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HTMX & Hyperscript — The Anti-SPA Camp in 2026, Carson Gross's Hypermedia Thesis Deep Dive (2026) ♪ Listenable
Carson Gross's argument is one sentence: 'SPAs over-engineered the web.' HTMX proves it in 11 KB. Attach hx-get, hx-post, hx-swap, hx-target to forms, buttons and links, and 90% of what we wrote in React disappears. Alon
2026-05-14 · 20 min read #htmx#hyperscript#datastar#alpine-js#hypermediaKeycloak Integration Hands-On — Run It with Docker, Configure Realm/Client, Wire Up Spring Boot and Next.js (2025 Hands-On Guide) ♪ Listenable
Don't build authentication yourself — use Keycloak. This is a follow-along hands-on: run Keycloak 26 with Docker, configure Realm/Client/User/Role, poke the OIDC endpoints with curl, and integrate a Spring Boot Resource
2026-05-14 · 23 min read #keycloak#oidc#oauth2#authentication#authorizationBun Retrospective 2026 — 1.0 GA Promises vs Reality: Runtime, Bundler, Package Manager, Test Runner, Shell (An Honest Take from the Bun 2 Era) ♪ Listenable
Bun went GA with 1.0 in September 2023. Two and a half years later, the bill is in. The Zig-based runtime, the JavaScriptCore engine, the esbuild-inspired bundler, the package manager that aimed to overtake pnpm, the Jes
2026-05-14 · 22 min read #bun#bun-2#javascript-runtime#node-js#denoFunctional Languages in 2026 — A Camp-by-Camp Survey of Haskell, OCaml, Elm, Gleam, Roc, Unison, Lean 4, F#, Clojure ♪ Listenable
Functional programming sounds like one tribe but five families actually live in different houses. As of May 2026 we map who is alive in each camp, what is growing, what is fading. Jane Street's full move to OCaml 5, Merc
2026-05-14 · 32 min read #functional-programming#haskell#ocaml#elm#gleamIndie AI Builder Case Studies 2026 — Cursor, Perplexity, Lovable, v0, Manus, Cline Deep Dive ♪ Listenable
In 2026, indie AI builders build multi-billion-dollar companies with 5-15 person teams. Cursor/Anysphere crossed 100M ARR in 14 months. Perplexity reached 9B+ valuation. Lovable hit 100M ARR seven months after launch. Ve
2026-05-14 · 30 min read #indie-ai#ai-startup#case-study#cursor#perplexityBackend-as-a-Service 2026 — Supabase vs Firebase vs Pocketbase vs Appwrite vs Convex vs InstantDB Deep Dive (The 1-Person SaaS Backbone) (english) ♪ Listenable
In 2026, BaaS is no longer a 'Firebase vs build-your-own' binary. Supabase has cemented itself as the Postgres-based open-source BaaS with DataLab, SQL Editor v2, and Branching. Firebase moved into the AI era with App Ho
2026-05-14 · 20 min read #baas#supabase#firebase#pocketbase#appwriteEmail Infrastructure 2026 — Resend, Postmark, Loops, SES, SendGrid, Mailgun Deep Dive ♪ Listenable
Every year someone declares email dead. Every year password resets, payment receipts, and onboarding sequences still ride on email. The problem in 2026 is not sending — it is arriving in the inbox. After Google and Yahoo
2026-05-14 · 24 min read #email#resend#postmark#loops#sesA Guide to Global Developer Communities: Recurse Center, KubeCon, IndieHackers, Discord, and More (2026) ♪ Listenable
Companion piece to the Korean-communities guide. A practical tour of retreats, conferences, forums, and chat servers where the world's developers gather: Recurse Center, KubeCon, the heirs of Strange Loop, !!Con, DEF CON
2026-05-14 · 24 min read #global-community#developer-community#recurse-center#kubecon#conferencesAstro 5 Deep Dive: Server Islands, Content Layer, and the New Standard for Content Sites ♪ Listenable
Astro 5 shed the 'static site generator' label and became the de facto standard for content-driven sites. Server Islands defer personalization while keeping static-first; the Content Layer API turns any data source into
2026-05-14 · 18 min read #astro#astro-5#server-islands#content-layer#islands-architectureAI Voice 2026 — ElevenLabs, OpenAI Realtime, Cartesia, Vapi, Sesame, Deepgram, and the State of the Voice Agent Stack ♪ Listenable
The final piece of the generative-media quartet — after music, images, and video comes voice. An honest take on the 2026 AI voice landscape. ElevenLabs (voice cloning and Conversational AI), OpenAI Realtime (WebRTC-based
