--- title: Best Awesome posts — May 2026 | daily.dev description: The most upvoted Awesome posts from May 2026, curated by the daily.dev community. canonical: https://daily.dev/sources/awesome-coding/best-of/2026/05 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:url: https://daily.dev/sources/awesome-coding/best-of/2026/05 og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Best Awesome posts — May 2026 | daily.dev og:description: The most upvoted Awesome posts from May 2026, curated by the daily.dev community. og:image: https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--VAY5ToZt--/f_auto/v1724209435/public/daily.dev%20-%20open%20graph --- # Best of Awesome — May 2026 1. 1 [](https://daily.dev/posts/just-slow-the-f-down--xwa4prlgv "Just slow the F down...") Video Awesome · 17w Just slow the F down... A candid personal reflection on the current state of software development amid the AI hype cycle. The author shares concerns about the industry's obsession with speed and code volume over quality, citing real consequences like AI-driven outages and agents dropping production databases. Key advice for developers: slow down on doomscrolling AI news, keep coding skills sharp to avoid skill atrophy from over-relying on LLM code generation, and avoid excessive stress about an uncertain future. Also includes behind-the-scenes data showing technical YouTube content underperforming compared to general commentary, and notes that conflicting signals (layoffs vs. Amazon hiring 11,000 engineers, AI costs exceeding human labor costs) make predictions impossible. 64 7 2. 2 [](https://daily.dev/posts/one-man-is-quietly-fixing-web-dev-hcgvmixav "One man is quietly fixing web dev") Video Awesome · 15w One man is quietly fixing web dev Evan You's company VoidZero has released Rolldown 1.0, a Rust-based JavaScript bundler built as a drop-in replacement for Rollup and now powering Vite 8\. Rolldown unifies Vite's previously split architecture — which used esbuild for development and Rollup for production — into a single bundler, eliminating subtle dev/prod inconsistencies. The 1.0 release brings API stability with semantic versioning, while output behavior (tree shaking, chunking, optimization) may still improve. Rolldown is reportedly 10–30x faster than Rollup, enabled by sharing parsed AST in memory with the Oxc (oxidation compiler). A key upcoming feature is full bundle mode for development, with early benchmarks showing 3x faster dev server startup and 10x fewer network requests. 73 6 [See all Awesome archives](/sources/awesome-coding/best-of) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"CollectionPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/sources/awesome-coding/best-of/2026/05#page","url":"https://daily.dev/sources/awesome-coding/best-of/2026/05","name":"Best Awesome Posts — May 2026","description":"The most upvoted Awesome posts from May 2026, curated by the daily.dev community.","isPartOf":{"@type":"WebSite","url":"https://daily.dev"}},{"@type":"ItemList","@id":"https://daily.dev/sources/awesome-coding/best-of/2026/05#items","numberOfItems":2,"itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"url":"https://daily.dev/posts/just-slow-the-f-down--xwa4prlgv","name":"Just slow the F down..."},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"url":"https://daily.dev/posts/one-man-is-quietly-fixing-web-dev-hcgvmixav","name":"One man is quietly fixing web dev"}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Sources","item":"https://daily.dev/sources"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"Awesome","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/awesome-coding"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":4,"name":"Best of","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/awesome-coding/best-of"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":5,"name":"May 2026"}]}]} ```