This was a great read. No idea how to get on top of this, perhaps pulling random people away from keyboards? Who knows! techtrenches.substack.com/p/the-great-...

The future of the Web should be global-addressable, local-first, protocol-agnostic, free-format data. This data should be the primary source of truth. Applications and services should constantly evolve to parse and interpret the data.

Full IOCs + mitigation in our writeup. socket.dev/blog/175-mal...

Decentralized trusted networks can collectively verify that an account belongs to a real person, so some communities can issue digital/crypto UBI every day w/o burning energy like most blockchain do. These tokens can be used inside the community to boost its economy.

Still waiting for it to trickle down...

Hey digital freedom supporters in Seattle 👋 We're hosting an EFF meet up at Stoup Brewing! Learn more and RSVP today: eff.org/speakeasy-s...

I care about poverty, mainly alleviating it.. When I discovered this one piece of research it changed my whole approach to understanding poverty. "Why People in Poverty make Poor Decisions" explores this research which points to a simple solution. Listen or read at: nonzerosum.games/poverty.html

That confirms that networks with trusted connections work as a positive sum game, while networks where anonymous users and bots can be louder than your friend destroy the game. Most social networks have this problem. We @nolock-social.bsky.social are working on a foundation for trusted networks.

Our next DWeb Virtual Meetup is in one week: Tues Sep 30 10am PT / 2pm ET / 19 CET "The Present and Future of Funding Open Source" — featuring Brian Behlendorf, Zenna Fiscella, & Alexander Sander Register here: www.eventbrite.com/e/dweb-meetu...

I love the @cascadiajs.com 2025 conf! Excellent speakers cover a lot of subjects related to JS, Web, and LLMs. I hope that at next year's conference we will also hear more about decentralization and security.

A JS puzzle: How to create a function that accepts `name: string` as an argument and returns a function with this name. ``` const withName = (name: string): () => undefined => ??? // test const f = withName("#2x") if (f.name !== "#2x") { throw "error" } ``` No mutations are allowed.

The biggest power is control of information. Honestly, at this point, the only instrument that can give this power back to the people is decentralized trusted networks. I can't see other options. I'm working on the tech, but the progress is very slow since I have to work on other jobs.

I'm working on a report on the causes of burnout in open source software. If you're a part of the OSS community, I would love to hear your thoughts, either here on Bluesky, or privately via email (see post). Thanks 😊 mirandaheath.website/report-on-bu...

Let me know if you plan to attend CascadiaJS 2025 and would like to meet.

Most modern centralized web services are so intrusive and annoying. They should be extinct and replaced by decentralized and trusted networks.

Another comment on supply chain attacks: always add lock files to Git. - package-lock.json for NPM, - packages.lock.json for .Net, - Cargo.lock for Rust, - Package.resolve for Swift, - etc.

We need decentralized trusted networks with collective security yesterday. This's not funny anymore, and actually it never was.

Until we build decentralized, trusted networks for software development, the FunctionalScript project won't depend on other packages (NPM or crates).

RFC6979 (Deterministic Usage of DSA and ECDSA) would be in order of magnitude easier to read if it used just two primitives: bit vectors and big ints. No need for "Octets", "Bits", "Bit String", "Octet String".

🎤✨ Excited to give an introduction to local-first software at the (virtual) DWeb Meetup next week! Sign up here: www.eventbrite.com/e/dweb-meetu...

Humanity today feels like the Titanic a few hours before hitting the iceberg: “The show must go on.” In this article, I outline a few basic principles that could help us steer away from disaster. #economics #ai #justice #social medium.com/@sergeyshand...

I was planning to buy a MacBook Air, but I may skip for now.

Lay-offs, spam, misinformation, war conflicts, dictatorships. One might expect that technological progress would solve these problems, but things are not improving. Some believe that old social and economic models can fix some problems. We believe that systems must evolve. medium.com/@sergeyshand...

Unpopular opinion about #Rust: avoid using macros and features at all costs. Don't create new macros and don't add features to your package.

