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Weekly technical deep-dives with your coffee. No hype, just carefully brewed web development updates. ☕️💻 Subscribe at https://wkbrw.dev/ip70p5j
"Most teams think micro-frontends are just components you load at runtime. But components leak domain logic to containers, micro-frontends should own their entire domain."

Fantastic podcast episode with Luca just went live, addressing my concerns around microfrontends!

Link in 🧵
September 19, 2025 at 12:01 PM
New Podcast episode just went live 🔥

@una.im shares insights and details on new web platform features making the use of third party libraries unnecessary!

Lots of interesting details in there...

Links below 👇
September 12, 2025 at 4:43 PM
The open web deserves open browsers!
New Weekly Dev's Brew Podcast episode with Andreas Kling building Ladybird Browser - 100% open source, built from web standards alone, with no corporate dependencies.

youtu.be/UvK182i9cgE
August 29, 2025 at 10:01 AM
and this is why I never trust autogenerated subtitles...
August 21, 2025 at 5:16 PM
🎙️ NEW EPISODE: "If you know SQL, you know Drizzle"

Just dropped an incredible conversation with @asherman.bsky.social from @drizzle.team about:
✨ Why their "headless ORM" is
🚀 Building sustainable open source
🛠️ DB migrations and quirks they had to deal with

youtu.be/PSs_0vlqQPI
August 11, 2025 at 7:00 AM
The Weekly Dev's Brew #24 is live!

☕ TypeScript 5.9's import defer
☕ Vitest visual testing
☕ Panda CSS v1
and more fresh updates.

Catch up on what you missed: www.weeklybrew.dev/archive/the-...
August 6, 2025 at 10:01 AM
🎙️ NEW EPISODE: Ever wonder who decides what goes into JavaScript?
I talked with @littledan.dev (President of Ecma International & TC39 veteran) about how JS actually evolves.
The inside story of syntax debates, consensus building & what's coming next 🔥

Links below 👇
August 4, 2025 at 9:00 AM
New episode with @mayashavin.com (Lead Engineer @Salesforce, mom of 4)
We talked about her journey from Cloudinary → Microsoft → Salesforce, and why "being senior at a startup vs corporate are two completely different things."
Also: how toddler meltdowns prepared her for code reviews!

Links below 👇
July 21, 2025 at 7:00 AM
New Week, new Weekly Dev's Brew!

"Why JavaScript is Broken: How Effect and TypeScript Fixes It" with Michael Arnaldi (author of Effect TS)
Calling out JavaScript's async model and showing how Effect TS fixes the mess.

Topics: typed errors, Effect vs RxJS, TS backend future, ...

Links below 👇
July 14, 2025 at 11:00 AM
🎙️ Fresh episode of The Weekly Dev's Brew is live!

Had an amazing chat with @danielroe.dev (@nuxt.com core team lead) about something we all use but rarely optimize properly: web fonts.
Turns out your Google Fonts copy-paste habit might be costing you more than you think 😅

Links below 👇
July 7, 2025 at 12:08 PM
🎙️ New episode of The Weekly Dev's Brew is live!

Sat down with @thealexlichter.com (@nuxt.com core team, DevRel @voidzero.dev) to explore how Nitro is reshaping fullstack JS development and powering frameworks beyond Nuxt.

Deep dive into modern server patterns + what's next for web DX

Links 👇
June 30, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Rendering videos in 4k takes way too long 😅

In other news, we have @TheAlexLichter on the podcast next week (if it is rendered by then 😂 )
June 26, 2025 at 1:42 AM
🎙️ New podcast episode with @ryansolid.bsky.social, creator of SolidJS and CEO of Signals.
We discuss:
How signals are changing JavaScript frameworks
SolidJS's approach beyond performance
Signals 2.0 features and async JavaScript patterns
Insights from Ryan's open-source journey

Listen now 👇
June 23, 2025 at 6:03 AM
This week's web development updates: foundational assumptions meeting inconvenient technical realities.

Starting with @biomejs.dev v2, type-aware linting without TS compiler. Their own type inference engine hits 75% accuracy on floating promises at a fraction of the performance cost.

🧵 1/8
June 18, 2025 at 10:35 AM
🚀 NEW EPISODE: "Exploring AI's Impact on Web Development" w/ @rachelnabors is LIVE!

🔥 We dive into:
AI transforming UX & development
Rise of personal agents
The "enshittification" of platforms
MCP as the new SEO for LLMs
Future of programming languages

Essential listening for developers navigating
June 16, 2025 at 8:00 AM
🚀 In case you missed it! Episode 2 of Weekly Dev's Brew is live!

@JoshuaKGoldberg on leaving Microsoft for full-time open source work. He shares how he structures OSS like a 9-5 job, his work on typescript-eslint, and why TypeScript enums should be used cautiously (...ok that one was me 😆).

Links
June 12, 2025 at 6:05 AM
The Weekly Dev's Brew Podcast is now also available on Amazon Music, took way longer than I expected. But it's a perfect time to listen to the latest episode with @joshuakgoldberg.com

music.amazon.com/podcasts/e54...
June 11, 2025 at 2:07 PM
This week's news: @storybook.js.org 9 with smaller install + automatic story-to-test conversion, Safari 26 adds SVG favicons & URLPattern API, @prisma.io 6.9 goes Rust-free for PostgreSQL/SQLite, @react.dev Conf 2025 (Oct 7-8), State of CSS Survey live, and Apple's new AI reasoning research.

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June 11, 2025 at 6:02 AM
🚨 EPISODE 1 IS LIVE 🚨

Weekly Devs Brew podcast ft. @marktechson.com talking education, tech interviews, and why the browser is basically magic now

listen here: youtu.be/4suWS0fs1C4
June 9, 2025 at 6:00 AM
🎙️ BIG NEWS: Our podcast launches Monday!

First guest: @marktechson.com on "Bridging Education & Engineering Excellence"
No hot takes, just authentic conversations with the people building the web ☕

🎧 weeklybrew.dev/podcast
June 4, 2025 at 7:00 AM
🧵 Weekly Dev's Brew #15 just dropped ☕

Some solid progress this week - Angular signals hitting stable, Nuxt 4 timeline, and noteworthy build performance numbers!
Plus thoughtful technical writing, and we've been working hard the last months for some pretty big news ourselves👇
June 4, 2025 at 7:00 AM
🧵Weekly dev news: TypeScript Native dropped with 10x performance gains, Chrome 137 shipped game-changing CSS, and Claude 4 hit serious coding benchmarks. Here's what matters 👇
May 28, 2025 at 7:00 AM
New in JS: Explicit Resource Management gives you deterministic cleanup without the try/finally boilerplate. Plus @tanstack.com DB's reactive data layer, gemini 2.5's coding improvements, and tech industry updates. This week's Dev's Brew is worth your time. www.weeklybrew.dev/archive/the-...
May 14, 2025 at 6:01 AM
🧵 The Weekly Dev's Brew #11 is hot off the press!

This week 👇

- Nx 21 drops major upgrades 🔥
- AI coding tools raise billions 💲
- Node.js 24 is here 🎉

and I've got the perfect summer coffee recipe for devs!
May 7, 2025 at 6:00 AM
🚀 The Weekly Dev's Brew #9 is hot and fresh! ☕

The React Compiler RC has officially landed, bringing automatic memoization to optimize your @react.dev apps without manual code changes.
New features include better support for optional chains and array indices as dependencies!
April 23, 2025 at 11:38 AM