The other week when I was talking about Web Components in the Corner, I mentioned zero-md, a nice little Web Component for doing exactly that. I had to bite my tongue a little bit though, as the 2.0 public beta hadn't quite made it out of the door yet. See, the new compiler, among its many…

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CodePen's new 2.0 compiler introduces Inline Block Processing, allowing developers to use lang attributes on HTML elements to process content server-side (e.g., Markdown, SCSS) without client-side tools. The post also touches on the no-build-tool philosophy, TypeScript alternatives like JSDoc and ts-check comments, using AI as a pseudo build tool for one-time code conversions, and whether AI could replace a CMS by keeping content directly in the codebase.

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