Edition 32: Carson Gross on hypermedia, Anthropic moves off git, TanStack Start 1.0 | Dynamic import() caching, Accessibility 80/20

Hypermedia at scale with Carson Gross

New episode of Señors @ Scale is out. Carson Gross is the creator of HTMX and a computer science professor at Montana State University.

We get into whether you need a JavaScript framework at all, how REST came to mean the opposite of REST, which apps HTMX is a bad fit for, what changed in HTMX 4 and why they skipped version 3, and why he moved his students back to pencil and paper exams.

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Community reads

Infrastructure

Redesigning source control at Anthropic by Nick G. and the Anthropic source control team — merges per day grew more than tenfold, so they moved the monorepo off git and onto their own version control system in five months (I'm sure it has nothing to do with Github crashing every 2 hours).

TanStack Start 1.0 is Stable by Tanner Linsley — Tanstack Start is finally out of beta and ready to be used in production, it has some really cool features like reverse RSC, try it out.

Web platform

Dynamic import(): the browser already caches our modules by Joan León — a reviewer on a client project said the module loads again every time a file is selected, so does it?

Web Accessibility in 2026: The 80/20 Guide by Pere Pages — the handful of habits that fix most of the failures WebAIM keeps finding on the top million homepages.

AI and agents

AI and Software Architecture by Aleix Morgadas — every model suggests Redis plus WebSockets for a chat feature, so what does the AI not know about your architecture?

Career

How to tell if a startup has a moat by Dan Hockenmaier on Lenny's Newsletter — does anyone have a moat anymore, now that building the product is the easy part?

How to prepare for an AI hackathon by Fotis Adamakis — being good technically doesn't mean you'll do well, go prepared. Good advice!

Book recommendation

The First 90 Days: Proven Strategies for Getting Up to Speed Faster and Smarter by Michael D. Watkins

Watkins is a leadership transition expert, and this is the book for the first three months in a new role, including a promotion where you already work. Every new job has a breakeven point, the moment the company gets more out of you than you have cost it. As experiencing the first 90 days myself now, this is very good advice.

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