Twice a year I get contacted by someone who believes they've solved open source funding. It's usually a new app or licensing scheme. Both miss the point. Most companies see sponsoring open source as "charity" or an unnecessary expense, and until that changes, no solution will make a difference.

I posted a breakdown of my 2025 income as an independent open source maintainer. 💰 tl;dr: it grew 12% from last year, again mostly from a few bigger projects. www.joshuakgoldberg.com/blog/2025-fi...

Seeing how quickly @npmx.dev came onto the scene and how many developers from different backgrounds came together to build it gives me hope for the future. The real value is always the people and the culture surrounding them.

The time has come! In just a few hours the first e18e & friends show with @joshuakgoldberg.com starts! Live on YouTube, later available as livestream VOD for everyone who can't make it. TODAY at 1PM EST / 7PM CET Link below 👇

Has anybody experimented with a bot that auto-closes PRs that are clearly (a) AI-authored and (b) not cleaned up by a human? I'm thinking: if the person didn't take the time to clean up the code, I don't want to waste my time reviewing it. (but if they did clean up the AI code, I do want to)

Grateful for being part of the first round of the OSS Engineering Fund by @elevenlabs.io 💖 Thank you for sponsoring me 🙏

I'm stoked to talk with the lovely folks at e18e about open source, performance, linting, and all sorts of things!

very excited for our first guest of the e18e & friends show to be @joshuakgoldberg.com! He's done so many great things for open source already, so we're super happy to have him join us to chat about what he's been up to lately! tune in tomorrow 🎉

Help us find a home, please!

🤲 Boston TS Club needs your help! We're out of a venue space and are on the lookout for one who can host our monthly meetups. If you work at or know of a company who wants to support the local web development & JavaScript/TypeScript community, please let us know. 💙

✂️ Knip v5.83.0 is out → New Expressive Code plugin by @cylewaitfor.it 🫶 → Ton of fixes → Some of your new, very kind testimonials: knip.dev#dont-just-ta... 🧡 → Improved docs, new Config Hints: knip.dev/reference/co... → Updated sponsors page: knip.dev/sponsors Changelog: github.com/webpro-nl/kn...

We have a unique opportunity with npmx. We're building something very special together. I want to give myself the chance to focus on helping steward the project. I'm going to be working as an independent open source developer this year. Support my work and help me focus on npmx long-term 🙏

I loved working full-time on @vite.dev hired by StackBlitz. High praise to companies hiring OSS devs! But as I did when starting @vitest.dev with @antfu.me, for this new community adventure, as project steward of @npmx.dev together with @danielroe.dev, I'll be going independent. Here we go again ❤️

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!

I was recently on the Changelog podcast to talk about npm's security issues, what can be done, and why the npm registry is unique amongst programming language source code registries.

Exciting news—Clack v1.0 is here! 🎉 🫳 Dropped CJS distribution (the only breaking change) 🆕 Added autocomplete, taskLog, and more 🌏 Localization support 🐞 Dozens of bug fixes + performance improvements 🤗 Ecosystem alignment This release marks stable support for our current APIs

TIL there's ongoing work to add a native virtual file system (VFS) to Node.js!! Yes please!!! 😱🤩 github.com/nodejs/node/... @nodeland.dev you are a hero!

It’s happening. Yarn 6 Preview is here 💫 Yes, we rewrote it in Rust 🦀⚡️ I'm incredibly excited for the future of our beloved package manager. See the benchmarks and plans in our latest post:

I know I mentioned it before, but the more I work with ai, the more I feel like everything we do to optimize it applies equally well to humans. AI has trouble finding things? Add a md file with a short description of the codebase. Like the exact same thing we do for humans.

my therapist knows more about linting than any human should

Right now, if you use the recommended way to set up an ESLint config with eslint-plugin-import's recommended config preset, you get a false positive. It's caused by the old 'resolve' package, used by eslint-plugin-import, not supporting 'exports' yet. Repro: github.com/JoshuaKGoldb... 1/🧵

Highly recommend!!!

