WeAreDevelopers Live 19/02/2025

Recording

Resources and notes

News

• Interop 2025: another year of web platform improvements
  • Anchor positioning
  • Navigation API
  • URLPattern
  • Same-document view transitions

Code

• Style-observer: JS to observe CSS property changes
• “A calculator app? Anyone could make that.”
• How to build a copy code snippet button and why it matters

Discuss

• Sunsetting Create React App
• Boring tech is mature, not old
• Human-friendly regular expression builder with English-like syntax.
  • magic-regexp
  • Super Expressive
• The Popover API is now Baseline
• Secure Sanitization and Disposal of Storage Media (5 minute read)

Tools

• A lightweight & gdpr compliant cookie consent plugin written in plain javascript.
• CSS Flexbox Playground
• Visualise your CSV files in seconds without sending your data anywhere
• A List of Hacker News’s Undocumented Features and Behaviors

What?

• Smuggling arbitrary data through an emoji
• Tugg speedman AI generated text
• Transit photo of the day: The mad network of lifts at Tottenham Court Road station.
• Impossible Mission

Guest topic

• Dittytoy
• Draw.audio