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What r/webdev is talking about this week

r/webdev has 3,330,704 members and 9 posts in the last 24 hours, with about 4.8 comments an hour right now. From the Redlisten index, refreshed daily.

3,330,704members
9posts in the last 24 hours, newest 4 h ago
4.8comments an hour right now, newest 5 h ago
375points on the top thread this week

Words coming up in r/webdev this week

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Top threads this week

  1. How we saved 100 terabytes of memory by optimizing 1.1.1.1’s DNS cache
    375 points25 comments7 d ago
  2. After months of job rejections, I spent 2 years building a Database Client. It just got added to Microsoft's Azure docs.

    After struggling to land a job in 2024, when the market was pretty rough, I decided to take a different route and build something real. My goal was simple: either build something genuinely useful...

    333 points37 comments4 d ago
  3. It's genuinely depressing

    I'm a full stack developer and I've been freelancing for years but this past year has been genuinely depressing to say the least the amount of clients i get just ghosting me, The amount of effort...

    262 points160 comments4 d ago
  4. Supabase removed my billing complaint from r/Supabase and told me to contact support — the exact support I was complaining about

    This whole Supabase situation somehow keeps getting worse. I originally posted about this in r/Supabase, but the mods removed the post and told me that billing/account problems should be handled...

    256 points20 comments3 d ago
  5. [Showoff Saturday] Claybound: A 2.5D platformer built in plain three.js with real-time deformable clay.

    Playable demo Here is how it works under the hood: The Clay Aesthetic: To get that tactile stop-motion look, I used rounded boxes and applied low-frequency noise to the vertices. I baked a normal...

    192 points48 comments5 d ago
  6. Back to hand-coding or am I wasting my time?

    I'm unsure how to progress as a software engineer. For context, I'm a frontend SWE with soon 2 YOE, trying to expand my knowledge to fullstack so I can develop E2E stuff. I acknowledge agentic...

    153 points189 comments3 d ago
  7. Made a 3D weather map in plain WebGL - ocean tides are calculated in the fragment shader

    I run a small tide times site and wanted to see the weather actually move, so I built this 3D weather map. Plain JS and WebGL, no three.js or map library. The tides are calculated right in the...

    146 points23 comments4 d ago
  8. Why can't SQLite handle more types?

    I'm sat here thinking it has to be a reason why it is so limited in types compared to something like postgres.

    123 points91 comments6 d ago
  9. PSA - SVGRepo Compromised

    For ages I've been using the website https://www.svgrepo.com/ as a great resource for free SVGs, but today when I visited, it gave me a fake Cloudflare verification that attempts to install some...

    99 points22 comments5 d ago
  10. Are side projects even valuable on a CV or portfolio anymore?

    So like many of you I'm sure, I'm starting to glaze over whenever someone shows me the latest thing they've built with the help of AI. Everyone seems to have an app they've fired up in an...

    94 points64 comments3 d ago

Newest posts

  1. Is AI actually that much faster than using a component library?
    1 points0 comments4 h ago
  2. What is the best way to make sure a cookie banner is properly enforcing consent?
    1 points0 comments7 h ago
  3. Possible Scam: Pearson VUE (Microsoft’s partner) asked for almost all of my card details
    1 points0 comments7 h ago
  4. Alternatives to AG-Grid?
    1 points0 comments7 h ago
  5. Update: It's genuinely (not?) depressing
    1 points0 comments7 h ago
  6. Is this a proper Tech Stack for my browser game idea?
    1 points0 comments11 h ago
  7. Web Vitals Inspector to meassure LCP, INP, CLS, FCP and TTFB
    1 points0 comments12 h ago
  8. I built a free developer tune-up app that clears 110+ caches, frees RAM without closing apps, and transfers your entire editor + AI agent setup to a new laptop.
    1 points0 comments14 h ago
  9. What does in-office work look like these days?
    1 points0 comments20 h ago
  10. Vanilla CSS component library?
    1 points0 comments1 d ago
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