If you think that AI is useless for software development, it says more about you than it does about AI. It is very possible to do things with AI that you cannot easily do without. Skill level for "I can tell this is the right solution" is lower than for "I can solve it myself quickly".

Why we built a new Kafka client for Node.js The Node.js world needs better tools. Here’s what you need to know: Apache Kafka is vital for real-time data. It powers many businesses, especially in Fintech and Media. These fields see heavy data usage and need reliable solutions.

There is a popular idea online that "programming is just work, why expect people to be excited about it?". Imagine you are assembling a sports team. Would you get players that aren't really playing to win? If you aim to play in the top league, you can't avoid having standards.

For years, I’ve been asked whether I’ll ever write a book about @nodejs.org. I’m excited to announce the time has come. Presenting “The Definitive Guide for Node.js in Enterprise”, a labour of love by myself, and every single member of the @platformatic.dev team.

In your experience, what is the best way to let the world know about the new approach/framework? I'm putting finishing touches on "opinionated-machine" this week, which brings DX of building fastify backend services to the next level, and probably other people could benefit from knowing about it.

In addition, a new Turn-Based Combat mode is in development for Pillars of Eternity coming later this year. More details on how to participate will be shared once it's available, so keep an eye on our socials and the Obsidian Discord server! discord.gg/obsidian

Biome v2 beta release is now available! 🛠️ Plugins: create custom lint rules with GritQL 🔀 Multi-file analysis 📝 Revamped, configurable import sorting 🧐 Linter domains 🙅‍♀️ New suppressions 👩‍✈️ Analyzer assist ..and more!! biomejs.dev/blog/biome-v...

Serial Experiments Lain Spinoff Game //signal. Announced

An unfortunate update on QUIC in Node.js github.com/nodejs/node/...

I think mostly when people complain about TypeScript breaking changes, they mean improvements in the type checker and inference algorithm highlighting bugs that had previously gone unnoticed.

New in Chrome DevTools: Accurately emulate CPU performance of a low/mid tier phone with Automatic CPU throttling calibration! 📲 This feature calculates slow-downs for your specific device. Wanted this for years! We just shipped it.

Just want to say that unstorage is such an amazing project! It abstracts KV so well that it's very easy to swap storage in different scenarios. Thank you @pi0.io & @unjs.io 💛 github.com/unjs/unstorage

This video reminds me that I really need to play Saga Emerald Beyond. One of the weirdest in an already weird series. as he points out, what he thought was the lead character was just one of many possible options because it branches in BIG ways. Also wild that Romancing Saga 2 Remake was a huge hit

The other 'Blamelikes' (which I was musing on yesterday) are.. [Now] Lorn's Lure Bleak Faith: Forsaken Automaton Lung NaissanceE [Coming] Luna Abyss Dolls Nest Hypogea VA Proxy Radiosol Automaton Heart Radio The Universe It's a very specific vibe but increasingly in vogue, it seems. Any I missed?

The opening paragraph of Philip K. Dick's final novel, THE TRANSMIGRATION OF TIMOTHY ARCHER, belongs in the opening-paragraph hall of fame

Aw, tried making a Steam list of them but it doesn't accept pre-release or demo stuff. And there's a good chunk on the way, including Luna Abyss, Dolls Nest, Hypogea and VA Proxy. Any other 'Blamelikes' y'all can think of?

Today, we’re deprecating Create React App for new apps, and encouraging existing apps to migrate to a framework. We’re also providing docs for when a framework isn’t a good fit for your project, or you prefer to start by building a framework. react.dev/blog/2025/02...

I strongly urge module authors to hold off on dropping CJS until better solutions than IITM exist for ESM instrumentation. The good news: I'm working on this! The bad news: It's very hard to get this right!

I see The Power Fantasy is going to be one of those books like TNHotL or MTMTE or, unsurprisingly, WicDiv where every time a new issue comes out I end up re-reading half of what came out before

Node 20 is getting all the require(esm) goodies unflagged now 👀 github.com/nodejs/node/...

If your lifestyle involves a lot of computer time, you need to be doing certain types of extra exercise or the muscles will weaken that shock-absorb your knees, cartilage will start breaking down, and you get permanent knee issues. If you ask your doctor they can give you stretches to ward this off.

