#79

26 March 2025

This is a must-read if you are using Next.js or are thinking of using Next.js. It’s balanced, fair and damning.

Sprints are like the jar in my favorite metaphor – if you fill them with sand, there won’t be room for big rocks. But if you start with rocks, there’s room for plenty of sand.

No surprises I was nodding along to this. We’re obsessed with sprints and iterations too.

I shared Reimagining Fluid Typography in Issue #70, so here’s Rich’s response. A good read.

I really like the static noise animated texture on this site and there’s some really nice creative touches too. No scroll-smoothing or scroll-jacking either 🎉

This does exactly what it says on the tin. It’s really useful to get a temperature check of how the top sites are doing in terms of performance. It’s a good discovery method of finding inspiration from sites that do a good job too.

Sam Rose walks us through some real-world usage of TypeScript’s utility types in their day job’s open source codebase to help those new to the language get to grips with this key capability.

P.S. this is a really good demo.

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Andy