Programming News Today: Chrome 150 Drops text-fit, Gap Decorations & focusgroup – July 17, 2026

/* animatable zoom is new in Chrome 150 */
.badge { zoom: 1.5; transition: zoom 200ms ease; }

npm install -D typescript   # 7.0 ships a native tsc
npx tsc --checkers 8        # more type-checking workers on big repos

.grid {
  display: grid;
  gap: 1rem;
  row-rule: 1px solid #cbd5e1;
  column-rule: 1px dashed #cbd5e1;
}

textarea {
  field-sizing: content;
  max-block-size: 10lh;
}

import Link from "next/link";

<Link href="/dashboard" prefetch>Dashboard</Link>

await el.scrollIntoView({ behavior: 'smooth' });
highlight(el); // runs after the scroll completes

@font-face {
  font-family: Inter;
  src: url('/inter.woff2') integrity('sha256-abc123...');
}

SELECT version();  -- confirm 18.4 / 17.10 / 16.14 / 15.18 / 14.23

<div focusgroup="toolbar wrap" aria-label="Formatting">
  <button>Bold</button><button>Italic</button><button>Underline</button>
</div>

<button command="show-modal" commandfor="dlg">Open</button>
<dialog id="dlg">
  <button command="close" commandfor="dlg">Close</button>
</dialog>

<dialog id="d" closedby="any">Click outside or press Esc to close</dialog>

h1 { text-fit: grow consistent 200%; } /* enlarge up to 2x to fill the width */

.card {
  border: 4px solid transparent;
  background: linear-gradient(90deg, #f06, #48f) border-area;
}

.arrow { clip-path: polygon(round 6px, 0 0, 100% 50%, 0 100%); }

const meeting = Temporal.ZonedDateTime.from('2026-07-17T09:00[America/New_York]');
console.log(meeting.add({ hours: 2 }).toString());

const counts = new Map();
counts.getOrInsertComputed('a', () => 0);

import shader from './frag.glsl' with { type: 'text' };
console.log(typeof shader); // 'string'

npm install -D typescript
npx tsc --noEmit   # native speed

tsc --checkers 8       # more workers on big monorepos
tsc --singleThreaded  # disable parallelism to debug

npm install -D typescript@6   # keep 6.0 while validating 7.0

<Activity mode={tab === 'a' ? 'visible' : 'hidden'}>
  <PanelA />
</Activity>

npm i -D eslint-plugin-react-hooks@6

import { cacheSignal } from 'react';
await fetch(url, { signal: cacheSignal() });

pnpm dlx shadcn init            # Base UI by default
pnpm dlx shadcn init -b radix  # opt back into Radix

pnpm dlx shadcn@latest add @shadcn/typeset

pnpm dlx shadcn@latest add message bubble message-scroller

<div class="scrollbar-thin scrollbar-thumb-gray-500 scrollbar-track-gray-200 overflow-y-auto">...</div>

<div class="pbs-4 mbe-2 inline-size-full bg-mauve-200">Logical spacing</div>

// vite.config.js
import tailwindcss from '@tailwindcss/vite';
export default { plugins: [tailwindcss()] };

.btn-custom { color: color-contrast($brand); }

<span class="visually-hidden">Screen-reader only text</span>

<i class="bi bi-bluesky"></i>

node --experimental-import-text app.js

node -v            # verify >= 22.23.0 / 24.17.0 / 26.3.1
nvm install 24.18.0

nvm install --lts   # pulls the latest LTS (24.18.0)

npm install express@5.2.1

app.get("/u/:id", async (req, res) => {
  const u = await db.user(req.params.id); // a throw auto-forwards
  res.json(u);
});

app.get("/files/*splat", handler); // v5 wildcard syntax

SELECT VERSION();  -- expect 8.4.10 (LTS) or 9.7.1 (Innovation)

SET GLOBAL innodb_parallel_read_threads = 8;
CREATE INDEX idx_c ON large_table (c);

SELECT @@version_comment;  -- LTS 8.4 vs Innovation 9.x

<Link href="/reports" prefetch>Reports</Link>

curl https://nextjs.org/docs/app/getting-started/installation.md

npm i next@latest   # pin and watch the security channel

import { createVaporApp } from 'vue';
import App from './App.vue';
createVaporApp(App).mount('#app');

const count = signal(0);
const double = computed(() => count() * 2);
count.set(5); // double() === 10

SELECT version();  -- 18.4 / 17.10 / 16.14 / 15.18 / 14.23

const prisma = new PrismaClient({
  queryPlanCacheMaxSize: 0, // new in 7.8.0
});

import { defineRelations } from 'drizzle-orm';
export const relations = defineRelations(schema, (r) => ({
  users: { posts: r.many.posts() },
}));

select * from mongo.orders where status = 'shipped';  -- MongoDB FDW

# 8.8 adds INCREX for atomic windowed rate limiting
INCR requests:api   # classic counter (INCREX bundles limit + expiry)

db.coll.aggregate([
  { $map: { input: '$items', as: 'it', arrayIndexAs: 'idx',
            in: { pos: '$$idx', val: '$$it' } } }
]);

name = "World"
greeting = t"Hello {name}"   # a Template, not a str (PEP 750)

switch (obj) {
  case int i    -> System.out.println("int: " + i);
  case double d -> System.out.println("double: " + d);
  default       -> System.out.println("other");
}

#include <stdio.h>
int main(void) { printf("%d .. %d\n", _Minof(int), _Maxof(int)); }

import pandas as pd
s = pd.Series(["a", "b", "c"])
print(s.dtype)   # pandas 3.0: PyArrow-backed str

Deno.test("user shape", async (t) => {
  await t.assertSnapshot({ id: 1, name: "Ada" });
});

import torch
dev = torch.accelerator.current_accelerator()
print(dev, torch.accelerator.is_available())