I can now say it: Rust is really neat. I'm still on my learning journey, but I like many of its constructs. And I'm in love with pattern matching.

Noticed the amazing website? It's built with @astro.build from the ground up thanks to the help of the fine folks at luckymedia.dev, and the GLSL mad skills of shadertoy.com/user/Kali 😊

It’s happening. Yarn 6 Preview is here 💫 Yes, we rewrote it in Rust 🦀⚡️ I'm incredibly excited for the future of our beloved package manager. See the benchmarks and plans in our latest post:

Just left the theater - I found Zootopia a little lacking execution-wise, but overall I liked the universe enough that I could get past that and have a good time

I joined a middle school that turned out to have a programming club (ie 2-3 pro-linux kids self-learning Dark Basic on the school computers during lunch break).

I just realized it's the 10-years anniversary of my Secret Santa planner! I hope you'll find it useful this year as well 🎄☃️ mael.dev/secretsanta/

I am looking for a full-time job. Being independent in open source for 3.5+ years has been wonderful. I've gotten done most of the high-level goals I wanted to, and miss having people & structure around me. If you know of a role for a staff-level TypeScript+web developer, let me know! 🙂

Those discussions about 'use workflow' remind me something!

I started a new position at Mistral AI this week, still focused on developer experience. Interesting change of pace, going from a huge IPO'd company to a super fast growing startup on the rise! And a European one at that 🇪🇺🥳

It's baffling that GitHub still doesn't implement a neutral exit code. It used to be there! It was inherited from Azure Pipelines and they just ... removed it, with no replacement.

Is that a surprise? The same can happen by having the LLM update the eslint configuration to add a malicious plugin. Due to how vscode works it'll be instantly evaluated.

I heard good things about Zed and Warp so I decided to try them, as I needed to reinstall a laptop anyway. So far they seem nice enough !

Ruby Central said some really concerning things today. I don’t think they’re representing the situation accurately. andre.arko.net/2025/10/09/t...

An unfortunate oversight

Yarn 4.10 is fresh off the press! 💫 It includes a new npmMinimalAgeGate setting, catalog support, and OIDC publishing.

A good security aspect of my job lately has been that I spend significantly more time writing package managers than installing packages 😄

Non-AI items on my GitHub wishlist: 🔍 GH Pages previews for PRs ⚠️ Status checks for issues 📝 Type hints in the viewer 🔗 GH first-parent iterator in the API Anything else I forget?

Can’t wait for this to land: drafts.csswg.org/mediaqueries... (API for recording user preferences in a way that just works)

Why is there no JS API that can flip prefers-color-scheme for the current page? Dark mode switches require adding custom selectors, which doesn't compose with third-party components.

Mistral is very good at building interesting narratives; much better than ChatGPT it feels: chat.mistral.ai/chat/5110f7a...

React 19 broke "click a component to open its source"; not sure the team is even aware? 😮 github.com/facebook/rea...

The more I see async iterators, the more I feel like they're a really fancy way to make a frustrating and painful API

I've been hoping for this proposal for so long ❤️ github.com/tc39/proposa...

We need a European Sovereign Tech Fund github.blog/open-source/... "Open source software is critical infrastructure, but it’s underfunded. With a new feasibility study, GitHub’s developer policy team is building a coalition of policymakers and industry to close the maintenance funding gap."

My opinions about an old license drama are subtly evolving

My wife gave me a birthday present and the kid inside me is screaming 😱

I'm thinking perhaps we could expose the `pnpapi` module to every install, whether PnP or not, so that 3rd-party tools could easily introspect the dependency tree without parsing the lockfile.

Do you know any blind developers? What do they think about AI in their day-to-day work?

Can you imagine the nerve? github.com/viperdavis/f...

The GH API is simultaneously great and frustrating. It's mostly complete, but lacks a couple of fields for seemingly no particular reason (here, it's the job summary that's missing).

Ah, seems to be because of Cloudflare (www.cloudflarestatus.com), which in turn might be because of GCP

Package manager summit with @kochan.io at #JSNation !

@kochan.io's talk about configDependencies made me realize we forgot to document remote plugins on the Yarn website 🙈

I'm not a fan of Bazel myself for the JS world, mostly due to DX concerns, but it wouldn't cost much for Yarn to generate Bazel rules on install. That would hopefully integrate better than rules_js. Do you use Bazel at work with JS projects?

Flying to Amsterdam today! 🇳🇱

Someone has been publishing AI-generated content to Spotify listing actual artists as co-writers to hijack recommendations. To make it worse I don't see how to report it - Spotify only lets me report images or text content, but not actual attempts to game the system 😕

Did you work with someone you'd recommend to convert your figma design into a static frontend?

I got a super fishy email in my inbox from someone advocating their OpenAPI package. Seemingly legit code, but new GH user, new domain, no tie to any public identity, email obtained through crawling ...

@notabenemovies.bsky.social en regardant l'épisode sur Thomas Dulain j'ai remarqué quelques différences par rapport à Wikipédia; est-ce que l'idée a été discutée de contribuer à l'encyclopédie les résultats et sources des recherches préparatoires des épisodes?

You can now natively use dependencies from @jsr.io using the `jsr:` prefix in your package.json and CLI commands! 📦

I figured it wouldn't be a lot of work, and it wasn't 🙂 github.com/yarnpkg/berr...

ChatGPT is now able to generate pokemon-like tilesets. Now how can I enforce the strict use of tiles?

@alanzucconi.com I just read your article about Minecraft's world generation algorithm - it's very interesting. Something that surprised me is that I didn't find any open-source re-implementation of the described worldgen pipeline; did I look at the wrong place?

I don't think it's a good outcome for Node.js users, but at least I feel relieved I can finally get out of this mess for good and focus on Yarn users rather than attempt to play nice with people who don't seem to share any of our UX tenets.

Today we're thrilled to announce our effort to port the TypeScript compiler and language service to native code, gaining a 10x speed boost in build times and editor responsiveness! devblogs.microsoft.com/typescript/t...

Cursor and similar tool make the Haste resolution almost interesting - since every file can be referenced by its name, it'd be much easier to add references to chat messages.

Hi @hermanli.bsky.social, are you up for a showcase next year in our charity marathon? We think we've got a serious contender ... #SpeeDons

Pokemon TCG Pocket is really killing it with its illustrations

Speedons 2025 starts in a couple of hours! If you haven't heard about it, it's an amazing 4 days of charity speedrun marathon for the benefits of @mdmfrance.bsky.social.

The "Doom in TypeScript" looks impressive in its implementation! It reminded me this other blog post.