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The Pragmatic Engineer 2025 Survey: What’s in your tech stack?

by Gergely Orosz, Elin Nilsson

Which tools do software engineers use for backend development, frontend, infrastructure, AI tooling, and more, today? Reader survey, with feedback and analysis, based on 3,000+ responses

🚀 Read it!, survey, engineering

Parsing 1 Billion Rows in Bun/Typescript Under 10 Seconds

by Tae Kim

Inspired by the 1BRC (1 Billion Row Challenge, originally in Java), I decided to write one in Bun/Typescript.

📰 Good to know, bun, performance

Hard Things First

by Subbu Allamaraju

Excellence is unlikely to happen if you don’t address the hard problems early in project execution.

📰 Good to know, projects, engineering

Building Astro sites with AI tools

by docs.astro.build

This guide covers how to enhance AI tools with up-to-date Astro knowledge and provides best practices for building Astro sites with AI assistance.

📰 Good to know, astrto, ai, mcps

Upyo

by Hong Minhee

Upyo is a simple and cross-runtime library for sending email messages using SMTP and various email providers. It works on Node.js, Deno, Bun, and edge functions.

🧰 Tools, email

ANSI Escape Codes

by Lars Kappert

This website helps to inspect the input, visualize colors and styling, and list control codes.

🧰 Tools, ansi

Animated React Weather Effects

by Mate Rauscher

A beautiful, interactive weather effects demo built with React, Next.js, WebGL, and Three.js. Experience realistic rain, snow, and fog scenes, each with unique visual effects and controls.

🧰 Tools, effects, react

SVG Doodles

by svgdoodles.com

A free collection of different editable SVGs to spice up your designs.

🧰 Tools, svgs

new Date(“wtf”)

by Sam Rose

How well do you know JavaScript’s Date class?

🤪 Fun, javascript, date, quiz

The untold story of JavaScript

by Deno

Insights!

📺 Videos, javascript

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