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Edition 31
#31

Hi, Rockstar, today we have Ryan Townsend from Cloudflare on web performance, a hackathon in Barcelona with a €10,000 prize, how claude.ai got 3x faster in two weeks, and a book on the scaling laws behind cities and companies

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Edition 30
#30

Hi, Rockstar, today we have Szymon Chudy on running the design system behind Netflix, how Netlify built Git storage for millions of projects, how the Lovable agents talk to each other, and a book about comics every UI designer should read

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Edition 29
#29

Hi, Rockstar, today we have Vilva Athiban on building agentic systems at Omio, my new favorite management book, and why your AI agents dont need their own tools

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Edition 28
#28

Hi, Rockstar, my biggest takeaways from Dan Abramov on AT Protocol and Redux, Tailwind Labs is joining Shopify, and the frontend educators quietly bowing out

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Edition 27
#27

Hi, Rockstar, unlock the full Design capabilities of AI, Dan Abramov joins the podcast Monday to talk React and AtProto, and stop hiding your business logic in stored procedures

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Edition 26
#26

Hi, Rockstar, when did you last delete a rule from your CLAUDE.md? Season 3 of Señors at Scale premiers 7th of September, why Meta is paying up to $1M to keep engineers it never laid off, and Kimi 3 is very good now

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Edition 25
#25

Hi, Rockstar, why is your route loader fetching the data twice? Then we found out why Github was down last week, the iframes running Big Tech micro frontends, and a new book of the week

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Edition 24
#24

Hi, Rockstar, what do you do when your agent breaks production? Then Season 2 of Señors @ Scale wraps, the watermarks the EU AI Act put in your writing, and a new book of the week

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Edition 23
#23

Hi, Rockstar, is your CI slower every single week? Then Craig Abbott on accessibility, what npm and GitHub changed about supply chain attacks, and a new book of the week

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Edition 22
#22

Hi, Rockstar, do you think we still need state management libraries? Then Carmen Huidobro on ethical AI, why TanStack dropped RSC, and a new book of the week

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Edition 21
#21

Hi Rockstar, check out whats new this week: CI/CD, React Compiler, Math problems solved and so much more

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Edition 20
#20

Rockstar, where auth tokens should live, Maxim Salnikov on AI harnesses at Microsoft, and a book about happiness

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Edition 19
#19

Hydration and rendering strategies, nuqs creator François Best, and TypeScript 7.0

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Edition 18
#18

React Communication patterns, browser AI with WebMCP, and a Meta design system

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Edition 17
#17

Upgrading from Astro 3 to 6, running This Week in React, AtProto and more

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Edition 16
#16

Service Workers, The Monorepo advantage and a batch of articles

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Edition 15
#15

Everything you need to know about sourcemaps, Nicolas Beaussart on migrating 1.5 million lines to TanStack Router, why PayFit killed micro frontends, and a big batch of community reads

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Edition 14
#14

A gentle introduction to TanStack Query, Mark Erikson on Redux at scale, From Lizard to Wizard rebuilt around React reliability, and AI is now approving our pull requests

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Edition 13
#13

GitHub Actions cache poisoning is eating open source, TkDodo on maintaining TanStack Query, Lizard to Wizard August 5, and npm ships staged publishing

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Edition 12
#12

Seven JavaScript libraries worth knowing, Den Odell on performance engineering at Canva, last call for Lizard to Wizard May, and Chrome ships WebMCP

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Edition 11
#11

Implementing Server-Driven UI in React, Evyatar Alush on frontend at Meta, the TanStack npm supply-chain attack, and React Alicante 2026

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Edition 10
#10

Making your app agent-ready, Kadi Kraman on React Native at scale, a new Lizard to Wizard date with a Bring-a-Friend deal, and Bun rewrites itself in Rust

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Edition 9
#9

Cutting 250GB of bandwidth from my blog, Nico Martin on running ML in the browser with Transformers.js, why GitHub has been bad recently, and the end of responsive images

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Edition 8
#8

Writing your own ESLint rules, scaling frontend at Perk with Giorgio Polvara, TypeScript 7 goes native in Go, and the Monday workshop sold out

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Edition 7
#7

You really dont need an effect, podcast on federated frontends with Zephyr Cloud, TanStack ships RSC, and GitHub finally tackles stacked PRs

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Edition 6
#6

React tips that matter, service mesh at scale with Linkerd creator, HTML-in-Canvas, and Transformers.js 4.0

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Edition 5
#5

Shimmer skeletons, podcast on databases with Tyler Benfield, axios got compromised, and DOM-free text layout

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Edition 4
#4

Name Your Effects, podcast with Corbin Crutchley, Google Stitch, and light-dark() now supports images and more

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Edition 3
#3

SSE vs WebSockets, podcast with the creator of PostCSS, XSS course module, and Temporal finally lands

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Edition 2
#2

Cline got compromised, Claude ships Code Review, Astro 6, and podcast with Aurora Scharff

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Edition 1
#1

Git superpowers, React Query queryOptions, New Typescript version and upcoming confrences

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