You can read it everywhere on X - everbody's a software developer now. There's no future for SaaS companies. Is that true?
It's a new year - time for a new tech stack! Well, not really. But there ARE a couple of libraries and technologies I'm currently using about which I'm really quite excited!
TailwindCSS is in HUGE financial problems. The very thing that loves it (AI) may be the thing killing it. It's really a dire situation.
AI has a huge impact on ... everything? Definitely also on how we learn things. And IF we learn things at all.
And then there's the big question about WHAT to learn as a web dev in world where AI can already do so much!
2025 has been a year full of AI hype BUT also of real improvements of AI models and tools. And the job market, especially for junior devs, has been ... rough, to put it mildly.
How will things change in 2026?
Another year's over. You know what that means! Time for a look back. MY look back in this case.
And it's been quite a year. In good and bad ways.
MCP has been all the hype for the last 1.5 years. Kind of, at least.
But you can safely ignore it as a developer. Agent Skills are the way better alternative.
Coursera buys Udemy. Or they merge - depending on how you look at it.
Either way, I have some initial thoughts about it.
We had multiple React-related severe security vulnerabilities within a few weeks. Did React get too complex? Is the client-server complexity eating into security?
Remember 2016-2022? The golden era of coding tutorials? They still exist today! But they changed. And they're getting less views. Let's talk about it.