Tech Feed - November 18, 2025
Articles and podcasts from the software engineering world.
Software Engineering Daily
Radix UI with Chance Strickland
Here is a concise 200-word summary of the key points from the podcast episode "Radix UI with Chance Strickland":
Radix UI is an open-source library of React components focused on usability, accessibility, and composability. Its "headless primitives" handle complex logic and accessibility concerns, allowing developers to style the components as they wish.
The project was started by a team of Americans and Brits, leading to pronunciation debates around the name "Radix" (RAY-dix vs RAH-dix).
Radix offers several related projects beyond the core Primitives, including Radix Themes (pre-styled components) and Radix Colors/Icons. The components are designed to be flexible and composable, often predating or improving upon new browser web standards.
Chance Strickland, a software engineer at WorkOS, is a key maintainer of Radix. He discussed his history with the project, tracing it back to his use of the similar Reach UI library while working as a freelancer. This led to him joining the Reach UI team, and eventually transitioning to maintain the Radix project after Reach UI's parent company shut down.
Looking ahead, Strickland says Radix Primitives is fairly mature, but the broader Radix ecosystem has room to evolve, potentially leveraging emerging web technologies and AI tools to enhance the developer experience for building on the web.
Dev Interrupted
Speed is the moat | AMD’s Anush Elangovan
In the race to define the future of AI, what's the one advantage that truly lasts? It's not proprietary tech, argues Anush Elangovan, VP of AI Software at AMD, but the sustainable speed of innovation. He explains why AMD is rejecting the "walled garden" model for its open source ...
Tech Brew Ride Home
The Bloodbath In Crypto
What happened with Cloudflare this morning. Grok’s new model wants to be creative. Catching you up on the bloodbath in crypto if you were unaware. Databricks is 12 years old but it seems to be one of the big AI winners. And debt continues to pile in to the AI buildout. A massive Cloudflare outage br...