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The Mall of React, Part 2: Performance, Concurrency & Testing
Same mall. New problems: the mall got big, shoppers get impatient, and Management wants proof things actually work before opening day. Setting the Scene👦 Nephew: Uncle, the mall works. But now it's huge — hundreds of shops, thousands of shoppers. Some pages feel sluggish, and I have no idea why something re-renders. Where do I even start looking?👨‍🦳 Uncle: With the security camera footage. Every mall this size has one tool you check before guessing anything. Today's MapPart 1: The Mall
Framer Motion / Motion: React Animations Complete Guide (2026)
The library formerly known as Framer Motion is now just motion. Same team, same API, leaner package. The patterns that were experimental in v10 are stable, and scroll-driven animations are now the standard.Most animation tutorials show a spinning box. This guide shows what you actually reach for: exit animations, shared layout transitions, scroll effects, stagger lists, gesture interactions. Installationnpm install motion# or: npm install framer-motion (still works, re-exports from motion)i
I Rebuilt My Habit Tracker's Core Logic as One Hook. Here's What I Learned.
Habit and streak tracking looks simple until you actually build it: timezones, missed days, "does logging at 1am count for yesterday," and the eternal question of whether a streak breaks at midnight or at the user's personal reset time. Most of that complexity belongs in a hook, not scattered across your components. Extracting the logicfunction useStreak(entries, { resetHour = 0 } = {}) { const adjustedDate = (timestamp) => { const d = new Date(timestamp); d.setHours(d.getHours()
This free, open-source app is my task manager, cheerleader, Kanban board, and calendar
Free and open-source (FOSS) apps are often seen as less capable, hobbyist alternatives to paid professional apps—after all, they're free. However, Super Productivity completely changes that narrative by offering a feature-complete productivity app that can go toe to toe with most paid alternatives. Here's a quick look at everything you get with Super Productivity an
Don't buy a new work PC right now — memory crunch and price rises lead to global shipments falling for the first time in two years
Analyst data shows global PC market contracted 3.6% during Q2 2026AI's insatiable demand for memory and other chips is rising costs across the boardPrices could continue to rise as the market continues to shrink, analysts predictAll the latest data points to a worsening situation for PC makers in the coming years, with global PC shipments falling 4.9% year-over-year in the second quarter of 2026 per IDC data, or down 3.6% per Canalys.While the two differ on total volu
Netflix free trials might be making a comeback — but not for users in the two of the best streaming service's biggest markets
Netflix is reportedly experimenting with free trial periods againThe 'try before you buy' offer hasn't been available since 2020Two of its biggest markets have been overlooked for the promotional testsNetflix free trials are making a comeback — sort of. More than six years after time was called on its beloved 30-day free trial offer, users could soon be able to try out the world's best streaming service free of charge once more.According to What's on Netflix, the stre
AI agents aren’t the end of SaaS – they’re driving its next phase of growth
For the past year, one idea has dominated conversations about enterprise technology: AI agents will replace Software as a Service (SaaS). It’s a compelling case on paper. If AI can reason across tools, write code, execute workflows, and interact with systems through APIs, then traditional SaaS applications start to look like unnecessary middlemen.Seats become less relevant. User interfaces matter less. Software becomes cheaper to build. Custom internal tools become e
Microsoft is moving to annual price adjustments for its commercial cloud services — could more bill shock be on the way?
Microsoft is moving to once/year foreign exchange rate checks, not twice/yearMany commercial products saw price increases due to AI, securityOther recent changes could all add up to major price changesIn a bid to make pricing more predictable for customers and partners, Microsoft is ditching its current twice-yearly exchange rate reviewing to once-yearly for many of its commercial cloud lines.The change would reduce the frequency of unexpected pricing changes for orga
Anthropic’s Mythos leak hands enterprises a timely warning
Anthropic's Mythos Preview had barely been announced before it was compromised - accessed by a private Discord group on the day of its public release through a third party vendor environment.For a model distributed across 40 companies and their associated contractor networks, the breach was, to many security experts, a matter of when. Anthropic is not an outlier - the conditions that enabled the breach are structural, and most enterprise AI deployments are built on th
Five reasons one big screen beats two at work
At most professional workstations in enterprises, you will see dual monitor setups on people’s desks. A few years or even a decade ago, it made sense to extend the widely spread single 24-inch monitor setup, which was indeed too cramped to check your emails/notifications and work on your tasks simultaneously. So businesses had increasingly adopted dual or multi-screen setups to increase the productivity of their workforce. More screen real estate, achieved easily. Or
Why developers are ditching GitHub for Codeberg and self-hosting alternatives
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hulianui: a React component library with 349 components, OKLCH runtime theming, and its own llms.txt for AI coding assistants
There's no shortage of React component libraries. What's missing is one that's good-looking by default, covers the deep-end components nobody ships, and can be read verbatim by your AI coding assistant. That's why I built hulianui (@hulianui/ui) — "Hulian" for short.If you're in a hurry:Docs & live site: https://hulianui.haloritual.comLive demos (a dozen real admin apps): https://hulianui.haloritual.com/demosGitHub (MIT): https://github.com/hulianui/hulianInstall: pnpm add @hulianui/ui @huli
On Writing
“That faith if you put the bad, easy version of a scene on the page, the good version will come tomorrow. That’s writing.”Continue reading on Go Into The Story »
Page One: “The Wicker Man” (1973)
Screenplay by Anthony ShafferContinue reading on Go Into The Story »
API Rate Limiting for Next.js SaaS Apps
Current B2B SaaS products operate in an environment where APIs are the backbone of all product interactions. This includes dashboard requests, background syncs, webhook events, and integrations. Without adequate API protection, such APIs will be vulnerable to abuse, overload, and performance degradation.One of the most powerful protections against such API vulnerabilities is API rate limiting.For developers building SaaS applications based on a React Next.JS boilerplate or a modern SaaS starter,
How Donkey Kong Toppled Atari
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Spider venom kills varroa mites without harming honeybees
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Job openings stayed at a surprisingly strong 7.6 million in May; U.S. labor market proves resilient
U.S. job openings stayed at a surprisingly strong 7.6 million in May as the American labor market remains resilient in the face of the economic shock from the Iran war.<img src='https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1661933009886-0f69a32447f9?crop=entropy&cs=tinysrgb&fit=max&fm=jpg&ixid=MnwyMzg1fDB8MXxzZWFyY2h8Mnx8Sm9iJTIwTWFya2V0fGVufDB8fDJ8fDE2NjIwMjgwNTM&ixlib=rb-1.2.1&q=80&w=1080' />
'Still the king of bright room OLED TV': I tested Samsung and LG's latest flagship OLED TVS side-by-side to see is better for bright rooms — here's the one I'd pick
The Samsung S95F was our pick for the best OLED TV for bright rooms in 2025, thanks to its anti-glare matte screen that eliminates reflections, and its high brightness. These combined to make even dark movies viewable in really bright rooms on it: something most other OLED TVs just couldn’t achieve — even the S95F’s rival, the LG G5. It remained the king until the LG G6 arrived this year. While the G6 still shows some mirror-like reflections when the screen is turned
A software engineering interview question I like: computing the median
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