Welcome to another edition of the FEDSA Feed!
If you’ve been around for a while, you’ll probably lose a few minutes (or hours) to Web Rewind. It’s a real trip back to when the web was slower, stranger, and a bit more personal. Speaking of nostalgia, Fran Sans takes a more tactile route, pulling from the quirks of transit display hardware rather than polishing them away. This edition is not all about memory lane, though. We also take a look at the launch of Void Cloud, a new attempt to make the Vite ecosystem feel more like a coherent full-stack toolchain.
Web Rewind is an interactive journey through 30 years of the World Wide Web from Opera. Yes, it's been that long! It's a living archive of real browsing memories, where you can explore 30 years of internet history and reflect on how the web once felt.
Check it out here
Emily Sneddon documents the story behind Fran Sans, a new display typeface inspired by the quirky LCD destination signs found on San Francisco's Muni Breda Light Rail Vehicles. Built on a 3×5 grid, the font deliberately preserves the mechanical charm and imperfections of the original signs, designed by Trans-Lite engineer Gary Wallberg in 1999.
Read the fascinating account of creating the typeface here
The Vite/VoidZero team just launched Void Cloud, a deployment platform designed for Vite with a powerful backend SDK to make your apps truly full-stack. Could this be the unified toolchain we have been lacking in the JavaScript world?
Check it out here
No Vibing – Why Vibe Coding Isn’t As Cool As It Sounds
by Lor Steyn
The South African tech industry is buzzing with excitement about AI coding tools. Terms like “vibe coding” have entered our vocabulary, promising to revolutionise how we build software.
But as a Cape Town-based software development team working with AI-augmented development, we’ve learned critical lessons about what works and what doesn’t.
In this blog post, Lorraine Steyn explores what vibe coding is and why it’s not a sustainable approach for professional software development. It also outlines how teams can use AI tools responsibly to improve productivity without compromising quality or security.
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