Decline, what decline? The myth of dying Europe There is a widespread view that, by comparison with the USA, Europe is in economic and social decline. But, Zucman argues, it’s not true

interesting - I did not realise half of this

bylinesnetwork.substack.com/p/decline-wh...

This week, we had the great opportunity to deliver the Web Performance Workshop to the amazing tech team at Back Market

It was two days of sharing knowledge, answering questions, and identifying areas for improvement.

#WebPerf #WebPerfTraining #PerfReviews

Thanks @andresas.dev @nucliweb.net it was a blast! Came away with actionable tools and insights I'm looking forward to applying.

@backmarketeng.bsky.social 👀

“OpenAI’s Windsurf deal is off — and Windsurf’s CEO is going to Google” - The Verge just broke the news

A reminder that until a deal is done: it’s not done. Anyone treating claims of OpenAI buying Windsurf as a fact - well, it was not…

This quiz uses V8's Date parser to demonstrate that the JS Date spec is unintuitive in many ways.

Thankfully work has been underway to fix this for several years 👍

Temporal is the replacement for the Date API. It shipped in Firefox 127 in May 2025 🚀

developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/W...

I scored 11/28 on jsdate.wtf and all I got was this lousy text to share on social media.

A toilet with a raspberry pi

Raspberry pee

⚡ H3 v2 beta is ready to try!

— Fully rewritten on web standards, backward-compatible, and faster than ever!

👉 Release notes: h3.dev/blog/v2-beta

Yep, @atinux.com came by in October, and now @thealexlichter.com is partnering with us to bridge @nuxt.com with fairly big projects like the @backmarketofficial.bsky.social web platform.

We can't be in a better place!

cc @backmarketeng.bsky.social

Kudos to the Nuxt team for addressing those limitations! 👏👏 @danielroe.dev

If you need help landing the parallel strategy, I may be able to work on this.

I've just discovered this PR about a new parallel fetching strategy with no await. No await = no involuntary cascading 🙂
github.com/nuxt/nuxt/pu...

Release v3.17.0 · nuxt/nuxt 👀 Highlights This release brings a major reworking of the async data layer, a new built-in component, better warnings, and performance improvements! 📊 Data Fetching Improvements A major reorganizat...

Nuxt 3.17.0 introduced reactive keys for useAsyncData 🚀🚀
github.com/nuxt/nuxt/re...

I regularly encounter two limitations with Nuxt's useAsyncData: it lacks reactive caching keys, and it's prone to request cascading since you need to await useAsyncData to block navigation during the request.

And... I think there's some very good news recently ✨🧵

👀 github.com/facebook/rea...

An official package to handle RSC in Vite is a cool news! I assume this will make it easier for new Vite-based React frameworks to appear.

Building Windsurf with Varun Mohan YouTube video by The Pragmatic Engineer

Interesting interview with Varun Mohan, CEO of Windsurf. It is very technical, discussing the challenge of code LLMs that need to “fill in the middle” and how they evaluate models automatically. He also shares his take on what the future looks like for software engineers.

Ride stats: 122km in 6 hours

First 100 km+ gravel ride this week under the sun ☀️ . Looking good for bikepacking trip later this year 🤞

www.totaltypescript.com/typescript-5...

"migrate all systems off COBOL quickly" is a funny concept. If it were possible without breaking anything, it would probably have been done already.

Komoot is a really great app… hopefully, it stays that way!

Bending Spoons Acquires komoot Technology company Bending Spoons today announced that it has closed the acquisition of komoot, the Germany-based route-planning platform for adventurers and...

Bending Spoons acquires komoot www.businesswire.com/news/home/20...

« Clé de répartition en pourcentage » fournie sur le site web de Burger King.

TIL : L'offre Burger Mystère chez Burger King suit un 'algorithme mathématique' dont les probabilités sont publiques. 🍔

THANK you for mentioning this. I felt like I was going crazy when people would say SSR is *only* good for SEO

If you're in the Bordeaux (France) area, and curious about the Staff Engineer role. The first "bordelais" meetup of the @staff42.bsky.social community will take place in the @backmarketeng.bsky.social office.

Register here: www.meetup.com/fr-FR/staff4...

Back to the original map 😅

How Ray-Ban doubled conversion rate and reduced exit rate by 13% through prerendering using the Speculation Rules API  |  web.dev Learn how Ray-Ban improved LCP by using the Speculation Rules API, and how it improved Ray-Ban's ecommerce platform's business performance.

With a rigorous A/B test, Rayban was able to prove that pre-rendering could reduce their LCP by over 40%, leading to a DOUBLING of their conversion rates!
If you are not measuring the impact of web performance on your business, you are probably leaving money on the table!
web.dev/case-studies...

I don’t see anything wrong 😉

Datadog (we sometimes call it ‘Greedy Dog’ internally 😅).

So, BlueSky is now the first video-based social network where you can bring your own algorithm?

🤯