WebDev Weekly - Issue 68

News

• Deno is joining Cloudflare

  deno.com

  The entire Deno team moves to Cloudflare: the runtime gets one year of maintenance releases before development ends, Deno Deploy shuts down in six months, and JSR migrates

• PHP News: Daily PHP Tutorials, Releases & Package News

  phpnews.net

  Eric Barnes (Laravel News) and Matt Stauffer (Tighten) launch a tracker for core PHP releases, open RFCs, packages and events, with a weekly email.

Tutorials

• The best way to use icons in Web UIs

  lea.verou.me

  Lea Verou makes the case for icons as pure-CSS design tokens via mask + style queries, Safari workarounds and a ready-made package included.

• Running Laravel's Scheduler on Multiple Servers

  laravel-news.com

  Laravel 13.35 adds Schedule::alwaysOnOneServer() to run every task once across servers, and a way for long scheduled commands to stop during a deploy.

• Building a Fancy Scrollspy Using Modern CSS

  blog.master.dev

  Explore how to create a scrollspy effect using only CSS, enhancing navigation without JavaScript.

Articles

• Redesigning source control at Anthropic

  anthropic.com

  Why git broke at 30,000 agent-driven merges a day and how their in-house system (Scion) handles 25M daily checkouts with ~200× less infrastructure - a preview of agent-scale dev infra.

• Findings from the $1M Vercel Sandbox challenge

  vercel.com

  Vercel’s $1M Sandbox challenge drew 1,285 reports, uncovered a Linux kernel zero day, and resulted in $242,000 in bug bounties payouts.

Sponsored

• HTML to Image API. Convert HTML, CSS and URLs to PNG or PDF

  html2img.com

  REST API that converts HTML, CSS or any URL into PNG images or PDF documents. Free tier, seven language guides, named templates for invoices, social cards and more.

AI

• Designing an AI Agent Without Designing “AI”

  tympanus.net

  How Bearplus designed and built the site for Heron, an AI agent for architects, around the visual language of technical drawings instead of the usual look of AI products.

Releases

• Shipping JPEG XL in Chrome

  developer.chrome.com

  JPEG XL offers better compression than JPEG, built-in HDR support, lossless JPEG transcoding, and more.

• Firefox 158 release notes

  developer.mozilla.org

  JPEG XL decoding on by default (now advertised in the default Accept header), CSS typed arithmetic (calc(100px / 20px) → 5), and WebTransport.getStats(). JPEG XL support is now usable cross-browser.

• Announcing Vite+ 1.0

  voidzero.dev

  Vite+ 1.0 is here. One CLI manages your runtime, package manager, and frontend toolchain. One MIT-licensed vp command for create/dev/test/check/build/run on Vite 8 + Vitest 5