October 2026

• two new additions to my toolbox: Zoxide, Superfile

• stop buttons triggering zoom when they’re double tapped

• the root scroller and how not to lose it

• new to the baseline: alpha() a more ergonomic way of for adding transparency to a color; progress() (+ explainer from Kevin Powell on YouTube)

• Butterick’s practical typography

• Deno is joining cloudflare and by deno they mean deno the company, where cloudflare is interested in their celld, an open source, self-hosted implementation of cloudflare’s durable objects

• State of devs 2026

• ViteConf 2026 talk from evan you, sharing his thoughts on the role of developer experience and developer tooling in the age of AI

• Element.getAnimations()

• Plan mode is dead

• The future of CSS

Notable releases:

• Claude Opus 5.5, Sonnet 5.5, and Haiku 5.5. Getting the most out of Opus 5.5 + Building with Sonnet 5.5
• Claude Code 2.1.287 adding mods
• GPT-6 Luna and GPT-6.1 Sol
• Gemini 4 (or this link? https://deepmind.google/models/gemini/)
• Java 27
• Node 26.10.0 with built-in debounce and throttle; Node 26.12.0 where the config file goes stable
• Nuxt 4.6
• OpenCode 2.0
• SvelteKit 3.0
• Vite+ 1.0
• Astro 7.4