A Tasty Treats NEWSLETTER for Web Developers Issue #62 Should a new coder use AI — or is that setting them up to fail? jQuery 4.0 is out. Twenty years later and it’s still not done with us Ryan Carniato breaks down the JavaScript framework landscape heading into 2026 We built a real-time CSS battle game… and it actually works Ride a space elevator to orbit and learn where “space” actually starts Introducing the <geolocation> HTML element from cj Chrome introduced a new HTML element that...
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A Tasty Treats NEWSLETTER for Web Developers Issue #61 Hack Jurassic Park’s file system like it’s 1993 Cloudflare just acquired Astro — here’s what that actually means for the web Ryan Dahl says the era of humans writing code is over. Cool cool cool.... Dan Abramov explains Bluesky as a social filesystem — and it actually makes sense The Astro Technology Company joins Cloudflare Cloudflare acquired Astro! Here's what it means for Astro. A Social Filesystem Dan Abramov breaks down how the AT...
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A Tasty Treats NEWSLETTER for Web Developers Issue #60: Aaand we’re back. Kicking off 2026 with Issue #60 of the Snack Pack. Hope you had a great break, survived the holidays, and set some reasonably realistic New Year’s resolution A brand-new framework-agnostic AI toolkit from TanStack just dropped — and the JS community is all in. Can CSS fix optical illusions? Dark mode typography gets surprisingly deep. “You don’t need to memorize syntax.” So… what actually makes a real developer? Why did...
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A Tasty Treats NEWSLETTER for Web Developers Issue #59: React RSC vulnerability goes DEFCON 1 — you really need to upgrade FizzBuzz in pure CSS, because reality is officially optional now 22 fresh CSS features dropped and your layout skills are already obsolete Should we have skipped JSON entirely and gone straight to binary? Optical illusions for when your brain has already melted from patching servers BREAKING NEWS If you have not heard yet, a critical vulnerability in React Server...
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A Tasty Treats NEWSLETTER for Web Developers Issue #58: React wants your hot takes again — the 2025 survey is live CSS Subgrid unlocks layouts you didn’t think were possible Cloudflare finally explains what really happened on Nov 18 Also: a laptop-sticker rabbit hole and a website that only shouts Black Friday is here and we're only giving you guys (newsletter subscribers) 20% off everything EARLY ACCESS SUBSCRIBER DISCOUNT CODE:BLACKFRIDAY20! SHOP State of React 2025 FROM CJ The state of...
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A Tasty Treats NEWSLETTER for Web Developers Issue #57: Live(ish) from GitHub Universe: VS Code, GitHub, and Copilot updates worth tuning in for CJ pokes around Apple’s leaked source code — and finds gold A TypeScript dev big-brained regex with full type safety Plus: The horse that just won’t quit A special shoutout to those who came and hung out with us in SF last week.🫶 Clues By Sam FROM scott Daily logic puzzle. Your goal is to figure out who is criminal and who is innocent. Sick Shaders...
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A Tasty Treats NEWSLETTER for Web Developers Issue #56: Snag swag & drink beers with us at Barebottle Brewing in San Francisco next Monday @5PM! RSVP Did you see that CJ is quitting AI coding? Cloudflare’s new “Code Mode” might be the first sane MCP tool @ts-ignore isn’t your get-out-of-TypeScript-free card @ts-ignore is almost always the worst option FROM CJ You should probably be using these things instead of @ts-ignore. Code Mode: the better way to use MCP cj'S LINK Cloudflare has come up...
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A Tasty Treats NEWSLETTER for Web Developers Issue #55: First up, a warm welcome to Niki Brandner, the newest member of the Syntax team! She’s joining us as a Senior Podcast Producer — and we’re stoked to have her on board.Gear up for a long one — but trust us, it’s stacked. We'll skip the bullets, dive on in. BIG NEWS Open AI Launched a few new products yesterday at their Dev Day. Some interesting ones are ChatKit - a sort of boilerplate for building agentic chat experiences. They also...
5 months ago • 3 min read
A Tasty Treats NEWSLETTER for Web Developers Issue #54: GitHub Universe is just about one month out. Come chill with us Cloudflare wants you to call them Cap’n Chrome DevTools just leveled up your AI agent Typing Tolstoy for fun (yes, really) We tier-ranked AI coding assistants (and made enemies) Should everyone learn to code? Cloudflare launched Cap’n Web - an RPC system FROM wes Cap'n Web lets you design RPC interfaces the way you'd design regular JavaScript APIs – while still acknowledging...
5 months ago • 2 min read