5 Quick Links for Devs: Week 2, 2026

Web Development is Fun Again

I have to agree with Mattias here, at some point along the way the amount of boilerplate and connection required to get a web app off the ground became almost unbearable, and certainly stopped me from experimenting with silly little side projects as much as I would have liked to - the idea of dealing with all of the dependencies and bugs would just prove to be too much for a lazy Sunday. Agentic coding tools have flipped that around for me, with that little side project suddenly becoming something you can try in an afternoon while focusing on the 'why' more than the 'what'.

Experiments with Ableton MCP

I love seeing devs experimenting with the new technology we have available, and as an amateur music producer this was a very cool side mission as John Hurliman used Claude Code (via MCP) to interact with the Ableton DAW and create a workflow to automate some analysis and production and then create a music mashup. The idea of 'giving the LLM ears' is wild.

Related: Music Flamingo

How Browsers Work

This is a great site for learning how browsers work behind the scenes - you get an interactive guide through everything from HTTP requests to DOM rendering. While we don't often need to work at such a low level, it's very helpful to understand the steps that are happening in the background!

My LLM Coding Workflow Going Into 2026 

Addy Osmani, a longtime Google engineer goes over his recommended workflow for agentic coding leading into 2026. A common suggestion I've noticed is that agentic coding is not just 'spray and pray' or true 'vibe coding' - what we have available with these tools is a capable, highly literally colleague with encyclopedic coding knowledge. Our jobs as developers moving forward is increasingly going to be in the realm of architecture design, spec writing, technical communication and planning.

Related: Claude / Codex Skills Repo

How I browse the web in 2026

Bastian Gruber writes a time capsule for his future self, describing how he browses the web in 2026. I like this post since it shares a bunch of tools that I haven't tried out, including extensions for passwords and privacy, as well as tools for saving and curating content. 
Related: News Minimalist