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Today, we explore: WebAssembly's second-class status, JavaScript streams reimagined for modern async patterns, and Cursor's internal workflows. Plus why traditional code review is breaking and how design systems constrain AI mistakes. | | |
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| Go from "we don't support SSO" to Enterprise Ready in a weekend ​Every B2B company hits the same inflection point — enterprise customers show up and they need SSO, directory sync, audit logs, and role-based access before they'll move forward. Most teams lose months building that infrastructure. It doesn't have to be that way.
With WorkOS you get all of it. One platform for auth, identity, and security. Infrastructure for teams that ship fast and stay fast.
OpenAI, Anthropic, Cursor, and Perplexity already chose WorkOS over building it themselves. |
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đź”– The Reading Room
Articles we have hand-picked for you: | | |
Why Is WebAssembly a Second-Class Language on the Web?
Despite significant language improvements since 2017, WebAssembly remains a second-class citizen on the web due to poor platform integration. Unlike JavaScript, WebAssembly cannot directly access Web APIs and requires cumbersome JavaScript glue code, creating a steep learning curve that limits adoption to power users and large companies. The WebAssembly Component Model could solve this by providing standardized, self-contained executables with native Web API support.
By Ryan Hunt →
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We Deserve a Better Streams API for JavaScript
The WHATWG Streams Standard has fundamental usability and performance issues that stem from design decisions made before async iteration existed in JavaScript. A new alternative approach built around async iterables demonstrates 2x to 120x faster performance across all major runtimes. The improvements come not from clever optimizations but from fundamentally different design choices that better leverage modern JavaScript features.
By James M Snell → | |
How Technical Support at Cursor Uses Cursor
​Cursor's technical support team uses their own product to handle over 75% of support interactions, achieving a 5-10x increase in engineer throughput. By integrating MCP servers with databases, logs, Slack, and ticketing platforms, support engineers collapse code, logs, and past conversations into single sessions. This unified approach eliminates the time spent searching across multiple tools for relevant information.
By Kody Fisher & Zach Hudson → | |
How to Kill the Code Review
​The exponential growth in both volume and size of code changes has made manual code review mathematically impossible. The solution is moving human checkpoints upstream to review specs, plans, and acceptance criteria rather than code itself. By Ankit Jain → | |
Expose Your Design System to LLMs
Vibe-coded prototypes fall apart after a few sessions as LLMs compound mistakes silently. A legible design system constrains the LLM at every decision point where it would otherwise guess: specs provide memory across sessions, the token layer eliminates fabricated values, and audits catch anything that slips through.
By Hardik Pandya → | | |
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đź”— 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: | | | |
Google Workspace CLI
Google has unofficially launched a new single CLI tool for all Google Workspace APIs (Drive, Gmail, Calendar, Sheets, etc.). It dynamically builds commands from Google's Discovery Service, outputs structured JSON, and includes 100+ AI agent skills with MCP server support. Learn more → |
| Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite
Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite is Google's cheapest Gemini 3 model, priced at $0.25/1M input tokens. It's 2.5x faster than 2.5 Flash, scores 86.9% on GPQA Diamond, and includes adjustable thinking levels for high-volume tasks like translation and content moderation.
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GPT‑5.3 Instant
GPT-5.3 Instant is OpenAI's new everyday ChatGPT model and aims to have fewer unnecessary refusals, better web-synthesized answers, and reduced hallucinations (up to 26.8%). Learn more → | |
txiki.js
txiki.js is a small, powerful JavaScript runtime built on QuickJS-ng and libuv, targeting modern ECMAScript with WinterTC compliance. It includes Web Platform APIs, TCP/UDP sockets, file I/O, an HTTP server, and supports compiling scripts into standalone executables. Learn more → |
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Go from "we don't support SSO" to Enterprise Ready in a weekend
​Every B2B company hits the same inflection point — enterprise customers show up and they need SSO, directory sync, audit logs, and role-based access before they'll move forward. Most teams lose months building that infrastructure. It doesn't have to be that way.
With WorkOS you get all of it. One platform for auth, identity, and security. Infrastructure for teams that ship fast and stay fast.
​OpenAI, Anthropic, Cursor, and Perplexity already chose WorkOS over building it themselves.
Build faster with WorkOS → |
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