<h2>Must know</h2>
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<li><strong>Next.js 16 turbocharges builds and caching</strong>: Next.js 16 is here, stabilizing Turbopack as the default bundler for 2-5x faster production builds and 10x quicker hot reloading. It introduces explicit ‘use cache’ directives for Cache Components, giving developers more control over caching behavior. Plus, there’s AI-assisted debugging via Model Context Protocol (MCP) integration in DevTools, allowing AI agents to suggest fixes from unified logs. This release also brings React Compiler support for automatic memoization, as reported by Syncfusion. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/91xiEmcVe" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>ESLint v10.0.0 is dropping Node.js &lt;20.19.0 support</strong>: ESLint is gearing up for its v10.0.0 release, which will drop support for Node.js versions older than 20.19.0 and remove the legacy eslintrc system. In 2025, ESLint expanded language support with official CSS and HTML plugins and introduced multithreaded linting for significant performance gains. The project also integrated with AI tools like GitHub Copilot, according to ESLint’s year in review. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/2lLhf9kl2" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Cloudflare acquires Astro web framework</strong>: Cloudflare has acquired The Astro Technology Company, the creators of the Astro web framework. Astro, known for its focus on content-driven sites and shipping zero JavaScript by default, will remain open source, MIT-licensed, and platform-agnostic. The entire Astro team will join Cloudflare, with the goal of allowing them to focus solely on framework development rather than monetization, as reported by multiple sources including This Week In React. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=a23rECuU6&amp;id=6Yvvs8a9F&amp;id=yRAOJZmiR" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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<h2>Good to know</h2>
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<li><strong>React ecosystem evolves with new architectures and tools</strong>: The React ecosystem is seeing new architectural patterns like server components and fine-grained reactivity in frameworks like Solid and Qwik, pushing developers to understand tradeoffs rather than just features. Web Components are also gaining traction for framework-agnostic UI primitives. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/RRH1cjln0" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Bun v1.3.6 brings performance boosts and new APIs</strong>: Bun v1.3.6 introduces new APIs for tarball creation/extraction and JSONC parsing, along with significant performance improvements, including 3.5x faster Response.json() and 15% faster async/await. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/Wx4br4Zyw" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>AI coding assistants are changing developer skills</strong>: AI coding assistants are shifting the focus for developers from boilerplate code to fundamental JavaScript, APIs, data flows, and system design, requiring critical thinking to evaluate and fix AI-generated code. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=6PqxqIHlh&amp;id=OjN0nkHHH&amp;id=S37WCeeOE" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>WebAssembly 3.0 and WASI 0.3 are on the horizon</strong>: WebAssembly is advancing rapidly with Safari closing feature gaps, new proposals reaching standardization, and WebAssembly 3.0 announced, while WASI is progressing towards 0.3 with async support and improved debugging tools. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/jtf8mrjCJ" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>New CSS features for advanced layouts and styling</strong>: Chrome 145 beta introduces new CSS features like <code>text-justify</code>, column wrapping, and percentage values for <code>letter-spacing</code> and <code>word-spacing</code>, alongside customizable select listbox and WebGPU subgroup uniformity. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=oWgZOWIXh&amp;id=70BWhZ4sb" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>React Three Fiber simplifies 3D development in React</strong>: React Three Fiber acts as a React renderer for Three.js, enabling declarative 3D scene creation with React components, hooks, and state, offering deeper integration and automatic lifecycle management for 3D objects. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=1oc2IaC1V&amp;id=FYVIyDThiR" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Malicious Chrome extensions target ChatGPT users</strong>: Malicious Chrome extensions, disguised as legitimate AI tools, infected 900,000 users, stealing ChatGPT and DeepSeek conversation data and sending it to command-and-control servers, highlighting the need for extreme caution when installing browser extensions. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/940A3pjU5" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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<h2>Bullshit police</h2>
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<li><strong>AI coding tools: the ultimate productivity hack, or just more code to review?</strong>: Apparently, AI coding assistants are generating 46% more code, but somehow developers are 19% slower. And the code? It’s got 1.7x more bugs and security issues, leading to a 91% increase in PR review time. So, we’re just generating more garbage faster, and then spending more time cleaning it up. Genius! It’s almost like AI optimizes for typing speed, not actual architectural integrity, as reported by The Serious CTO. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=5khP9Wt37&amp;id=J24eplQdr" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>The incredible overcomplexity of a simple radio button</strong>: In 2026, we’ve managed to turn a basic HTML radio button into a multi-dependency, hundreds-of-lines-of-React-code monstrosity, all to avoid using native HTML. Shadcn and Radix are rebuilding these from scratch, violating ARIA best practices and degrading performance. Because, you know, a simple CSS <code>appearance: none</code> is just too old-school for our cutting-edge web development, as pointed out by some poor soul on Lobsters. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/cuZVekEgv" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>AI agents: the new ‘junior developer’ that needs constant supervision</strong>: We’re told AI agents are the future, capable of building entire codebases and replacing SaaS. Yet, studies show developers using AI assistants take longer to finish tasks, introduce more bugs, and experience increased code churn. The ‘productivity boost’ is often just cognitive bias. So, while AI can generate code, it still needs extensive human oversight, chunking of requests, and careful review. It’s like hiring a junior developer who hallucinates dependencies and needs constant hand-holding, but hey, at least it’s ‘innovative’! <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=rTTGdX9v4&amp;id=DdiXGTqPN&amp;id=bNykMIpel&amp;id=hjcDh3B5R&amp;id=Mf14DaB5G" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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