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Both of npm’s published email addresses are dead ends, and the support form needs a login you no longer have.

Frontier models score 48% to 51% on version-conditioned code generation.

Every gap React filled in 2013 now has a native answer, and three arrived in the last year.

Named contributors, open GitHub issues, and documented dependencies connect React’s team to shipped JavaScript features.

Built-in fetch, a native test runner, TypeScript without a build step, and a permission model: what Node.js absorbed into the runtime since 2013.

Import maps, Web Components, the Observer APIs, and View Transitions: everything the browser platform gained since React launched.

Every ECMAScript edition from ES2015 to ES2026, plus the browser APIs and Node.js built-ins that landed while the framework conversation moved on.

A bug report from a Laravel Blade project led here: Alpine.js and Livewire turn out to be sibling projects, sharing a creator and a real, named stack.

Alpine.js shows up across independent Shopify starter themes for a real reason.

AI autocomplete doesn’t replace structural tooling for Alpine.js, it needs it.

From v1.0.0 to v1.5.0, Alpine.js Tools gained diagnostics, Go to Definition, and plugin support in VS Code, plus three bugs fixed along the way.

The migration that made Express the default for every Node stack I run: the bugs that started it, the research that held up, and four months of monitoring.

Next.js carries 64 catalogued advisories to Express’s 5, counted the same way on the same day.

Server-rendered templates compile just-in-time, no separate build phase.

Redis reports hit rate, misses and evictions in one command.

React’s SSR APIs run synchronous CPU work on Node’s single thread, from renderToString through RSC serialization.

Measured from the shipped files: Alpine’s CDN build is 16.7kB gzipped against 47kB for React plus React DOM.

A production case study on memory growth from caching unbounded dynamic search routes in self-hosted Next.js, what changed in 15 and 16, and what fixed it.

Embeds render on refresh but vanish on client-side navigation.

Tree-sitter and legacy syntax highlighting for Alpine.js directives in Neovim, plus nvim-cmp completion and snippets across HTML, EJS, Blade, Twig, Liquid, and more.

Tree-sitter syntax highlighting, LSP attachment, and LuaSnip snippets for EJS templates in Neovim. ejs.nvim wires up the embedded_template parser with language injection for accurate HTML and JavaScript colorization.

“Built with AI” can mean two very different things.

WordPress theme built for headless setups.

VS Code extension that provides visual route, middleware, and template navigation for Express.js apps.

JavaScript syntax highlighting, workspace-aware IntelliSense, diagnostics with quick fixes, and Go to Definition for Alpine.js, across HTML, EJS, PHP, Twig, Nunjucks, Blade, Liquid, and Jinja2.

EJS Colorizer is a free, open source VS Code extension that colorizes EJS templates.

iPhone and iPad are now the only consumer devices certified to handle classified NATO information.

NASA is publishing Artemis II mission photos through WordPress.

Most WordPress server guides are outdated before you find them.

WordPress powers 43% of the web for a reason.

wp-block-styles is a zero-dependency CSS package that styles all WordPress Gutenberg block classes in any headless front-end – Next.js, React, TanStack, Nuxt, SvelteKit, Astro, and more.

Madison Street bovines Read more at https://connorontheweb.com/cow-art-capitol-hill-seattle

Fish, submarine Read more at https://connorontheweb.com/westlake-seattle-graffiti

Brief step-by-step developer guide to instantiating a node server for your React or Next app.

Not ready to build custom web or mobile app infrastructure?

Wildfires in Medical Lake and Elk have covered Spokane in a thick layer of smoke.

Recording in 360 and delivering video footage in vertical format.

Fake domain name expiration notices are being sent through the mail.

Road trip Read more at https://connorontheweb.com/2023-february-wa-slc-az-and-back

Inland Wing Sprinters are fast.

Watch some video from our drone in Bellevue and Redmond, WA.

Give a head to your headless WordPress REST API with NuxtJS.

Securely process credit card information on your website’s front-end with Square Web Payments SDK using Nuxt js.

My GoPro MAX 360 got ripped at the county fairgrounds.

Inland Applications is proud to contribute to Crazy Taxi 76, races are on at Stateline Speedway.

Smoke flows eastward and covers Western Washington Read more at https://connorontheweb.com/wildfire-smoke-blows-toward-spokane

Read more at https://connorontheweb.com/blm-2020-march-in-spokane-wa

Took a little drive up to Boundary County Read more at https://connorontheweb.com/ruby-ridge-drive-by

Got my annual post-winter sunburn in, as is tradition Read more at https://connorontheweb.com/e-bikes-up-the-spokane-river

Read more at https://connorontheweb.com/marmot-overlooking-spokane-river