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I pay attention to what the developers I know are using + have GPT Pro do surveys of options. Kind of like googling "best <thing> in 2026" once was. Then I follow the references, read the docs, browse the code, and do follow on searches from there, arriving at developer blogs and reddit posts. I concluded, tentatively, on stylex/base after several days of repeating this process a few times.
Oh I've described this before but I don't like time organization much.
I try do things I don't want to do early in the day/week, then the rest of the time I do what I want to do.
At the end of the week, if I procrastinated things I don't want to do, then I begin the next week with those, and so on.
Lately, I've been spending a bit more time thinking about what I want to do by writing about them. Then when I do them I don't need to make decisions and can just execute - which tends to make the results faster/better (I suck at task switching).
That's the general shape at least. This approach is helped by the fact that I never really stop working. I just do things until I spend all of the day's agency, then I binge watch Star Trek or read.
How do you go about researching something like this?
Do you look at blogs of well known developers? Browse the depths of Reddit? Have a conversation with a LLM?