Posts about frontend
2026
- The Tailwind Paradox: When AI Success Becomes Open Source's Death Sentence
Tailwind CSS is more popular than ever, yet 75% of its engineering team just lost their jobs. Revenue is down 80%, documentation traffic has plummeted, and AI is the elephant in the room. A critical look at what this means for open source sustainability.
2025
- The Apple App Store Source Code Leaked - What I Found Inside
The entire Apple App Store website source code leaked via source maps. Inside: Svelte, internal Apple frameworks, Safari bugs being patched by Apple themselves, and 10-year-old TODOs with internal tracking IDs.
- RippleJS: Yet Another Framework in the Frontend Circus
An ironic and critical reflection on the arrival of RippleJS and the endless proliferation of JavaScript frameworks that's fragmenting our industry
- The Temporal API: JavaScript's Long-Awaited Solution to Date Handling
A comprehensive guide to JavaScript's new Temporal API - finally fixing decades of Date object frustrations with a modern, immutable approach to working with dates and times
- CSS corner-shape: Goodbye Boring Corners
The new CSS corner-shape property is here to revolutionize how we design corners. Apple-style squircles, bevels, notches and geometric shapes without SVG. Complete guide with practical examples.