The Collective #903: AI Predictions, New CSS Features, and Building Interactive Games

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Here’s a fresh roundup of the latest frontend news, links, and resources to inspire and inform you. Whether you're looking for new ideas or just something interesting, we hope you'll discover something exciting in this edition!

Happy exploring! 💙

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💻 Anon Code

A terminal-based AI coding tool that integrates with any model supporting the OpenAI-style API.

^{ai / terminal / tool}

🐻 A Bear Case: My Predictions Regarding AI Progress

Thane Ruthenis discusses his bearish predictions for AI progress, arguing that scaling current models like LLMs won't lead to AGI anytime soon.

^{ai / article / opinion}

🐹 Goravel

Goravel is a web application framework designed for Gophers, offering complete functionality and scalability, inspired by Laravel.

^{framework / go}

🧪 Suspicious Vial

Frank Reitberger's Three.js demo uses custom shaders and ping-pong buffers to create realistic fluid sloshing inside a glass-like vessel.

^{glsl / three-js}

🚫 Kill your Feeds

Tom Usher discusses how social media algorithms manipulate our attention and beliefs, urging readers to regain control over their online experience.

^{article / social-media}

🔄 Let the stagger experiments begin

New CSS features sibling-index() and sibling-count() reduce boilerplate and simplify staggered animations. Now available in Chrome Canary.

^{css / tutorial}

🤖 “Wait, not like that”: Free and open access in the age of generative AI

Molly White explores how AI companies exploit open knowledge, the risks to freely licensed content, and potential solutions to sustain the commons.

^{ai / opinion}

🔍 Powering Search With Astro Actions and Fuse.js

Bryan Robinson explores using Astro Actions and Fuse.js to add dynamic search to static sites while maintaining performance and flexibility.

^{astro / tutorial}

🎮 Bubbles

Bubbles is a new dependency-free game from the creator of Lander. Play, set high scores, and build custom levels with the builder tool here.

^{interactive-games / javascript}

📄 How to write exceptional documentation

A guide to writing effective developer documentation, covering quickstarts, tutorials, API references, and more. Focuses on clarity, usability, and iteration.

^{article / documentation}

🧩 A New Sudoku Layout With 81 Uniquely Shaped Cells

Cracked Sudoku introduces a new puzzle format with 81 uniquely shaped cells, replacing rows and columns with "runs".

^{game-development}

📐 The customizable select – Part one: history, trickery, and styling the select with CSS

A deep dive into the history and CSS-based customization of the <select> element, now supported in Chrome 134. Covers styling, accessibility, and progressive enhancement.

^{article / css / ui-components}

🏛️ Maquette

A digital maquette of the Farnsworth House using React Three Fiber and Theatre.js for animations. From a while ago—worth checking out. Source code here.

^{3d / react / three-js}

🖼️ Photo gallery with Scroll Driven Animation

A CSS-only demo by Adam Argyle showcasing view-timeline animations for grid items, applying scroll-triggered opacity, scaling, and rotation effects.

^css

🧠 The Cultural Divide between Mathematics and AI

A reflection on the contrasting values, priorities, and collaboration challenges between mathematicians and AI researchers, observed at JMM 2025.

^{ai / math / opinion}

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🤔 How Much Are LLMs Actually Boosting Real-World Programmer Productivity?

Thane Ruthenis questions whether LLMs truly boost programmer productivity, asking for concrete real-world impacts rather than vague claims of 5–10x gains.

^{ai / opinion / productivity}

💻 Hallucinations in code are the least dangerous form of LLM mistakes

Simon Willison argues that hallucinations in AI generated code are minor since they are easily caught when running the code, unlike misleading text errors.

^{ai / article}

⏳ Your Life in Weeks

A tool inspired by Tim Urban’s Wait But Why that visualizes your life as a grid of weeks, helping you track milestones and reflect on time.

^tool

🏎️ PolyTrack

PolyTrack 0.5.0 beta is out! A fast-paced, low-poly racing game inspired by TrackMania, featuring custom track building, time trials, and community sharing.

^{interactive-games}

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