I’ve barely been using agent skills in the past couple months. I iterate on a plan and build; that gets it done. maybe Opus is just that good at planning. can’t help but wonder if skills are just a devilishly brilliant way to get people to burn more tokens.

SUBJECT: URGENT TO THE DEVELOPERS OF THE PYTHON LIBRARY CALLED "SHAPELY" EVERY TIME I NEED TO LOOK SOMETHING UP IN YOUR DOCUMENTATION I WIND UP GOOGLING THE PHRASE "SHAPELY PYTHON" AND FEEL LIKE A PERVERT PLEASE CHANGE YOUR LIBRARY'S NAME SINCERELY A MAN WHO IS TRYING TO BE RESPECTABLE

There's no reasons left. Go switch your package publishing to staged! And if you have many, consider: lavamoat.github.io/stageclicker/

got #PoE2 on sale. oops

thinking about getting the mail this week

Some more validation for hardenedjs.org: Mythos pen-testing in Firefox was frequently thwarted by frozen prototypes in the host process. hacks.mozilla.org/2026/05/behi...

if you're interested in #npm staged publishes, check out how github.com/danielroe/uppt by @danielroe.dev does it. (also includes slim Release-Please-esque tooling)

could someone direct me to the closest macheezmo mouse

YOU’RE LISTENING TO SISYPHUS FM, THE HOME OF NON-STOP ROCK

AI has taken over open source, and the data is wild: • npm is now seeing 100k+ packages published per month • packages with em dashes in READMEs jumped from ~5% to 30%+ • AI is increasingly writing packages and choosing dependencies Awesome post by @staltz.com: socket.dev/blog/ai-has-...

I can recommend a can opener

when cute puppies have a big fat belly it’s cause that cute belly is full of cute worms

devEngines started as @geoffreybooth.bsky.social and I in DMs 2 years ago. It's now supported in @npmjs.bsky.social & @pnpm.io, and later this month will be our recommended way for developers at Netflix to define runtime and package manager versions in their projects. docs.npmjs.com/cli/v11/conf...

quitting software to play Vampire Crawlers full-time. no I’m not streaming

claude's logo looks like an asshole.

I cannot wait to see what the swine think of these pearls

does anyone else have separate drawers for USB Type B 2.0 and USB Type B 3.0 cables? …yeah just me.

#zachtronics is back!? sounds like Zach got nerd-sniped www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/opus...

slop in OSS should be broadly condemned. AI-generated code is _arguably_ ethically dubious due to its training on copyleft sources. but to oppose AI-generated code in OSS for this reason is wholly counterproductive and doesn't square with reality.

wow

TIL eslint-config-inspector exists, and it is awesome. github.com/eslint/confi...

.@nodejs has always been about I/O. Streams, buffers, sockets, files. But there's a gap that has bugged me for years: you can't virtualize the filesystem. You can't import a module that only exists in memory. You can't bundle assets into a Single Executable without patching half of core. 👇

ECMAScript Excitement 🎉 This week, TC39 elected a new editor group for the ECMAScript specification (ECMA-262). Editors are: ✨ Linus Groh ✨ Michael Ficarra ✨ Nicolò Ribaudo (@nicr.dev) ✨ Richard Gibson ✨ Ron Buckton (@chronicles.org) ✨ Shu-yu Guo (@rfrn.org)

HOW DOES ONE EVEN PLAY NECROBINDER #sts2

#VampireCrawlers is 🔥

Landed initial support for ESM in Node.js SEA: github.com/nodejs/node/... Similar to CJS entrypoints, it only supports importing builtins, so generally require bundling. @nodeland.dev is working on support for VFS in SEA that will unlock loading other modules within SEA github.com/nodejs/node/...

BIG NEWS: @socket.dev is now scanning AI agent skills across multiple languages and ecosystems, detecting malicious behavior before developers install, starting with 60,000+ skills. socket.dev/blog/socket-...

literally had a nightmare that someone rewrote mocha from scratch

In case you missed it: we published an overhaul of the old Mocha website. It's on @astro.build Starlight and has most of the same contents as before, just separated into granular pages. 🤎 Next up will be auditing those pages to be more comprehensive and correct. Voila!

@davidkpiano.bsky.social would you be willing to dish on changesets? I know you use (or used) them for releasing xstate. pros & cons? looking to streamline a release process while retaining more control over changelogs and versions

nvm.sh users: please upgrade to github.com/nvm-sh/nvm/r... if you're using `wget` on your system, to fix a medium vulnerability (github.com/nvm-sh/nvm/s...).

introduced myself to Golang this afternoon. too soon to form any opinions but I am concerned it might not be very fun to write

embarrassingly, I have played 1000s of hours of heavily modded Minecraft. I gotta say that #Hytale has an exceptionally promising foundation and I am eager to throw 1000s more hours into the yawning void of Hytale and its mods in the future

ALSO: it's got THEMES. It's THEME-ABLE. a theme-able CLI arg parser. you didn't know you needed it

BAAARRGGGS github.com/boneskull/ba...

@streetsofrogue.bsky.social do you have czech ancestry

How To Automate Claude Plugin Versioning with Release Please gist.github.com/boneskull/50...

I made a test harness for Übersicht widgets github.com/boneskull/ue...

this is what boredom looks like for me

added a nyan cat reporter to modestbench

I want a cozy farm sim game that is also completely fucked up

I'm not a player, I just push a lot

DID YOU KNOW that modestbench can run your tests as benchmarks (a la vitest)? currently supports Mocha, AVA and node:test. look at my thing dammit: modestbench.dev

Mischievous little any.

created playwright-spec-reporter because the default 'list' reporter wounded me deeply www.npmjs.com/package/play...

it took nine years, but I migrated from antigen to antidote

modestbench, a full-ass benchmarking framework for node.js boneskull.github.com/modestbench

IMPOSSIBLE TYPES

I remember when this whole thing (every mp3 and every VHS rip) just dropped on somebody's Blogger page one day. Digging into it was like some clandestine artefact from an alternate universe where Chariots Of Fire never existed: except both did coexist in ours, what an incredible guy Vangelis was