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September 12, 2025
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Frontend Development 🎨

How To Set Up Express 5 In 2025 (30 minutes read)
#Express #TypeScript #Prisma

This comprehensive guide covers building an Express API with TypeScript, including user authentication, CRUD operations, and error handling. It walks through setting up a new project, configuring TypeScript, creating models and schemas, implementing authentication, and testing the API using Prisma as an ORM tool and middleware functions for validation and error handling.

Make Your Website Talk with The JavaScript Web Speech API (1 minutes read)
#JavaScript

A blogger has added a "listen" button to their blog, utilizing the Web Speech API for voice synthesis. This feature aims to improve accessibility and inclusivity by enabling users with visual impairments or relying on screen readers to engage through audio. The solution enhances flexibility and engagement for a broader user base.

Common FP - A New JS Utility Lib (2 minutes read)
#JavaScript

Common FP is a user-friendly utility library for JavaScript developers to explore functional programming concepts without complex terminology or theory. It offers practical utilities like mapValues and enforces conventions that might feel restrictive to experienced developers familiar with other libraries like Ramda or Sanctuary.

Backend & APIs 🔧

Garbage Collection in Go: From Reference Counting to Tri-Color to Green Tea (13 minutes read)
#Go #GarbageCollection

The evolution of garbage collection strategies in Go has shifted from Reference Counting to Green Tea, introduced in Go 1.25, offering improved performance and scalability. A toy model of the heap simplifies understanding GC basics, while benchmarked implementations demonstrate span-based approach benefits, including reduced pause times and low-latency guarantees for concurrent workloads.

Observe live SQL queries in Go with DTrace (6 minutes read)
#Go #DTrace

A Go programmer uses DTrace to observe live SQL queries without modifying code or restarting it. They print query strings using brute-force methods and RTTI system to infer argument values and reconstruct full SQL queries with parameters. However, this approach has limitations due to Go's complex type system and potential function inlining issues.

Browser & Platform 🌐

How I created a chrome extension to audit Amazon fake reviews (4 minutes read)
#ChromeExtension #NullFake

A developer has created an open-source Chrome extension called Null Fake to combat Amazon's fake review problem. The extension aims to extract and analyze genuine reviews, but faces challenges due to Amazon's constantly changing structure. It uses various techniques, including multiple fallback selectors and performance optimizations, and is now live on the Chrome Web Store.

Products & Industry Moves 🚀

MCP vs. Agent Orchestration Frameworks (LangGraph, CrewAI, etc) (1 minutes read)
#LangGraph #CrewAI

The Model Context Protocol (MCP) is proposed as a more flexible approach for most AI applications, combining simplicity with powerful systems through straightforward tool calling. In contrast to Agent Orchestration Frameworks like LangGraph and CrewAI, MCP offers a simpler way to deploy and use specialized agents without the associated complexities.

Effects as Capabilities in Scala (19 minutes read)
#Scala #Capabilities

The Scala language's capabilities system enables the creation of effectful computations without mutable state, by adding specific effects such as printing or reading input through capabilities like `Print` and `Read`. The author demonstrates how to rewrite a number guessing game using this approach, improving modularity and composability.

The bloat of edge-case first libraries (7 minutes read)
#Scule #Dlv

Many libraries have become overly granular, focusing on edge cases that rarely occur, resulting in unnecessary complexity. The author suggests well-designed libraries should validate only necessary values, avoiding runtime type checking and value validation. This approach is seen in efficient libraries like `scule` and `dlv`, which accept inputs designed for use.

Behind the Scenes of Bun Install (27 minutes read)
#Bun

Bun's innovative approach optimizes various aspects of the installation process to improve performance and efficiency compared to traditional package managers like npm. By utilizing different strategies depending on operating system and file system, Bun reduces system call overhead and increases parallelization, leading to faster installation times overall.

Infrastructure & Services 🏗️

Asus gives its $4,000 creator laptop a 4K tandem OLED and RTX 5090
#RTX5090 #OLED

Asus' ProArt P16 laptop upgrades with Nvidia's top-tier RTX 5090 mobile GPU and a bright 16-inch tandem OLED touchscreen capable of up to 1,600 nits brightness in HDR. The 120Hz refresh rate and VRR enhance visuals for creatives and professionals requiring high-end graphics on-the-go, promising improved performance and visuals.

DeFi & Protocols 💱

Reviving RSS with AI-Proof Licensing: Can Open Protocols Save Content from Scrapers?
#RSL

As the AI era progresses, protecting content rights is crucial for publishers. The RSL standard provides an open solution, allowing publishers to define machine-readable licensing terms, including attribution requirements and payment models, safeguarding their intellectual property and ensuring fair compensation for content utilization in AI systems.

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