Reading list

• Save your braincells for later by scrolling right down to the three key take aways from this year’s Octoverse report, which studies how public and open source activity on GitHub shows how AI is expanding as the global developer community surges in size.

Design of the week

• Typography is a great differentiator in UI and web work in general, and heavily relies on developer skills. Now is as good a time as any to post this "Quick guide to web typography for developers".
• Don't think there's anything in particular happening here, but Teenage Engineering has to be mentioned every now and then. Plus, we're a little short on design links this week, and it's never wrong to point towards Svenne and the gäng.

Tech of the week

• This sick Three.js demo is, well, sick. This breakdown of what's happening is sick also.
• Make sure you type right, as some hugely popular JavaScript libraries are getting typosquatted. NPM packages such as Puppeteer is notoriously hard to spell correctly, and you might install malware if you get it wrong.
• Well that's just rude and completely uncalled for. The totally unimpressive fact that this guy at Microsoft shrunk a 178GB Javascript monorepo git size by 94%, is completely overshadowed by his statement that "folks in Europe can't even clone the repo due to it's size." That's just rude, man, and totally uncalled for. We can copy-paste as good as anyone. No more croissants for you, Mr. Creamer.
• Chrome version 131 is around the corner, and it'll give you more options for styling <details>.
• You're very near the end of our weekly list, and you're about to understand why. If you want to proceed, you'll have to find this article chronicling Next.js Journey with Caching somewhat interesting.
• Finally, you're now able to search through ChatGPT.