The Replay (1/28/26): Anti-frameworkism, dev superpowers, and more

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Here’s what you’ll find in this week’s edition:

1/28/25

Anna Monus explores when frameworks are genuinely necessary, when native web APIs are enough, and how often we actually need a framework at all.

Michael Hladky, CEO of PushedBase, joins PodRocket to explain how CSS performance improvements like content-visibility, CSS containment, contain layout, and contain paint can dramatically outperform JavaScript virtual scrolling.

Ikeh Akinyemi ran an experiment to show why AI coding tools shift the real bottleneck to review.

How the web has changed in the past 12 months.

Why management is the new superpower in the age of agentic AI.

….and much more.

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