As I was looking for an alternative to PHPStan that’s a touch faster, SemGrep – a lightweight static analysis software appeared in the searches, and I was mostly excited about the fact that it supports multiple languages, including PHP, JavaScript, JSX, JSON, TypeScript… and since nowadays Python rises to the top most often, the fact
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Mid-2025, Google DeepMind pulled off a move that should make anyone building with AI agents pay attention: instead of buying Windsurf outright, they hired Windsurf’s CEO (Varun Mohan), co-founder (Douglas Chen), and key R&D talent.. and paired that with a non-exclusive license to some Windsurf technology (reportedly a $2B+ licensing / compensation package). That combo
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It’s Monday morning, and I’m thinking about backflips.Yeah, you read that right – backflips. But let’s step back for a moment. Imagine this: you’re 13.8 billion years old. That’s not just poetic – it’s a cosmic fact. You are literally stardust, a temporary arrangement of matter that has traversed time and space, a tiny yet
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Inspired by a powerful insight in The Tao of Seneca, a collection of letters recommended by Tim Ferriss. One of the most subtle – and dangerous – traps we can fall into is the illusion that we’ve already arrived. That we are “good enough”. Not because we’ve truly earned that status through relentless introspection and
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While reading the Frontend at Scale newslettter, I stumbled across Joel Spolsky’s legendary essay, Don’t Let Architecture Astronauts Scare You, and it did highlight that my pragmatic perspective on software development is still valid. Even though it’s over two decades old, the message remains crucial: too much abstraction can leave you gasping for real, measurable impact.
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Learn how to push web performance debugging data into BigQuery, analyze CLS and INP events, and extract key insights using SQL queries. Discover how to identify high-frequency selectors affecting performance and optimize your site effectively.
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After listening to an audiobook, one deep question stuck in my mind: What DO you want? Will, by Will Smith This was a cornerstone moment for his carreer, as it was the moment when he verbalised what he only thought in the past – becoming teh biggest movie star in the world. This guided his
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This talk was done 2 years ago, at a gaming conference. The title “Preventing the Collapse of Civilization” is an accurate representation of the content, it’s not click-baity.. and it’s talking about the collapse of our digital, shipping software world, and the drop in productivity and purpose that’s being felt throughout the industry because of
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Drag live.js to your browser bar* Press it when you need monitor the current page including local CSS and Javascript by sending consecutive HEAD requests to the server. Changes to CSS will be applied dynamically and HTML or Javascript changes will reload the page. Live.js was written by Martin Kool as the next step in Handcraft‘s design
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Oftentimes when optimizing sites, the Chrome Coverage comes in handy for finding unused CSS/JS, and felt the need for a similar functionality for identifying unused fonts. Before reinventing the wheel, ran a search and found Dylan Maxe had contributed a nice implementaion for this exact usecase. Since it’s so useful, thought it is worthy of
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