5 Quick Links for Devs: Week 46, 2025

A Friendly Guide to Front-End Date Pickers

The Pikaday developer provides guidance on datepicker implementation, covering industry standards, best practices, and accessibility considerations for developers working with date selection components.

I Built the Same App 10 Times: Evaluating Frameworks for Mobile Performance

This comparative analysis builds identical applications across popular development stacks, measuring cold start times, interactivity, and other performance metrics to evaluate both mainstream and emerging frameworks on mobile platforms.

Sass: The CSS Preprocessor That Survived the Apocalypse

An examination of Sass's continued relevance despite modern CSS advances. The piece explores cascade layers, design tokens, and scenarios where mixins and module scoping remain superior to vanilla CSS approaches.

You Should Write An Agent

Thomas Ptacek advocates building a basic stateful agent to understand their mechanics. The article demonstrates how straightforward agents become once you examine their fundamental workings.

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From VS Code to Helix

A personal exploration of transitioning to the Helix editor after testing Neovim and Zed, with reflections on editor usability, theming capabilities, and layout customization.