Ilya Amursky

Ilya Amursky

Dev weekly digest: Copilot grounded, npm under siege, and the toolchain keeps getting faster

Dev weekly digest: Copilot grounded, npm under siege, and the toolchain keeps getting faster

GitHub freezes Copilot signups over agentic AI costs, axios npm compromise steals dev secrets, TypeScript 6.0 ships as the last JS-based compiler, Vite 8 goes 10-30x faster with Rolldown, Compose 1.11 adds Grid API, and CSS gets native mixins.

Dev weekly digest: RSC goes rogue, MDN dumps React, and GitHub finally stacks PRs

Dev weekly digest: RSC goes rogue, MDN dumps React, and GitHub finally stacks PRs

TanStack ships experimental RSC, a critical React DoS vulnerability forces emergency patches, MDN rebuilds without React, GitHub launches stacked PRs, and Bun gets a built-in headless browser.

AI weekly digest: The Model Wars Escalate

AI weekly digest: The Model Wars Escalate

Opus 4.7 tops benchmarks, OpenAI open-sources gpt-oss-120b, GPT-Rosalind targets drug discovery, Gemma 4 launches under Apache 2.0, and the Mythos saga pulls in the White House. The biggest model-drop week of 2026.

Dev weekly digest: Supply chains under siege, animations unchained, and Cloudflare takes on WordPress

Dev weekly digest: Supply chains under siege, animations unchained, and Cloudflare takes on WordPress

North Korean hackers hit Axios and hunt more npm maintainers. React Native 0.85 ships a shared animation backend. Cloudflare launches EmDash, a TypeScript CMS taking on WordPress. Google proposes JSIR to reshape JS tooling. Plus MUI 9, Turborepo 2.9, and HTML lazy media.

AI weekly digest: The Model Too Dangerous to Ship

AI weekly digest: The Model Too Dangerous to Ship

Anthropic revealed Claude Mythos Preview but won't ship it — too good at finding zero-days. Meta launched Muse Spark, Z.ai open-sourced a 744B coding model under MIT, and OpenAI added a $100 ChatGPT tier.

How I built a typing trainer that practices what you actually mistype

How I built a typing trainer that practices what you actually mistype

Most typing trainers give you random words. KeyDown tracks the specific character sequences where you make mistakes and generates practice text weighted toward those weak spots. Here's how the adaptive engine works under the hood.

Two hooks that fixed how I handle server state in React

Two hooks that fixed how I handle server state in React

A stable callback ref and a three-way state fallback. Two small custom hooks I extracted from a typing trainer app to stop fighting React's render cycle.