The words to truly describe how much I enjoyed his art escape me. So instead, I'll let his own skill do the talking: youtu.be/PicZATCo3h4?... May he rest in peace.

Node.js receives a Security Audit openjsf.org/blog/objecti... - The OpenJS Foundation has secured funds to sponsor a fuzz-test security audit on the Node.js code-base, resulting in updates and fixes to the OSS-Fuzz project in support for Node.js related code.

1/ Is compression about to get a major upgrade? @stoyan.me predicts "compression dictionaries everywhere" by 2025. By storing common elements once and sending only the unique parts, we can drastically reduce transfer times. Will you be integrating this? #WebPerf #Compression 🧵👇

JavaScript's date object has been tricky for years, but that will change soon. The NEW Temporal API brings, 🌍 Easily handle time zones 📆 Precise date math 🕒 Parse ISO strings without errors ⌛ Durations, date ranges, and more. Start exploring 👇 developer.mozilla.org/en-US/blog/...

Shit. I missed this news. I love my pebble (though rocking a casio f91), but still, absolutely all over this: repebble.com (pebble coming back)

BIG DAY 😇 Introducing Standard Schema! It’s a specification for a standard interface to be implemented by TypeScript schema libraries. The goal is to make it easier for frameworks and tools to accept user-defined schemas, without writing separate adapters for different libraries. standardschema.dev

TypeScript excitement 😉 Thanks to @searyanc.dev for landing the new --erasableSyntaxOnly tsconfig flag. Heading for TS 5.8 Beta next week 🎉 🔷 Guides users away from TS-only runtime features such as enum & namespace 🔷 Pairs nicely with Node's recent TypeScript support github.com/microsoft/Ty...

Biome has a new Silver Sponsor, Lokalise! lokalise.com

It is my absolute pleasure to announce Lokalise launching an OSS support fund. Within the first cohort we are providing monthly funding to @drizzle.team , @biomejs.dev , @fastify.dev and several other projects. Special kudos to @ondrejsevcik.bsky.social for championing this idea until it happened!

Today we’re happy to share our plans for Biome 2.0 as well as the rest of our roadmap for 2025. Read all about it here: biomejs.dev/blog/roadmap... #OpenSource #WebDev #Tooling for #JavaScript #TypeScript #CSS #GraphQL and #GritQL, written in #Rust

My main NY resolution for 2025 is to do less every day.

Naomi Watts put up her tribute to Lynch, and man, you just tell everyone in his life thought the world of him

Vitest 3.0 is here!

Hey, new OK Go video came out today, and it's a nice analog antidote (analogidote) to all these AI-lments. Impressively melodramatic. youtu.be/MOEULOSVNK4?...

Hell yeah, really looking forward to it.

As of now, Biome is open to taking **Commercial Support** requests. If you are looking for commercial support, feel free to reach out and we'll try to bring you in contact with a fitting Biome contributor! biomejs.dev/support/

Is anybody else having problems making SIGINT fall through via npm/pnpm start? The application receives it, but my process is killed even if I'm handling it. I don't recall this being a problem, but I might be getting old.

A brand new essay on Old Men Running The World where I talk about something I realised when playing Girl Underground - that I'd love more games where I could play a supporting character and not a lead. #indiettrpg #ttrpg

More people need to check out Underspace. By Freelancer sickos, for Freelancer sickos. Only imagine if Freelancer had a really cool, weird universe inspired by Farscape and Lexx and packed with strange aliens instead of being all humans and with star systems named after Earth cities.

There's been a few Amiga revivals/ports recently. Don't miss out on Ambermoon. An ambitious perspective-hopping RPG, the second in a sadly never-finished trilogy. I believe much of the staff did come back together to make Albion, a classic and spiritual successor. pyrdacor.itch.io/ambermoon

A couple of weeks ago, the cult post-apocalyptic strategy RPG Burntime (Amiga / MS-DOS 1993) got a remastered version. It is currently available for free on Steam. store.steampowered.com/app/3269080/...

having said that: I just found out (the hard way) that Vitest apparently defaults to erroring if it sees a `test.only()` in CI. That is an _excellent_ DX choice and I'm thankful for it :)