I write a weekly newsletter for senior frontend engineers. The picks for this week:

- CSS-Tricks has a new owner and is independent again after 12 years. Geoff Graham made the announcement, and Mat Marquis wrote about what it looked like from inside DigitalOcean.

- Design systems should be fast by default: Den Odell opened the same 249-country dropdown in ten popular design systems. One opens in 61ms, another in 1,266ms.

- TanStack Redact: a smaller replacement for React and React DOM in the browser. Tanner Linsley says it cut a sample Vite app's client bundle by 70% without changing app code.

- Reylo by Colin McDonnell (creator of Zod): import a .sql file into TypeScript and get the query types from a live database, no codegen step.

Full edition with all the links: https://neciudan.dev/newsletter/34th-edition