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Salut, web dev friends! 🧑‍💻

I have selected some news from the web dev world to share.

Have a great week.

Linear launch Linear Agent, Skills and Automations. This remind me a lot of the feature Claude has already. Linear is becoming more and more a platform with an interface which can merge AI and Human work inside it. I really really need to test it, love the vison of the company.

Linear created a devtools for their production website, in this devtools they implemented feature flag to test quickly each change they wanted to make. I really like the idea of devtools for the product or the designers, its a very good way to tests in production without hurting the end user.

California require every operating system vendor to verify if the user is an adult. In other word, another spyware by american big tech. You can still install this « ageless » Linux distro if you want :).

A new way to work with async and sync in Javascript, I work a lot of synchronous frontend code, so I don’t have a lot of async problem. But the article is very interesting, check the library quansync with it.

Web tools and Library

👅 Leonxlnx/taste-skill Taste-Skill High-Agency Frontend - gives your AI good taste. stops the AI from generating boring, generic, “slop”

🛝 lenxism/dither Upload an image and watch it come alive as interactive dithered particles. Hover to push them, click to explode.

💬 chenglou/pretext Pure JavaScript/TypeScript library for multiline text measurement & layout. Fast, accurate & supports all the languages you didn’t even know about. Allows rendering to DOM, Canvas, SVG and soon, server-side.

Cool Websites

💬 Pretext Demos Small browser demos for the kinds of layout work Pretext unlocks: text height without DOM measurement in the hot path, manual line routing, and width-tight multiline UI.

💻 Shader Development Studio

👀 Visualize and Edit CSS Background Layers Paste any background CSS and see what each layer contributes — separately.