bird speaks latin Find an antiquities professor He can distract the bird While you build a fake browser

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Dev Wells @wlls.dev · 19/12/2025

Does AI-assisted coding actually make you faster, or does it just feel that way? Tired of anecdotes, time to experiment. I built a CLI to find out. Define hypotheses, work in time-boxed blocks, track both feelings and git metrics. Now running my own N=1 experiment. wlls.dev/blog/devex

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Dev Wells @wlls.dev · 18/12/2025

TypeGPU is so cool wlls.dev/lab/gpu/game...

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Dev Wells @wlls.dev · 18/12/2025

just had to talk to a chatbot to cancel a subscription. the "cancel subscription" button (already hidden in some low contrast, inaccessible ellipses in a modal) opened a chat with a prompt for cancelling. no other apparent way to cancel and had to talk to an LLM to get the button. please, no.

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Dev Wells @wlls.dev · 17/12/2025

This year I built a little holiday celebration app for my team in SvelteKit and Gleam. It was a blast! Gleam is really neat, highly recommend. I gotta try Lustre still. Read about it here: wlls.dev/blog/snowglobe Or try the (redacted / open sourced) version here: github.com/devdumpling/...

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Matt Kane @mk.gg · 16/12/2025

Big improvement to frameworks on Cloudflare! You can now deploy most frameworks from the CLI with zero config. No adding adapters. No editing configs. No wrangler.toml! It's all done automatically. Experimental now, with 10 frameworks supported today. developers.cloudflare.com/changelog/20...

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Vite @vite.dev · 03/12/2025

⚡️ The first Vite 8.0 beta is here! - Powered by Rolldown, bringing significantly faster production builds and more consistency - New features such as tsconfig paths or emitDecoratorMetadata support - Bumping browser targets aligned with Baseline Widely Available Read more in our announcement post!

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Vite 8 Beta: The Rolldown-powered Vite

The first beta of Vite 8, powered by Rolldown, is now available. Vite 8 ships significantly faster production builds and unlocks future improvement possibilities. Read more about the migration, new fe...

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Dev Wells @wlls.dev · 03/12/2025

how many all-in-one toolchains should i have in my project

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Dev Wells @wlls.dev · 29/11/2025

Has anyone tried actually running experiments on how they develop with LLM-assisted workflows? I see many subjective takes (pro and negative) but think it'd be neat to record a significant stretch of: - no AI usage - "moderate" usage (e.g. autocomplete, lite chat) - heavy usage (IDE + agentic)

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Dev Wells @wlls.dev · 28/11/2025

Got asked at Thanksgiving by a family member how to get hired in tech. Like many juniors I've interviewed, their resume/github is all toy projects, which is good for learning but not hiring. I tried to think about what I would do if I had no experience, but knew what I know now.

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Dev Wells @wlls.dev · 26/11/2025

wlls.dev/blog/on-tail... Every so often I get into a debate on tailwind (mostly yakshaving, IMO). It goes back and forth, usually with people speaking past each other. I finally sat down and put my experience into words on why I like tailwind (and where I don't).

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Alex Russell @infrequently.org · 25/11/2025

Frontend is failing. 75% of devices with browsers are smartphones, but not even half of sites pass Core Web Vitals on them. Why not? Too much JavaScript, added to indulge SPA fantasies the data is falsifying in real time: infrequently.org/2025/11/perf...

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The Performance Inequality Gap, 2026 - Infrequently Noted

Embedded in this year's network and device estimates is hopeful news about the trajectory of devices and networks. It has never been easier to deliver pages quickly, but we are not collectively…

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Dev Wells @wlls.dev · 16/11/2025

Gleam seems like a much softer entrypoint into the BEAM than Elixir or Erlang for frontend engineers more used to Typescript/C-derived languages. Has anyone made a component/JSX-like templating framework for it? Lustre is elm-y, which I like but is likely foreign to the average React dev.

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Dev Wells @wlls.dev · 16/11/2025

Alright fine I'll try Gleam

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rich harris @rich-harris.dev · 13/11/2025

A couple of weeks ago at @perfnow.nl I gave a talk called "Fine-grained everything". It's about @svelte.dev (obviously), and the new frontiers of framework-land, but it's also about some stubborn misconceptions in web performance circles Gift link: conffab.com/presentation...

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Fine-grained everything

<p>Modern frameworks like Svelte are fast thanks to signal‑based fine‑grained reactivity, but performance is more than 60fps. This talk covers new approaches to build fast, reliable, data‑efficient ap...

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Dev Wells @wlls.dev · 14/11/2025

Some reflections on emergent technology discourse: wlls.dev/blog/rethink... How can we have less polarizing discussions on new technologies/ideas in software? So often it seems we speak past each other, often oversimplifying problems in order to rep "our camp".

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Seb ⚛️ ThisWeekInReact.com @sebastienlorber.com · 05/11/2025

👀 Navigation API will be available in all browsers soon 🎉 Completely redefines the APIs used to build client-side routers / SPAs 🫤 History API: popState, link click.preventDefault() ... ✅ Navigation API: clean, centralized way to intercept navigation events 👌

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rich harris @rich-harris.dev · 03/11/2025

last chance to take the State of JS survey if you haven't already, it closes in a day or two survey.devographics.com/en-US/survey...

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Dev Wells @wlls.dev · 27/10/2025

The State of JS 2025 survey is now open! survey.devographics.com/survey/state...

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dan @danabra.mov · 19/10/2025

> why are you not just using flex

⏺ You're absolutely right, I'm being ridiculous.

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Dev Wells @wlls.dev · 17/10/2025

Someone explain Elixir / Phoenix LiveView to me. What do you like about it? The model reminds me of sync engines, except Phoenix LV is attacking the problem from the other direction: "what if server side rendering was reactive?" vs "what if client reactivity, but with server state as src of truth?"

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Dev Wells @wlls.dev · 16/10/2025

Anybody managed to get a SvelteKit app in a Deno monorepo running on Deno Deploy? It can't seem to figure out that the root isn't where the dist is, and there doesn't seem to be any obvious way to override the build directory. Tried many things/am abt ready to throw my hands up and go back to CF.

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Dev Wells @wlls.dev · 03/10/2025

I want to love @deno.land (as I think their vision is the right direction), but it feels like adoption is slow despite their advances since 2.0. Are there any medium - large companies / projects using Deno that can speak to it?

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