I recently worked on a skeleton component that works with any layout automatically. You can render any real component with mock content, wrap it with a <Skeleton>, and any text, images, etc. get replaced with a shimmer effect. Waaaay easier than manually sizing rectangles. 😃

HUGE wins for Liquid themes now in Dev Preview!! 🆕 New Settings UI 🆕 Metaobject Settings 🆕 Dynamic Sources for Theme Blocks These are coming to GA soon, but we wanted to get these into your hands ASAP so we can iterate and polish based on your feedback. DMs are open!

Been working on the eng side of the New Settings UI, still more work to do but exciting to see what theme devs think of it during our Dev Preview!

These fireworks are a single draw call 🤯 No particles. Just an instanced shader in threejs. Here’s how 👇🧵

ghostty.org 👻

The new GraphQL JS docs site is live, find it at graphql-js.org! There are some lacking pieces here, specifically directives and abstract types as topics. Anything else you feel is missing, loop us in, give us feedback!

Introducing @preact/signals-utils and @preact/signals-react-utils - a collection of helpers that make working with signals easier! These utilities help you write cleaner, more declarative code while maintaining optimal performance.

Today I'm launching Muse It's an AI tool for music producers that lets you generate MIDI and synth presets, available for Ableton Live and on the web.

One more big announcement to wrap up the week. Horizon is now open source. github.com/Shopify/horizon Plus, 4.5k lines of cursor rules that you can steal for your own projects.

🔬 Signals and GraphQL Fragments While GraphQL fragments optimize data fetching, signals can optimize rendering. The future isn't just fetching less, it's re-rendering smarter.

🎉 Preact 11 beta is here! After years of thoughtful development, we're delivering major improvements with minimal breaking changes. Better hydration, forward refs by default, and performance upgrades - all while maintaining the stability you love about Preact X.

Today we launch an iconic new shader in Paper Yesterday's constraints, a portal to the past, what if the classics never faded? Come play with Halftone Dots. Drop in any image to create an iconic design. Design can feel like play again... link in the replies

Released a new markdown rendering library for Preact called preact-md. It currently uses the general unified remark/rehype by default and sanitises inputs.

The hidden cost of accessing signal.value in your components Most devs treat signals like useState, but there's a performance cliff... And a solution, why computed matters jovidecroock.com/blog/why-compu…

all my obsidian notes are now a living, digital garden 🌿🌸 each plant is a notes from a tag: older ones on the trunk, newer ones as leaves. i wanted to create a sense of tending your garden, so scrubbing the timeline lets you watch your notes grow chronologically.

What if your LLM could debug your application like this, well... Signals might be getting a vite-plugin really soon to allow this capability!

I've been working on my vision of giving LLM's better debugging power and this is my vision for it. jovidecroock.com/blog/llm-signa…

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