✅ Interop 2024 Brings More Features to Baseline

As Interop 2024 draws to a close, this post reflects on the most successful year ever for the project. It concluded with all experimental browsers reporting a score of 99, with the stable versions not far behind. This success means that a number of features are now Baseline Newly available.

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🥰 You can now register a .channel domain via Google Registry

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✅ From Pain to Productivity: How I Learned to Code with My Voice

After developing severe hand pain, Salma sought an alternative way to code — she turned to voice control as a solution. Here she outlines the journey of trying different tools, the accessibility considerations, and her new workflow. She also chatted with Kevin Powell about this change.

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🪟 Microsoft says it has improved text contrast of rendered text in all Chromium browsers on Windows

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🦊 Version 135 of Firefox landed February 4 adding new translation support, credit card autofill, an AI chatbot, and more. The developer changes are here

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✅ Astro 5.4

Astro 5.4 brings remote image optimization in Markdown, enhanced security for dev and preview servers, RegExp support for Vercel ISR excludes, and more!

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✅ A 10x Faster TypeScript

😱 WOW WOW WOW

Yesterday, TypeScript announced a full rewrite of TypeScript in Go. In testing, this rewrite has achieved a 10x speedup in some repositories - and up to 15x in others.

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✅ Visual Studio Code Version 1.100

Not to be confused with a 1.1 release, this update to VS Code has quite a few goodies for JavaScript developers with improved ‘Next Edit Suggestions’ that will suggest adding missing imports, support for Node’s enhanced network debugging capabilities, improved visibility of type information, remote MCP server support, GPT 4.1 as the new default base model, and more.

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P.S. We're back 😃

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✅ Best Practices for Creating a Modern npm Package

A step-by-step “as of 2025” walkthrough of creating your own npm package using current best practices. We’ve linked to this before but it’s just been updated.

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