[June 2025] Web Developer Monthly Newsletter 💻🚀

Welcome to the 84th issue of Web Developer Monthly!

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The quick version: I curate and share the most important articles, news, resources, podcasts, and videos from the world of web and software development.

Think the Pareto Principle (80/20 rule) meeting the programming world. I give you the 20% that will get you 80% of the results.

If you're a long time reader, welcome back old friend.

Alright, let's not waste any valuable time and jump right into this month's updates.

Here's what you missed in June 2025 as a Web Developer…

Are You Nuts? 🥜

My AI Skeptic Friends Are All Nuts

This is worth a read. I like and agree with one of the comments made on this article:

I think this article is pretty spot on — it articulates something I’ve come to appreciate about LLM-assisted coding over the past few months.

I started out very sceptical. When Claude Code landed, I got completely seduced — borderline addicted, slot machine-style — by what initially felt like a superpower. Then I actually read the code. It was shockingly bad. I swung back hard to my earlier scepticism, probably even more entrenched than before.

Then something shifted. I started experimenting. I stopped giving it orders and began using it more like a virtual rubber duck. That made a huge difference.

It’s still absolute rubbish if you just let it run wild, which is why I think “vibe coding” is basically just “vibe debt” — because it just doesn’t do what most (possibly uninformed) people think it does.

But if you treat it as a collaborator — more like an idiot savant with a massive brain but no instinct or nous — or better yet, as a mech suit that needs firm control — then something interesting happens.

MCP Eats The World 🍩

2 things you need to read this month about MCP - the hypest of hype technologies out right now:

WebStatus.dev Update 🤸

The webstatus.dev dashboard now covers over 1000 web platform features which means almost 100% of all features on the web. The cool part is that you can now see not just if a feature is supported on the browser, but how its usage is trending over time. Go check it out if you're a web developer.

React News 💎

React... it's still mostly everyone's favourite library/framework. What crazy things have they been up to?

I would say the last few years of React has seen a lot of community confusion and divide as capitalist drive (I'm looking at you Vercel/NextJS) has clouded the once loved frontend library/framework. In this article: The State of React and the Community in 2025, you'll learn some of the ups and downs of react and its community lately.
React Native 0.80 is here - React 19.1, JS API Changes, Freezing Legacy Arch and much more.

Rolldown Powered Vite 🪇

New announcement came out to try out the Rolldown-powered (a Rust-based next-generation bundler) Vite today by using the rolldown-vite package instead of the default vite package. It is a drop-in replacement, as Rolldown will become the default bundler for Vite in the future. Switching should reduce your build time, especially for larger projects. If you like trying out new stuff, this is a good one to try and be extra hip with the trends.

ECMAScript 2025 is Here 🤹

On 25 June 2025, the 129th Ecma General Assembly approved the ECMAScript 2025 language specification, which means that it’s officially a standard now. Here is what you need to know.

Fun Weekend Project 🎪

Check out odyc.js - a small javascript library that lets you code video games even without programming experience. This is a good way to spend your weekend.

A Free JavaScript Book 📔

Here is the latest version of a free and popular JavaScript book Exploring JavaScript. Or you can just take our ZTM course and be an all star.

Ps here is an update about the JavaScript trademark. Same old, same old.

ChatGPT Makes You Dummer 🔬

No, seriously. They actually performed a study and a scientific paper was released on how ChatGPT usage lowers ones ability to be a critical thinker. Over four months, LLM users consistently underperformed at neural, linguistic, and behavioral levels. These results raise concerns about the long-term educational implications of LLM reliance and underscore the need for deeper inquiry into AI's role in learning.

Best Time For Software Developer? 🎡

This is an interesting take and one I tend to agree with. Be fearful when others are greedy, be greedy when others are fearful. Now might be the best time to learn software development

Self-Aware Smol Brained 🧌

This article is amazing. It's collection of thoughts on software development gathered by a grug brain developer: A layman's guide to thinking like the self-aware smol brained...is free country sort of and end of day not really matter too much, but grug hope you fun reading and maybe learn from many, many mistake grug make over long program life.

New Libraries and Tools 🗿

There are a ton of shiny new libraries and tools every month which is why I have this dedicated section for them...

Oxlint v1.0 has been released! With a 50~100x performance improvement over ESLint, support for over 500 ESLint rules, and usage in major companies like Shopify, Airbnb, and Mercedes-Benz, will this replace ESLint?
Vite 7.0 is out!

News Around the World 🗺

Honda Conducts Successful Launch and Landing Test of Experimental Reusable Rocket. Check out the video.
Billions of login credentials have been leaked online from pretty much all major platforms. This story is ongoing as they still do not know the extent of this leak.

Big Tech News aka AI News 🏢

Apple had their yearly marketing conference to show off the latest news. Although they seem to be lagging behind the AI trend with the other big companies, they have made some big announcements for developers that is worth checking out. Apple is also in talks to potentially acquire Perpexity AI.
Mistral announced their first Reasoning model: Magistral
Meta went on a big spending spree this month as they seem to be falling behind on the LLM race with their latest model release that was a disappointment. So they went ahead and are finalizing $15 billion deal for Scale AI stake. Oh but, don't worry, Meta is still doing classic meta things.
Did you know that the fastest growing startup of all time is one you've never heard of? Crazy how much money is going into this space.
Google released Gemini CLI - an open source AI agent for your terminal. Between this and Claude Code, I think these are the top 2 contenders.
Exciting news out of Anthropic: This month they introduced the ability to build, host, and share interactive AI-powered apps directly in the Claude app. Now developers can iterate faster on their AI apps without worrying about the complexity and cost of scaling for a growing audience.

Completely useless to your career but still great 🙃

A tetrahedron is the simplest Platonic solid. Mathematicians have now made one that’s stable only on one side, confirming a decades-old conjecture. Check out the video if none of that made sense.. it's cooler than it reads.

Best Resource of the Month ✅

How do you keep up with all these AI updates coming out almost every day? The best resource of the month will show you the latest updates in the past 6 months with a cool little trick on how you can test out new LLMs as they come out... it might surprise you how effective this little trick is.

This is a must read for everyone from one of my favourite authors: The last six months in LLMs, illustrated by pelicans on bicycles

Once you are done with the above, this video is worth the watch and has made the rounds this month. I will admit I do not agree with the software v1, v2, v3 logic, but the talk itself is interesting.

Trick of the Month 🌗

Tux Racer JS is a modern browser-based port of the classic Extreme Tux Racer! It let's you play Tux Racer directly in your browser - also on mobile!
Airpass - Easily overcome wifi time limits.

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