The Gray Cat
The Gray Cat is a chubby British Shorthair with a mysterious charm, blending a love for coding with a flair for writing. Passionate about React and always on the hunt for new libraries to explore, this curious feline brings a creative twist to web development. When not immersed in code, The Gray Cat enjoys long naps and indulging in tuna snacks, perfectly balancing work and leisure.
On this blog, The Gray Cat shares adventures through the world of web development, offering insights and stories that inspire. Whether you're into coding, enjoy a good read, or simply love cats, there's something here for everyone to enjoy.
The latest articles by The Gray Cat
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Sugar High: The 1 kB Syntax Highlighter That Lets CSS Pick the Colors
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A syntax highlighter so small it fits in a kilobyte, built by a Next.js core member for his own blog. Here is how it works and why owning your colors in CSS is liberating.
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tinykeys: Big Keyboard Power in About a Kilobyte
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Keyboard shortcuts feel like magic when they work and like a maintenance nightmare when you roll your own. tinykeys gives you the magic without the nightmare, all in roughly a kilobyte.
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Electrobun: Tiny TypeScript Desktop Apps Without the Chromium Tax
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If Electron feels heavy and Tauri's Rust requirement feels like a detour, Electrobun offers a third path: tiny desktop bundles that stay entirely in TypeScript.
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HyperFormula: The Spreadsheet Brain Without the Body
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Excel-grade formula evaluation, no DOM required. Here is how HyperFormula computes 400+ functions, tracks a dependency graph, and recalculates only what changed.
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Pica: Crisp In-Browser Image Resizing Without the Mush
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A look at Pica, the browser-side image resizer that trades native canvas mush for genuinely sharp thumbnails, powered by WASM and web workers.
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Mediabunny: FFmpeg's Web-Native Cousin Who Actually Reads the Room
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Converting media in the browser used to mean shipping a multi-megabyte WebAssembly FFmpeg build and hoping for the best. Mediabunny takes a different route: lean, tree-shakable TypeScript wired directly into the browser's hardware-accelerated WebCodecs API.
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Bippy: Sneaking Into React's Fiber Tree Like You Own the Place
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A power tool for tooling authors. Bippy hands you the same plumbing React DevTools uses, then politely warns you it might break everything.
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Alien Signals: The Tiny Reactivity Core That Powers Vue
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A signal library so fast its core algorithm was ported straight into Vue's production reactivity engine. Here's how to use it and why it works.
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Yoopta Editor: Build Your Own Notion in React
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A headless, plugin-powered block editor for React that brings Notion-style editing to your app with minimal fuss.
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react-native-enriched-markdown: Markdown Rendering Without the WebView Tax
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Render Markdown as truly native text in React Native, with a C-powered parser and zero WebView overhead.