Published on 12.02.2026
TLDR: ESLint ships its biggest major release in years, finally ripping out the legacy eslintrc system entirely, adding JSX reference tracking, and changing how config files are discovered in monorepos. If you are still clinging to .eslintrc, your time is officially up.
TLDR: Maxime Heckel delivers a masterclass on implementing halftone effects as GLSL shaders, going from basic dot grids all the way through CMYK color separation, Moire pattern mitigation, gooey blending, and animated displacement. This is one of those articles that makes you want to immediately open a code editor.
TLDR: Mitchell Hashimoto (creator of Vagrant, Terraform, and Ghostty) shares his measured, step-by-step journey from AI skeptic to productive AI user, offering a refreshingly grounded perspective that avoids both hype and dismissiveness.
TLDR: Mitchell Hashimoto releases Vouch, a system for managing contributor trust in open source projects through explicit vouching and denouncing, motivated by the flood of AI-generated low-quality contributions.
TLDR: Alain Di Chiappari argues that AI coding agents have made frameworks and their accumulated complexity obsolete, and that engineers should seize the opportunity to return to first-principles software design instead of operating within someone else's architecture.
TLDR: Microsoft open-sources LiteBox, a Rust-based sandboxing library OS that reduces host attack surface by providing a minimal interface between applications and the underlying platform, supporting scenarios from running Linux programs on Windows to SEV SNP confidential computing.