Gea Framework, Manyana VCS, and JavaScript Bloat

Published on 23.03.2026

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Gea — Lightweight Reactive UI Framework

TLDR: Gea is a new compile-time reactive UI framework that uses regular JavaScript classes and functions with zero new primitives, benchmarking faster than Solid and Svelte at ~13kb gzipped.

Gea — Lightweight Reactive UI Framework


GitHub - bramcohen/manyana: CRDT-based Version Control

TLDR: Manyana is a CRDT-based version control system by BitTorrent creator Bram Cohen, providing eventual consistency where merges never fail and always converge, with conflict presentations more informative than git's.

GitHub - bramcohen/manyana


The Three Pillars of JavaScript Bloat

TLDR: An analysis of npm dependency bloat identifies three main types: older runtime support with safety and realms, atomic architecture taken too far, and ponyfills that overstayed their welcome.

The Three Pillars of JavaScript Bloat


How to Attract AI Bots to Your Open Source Project

TLDR: A satirical guide to attracting AI-authored PRs: write vague issues, disable branch protection, remove types and tests, use JavaScript, commit node_modules, and ship known vulnerabilities.

How to Attract AI Bots to Your Open Source Project


Small Programming Tricks

TLDR: Engineering productivity comes from small nuggets of knowledge. Terminal history search with fzf, git pickaxe, logarithmic bucketing for metrics, and knowing when to use rg over find.

Small Programming Tricks


Reports of Code's Death Are Greatly Exaggerated

TLDR: A defense of code as abstraction and poetry, arguing that AI will help us produce better code and master complexity, not replace the need for precise thinking.

Reports of code's death are greatly exaggerated


March Mad CSS

TLDR: March Mad CSS is a single-elimination tournament where 16 elite CSS developers battle in 15-minute challenges to recreate target UIs with only HTML and CSS.

March Mad CSS