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outier

Freelance Frontend Side Hustle - Up to $50/hour

Outier (backed by Scale AI) is offering remote freelance technical side gigs for frontend developers, paying up to $50 per hour with weekly payments.

You’ll simply need to select the correct responses to frontend questions, helping train AI to better explain and solve complex programming problems. Check it out here - spots are limited, so sign up soon.


Articles

Advanced TypeScript manipulation features for the real world

This article covers practical TypeScript techniques including keyof operator, mapped types, extends keyword tricks, and more.

Error.isError(): A Better Way to Check Error Types in JavaScript

Error.isError() is now available in newer browser versions - this article explains its use cases.

Leveraging Lighthouse audits to optimize web performance

Covers Lighthouse audit basics and provides simple optimization methods.

The ultimate JavaScript regex guide

Explains regex fundamentals and provides practical use cases.


Tools

Announcing Rolldown-Vite

Vite powered by Rolldown is finally live. Early adopters like GitLab have reported reducing build times from 2.5 minutes to 40 seconds while cutting memory usage by 100x.

ForesightJS

Open-source TS library that predicts user intent based on mouse movements and keyboard navigation, allowing actions (like prefetching) to trigger before actual hover or click events.

Tailwind-animations

Provides easy-to-use animations for TailwindCSS projects, like ready-to-use animate-slide-in-bottom.

Cap

A lightweight modern open-source CAPTCHA alternative that’s 250x smaller than hCaptcha.