Bun 1.3.10 Mega Release, Context-to-Zustand Migration, and React-Admin's Winter Sprint

Bun v1.3.10: The Release That Just Keeps Going

TLDR: Bun 1.3.10 is one of those releases where you scroll through the changelog and wonder if someone accidentally merged three months of work into one tag. Highlights include a fully rewritten REPL in Zig, compile-to-browser HTML output, TC39 stage-3 ES decorators, up to 25x faster structuredClone, and a staggering list of bug fixes spanning security, performance, and Node.js compatibility.

Link: Bun v1.3.10

Breaking the Re-render Chain: Migrating from React Context to Zustand

TLDR: The Trendyol Affiliate Ads team discovered their complex Ads Editor was generating over 8,000 function calls per interaction due to cascading re-renders from React Context. They migrated to Zustand with a feature-based store architecture and saw dramatic performance improvements, but the real lesson is about knowing when your state management tool has hit its ceiling.

Link: Breaking the Re-render Chain: Our Migration from Context to Zustand

React-Admin: February 2026 Update Across Three Minor Versions

TLDR: React-admin shipped versions 5.12, 5.13, and 5.14 in three months, introducing a TanStack Router adapter, dramatically faster ArrayInput performance, new components like RecordsIterator and DataTableInput, and a headless core extraction that enables the growing Shadcn Admin Kit. This is a framework that is quietly becoming more capable and more portable at the same time.

Link: React-Admin: February 2026 Update

Lessons from Software Engineering at Google: What Holds Up and What Doesn't

TLDR: A detailed breakdown of the book "Software Engineering at Google" covers Hyrum's Law, the Beyonce Rule, why Google prefers fakes over mocking frameworks, shift-left testing, and the case for small frequent releases. The lessons are timeless, but the context of a monorepo at Google scale means not everything translates directly.

Link: What I learned from the book Software Engineering at Google

From npm to a Single Binary: Migrating the Tigris CLI to Bun

TLDR: The Tigris team migrated their TypeScript CLI from Node.js with npm distribution to a Bun-compiled standalone binary. The migration required reworking dynamic imports and lazy-loaded command handlers into static equivalents to accommodate Bun's bundling constraints, but the result is a single binary that eliminates the npm installation dependency entirely.

Link: From npm to a Single Binary: Adopting Bun for the Tigris CLI