Styling the Native <select> with appearance: base-select
CSS can finally style a real select, picker and all. The opt-in also takes over the phone's own picker, so the job is scoping it to the devices where your design is the better one.
Tagged TypeScript
How to Choose a Frontend Technology for the Long Term
A practical way to evaluate a frontend technology as a long-term commitment, from how much of your app it takes over to what replacing it would cost, with my own decision to build on Lit as the example.
The Brief #26.29 · GPT-5.6 benchmarks, Fable 5 to July 19, TypeScript 7, npm 12
GPT-5.6 lands with first benchmarks one point behind Fable 5 at a third of the cost, Anthropic extends Fable 5 on paid plans to July 19, Grok 4.5 ships the same week its CLI is caught uploading whole repos, TypeScript 7.0 goes native without a stable API, and npm 12 stops running install scripts by default.
A Date Is Not a Day
Build an event-time component with Temporal and learn why "the same calendar day" is a different question in every time zone, and why an instant, a calendar date, and a duration are different review questions.
The Brief #26.26 · TypeScript 7.0 goes native, Firefox 152, scroll-triggered CSS
TypeScript's Go compiler hits RC, Firefox 152 ships field-sizing, Chrome adds scroll-triggered animations, and ariaNotify lands in the ARIA spec. A platform-heavy week.