Evan You's Rolldown-Vite promises game-changing performance, boasting build speeds up to 16 times faster and memory usage reduced by 100 times. Safari's latest updates bring sleek new features like SVG icons and enhanced web app capabilities. The discussion also highlights Dia, an AI-driven browser that integrates productivity tools, making it a potential workhorse for users. Finally, intriguing conversations weave through dystopian tales in film, action-packed sequences, and reflections on community interactions in tech.
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Rolldown-Vite: Massive Performance Boost
Rolldown-Vite, a Rust-based drop-in replacement for Vite, drastically speeds up production build times by 3 to 16 times.
It also reduces memory usage by up to 100 times, offering huge performance gains with easy adoption.
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Safari 26 Enables Scroll Animations
Safari 26 beta introduces scroll-driven animations with CSS, enabling smoother, hardware-accelerated effects without JavaScript.
This feature is supported in Chrome and partially in Firefox, and improves animation performance and control.
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Beware Safari’s Web App Checkbox
When adding web apps to iOS or iPadOS home screens, expect them to open in standalone web app mode by default.
Be cautious with the confusing "open as web app" checkbox, as it affects app behavior and usability.
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We first reported on Evan You’s company void0 back in October, 2024, and now Evan and co are making good on their promise to rework the entire JS toolchain from the ground up with the release of Rolldown-Vite. The new package is a drop-in replacement for the Vite bundler we all know and love, with benefits like production build time reductions of up to 16x and memory usage decreases of up to 100x. Replacement is easy and the perf gains are real. Try it today.
Apple just held WWDC25 and announced big updates in Safari 26 beta. Favicons get replaced with SVG icons, any website can be a web app on iOS and iPadOS, there’s a brand new HTML <model> element for visionOS, CSS anchor positioning for popovers is supported as well as scroll-driven animations, and much more. Suffice it to say, Safari’s got some slick new features under the hood. The jury is still very much out on the gooey, glassmorphic UI design that Apple also unveiled at WWDC, however.
The Browser Company, who made the niche, but well liked Arc browser, has been working on a new AI-first browser called Dia, and this week it’s available early access for Arc Members. At first glance Dia feels similar to other “agentic” browsers, giving users a chat input and the ability to chat about content in tabs or links, but it also shows off skills like connecting to calendars to schedule meetings or composing text that can be inserted into emails. We’ll report back after we’ve had a chance to test Dia out for a bit.
Chapter markers:
1:00 - void0’s Rolldown-Vite
5:52 - Safari 26 beta
21:26 - Dia, the new AI-browser from The Browser Company
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