🥰 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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✅ 'I Think the Ergonomics of Generators is Growing on Me'

The author notes generator functions have been widely available in JavaScript for a long time, yet “their practicality hasn’t exactly caught on.” This is a great look at what they are and where they can be useful.

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✅ Announcing Ionic 8.6

This release brings a new Input OTP component, a new Datetime property to show days from the previous and next months, and a fresh update to Stencil.

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✅ Vite 7.0 is out!

We're happy to share the release of Vite 7! It has been 5 years since Evan You sent the first commit to the Vite repo, and nobody could have predicted how much the frontend ecosystem would change since then. Most modern frontend frameworks and tools are now working together, building on top of Vite's shared infrastructure.

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