One of the coolest features of content-addressable programming languages is that copy-paste is not an anti-pattern. The PL build system will deduplicate them anyway.

Don’t miss today’s DWeb Seattle Node Meetup! With talks by @nolock-social.bsky.social, @tinysubversions.bsky.social, and @quillmatiq.com 🤩 It’s possible to participate online, too! Get your ticket here: lu.ma/wfoprjy7 #DWeb #DWebNode #DWebSeattle #meetup #DWebMeetup #event #Seattle

We desperately need UBI

My friends at Proxxi are hiring in Vancouver for a Principal Developer & Tech Lead role. Proxxi is full stack - all the way from hardware to firmware to a fully connected wearable that detects high voltage electricity hazards and prevents accidents - and this would be working directly with the CTO.

Our presentation from WebSummit Vancouver 2025: www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSHa...

I'm at #WebSummit Vancouver. Let me know if you would like to meet.

Unpopular opinion: don't use "features" in your Rust packages. Please, don't!

Comptime is a good enough reason to consider using #Zig instead of #Rust.

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Typical JavaScript project: Yarn calls Lerna, Lerna calls NPM, NPM calls NYC, NYC calls Mocha, Mocha calls Node. And Tsc is a cherry on the layered cake. And don't forget to add ESLint and WebPack.

This is how centralized social networks and mass-media work. People should communicate and speak to each other, use decentralized networks, and build trusted connections, instead of blindly accepting information from few "famous" bots on centralized services. www.linkedin.com/posts/marcus...

I learned that Cargo doesn't reuse build artifacts if the build commands differ, but the sub-commands are the same. For example, `cargo clippy` will still rebuild everything after `cargo build`. One of the solutions is to use sscache: github.com/mozilla/scca...

"Some poker players earn a lot of money, so let's teach everyone the same technique. Then everyone will play poker, and everyone will be very rich" — this is how some opinions about the global economy sound.

The struggle for individuals and small businesses to create competitive products will grow. Especially in developed countries and in the age of A.I. The only option I can see is UBI.

The destruction of American science continues apace. Early career people are the most likely to be seeking to leave. One of my about-to-graduate PhDs is seriously considering a job offer in Germany, even though it would involve lower pay. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

If the TypeScript compiler can be relatively easily ported to Go, does it mean we can have a Go implementation of JavaScript/TypeScript runtime, similar to Deno and Node?

One way to fight misinformation is to build a network of trusted connections. However, we can't build such networks if we don't own our data. BTW adding random people to a private chat would be almost impossible if we have such networks (a graph of connections) with assigned trust levels.

About UX: a button that dynamically changes its position depending on other components is one of the most annoying experiences ever! Yes, Windows Taskbar, I'm looking at you!

Countless emails asking how Americans can directly aid Ukrainian soldiers. Here’s an easy answer: savelife.in.ua/en/

Supporting your allies, cooperation, partnership, unions, and UBI is about a positive-sum game.

I would like to say only one thing today: Thank you, Ukraine, for your fight and for protecting us! 💛💙

TypeScript 5.8 is now out, with ✅ Better Checks on return expressions ✅ Support for require(esm) in --module nodenext ✅ --libReplacement to speed up program loading ✅ --erasableSyntaxOnly and more! Try it today! devblogs.microsoft.com/typescript/a...

Open Source Software is free, but Open Source Project maintenance is expensive. The Open Source Maintenance Fee directly funds your projects' maintainers. Simple. Sensible. Sustainable. opensourcemaintenancefee.org?utm_source=B...

Slack is down. How much damage does this issue cause? I wish we all switch to decentralized communication protocols, such as ATProto and Matrix.

@kirillosenkov.com I'm pretty sure you can recognize a snapshot of an MSBuild file in any sci-fi movie. Pantheon, S2E2 36:30

Just observing the news, and for some reason, this old song is playing in my head "God save the Queen.... No future for you....": www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-38...