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Google Announces Gemini 3 and It's Awesome

Introducing their most intelligent model yet. With state-of-the-art reasoning to help you learn, build, and plan anything. Definitely play around with it.

Error Handling in React with react-error-boundary

Aurora Scharff takes a detailed look at using react-error-boundary to prevent full app crashes when React components throw errors. She explains three ways to show fallback UIs, where to strategically place boundaries at route or feature levels, and how to handle async errors using the useErrorBoundary hook or React 19’s automatic error boundary integration with Actions and useTransition

imgui-react-runtime: React + Dear ImGui + Static Hermes

When the author teased a demo of this on X a few weeks ago, I wasn’t sure if it would get released, but here it is. A new way to put together native apps using React and the popular lightweight GUI library Dear ImGui. Always great to see more options in this space!

Time to Take the State of React 2025 Survey

Devographics’ popular annual survey of the React ecosystem is back. Submissions close on November 25 – next Tuesday. We’ll share the results as soon as they’re out, but you can enjoy 2024’s results here for now.

Tooltip Components Should Not Exist

Dominik challenges some common wisdom in his typically erudite fashion. Stand-alone tooltip components are the wrong abstraction when separated from the underlying UI features that use them. This thinking can apply to many other UI affordances too, so the broad idea is well worth considering.

Turbopack: A Better Way to Inline SVG in Next.js 16

Shows how to build a custom Turbopack loader to inline small SVG icons as data URIs while keeping them stylable via CSS

Build an AI Podcast SaaS w/ Next.js 16 + More!

Join me as I show you how to build an AI Podcast SaaS from scratch with Next.js 16, Inngest, Clerk, Stripe, OpenAI, CodeRabbit, Convex + More!

Steven Watkins Landing a Senior Web Dev Job with the help of the PAPAFAM!

Our Book Recommendation For You

The Psychology of Money by Morgan Housel

Money - investing, personal finance, and business decisions - is typically taught as a math-based field, where data and formulas tell us exactly what to do. But in the real world people don’t make financial decisions on a spreadsheet. They make them at the dinner table, or in a meeting room, where personal history, your own unique view of the world, ego, pride, marketing, and odd incentives are scrambled together...Read More