Making things faster is fun. github.com/cloudflare/w...

It's nearly time for Node.js github.com/nodejs/node/...

Open source project shutting down for vacation is brilliant. These are the kind of technologist who can make the internet good.

👀 @nodeland.dev has an open PR for a Virtual File System for Node.js 🙏 Yes please! github.com/nodejs/node/...

so CLAUDE.md gets ignored and AGENTS.md which is basically a CLAUDE.md overperforms SKILLS. So basically, no one knows and it always changes, and nothing is guaranteed. Good luck with stochastic machines.

Hello! Update on eurosky[.]social accounts. - PDS is ready with backups and observability - We've onboarded a small number of testers to see how things are holding up - We'll start sending invites to folks who registered in the next few days We're doing this slowly, here's why 👇 #eurosky

If you're using OpenClaw and installing SKILLS from ClawHub (or anywhere else) you want to read this... Malicious AI Agent Skills Drop Reverse Shells on OpenClaw Marketplace 👇 snyk.io/articles/cla...

I didn’t realise just how US centric all of package management was until I made these tables 😅 The Dependency Layer in Digital Sovereignty: nesbitt.io/2026/01/28/t...

So GitHuman (githuman.dev) from Matteo Collina strengthens what I've been saying about CLI coding agents - the terminal UI is not a productive way to review the diff and code changes... if you're churning out code strictly on terminal agents then willing to bet you're not reviewing all of it

We’ve got a save the date announcement today for this year’s Local-First Conf @localfirstconf.com - July 11th to 14th in Berlin. We’re supporting the conference & leaning into some “Day 3” content with some malleable software and other topics. Add your email to be notified!

Like everyone else, I had to build something over the end-of-year break. Mine was GitHuman: a tool to review AI-generated code before you commit. It was built entirely by Claude Code. I reviewed every commit from my phone.

Fly.io launches Sprites: durable, instant cloud computers that replace read-only agent sandboxes. Can't wait to try them out! fly.io/blog/code-an...

BLAKE3: your favorite protocol engineer’s favorite hash function Hey Claude, write me a post that implies this will be useful for Streamplace VOD without totally giving it away

I wrote a guide on how to set up a homelab server

ECMAScript excitement 😉 Congrats to Dan Minor @mozilla.org on advancing the Upsert proposal to Stage 4 at TC39 today 🎉 let map = new Map(); map.getOrInsert(key, defaultVal); It lets you set a default value on a map key without overwriting an existing value 👍

ECMAScript excitement 😉 Congrats to @guybedford.com on advancing Import Sync to Stage 2 at @tc39.es today 🎉 const mod = import.sync(<specifier>); Like Node's require(<specifier>), it synchronously loads a module. It throws if sync loading is not possible. github.com/guybedford/p...

ECMAScript excitement 😉 Congrats to @bridgear.bsky.social on advancing Error Option Limit to Stage 1 @tc39 today 🎉 It allows the captured stack depth to be limited on a per-object basis 👍 It removes the need to rely on implementation-specific global APIs. github.com/tc39-transfe...

A lot happened in content addressing in 2025. Like, a lot. The IPFS Foundation wrote up a summary for your enjoyment! ipfsfoundation.org/content-addr...

Working with a coding assistant feels like pair programming, where you are always in the navigator's seat. When working in a distributed team, it's great to have a sparring partner who's available at any time. But! Writing code was always only a small part. 🧵

I love this Daniel. What I particularly appreciated was the nuance. AI tools aren't good or bad, they are tools and can be used well, or poorly. I'm trying to use it to work faster, but without losing quality - and it's completely possible. But it is easy to just work fast and carelessly. Well said!

ECMAScript excitement 😉 🚨🚨🚨 IT'S ABOUT TIME! 🚨🚨🚨 Congrats to @manishearth.bsky.social on shipping the Temporal API in Chrome 144 stable today 🎉 developer.chrome.com/blog/new-in-... Temporal is the replacement for the Date API.

A local-first, zero-cloud, peer sync wiki for friends and family: github.com/nhardt/footn...

Yesterday I switched my website from Netlify+Plausible to Cloudflare Pages. Plausible typically showed 3 unique visitors per day. Cloudflare's first day: 248. Wait, what? 🧵

We’re excited to share that Eurosky now has a supporting legal entity, @modalfoundation.bsky.social - a new nonprofit dedicated to making open social tech viable at scale. Big Tech’s dominance can feel inevitable, but it doesn’t have to be that way. modalfoundation.org

As I explained in berjon.com/fascintern-m..., many people have been confused about the role of X (and other social media) as purported "public town squares". It's becoming increasingly difficult to remain mistaken on this, even without considering X's role as a CSAM publisher.

