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Morphicons: A Morph Engine for the Icons You Already Ship

ยท 4 min read
Gergely Sipos
Frontend Architect

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Morphicons is not an icon set. It ships zero icons. It is a ~6.6 KB gzip engine that interpolates SVG d paths, so any stroke icon can smoothly morph into any other one โ€” hamburger into close, play into pause, sun into moon. Instead of asking you to adopt yet another pack, it sits on top of the sets we already recommend: Lucide and Heroicons outline. The idea is genuinely clever. The maturity is genuinely worrying. Both are worth a closer look.

shadcn/ui Makes Base UI the Default โ€” Radix Is Now Opt-In

ยท 3 min read
Gergely Sipos
Frontend Architect

shadcn/ui launched on Radix in January 2023, and for three years Radix was the primitive layer under every component you copied into your repo. As of July 2026, that default has changed: new shadcn projects now scaffold on Base UI. This isn't a forced migration or a deprecation โ€” Radix stays fully supported, and both libraries keep getting new components. The signal worth paying attention to is why the default moved: people running shadcn create were already picking Base UI over Radix roughly 2-to-1, so the default simply caught up to what teams were already choosing.

TanStack AI Beta: The 'Switzerland of AI Tooling' Goes Multi-Modal

ยท 3 min read
Gergely Sipos
Frontend Architect

TanStack AI reached beta on June 9, positioning itself as the "Switzerland of AI tooling" โ€” framework-agnostic, provider-agnostic, and fully open-source with no hosted platform required. It's built by the same team behind React Query and TanStack Router, and it brings that same philosophy of composable, type-safe primitives to AI application development.