Web technologies I wouldn’t use in new projects…
And the modern alternatives I’d recommend instead:
Moment.js → Day.js
Lodash → es-toolkit
Bootstrap → Flowbite
jQuery → DOM + Fetch
EJS / Handlebars → Astro
Styled Components → Tailwind
Selenium → Playwright or Cypress
Redux → Zustand or TanStack Store
SASS → CSS Modules with PostCSS
Webpack → Vite, Rspack, or Turbopack
Font Awesome → SVG sprites (Lucide)
Karma/Mocha → Vitest / Jest + Testing Library
Create React App → Vite, Next.js, TanStack Start
If I already had a project using these technologies, I wouldn’t replace them. Stick with what you have — they work, they’re battle-tested, and they won’t break anytime soon.
But if I were starting a brand-new project today, I’d go with modern tools that have active communities and solid long-term support.
The best authentication library for your website just got an update with exciting new features:
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Every day, hardware gets better but software gets worse.
Microsoft admits that File Explorer in Windows 11 is slow. The solution ?
They're going to preload it in the background so it seems faster when you open it.
I miss the days when we wrote better code that truly made the most of what our machines could do.
Microsoft admits File Explorer is slow in Windows 11, and it’s going to preload it in the background to help improve launch performance.
“This shouldn’t be visible to you, outside of File Explorer hopefully launching faster when you need to use it,” Microsoft confirmed.
If you don’t want Windows 11 to preload File Explorer, you can uncheck the option called “Enable window preloading for faster launch times” in File Explorer’s Folder Options under View.
File Explorer is still snappy on Windows 10, but the modernized Windows 11 version also brought slower performance.
This change is rolling out to Windows Insiders.
The Best Algorithms in My Opinion
① Sorting: Efficiently organizes data
② Dijkstra: Finds the shortest path
③ Transformers: Understand language
④ Link Analysis: Ranks web pages
⑤ RSA: Encrypts messages securely
⑥ Factorization: Breaks numbers into primes
⑦ CNN: Recognizes images
⑧ Huffman: Compresses data
⑨ SHA: Performs data hashing