Your intellectual fly is open bcantrill.dtrace.org/2025/12/05/y...

I, too, enjoy embedding V8 where it doesn't belong...

Get started with Endo: use HardenedJS to compartmentalize packages or whole node_modules applications. Bundle plugins and run them in compartments. Pass messages between networked object capabilities. docs.endojs.org/documents/ge...

For this #GivingTuesday I'm going to make the (biased) argument for why you might consider donating to @spritelyinst.bsky.social, especially if you care about a healthier future for the internet! spritely.institute/donate/ Here's a little thread explaining more... 🧵

who decided to call it Secret Santa when Nondisclosure Claus was right there

I dropped the price for Basic Binary Board Book to $12 for the holidays. I’ve been hearing that the kids adore it and the parents are perplexed. That’s a win-win. Tell a friend. www.amazon.com/dp/B0F9VCF3TN

I dropped the price for Basic Binary Board Book to $12 for the holidays. I’ve been hearing that the kids adore it and the parents are perplexed. That’s a win-win. Tell a friend. www.amazon.com/dp/B0F9VCF3TN

Somehow we can spend $20 billion to bail out Argentina with a currency swap, but we don't have the money to save our local hospitals? We deserve a fierce advocate in Congress who knows that our healthcare isn't a bargaining chip or budget line-item, it's our survival. Join Kate at katesills.com

Gustav Mauler, ladies and gentlemen.

My name is Kate Sills, and I'm running for Congress for my brother. He's in the Navy & our military is being asked to kill civilians. These are unlawful orders. Now Trump has called for people like me, who are standing up for our military, to be hanged. Can you help me? www.katesills.com

Lots of details to figure out here but it's about time we had an optimized typed array concatenation in the language.

ECMAScript excitement 😉 Congrats to my coworker @ashley-c.bsky.social at TechAtBloomberg on advancing Await Dictionary to Stage 2.7 at TC39 today 🎉 Promise.all returns positional results as an array. Promise.allKeyed allows named results inside an object 👍 github.com/tc39/proposa...

ECMAScript excitement 😉 Congrats to Michael Ficarra on advancing Joint Iteration to Stage 3 at TC39 today 🎉 It provides synchronized iteration over multiple iterators. 🔸 Iterator.zip vends an array per-iteration 🔸 Iterator.zipToObjects vends an object per-iteration

ECMAScript excitement 😉 Congrats to @michael.ficarra.me on advancing Iterator Sequencing to Stage 4 at TC39 today 🎉 let it = Iterator.concat(it1, it2, ...) It helps you create an iterator by stitching together a sequence of iterators 👍 github.com/tc39/proposa...

I work with that guy. *slaps suspenders*

ECMAScript excitement 😉 Congrats to Richard Gibson on advancing JSON.parse source text access to Stage 4 at TC39 today 🎉 It grants reviver functions access to the input source text 👍 github.com/tc39/proposa...

One of these shapes is called boo-ba and one is kiki. Which is which?

A halloween cartoon for @newscientist.com

Yes, and I want you to know that “process substitution” exists and believes in you. You can compel a program to use another program’s input or output for *any* argument that program treats as a filename. diff <(sort foo) <(sort baz) paste <(seq $(wc -l < names.txt)) names.txt You can do anything!

Big news! Today I am proud to launch my FIRST table top role playing game on itch!! I look forward to hearing about your monsters 👹 ch00beh.itch.io/menagerie-es...

🫠 automerge.org The new Automerge website is live!! The biggest (smallest) surprise? How fun it was to build the demo! Automerge is so robust, it withstood all our weird ideas — like using physics-driven particles to literally push changes between docs — and it just worked. Perfectly. Every time.

One time, I boarded BART and was greeted by the top of a man’s head, which was buried in a shattered Android screen. The man in question was wearing a dtrace T-shirt. So, I said to the top of his head, “You must be @bcantrill.bsky.social”, and lo, he was.

We're celebrating the life of Mikeal, creator of request, forker and reuniter of Node.js, renaissance and family man on November 12. We received a very generous donation and are now able to make this event completely free. Looking forward to see all of you! an-event-mikeal-would-have-liked.com

There's really only two file formats

esbuild implemented import bytes proposal 🎉 github.com/evanw/esbuil...

💥 did a small drawing explaining the JS execution model including the event loop. I hope it’s helpful to folks. Debugging is always easier when the underlying implementations are understood.

