5 Quick Links for Devs: Week 50, 2025

Using LLMs at Oxide

The Oxide team provides an in-depth examination of implementing large language models across their organization. Their exploration covers diverse applications including research assistance, code review capabilities, and debugging support, while also documenting problematic usage patterns to circumvent.

Building a Toast Component

Emil Kowalski walks through the development process behind Sonner, a widely-used toast notification component. The piece examines architectural and implementation decisions made during creation.

Related: Primer Toast Accessibility - Addresses why toast notifications currently represent a UX and accessibility concern in modern design.

FizzBuzz in CSS

A creative implementation of the classic programming exercise using CSS rather than traditional programming languages.

Opus 4.5 Overview

Mckay Wrigley shares observations after extended hands-on experience with Claude Opus 4.5, the newest state-of-the-art coding language model. The analysis acknowledges its capabilities alongside cost considerations.

12 Days CMD Challenge

A holiday-themed collection of progressive command-line challenges similar in spirit to Advent of Code, offering escalating difficulty levels throughout the December countdown.