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Airbnb's Trip to Linaria | The Airbnb Tech Blog
Airbnb's Trip to Linaria | The Airbnb Tech Blog
Staff Engg's blog, on how they moved to different CSS-in-JS frameworks over time and finally how they concluded that Linaria is the best solution of CSS in the application and giving their app significant perfdormance improvements
The CSS metrics (update layout tree and composite layers) show that, on average, there is roughly one more layout tree update and layer composition event for react-with-styles/Emotion. This is likely due to the insertion and hydration of stylesheets with JavaScript that is not necessary with a CSS extraction library like Linaria or Treat.
·medium.com·
Airbnb's Trip to Linaria | The Airbnb Tech Blog
How Google Maps fixed India's street name problem
How Google Maps fixed India's street name problem
Video explaining how google maps navigation was localised for India. This was required since India doesn't have names of streets for all the streets and use of landmarks was pivotal in India for navigation. Point to be noted, GPS wasnt' installed in phones until this point, so knowing user's location wasn't possible navigation meant directions as instructions for maps
·youtube.com·
How Google Maps fixed India's street name problem
Perplexity's Discover Pages Offer A Surprising SEO Insight
Perplexity's Discover Pages Offer A Surprising SEO Insight

very nice article higlighing a fact that programmatic SEO is not necessary to rank to in SEO results.

Perplexity's discover pages weren't following any rule of SEO in their HTML structure, but still those pages are ranking very high in SEO results, all because of content they've written. The content is written keeping human in mind and hence it's working great and giving all the good signals google is looking for while ranking the pages

·searchenginejournal.com·
Perplexity's Discover Pages Offer A Surprising SEO Insight
Focusing: focus/blur
Focusing: focus/blur
very basic knowledge about focus and blur events. Nothing much fancy good to know about the basics of working of two events, but won't help in desgining a 100% keyboard navigiable appliction in browser
P.P.S. Don’t modify HTML/CSS, the approach should be generic and work with any element.
·javascript.info·
Focusing: focus/blur
Context Engineering is the New Vibe Coding | AIM
Context Engineering is the New Vibe Coding | AIM
Article around how contextual engineering is replacing the prompt engineering. Contextual Engineering in Gen AI world is all about giving the right, appropriate amount of context to AI with prompts, so it not only creates desired results everytime, but is also consistent in the results for same inputs over a period of time
·analyticsindiamag.com·
Context Engineering is the New Vibe Coding | AIM
Is Next.js worth it for Apps that don't need SSR? : r/nextjs
Is Next.js worth it for Apps that don't need SSR? : r/nextjs

Reddit discussion, on how using Next.js the person's app was slow while moving from one route to another.

The top commentor advised on how to efficiently use app router and where to place and not to place 'use client';

·reddit.com·
Is Next.js worth it for Apps that don't need SSR? : r/nextjs
Mark Zuckerberg says ads will soon be handled entirely by AI | The Verge
Mark Zuckerberg says ads will soon be handled entirely by AI | The Verge
Marj Zuckerberg planning to build a tool which will generate creatives for ads, combine them, take those ads live, analyse the results, make changes, take updates live, meaning customers will just say run my ad and post that it's meta 🤔🤔🤔
·theverge.com·
Mark Zuckerberg says ads will soon be handled entirely by AI | The Verge