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Dive into browser internals with interactive examples, see how workflow tools conquered JavaScript in 2025 and newcomers dethroned React Native, learn why most React apps don't need state libraries, and benchmark Python operations from attribute reads to JSON parsing speeds. | | |
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| How to stop bots from abusing free trials
Free trials help AI apps grow, but bots and fake accounts exploit them. They steal tokens, burn compute, and disrupt real users.
Cursor, the fast-growing AI code assistant, uses WorkOS Radar to detect and stop abuse in real time. With device fingerprinting and behavioral signals, Radar blocks fraud before it reaches your app. |
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🔖 The Reading Room
Articles we have hand-picked for you: | | |
How Browsers Work
A new open-source guide teaches how browsers work through tiny interactive examples instead of dense technical documentation. Users can play with URL parsing, watch HTTP requests travel between client and server, and see DOM trees build in real-time.
By Dmytro Krasun → | |
2025 JavaScript Rising Stars
Workflow automation tools dominated the 2025 JavaScript landscape, with n8n's 112k+ star growth leading the charge. For the first time in a decade, React Native and Expo were dethroned from the top mobile spots by newcomers Valdi (Snap) and Lynx (ByteDance). React maintained its front-end framework crown while Bun topped the tooling category and was acquired by Anthropic.
By Michael Rambeau → | |
Total monthly number of StackOverflow questions over time
StackOverflow has been a staple resource for many years but is in decline since 2017 from strict moderation, Reddit's popularity and now LLMs already having scraped its past data. From Hacker News Thread → | |
React State Management in 2025: What You Actually Need
Most React apps don't need dedicated state management libraries. By breaking state into distinct concerns (remote data, URL params, local state, and shared state), developers can solve 90% of problems with specialized tools. TanStack Query handles remote state, nuqs manages URL params, and useState covers local needs, leaving only minimal shared state requiring libraries like Zustand.
By Nadia Makarevich → | |
Python Numbers Every Programmer Should Know
From attribute reads taking just 14 nanoseconds to FastAPI being 2x faster than Django, this guide reveals the real costs of common operations. The data shows orjson is 8x faster than standard JSON, slots saves 30% memory, and dict lookups dramatically outperform list searches by 200x for 1,000 items.
By Michael Kennedy → | | |
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🔗 The Link Lounge Unordered finds from around the web: Find something cool? You can send us links to feature here via email. |
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🧰 The Toolbox
Tools and products we're excited about today: | | | |
sqlnet.cc
Learn SQL by practice, interactive SQL playground. Learn more → | |
Bruno v3
Bruno v3 released with Workspaces, YAML support, and Inbuilt Terminal. It's a local-only, Git-native API client that never syncs data to cloud. Open-source Postman alternative for developers. Learn more → | |
zitadel
zitadel is an open-source identity infrastructure platform. It provides multi-tenant authentication and authorization for B2B use cases. Supports OpenID Connect, OAuth2, SAML2, passkeys, and SSO. Available self-hosted or as cloud SaaS. Learn more → | |
sea-query
sea-query is a dynamic SQL query builder for Rust. It supports MySQL, Postgres, and SQLite. Key features include parameter bindings, dynamic queries, and cross-database compatibility. Learn more → |
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How to stop bots from abusing free trials
Free trials help AI apps grow, but bots and fake accounts exploit them. They steal tokens, burn compute, and disrupt real users.
Cursor, the fast-growing AI code assistant, uses WorkOS Radar to detect and stop abuse in real time. With device fingerprinting and behavioral signals, Radar blocks fraud before it reaches your app.
Protect your app today → |
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