Author: Mark Otto

React 19.1 released

April 2, 2025 By Mark Otto 0

React 19.1 Released — Not cool enough to get a full blog post on the official blog, but 19.1 brings a lot to the table in terms of fixes, small additions (e.g. support for streaming in edge environments), a new API for prerendering RSCs on…

Customizing C# and C++ with Amazon Q Developer

April 1, 2025 By Mark Otto Off

Amazon Q Developer recently added support for customizing C# and C++ suggestions based on your company’s codebase. This blog post explores how developers can tailor the AI assistant to provide accurate inline suggestions and contextual code understanding for their C# and C++ projects. You will…

Express 5.x enters the limelight

April 1, 2025 By Mark Otto 0

💬 I was amused by some discussion about the release on Reddit, where maintainer Wes Todd said: “We tried to kill [Express] over and over and it keeps on getting up and converting more people into zombies for the zombie mob. So we did the…

Adopting Amazon Q Developer in Enterprise Environments

March 31, 2025 By Mark Otto Off

Increasing developer productivity has been a persistent challenge for senior leaders over the past decades. With the rise of generative artificial intelligence (AI), a new wave of innovation is transforming how software teams work. Generative AI tools like Amazon Q Developer are emerging as game-changers,…

The tale of a bizarre bug encountered in Google Docs

March 28, 2025 By Mark Otto Off

⭐ The State of Vue.js Report 2025 — Created with the support of the Vue and Nuxt teams, this is no mere collection of statistics and charts (though there’s plenty of both) but a thorough update on the state of both projects and an interview with…

Announcing the AWS CDK L2 Construct for Amazon Cognito Identity Pools

March 27, 2025 By Mark Otto Off

Today we’re announcing the general availability (GA) of the new Amazon Cognito Identity Pool Level 2 (L2) construct in the AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK). This construct simplifies the creation and management of identity pools, permissions, and provider integrations by providing intent-based APIs that…

A bad weekend for Next.js

March 26, 2025 By Mark Otto 0

Gemini: Google’s AI App Adds ‘Canvas’ Mode for React Devs — Gemini is essentially Google’s answer to ChatGPT and now has a developer ‘canvas’ mode which can be used to create, iterate, and preview React and HTML code right in the browser. It’s free at…

Node gets the URLPattern API

March 25, 2025 By Mark Otto 0

New URLPattern API Brings Improved Pattern Matching to Node — The Cloudflare Workers team has implemented the URLPattern API in the Ada URL parser, used by both Node.js and Cloudflare Workers. The API lets you take patterns like /blog/:year/:month/:slug and test whether URLs match against…