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand. "Off by one"

Robert De Niro: “Now we have a would-be king — King Donald the First. Fuck that. I’m Robert De Niro and I’m asking you to stand up and be counted in the nationwide No Kings protest on October 18th” 👉👉 nokings.org

just took damage on realizing that the generation of people who will not understand this joke from Star Trek IV are already alive

there's a great quote from Ursula Le Guin about books at the point of reading becoming a collaboration between the author and the reader like music is between the composer and the musician; the story is created somewhere in the middle even though it's all written down already

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

Where did we get the letters of the alphabet from? And why does English use them so strangely? Here’s an excerpt from the new book, “Why Q needs U: A history of our letters and how we use them”, which takes you on a linguistic odyssey through the history of the alphabet:

@andreubotella.com Ben Allen @softwarechris.com @legendecas.bsky.social @jessealama.net @jasnell.me @bakkot.com @nicr.dev @bridgear.bsky.social @naugtur.pl

ECMAScript Excitement 🎉 This week, at its 110th meeting, TC39 advanced these proposals: 3️⃣ Non-extensible applies to Private 2️⃣.7️⃣ Import Bytes 2️⃣.7️⃣ Iterator Chunking 2️⃣ Native Promise Predicate 1️⃣ Array.prototype.pushAll 1️⃣ Native Promise Adoption

Neurodivergent conditions are only disabilities because we live in a world not designed for us. Easy to imagine a flipped narrative in a world run by neurodivergents,eg “Patient insists others decode hidden meanings behind their words and compulsively makes eye contact for excessive amounts of time“

AuDHD (Autism + ADHD together) in particular bring a host of superpowers when it comes to entrepreneurship & innovation, and many of the greats are speculated to have been AuDHD by today’s diagnostic criteria: Leonardo da Vinci, Newton, Einstein, Tesla to name a few.

Second, neurodivergence is simply a different way that some brains are wired, and comes with strengths and weaknesses. Many (most?) great innovations of our time came from brilliant neurodivergents who happened to hyperfocus on the right thing.

First, neurodivergent conditions have a very strong genetic component and are highly hereditary. It’s just as unlikely a medication could give you autism as it would be to give you green eyes.

The recent commotion around Tylenol and autism reminded me how many neurotypicals are so uninformed about neurodivergence they think neurodivergent conditions (autism, ADHD, OCD etc) are some sort of plague that you can catch if you’re not careful enough.

ECMAScript excitement 😉 This week TC39 advanced these proposals 🎉 3️⃣ Non-extensible applies to Private 2️⃣.7️⃣ Import Bytes 2️⃣.7️⃣ Iterator Chunking 2️⃣ Native Promise Predicate 1️⃣ Array.prototype.pushAll 1️⃣ Native Promise Adoption

ECMAScript excitement 😉 Congrats to @styfle.dev on advancing the Import Bytes proposal to Stage 2.7 today at TC39 🎉 It lets you import raw bytes as a readonly Uint8Array 👍 import bytes from "./photo.png" with { type: "bytes" } Similar APIs are already available in Deno, Bun, & bundlers.

I don't have a problem with making new RPC systems! I can stop any time I want! But I don't want to. So I made a new one for you. It's called Cap'n Web. It's like Cap'n Proto RPC, except focused on working great in browsers and JavaScript/TypeScript servers. blog.cloudflare.com/capnweb-java...

One time, it was Jay Leno. Personally. Inviting us to check out his garage.

WASM 3.0 is released! And guess what gets a mention? @spritelyinst.bsky.social's Hoot! webassembly.org/news/2025-09...

As of today, you should have npm and yarn ignore-scripts configured globally. This may break your binary dependencies that do not provide precompiled variants on npm, as esbuild does for example. It is fair to file an issue and ask your employer to fund the work. sentry.engineering/blog/publish...

I’m gathering notes on how to protect yourself and others in the npm ecosystem from postinstall attacks like the Shai-Hulud worm wending its way around at the moment. github.com/endojs/endo/...

Due to the npm postinstall script worm that’s working through our ecosystem, you absolutely must not install any packages until you’ve integrated @lavamoat/allow-scripts in your workflow and opt-in scripting needs to become default behavior for all package managers. www.npmjs.com/package/@lav...

Pythagorean Triple Square Day, as one man affectionately calls 9/16/25, is a day like no other this century.

Terry Goodkind’s “wizard’s first rule” is that people will believe what they want to believe and what they are afraid might be true. This is ostensibly a manual for manipulation, but it is much more importantly an inoculation against manipulation.