Darryl Yeo 🛠️

@darrylyeo

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I was born a quarter century ago today. Taking this special time to do something I haven’t done since I went to college – write a personal homepage with plain old HTML + CSS. Excited to share it soon. Follow /darrylyeo if you’d like to be the first to know when it’s ready.

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LLMs are good at replicating state-of-the-art frontend code from a decade ago and it shows. Fifty lines of added imperative runtime code to implement a basic UI interaction that with a declarative, newly baseline browser built-in takes three. It's a real uphill battle. A gravity well pulling all my web apps toward verbosity, redundancy and mediocrity by default – because for better or worse, that’s the historically dominant software development culture represented in the training data, and which is now not-so-subtly being imposed on me. I can only hope an inflection point will come where specialized model training is actually cost-effective and we can force the LLMs to “unlearn” entire corpuses of old training data through exclusion, so we don't have to keep wasting precious context tokens correcting the few truly decent and up-to-date generalist models we currently have with oodles of docs embeddings and system prompt overrides. https://farcaster.xyz/polymutex.eth/0x43c25e74 https://farcaster.xyz/polymutex.eth/0x206cea70

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SvelteBench: test suite measuring how well the most popular LLMs perform at writing Svelte 5 code. (Claude Sonnet 4 is currently the best at it!) https://khromov.github.io/svelte-bench/benchmark-results-merged.html https://github.com/khromov/svelte-bench

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Map of GitHub: a graph visualization of 690,000+ GitHub repositories clustered by accounts that have them starred in common. Whoa. https://anvaka.github.io/map-of-github/ https://github.com/anvaka/map-of-github

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Happy 249th for those that celebrate 🇺🇸

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Forkcast: all features coming to core Ethereum in future hard fork upgrades https://forkcast.org

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“The Bull Case for $ETH: Digital Oil, Store of Value, and Global Reserve Asset for the Digital Economy” https://ethdigitaloil.com

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ok cracker. (Thanks @earth2travis for the nomination!)

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Yet another AI-assisted coding agent for you to try – ask @mcbain for some free ampcode.com credits!

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“CSS isn’t a programming language” https://farcaster.xyz/darrylyeo/0x51ee5933 https://farcaster.xyz/darrylyeo/0xec257ac7

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Practical examples of the CSS `if()` function used with `style()` queries, `@container` queries, CSS variables and the new `attr()` function. (You won’t be needing Tailwind pretty soon... if only Firefox and Safari would just ship these things faster!) https://youtu.be/mvgY3GvcSCo https://youtu.be/fTdqR9ZmHHU

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The CSS `attr()` function will soon be upgraded to read values directly from HTML attributes using the CSSOM type system. Class names, inline `style` attributes, inherited CSS variables and discrete `data-*` attribute values will no longer be your only entry points for specifying CSS style variants in your HTML templates. https://youtu.be/WcNWf6edIcc https://developer.chrome.com/blog/advanced-attr https://caniuse.com/css3-attr https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/attr

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“What Every React Developer Should Know About Signals” – Ryan Carniato (creator of Solid.js) https://youtu.be/VgGl9i-OBBI

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“Build in a way that accomplishes particular properties”

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The WAI-ARIA accessibility tree is underrated, and it’s why web browser engines are still the best form factor for any serious multi-modal software application IMO. Also why it’s absolutely crucial to rely on semantic HTML elements and built-in browser behaviors, instead of replicating everything with `<div>`s and JavaScript and smoke and mirrors (which many site-builders and vibe-coding tools are prone to perpetuate). https://web.dev/articles/the-accessibility-tree https://developer.chrome.com/blog/full-accessibility-tree/ https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Glossary/Accessibility_tree

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The Zed IDE is really growing on me. Starts up super fast, editors and terminal tabs tile smoothly, keyboard shortcuts are almost one-to-one with VSCode / Cursor, and MCP servers / LLM providers are just a single settings panel away. No extensions to install, config files to edit or environment variables scattered all over your project directories – just turn it on or paste an API key and it’s ready to use. https://zed.dev

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Model Context Protocol, explained by CJ from Syntax: https://youtu.be/1FqiNnOsrgM

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