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Published on 20.01.2026
TLDR: A developer transformed their blog analytics from processing 30 events per second to 14,000 by systematically eliminating common performance bottlenecks. The fixes ranged from obvious optimizations to deep framework-level changes that most developers overlook.
Processing 11 million rows in minutes instead of hours
TLDR: Kysely is a TypeScript SQL query builder that delivers compile-time type checking for database operations without the complexity and performance overhead of a full ORM. It catches typos and type mismatches before your code ever runs.
Kysely: Type-Safe SQL Without ORM Overhead
TLDR: jQuery 4.0 drops Internet Explorer support, adopts ES modules, and reduces its size by over 3kb. After nearly a decade, the library that defined frontend development is modernizing for a world that arguably moved on.
jQuery 4.0 released, first major version since 2016
TLDR: A developer examined how Shadcn and Radix implement radio buttons and found hundreds of lines of React code, multiple dependencies, and several kilobytes of JavaScript to recreate what HTML provides natively in a few lines.
The Incredible Overcomplexity of the Shadcn Radio Button
TLDR: A developer spent two days testing OpenAI's Codex agent and GPT-5 by building a gym management app from scratch. The AI handled backend scaffolding well but produced poor-quality React Native code requiring extensive manual intervention.
I actually tried AI coding and it's worse than I thought
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