Bring back the fun with p5.js 2.0
April 25, 2025 
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💡 p5.js is simultaneously useful and fun. It provides a great abstraction for interactive, visual experiences and is easy to play with using its online editor. A pastime of mine is asking AI models to create demos. For example, load this p5.js sketch and hit play to see a JS logo glitch experiment OpenAI’s o3 just made for me. |
Unbork Your Laravel App (Live) — Laravel is so in right now. Join us for a hands-on debugging session using a demo app, Unborked. We’ll track errors, replay sessions, trace slowdowns, and maybe even let the robots help. Bring your bugs. Sentry |
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📖 Articles |
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Impossible Components — Dan Abramov digs into the idea of so-called ‘impossible’ components that mix server-only and client-only features and how React Server Components can help bridge the divide, culminating in an example you can experiment with for yourself. Dan Abramov |
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Optimizing Node Performance with V8 GC Optimization — Matteo recently ▶️ gave a talk about Node’s memory usage and has written it up into this blog post. He notes that high memory usage doesn’t necessarily mean you have a memory leak, explains how V8’s garbage collection works, and how to tune things for your own use case. Matteo Collina |
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💡 Lest you think this is just a fun item, you could use the techniques learnt here to integrate DuckDB more seriously into other Web projects. |
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📄 A Decade of Impact: How Our npm Packages Hit 1 Billion Downloads and Shaped JavaScript – A bold title for sure, but with a neat story behind it. Forward Email 📄 Float16Array in JavaScript – Understanding the 16-bit floating point array type. Trevor I. Lasn 📄 When to Use 📄 Zero-Config Debugging with Deno and OpenTelemetry Casonato and Jiang (Deno) |
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🛠 Code & Tools |
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🎨 The folks behind this project have also built JS Color Picker. |
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Spectacle: Create Sleek React-Powered Presentations — A React-based library for creating sleek presentations using JSX syntax that gives you the ability to live demo your code, add interactive elements, scrollable code blocks, graphics effects, and more. Nearform |
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📢 Elsewhere |
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A quick roundup of other interesting updates and useful resources from across the broader developer landscape: |
