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Vite+ Beta
3 days ago
- Vite+ is now in beta and provides a unified toolchain for web development, integrating runtime, package manager, and frontend tools like Vite, Vitest, and Oxlint.
- It offers consistent commands for development, testing, building, and more, aiming to simplify workflows and improve team collaboration across projects.
- Key updates since alpha include smarter caching, better migrations, enterprise features, cross-platform support, and over 180 fixes and improvements.
- Vite+ has been adopted in over 1,300 public repositories, with notable projects like Dify, BlockNote, and npmx using it.
- The roadmap to version 1.0 includes plans for remote caching, GitLab CI/CD integration, improved compatibility, and more migration targets.
Bring back crappy forums
4 days ago
- Usenet, the early forum-like system, had over 110,000 newsgroups but declined in the late 1990s.
- Web forums emerged as an alternative to Usenet, with the first software, WWW Interactive Talk (WIT), developed in 1994.
- Key historical forum software includes Ultimate Bulletin Board, Slash, vBulletin, phpBB, and Discourse, each influencing internet communities.
- BBCode, created in 1998, allowed controlled text formatting in forums and influenced modern tools like the Godot game engine.
- Forums lost popularity to social media due to novelty, scalability issues, and the appeal of newer platforms like Digg and Reddit.
The <Usermedia> HTML Element
4 days ago
- Chrome 151 introduces the <usermedia> HTML element, part of the Capability Elements suite, which transitions from generic permission prompts to targeted, declarative controls for camera and microphone access.
- The element improves security and user experience by reducing boilerplate code, providing clear user intent through physical interaction, and enabling seamless recovery for previously denied permissions.
- Real-world data from an Origin Trial shows significant improvements: Cisco saw permission grant rates jump from 10% to over 65%, Zoom reported a 46.9% decrease in capture errors, and Google Meet noted a 17% drop in 'mic not working' feedback.
- Implementation involves adding the <usermedia> tag to HTML, using setConstraints() for hardware preferences, and handling events like 'stream', 'error', and 'cancel' for successful access, failures, or user dismissals.
- The element enforces styling restrictions for legibility, sizing, and visual integrity to prevent deceptive designs and supports progressive enhancement with fallbacks to legacy getUserMedia() API for unsupported browsers.
The Safari MCP server for web developers
3 days ago
- Safari MCP server introduced in Safari Technology Preview 247.
- Enables agents to access browser data (DOM, network requests, screenshots, console logs).
- Speeds up debugging by reducing context switching between browser and terminal.
- Use cases include checking rendering, improving Safari compatibility, analyzing performance, and verifying accessibility.
- Available tools include console messages, network requests, page interactions, screenshots, and JavaScript evaluation.
- Setup requires installing Safari Technology Preview and enabling developer features.
- Local-only operation ensures data privacy and no external network calls.
- Goal is to enhance AI-assisted web development workflows for Safari.
Babel, a construction that builds and unbuilds itself forever
a day ago
- Download over 310 Three.js scenes for creative 3D web projects.
- Explore various digital constructions and artworks like Babel, Basilica, Monoliths, and Proteus.
- Interact with blueprints using controls: space to panel, drag to orbit, scroll to zoom, and 'n' for new blueprint.

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Vite+ Beta

Bring back crappy forums

The <Usermedia> HTML Element

The Safari MCP server for web developers

Babel, a construction that builds and unbuilds itself forever