2026-05-14 · 30 min read #ai-voice#elevenlabs#openai-realtime#cartesia#vapiDurable Execution Engines in 2026 — A Deep Dive Comparison of Temporal, Restate, Inngest, Trigger.dev, DBOS: Escaping Cron and Retry Hell ♪ Listenable
Stop writing long-running workflows with cron, queues, and if-else. The answer in 2026 is Durable Execution. This deep dive compares Temporal, Restate, Inngest, Trigger.dev, and DBOS — plus AWS Step Functions, Cadence, a
2026-05-14 · 26 min read #durable-execution#temporal#restate#inngest#trigger-devEmbedded Rust 2026 Deep Dive — no_std, Embassy, esp-rs, RP2350, probe-rs, and Rust on Microcontrollers in Practice ♪ Listenable
Embedded Rust is no longer an experiment in 2026. Embassy 0.6 has effectively become the default async runtime on microcontrollers, HAL support for RP2350 (Cortex-M33 + RISC-V Hazard3) is stable, esp-rs has been elevated
2026-05-14 · 29 min read #embedded-rust#esp-rs#embassy#rp2040#rp2350Developer Screen Recording & Video Tools 2026 — Loom, CleanShot X, Screen Studio, OBS, tella, Descript Deep Dive (When Words Aren't Enough) ♪ Listenable
In 2026 screen recording, video, and screenshot tools are as essential to a developer's day as writing. No single tool covers async coworker share, public marketing demos, conference talk recordings, podcasts, and live s
2026-05-14 · 20 min read #screen-recording#loom#cleanshot#screen-studio#obsAI Music Generation 2026 — Suno, Udio, Stable Audio, MusicGen, Mubert, ElevenLabs, Lyria — Where Are We Really? ♪ Listenable
An honest take on the AI music generation category that exploded in 2024 and matured by 2026. Suno v5.5's vocal leap, Udio's licensing settlements, Lyria 3 and ElevenMusic's arrival, open-source options like Stable Audio
2026-05-14 · 22 min read #ai-music#suno#udio#stable-audio#musicgenEditor Wars 2026 — VS Code, Cursor, Zed, Neovim, Helix, Sublime, JetBrains, and Claude Code ♪ Listenable
The 2026 code-editor landscape. VS Code is still dominant, but Cursor as an AI-first fork is reshaping the market, Zed renders on the GPU, and Neovim/Helix have made modal editing relevant again. Meanwhile Claude Code re
2026-05-14 · 20 min read #editor#ide#vscode#cursor#zedThe 2026 Developer Keyboard Guide — HHKB, Keychron, ZSA Moonlander, Glove80, and Custom Builds Deep Dive ♪ Listenable
Developers buy keyboards for life. Why HHKB Professional pulls senior engineers back even after they have tried everything. Why Keychron Q and V have become the default value pick. Why ZSA Moonlander, Voyager, and MoErgo
2026-05-14 · 20 min read #keyboard#mechanical-keyboard#hhkb#keychron#zsa-moonlanderDeveloper English in the AI Era: AGENTS.md, System Prompts, RFCs — Writing the English Agents Read ♪ Listenable
In 2026, the highest-leverage English a developer writes is the English agents read. AGENTS.md / CLAUDE.md context files. System prompts for production agents. RFCs and design docs that humans and agents read together. I
2026-05-14 · 27 min read #developer-english#ai-writing#agents-md#claude-md#system-promptThe Developer's Bookshelf 2026 — Twelve CS Classics Worth (Re)Reading, With the 2026 Reason for Each ♪ Listenable
In an age when models write code for you, reading books matters more, not less. To judge whether a generated patch is right, fast, or safe, you need the judgment in your head — and books grow that judgment better than an
2026-05-14 · 22 min read #books#cs-classics#reading-list#sicp#pragmatic-programmerThe Developer's Video and Course Curation 2026 — Frontend Masters to YouTube, How to Learn by Watching ♪ Listenable
If books are the skeleton of judgment, video and courses are how you put muscle on it. In 2026, free MOOCs, paid boutique platforms, AI co-tutors, YouTube creators, and classic talks all meet on one screen. This is the c
2026-05-14 · 18 min read #developer-courses#video-curation#frontend-masters#egghead#courseraAI Data Labeling & Curation Tools 2026 — Label Studio, CVAT, Roboflow, Cleanlab, Argilla, Apify, Firecrawl Deep Dive (data makes the model, not the model) ♪ Listenable
The real work in AI systems happens in the data, not the model. This piece maps the 2026 landscape of data labeling and curation tools — Label Studio (general OSS), CVAT (vision), Roboflow (vision + auto-label), Cleanlab
2026-05-14 · 19 min read #data-labeling#label-studio#cleanlab#galileo#apify