Remote Desktop Connection (RDP) becomes extremely slow after installing “Intel Smart Connect Technology” update

#​759 — October 31, 2025 Read on the Web JavaScript Weekly Directives and the Platform Boundary — First there was the “use strict” directive to opt in to strict mode in JavaScript, but now you’ll encounter use client, use server, React’s new use no memo, and more, and they’re not standard JS features at all.

#​598 — October 28, 2025 Read on the Web Awesome Node: Over 500 Curated Packages, Resources and Links — It’s been more than four years since we linked to Sindre’s handy resource, but it continues to get updates and tweaks (and, if you want, you can contribute a submission too – though the bar is

#​758 — October 24, 2025 Read on the Web JavaScript Weekly Vitest 4.0 Released: The Vite-Native Testing Framework — The Vite-powered, Jest-compatible testing framework introduces visual regression testing, makes its ‘Browser Mode’ stable (for running tests in a browser directly), adds Playwright Traces support, and more. Still unsure? You can compare it with other test

#​597 — October 21, 2025 Read on the Web Node.js v25.0.0 (Current) Released — The latest cutting edge version of Node has arrived with Web Storage enabled by default, JSON.stringify perf improvements, a new –allow-net option in the permission model, built-in Uint8Array base64/hex conversion, and WebAssembly and JIT optimizations. As shown in the diagram above, this

#​757 — October 17, 2025 Read on the Web JavaScript Weekly Bun 1.3: The Full-Stack JavaScript Runtime — Arriving a few hours after last week’s issue (natch!) Bun 1.3 remains the big news of the past week. Bun is a performance and DX-focused JavaScriptCore-powered runtime which, with v1.3, balances being a drop-in Node.js replacement with

#​596 — October 14, 2025 Read on the Web 📂 A Modern Guide to Reading and Writing Files in Node — A comprehensive guide to various methods for working with files, from promise-based methods through to working with streams, processing files concurrently, using file handles, and memory-efficient techniques. Luciano Mammino A Way to Integrate Python ASGI with Node.js