It's been over a year since ESLint v9.0.0 was released. In this post, we look back at what went right, what went wrong, and what we learned.

https://eslint.org/blog/2025/05/eslint-v9.0.0-retrospective/

React was frontend's introduction to Big Lies. The React team themselves were talking a book they didn't fully understand (else Pete Hunt would never have been able to get on stage and say "it works like game engine!" with a straight face), and were serially unwilling to tell the full story as they knew it.

So the implausible proposition that a system that *obviously* doubled up work and didn't defend against layout thrashing would somehow be "faster" was projected and uncritically accepted.

There it is! Finally, a real solution for how to style all of the HTML form controls using your own custom CSS to change anything — building on an interoperable UA set of defaults. It only took 30 years!

First will be the chance to style the “in-page” controls (the part embedded in the webpage), plus the popover for <select> (the part that appears “over top of” the page). Later we’ll do popovers for more things — like the date picker, etc.

Read about it here: https://drafts.csswg.org/css-forms/