This feels unreal! After more than 6 years working on WebGPU, it's getting released in Chromium 113, in stable and without flags! It only took a bit longer than the 2 year adventure we initially thought it would be 😅 Read more about it here

I've found the recent debate around signals confusing, because people don't seem to have shared definitions and background... In lieu of another 🌶️ take, here are a few links to lesser-known reads about reactivity + UI that I've found clarifying: 1/

Are you a (sadly, now former) Twitterrific or Tweetbot user? Do this: 1. Reinstall the app(s) from the iOS App Store. 2. Tap the “I Don’t Need a Refund” button. 3. Know you helped a small developer whose work you’ve appreciated. More details here:

Write it. Show it. Rock it. A fresh, fast and fun way to create and hold presentations. Here is how iA Presenter works. More under: https://t.co/wwIo8TFlFg

Wrote up a new piece on a pattern I've called "programming portals" – small, scoped windows in graphical interfaces that let you drop into programmatic syntax. Common in apps for end-user programming. Blurs the boundary between dynamic visuals + syntax https://t.co/vxxE1kUT5T

"Stop Writing Dead Programs" by Jack Rusher @jackrusher from Strange Loop 2022

Time to talk about the future of Shoelace. It's been more than two years since the beta release of Shoelace 2.0, which was the first version of the project to ship Web Components… 👇 cont'd

“The purpose of abstraction is not to be vague, but to create a new semantic level in which one can be absolutely precise.” - Edsger Dijkstra

📝 Friday blog post: I tried to write up my mental model of how to develop for developers. It’s easy to over-do it with abstractions. Escape hatches, layering abstractions and reusing the idioms of the platform gives developers agency. 👀👇 https://t.co/O555TfwPHz

I am so excited about partial hydration of web components 😱 Web components are usually small per see. 🤔 However, shipping almost 0 JavaScript (only a loader) and then loading components only as needed is just 🤯 + different loading strategies for desktop / mobile 🤯

who, SICP for JS is being released next week

Crosscut: Drawing Dynamic Models https://t.co/UItP1YMSkp

Really amazing article by @JoshWComeau , could be considered a must read for design and development teams.

A New Container Query Polyfill That Just Works

Happy New Year! 🎉 It's been a year focused on language research and design, and all the rabbit holes we found along the way. After many iterations, we are now finalizing the StateML grammar and core tooling.

and good toys spark childlike wonder and infinite possibilities

The floating @framer window. Many design tools have them. You don’t want them flying out of the screen bounds. Did you know that you can fully rely on CSS for the constraints? Checkout the thread to learn how to implement the dragging, constraints, and rubber banding.

It's release day. 🚀 tldraw is now live, free and open source.

🤩 The #CSS property 'aspect-ratio' is now supported in all evergreen browsers! * The last two browsers, Safari 15 and Samsung Internet 15 (updated today) , are now supporting this feature. @CodePen: https://t.co/mekJTddsLC

I read 1304 Hacker News comments on visual programming and then wrote a giant blog post about it for some reason. I'll probably make a better attempt to explain why anyone should read this tomorrow but I'm too tired this evening so this will do for now. https://t.co/9YhasMKFIi