5 Quick Links for Devs: Week 52, 2025

· Jacob E. Dawson

This week: leaning on native HTML over JavaScript, a sobering look at near-autonomous coding from Karpathy, scaling LLMs across real codebases, a thoughtful case for conscious LLM skepticism, and a blunt take on agentic engineering without prompt theatrics.

5 Quick Links for Devs: Week 51, 2025

· Jacob E. Dawson

This week: a grounded Codex vs Claude Code comparison, Claude Code’s move into native LSP territory, the case for JSDoc as de facto TypeScript, why AI still can’t replace junior devs, and a pushback against AI-by-default software.

5 Quick Links for Devs: Week 50, 2025

· Jacob E. Dawson

This week: LLMs at Oxide, building toast components, FizzBuzz in CSS, Opus 4.5 overview, and a holiday CLI challenge.

5 Quick Links for Devs: Week 49, 2025

· Jacob E. Dawson

This week: CSS Subgrid layouts, Gemini CLI tips, the HTTP QUERY method, Advent of Code 2025, and Bun joining Anthropic.

5 Quick Links for Devs: Week 48, 2025

· Jacob E. Dawson

This week: Non-trivial vibing with AI, generative image quality, NPM supply-chain attacks, Claude Opus 4.5, and open-source maintenance.

5 Quick Links for Devs: Week 47, 2025

· Jacob E. Dawson

This week: Morphlex UI framework, Gemini 3 launch, Google's public code wiki, programming languages in the AI age, and interactive type reasoning.

5 Quick Links for Devs: Week 46, 2025

· Jacob E. Dawson

This week: Date picker best practices, framework performance showdown, Sass in 2025, building agents, and switching to Helix editor.

5 Quick Links for Devs: Week 45, 2025

· Jacob E. Dawson

This week: Git bisect mastery, Claude Code features, semantic HTML buttons, URL-based state, and when perfect code fails.

5 Quick Links for Devs: Week 44, 2025

· Jacob E. Dawson

This week: Prettier's origins, progressive image rendering, CSS without JavaScript, ShadCN themes, and essential HTML tags.

5 Quick Links for Devs: Week 43, 2025

· Jacob E. Dawson

This week: Claude Skills deep dive, Tauri for desktop apps, ECMAScript 2025 features, Dan Abramov on debugging, and syntax highlighting opinions.

5 Quick Links for Devs: Week 42, 2025

· Jacob E. Dawson

This week: Vite Plus unified toolchain, React's market dominance debate, ergonomic keyboards, documentation best practices, and AI in development workflows.