Lucas Silbernagel

For many years, I've used a spreadsheet to plan my annual budget and keep track of my personal finances. My latest side project is a long-overdue upgrade! Longhand Budget is a privacy-first personal budgeting and financial-planning web app: www.longhandbudget.com

Go take the State of HTML 2026 survey if you have a minute! survey.devographics.com/survey/state...

The State of Devs 2026 survey results are now available: 2026.stateofdevs.com/en-US/

Node.js built-ins that replaced npm packages: flaviocopes.com/node-builtins/

The browser's main thread is expensive: kciter.so/posts/the-ex...

10 anti-AI slop moves for frontend projects going faster than humans can review: evilmartians.com/chronicles/t...

Things that should go in a modern HTML boilerplate: www.matuzo.at/blog/2026/ht...

Your JSON is lying to you: blog.gaborkoos.com/posts/2026-0...

The State of CSS 2026 survey results are now available! 2026.stateofcss.com/en-US/

How to stop running out of tokens: danielabaron.me/blog/how-i-s...

JavaScript framework benchmarks, visualized: framework-benchmarks.as93.net

Go take the State of Devs 2026 survey if you have a minute! survey.devographics.com/survey/state...

How to speed up running Playwright tests in GitHub Actions: endform.dev/blog/playwri...

What's new in ECMAScript 2026, Math.sumPrecise in particular looks like a useful addition: pawelgrzybek.com/whats-new-in...

Some thoughts and tips on understanding AI code output: www.geoffreylitt.com/2026/07/02/u...

Some great tips about writing tests for React code, and how to prepare for interview questions about testing: howtotestfrontend.com/resources/re...

Open a Modal Dialog in React with the Invoker Commands API: sergiodxa.com/tutorials/op...

When choosing between CSS animations and JavaScript animations, it's usually best to reach for CSS: www.joshwcomeau.com/animation/cs...

TypeScript tips everyone should know: github.com/AllThingsSmi...

Go take the State of CSS 2026 survey if you have a minute! survey.devographics.com/survey/state...

The State of Web Dev AI 2026 survey results are available: 2026.stateofai.dev/en-US

A good introduction to / reminder about range media queries: ishadeed.com/article/rang...

Building a UI without breakpoints: frontendmasters.com/blog/buildin...

AI-generated UI is inaccessible by default. Here are some great suggestions to fix that: frontendmasters.com/blog/ai-gene...

Go take the State of AI 2026 survey if you have a minute! survey.devographics.com/survey/state...

How to replace common libraries and APIs with modern CSS: blog.gitbutler.com/the-great-cs...

This is pretty cool, Intl can handle all currency and unit formatting: www.stefanjudis.com/today-i-lear...

A detailed summary of the latest and greatest tools and developments in JavaScript: frontendmasters.com/blog/what-to...

Can you tell real CSS properties and fake ones apart? www.keithcirkel.co.uk/css-or-bs/

A reminder to use role-based selectors rather than test IDs whenever possible: tkdodo.eu/blog/test-id...

I found this to be a helpful explanation of some of the new React 19 features: saschb2b.com/blog/use-hoo...

Naming React effects, I gotta remember to do this... neciudan.dev/name-your-ef...

An interesting, and I think, more hopeful take on how AI will impact the software engineering job market: adventures.nodeland.dev/archive/soft...

Another great website and campaign from the Ontario NDP, let's get loud! releasedougstexts.ca

Hopefully more companies will realize and implement things like this: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

This is interesting! Can you spot the better React props? cant-maintain.saschb2b.com/play

Remember your timer cleanups and event listener removals! stackinsight.dev/blog/memory-...

AI coding tools are blurring the lines between software team roles: justinjackson.ca/claude-code-...

In all the AI noise, I always find it comforting when AI tools fall well short of the expectations hyped up by influencers and the news cycle.

Ship agent skills with your npm packages: tanstack.com/blog/from-do...

Well this is concerning 👀 theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-...

This is pretty cool...see old #CSS hacks side by side with the modern equivalent: modern-css.com

Save OSAP and stop Doug Ford’s tuition hikes: saveosap.ca

The State of React 2025 results are now available: 2025.stateofreact.com/en-US

I definitely could have used this in the past, apparently there's a tiny React library that visually normalizes company logos so that they all look good together when displayed in a jumble: www.sanity.io/blog/the-log...

Some tips on building bulletproof React components: shud.in/thoughts/bui...

I've been doing a lot of research and planning to begin moving away from American tech. One small thing I'm trying is the Ground News app instead of Google News, pretty happy with it so far.

It's great to see some fight from Marit Stiles and the Ontario NDP! youtube.com/shorts/Q12TW...