😭 💔 "I feel like a fucking idiot for somehow being able to build this CSS framework that's taken over the world and it's used by everything and it's super popular, but I can't figure out how to have it make enough money that eight people can work on it." - @adamwathan.com

😱 Tailwind Labs has laid off 75% of its engineers following an 80% revenue collapse. AI agents now provide answers directly, bypassing the docs and killing the discovery funnel for paid kits. github.com/tailwindlabs...

JavaScript trademark update: - Oracle requested (and we agreed to) a 60-day extension in the cancellation case ttabvue.uspto.gov/ttabvue/v?pn... - We’re deep in discovery, producing extensive evidence that “JavaScript” is used generically across the industry and does not refer to Oracle products.

Anthropic just dropped a complete 2-hour Claude Code course totally free. It covers context management, custom automations, MCP servers, GitHub workflows, and more. Vibe-coding skills start here...? anthropic.skilljar.com/claude-code-...

It’d be non-traditional but I would love to see a short story scifi competition on essentially this theme. What does a future with European (or non-American?) open software look like for European citizens? I have exactly zero time right now to organize this but would put up prize money.

It's a new year 🎉 Are you currently hiring for a role that includes using Node.js? Reply with a link to the opening and any relevant context. If you're not, we'd appreciate a repost for visibility 💚

After 2+ years, we’re shutting down Spark today. I am feeling a mix of sadness and a whole lot of relief. Closing this chapter feels like clearing out a cluttered room and tossing old toys to make space for something new. I am excited about the new opportunities this change unlocks! 💪

We’re entering the age of AI slop that people believe en masse. This post is 100% fake and probably AI generated. All made up. Yet massive number of upvotes, views and shares. Journalist @caseynewton.bsky.social got in touch with the “whistleblower.” The guy faked all “evidence” with AI…

The trouble, as @charity.wtf likes to remind me, is that those of us who program for work are not being paid to maximise our fun, we are being paid to produce a product as efficiently as possible. So at some point the people who got into programming for fun, may wind up leaving our field.

I created Personal Cloud Backup: github.com/juliangruber... A collection of scripts for periodically backing up your cloud accounts (Google, GitHub, etc) to archival storage. When you don't own your data, at least keep it safe!

@chadfowler.com's second post in his new Phoenix Architecture blog, called The Death and Rebirth of Programming. Lots of quotable quotes, so hard to choose. "Soft skills" more important than ever, and this is all be a shock to people who self-identify as programmers.

a year of work comes to fruition 😊

If we are banning cell phones for kids we need to be talking about banning chatbots for boomers www.persuasion.community/p/my-chatgpt...

We’re partnering with @docker.com to make software development safer for everyone! Socket Firewall Free is now bundled into Docker Hardened Images, adding build-time and dependency-install supply chain protection for @nodejs.org, @python.org, and @rust-lang.org socket.dev/blog/socket-...

please take a moment to appreciate Tesla's epic accomplishment of coming dead last in the auto industry in reliability, despite making relatively expensive cars with a tiny fraction of the moving parts www.consumerreports.org/cars/which-b...

If you're wondering why January often brings the largest outages - here's a common reason The code freeze is THE time to do all the big refactors that seemed too risky to do the rest of the year. Guess when it ships... all at once 🥶

OK, I'll start. So i have moved most of my tech stack off US bigtech. Closing down google this month. Swapped to fairphone. Moved from Digital Ocean to OVHCloud. Using open source. The thing is, with plane, penpot, and onlyoffice, if i use their cloud, i am still using AWS. Thoughts?

This is interesting on several levels. Mostly: "AI adoption is now a leadership capability test." It is. Just not in the way he thinks. I think that people underestimate why CEOs, particularly American CEOs, think that. 🧵 (HT @mariafarrell.bsky.social)

pnpm 10.26 is here! This release focuses heavily on locking down supply chain security and giving you granular control over build scripts. From stricter git defaults to the new allowBuilds config, here’s a breakdown of the changes. 🧵👇 #pnpm #javascript

Announcing eurosky.social accounts - launching January 2026. ✅ Managed by Eurosky, a European non-profit initiative ✅ Hosted on European cloud ✅ Governed by European law www.eurosky.social/register

Very interesting analysis of EU vs US productivity. We can achieve similar outcomes in the digital space if we make it policy: less rent extraction and toxicity, better mental health, less inequality, lower emissions, happier youth, more democracy, innovation you actually want to use.

Yessss. See, the Commission *can* get its act together, and act effectively and decisively. Which is why it's frustrating when they don't.

Repeat after me: Global, immediate configuration rollouts are like playing with fire on large systems (this is why DNS is so often the cause of global outages: configs there are, unfortunately, global by design)

Bun is joining Anthropic 😳 bun.com/blog/bun-joi...

Exciting! You can finally run TypeScript code in Node.js with no build steps or custom extensions needed. 🎉