My book, Accessibility For Everyone, is now free and online as a website. accessibilityforeveryone.site The book was first published by A Book Apart in 2017 but it holds up! It covers web accessibility for designers, developers, content folks, and really everyone who works in tech.

I’ve been thinking about open source work that sits between “side project” and “venture-backed startup.” Watching the atproto space has sharpened my thinking around shared, communal infrastructure. These are some thoughts on why that middle path eroded and what it might take to rebuild it.

I'm asking because I'm building an alternative to npmjs.com, including the admin ui piece I have a working mvp, although of course it's very 🚧 if this is something you'd like to contribute to, and you've experienced any of these pain points, let me know - always more fun to build together! 🙏

🙋‍♂️ so ... for reasons: I would love to know people's frustrations with: - the current npmjs.com - admin user flows on npm web ui (and cli, locally) 🙏

We just published the Biome Rodmap 2026! biomejs.dev/blog/roadmap...

Good things are coming! SCSS support, LSP goodies, DX improvements, more lint rules. Packed with features!

🤩 GitHub added new 13.x emojis to the in-site emoji picker! Yay!! No more having to use the weirdly-slow-and-buggy macOS picker for ❤️‍🔥!!!

Hey check out this nifty Postman clone(ish) made by @atila.io with @solidjs.com and SolidStart! github.com/atilafassina...

🙌 Cool!!! Cloudflare is a great group of people doing awesome work, and I'm thrilled to see investment in the also-awesome Astro framework. Congrats Astro folks, this is wonderful! @ematipico.xyz @mk.gg @sarah11918.rainsberger.ca etc.

Fun story from today. I'm currently trying to get `--strict` on by default in TypeScript 6.0. Our test suite has many tests which are written with `--strict false`, so I am updating them by adding a special comment our test suite recognizes for options // @strict: false However...

What profession do you think the user of this keyboard has?

Big news 🚀! #Lodash is now on Open Collective! Support the project and be among the first backers or sponsors 🙌 opencollective.com/lodash

i’m team em dashes for life the actual tell of most AI content is just that it doesn’t have anything to say and is boring to read people who can’t tell good writing from bad writing by content shouldn’t have any sway over how we write

Were you busy during the holidays and forgot to submit to our CFP? 😲 No worries, we've got you! The deadline has been extended 2️⃣ weeks, so let us know what you'd like to share with our community in June 🤗 👉 cascadiajs.com/2026/cfp

🎟️ First tickets are live! Grab yours at regular price before it goes up end of January 🚀 35 speakers • 8 workshops • 3 days of AI & JavaScript magic 🤖⚡ Join us in #London 👉 london.cityjsconf.org

Interop is brilliant. Aligning the efforts of all browsers around crucial focus areas every year is doing wonders for interoperability, and its effect is compounding.

Calling all Philly devs! We’re hosting our first ever Philly GraphQL meetup on Thursday, January 22nd at 6:30pm. We’re keeping it casual with an Intro to GraphQL talk and plenty of time to socialize, ask questions, and tell us what topics you’d like to see next. luma.com/etwcu14k

prospective Pledge co's: idk it's a lot of money, will it really help with recruiting? prospective employees:

I start my next job in 42 days. I posted about it on LinkedIn 5 hours ago. Someone I've never talked to before has already asked me for a referral. lol

Job update: I'm going to start as a frontend dev at @sentry.io on February 16th! 🥳 Sentry has a stellar product I've enjoyed using, lovely people, and an excellent relationship with open source. I'm really looking forward to joining the team. A few open source FAQs... 1/🧵

Putting Signals in your compiler? Turns out this is already happening. marvinh.dev/blog/signals...

🙌 My NodeTLV talk is live! Web dev tooling! Formatters! Linters! Type Checkers! Pruning! Templates! All that and more! www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JSE...

I have to say, it's a little infuriating setting up a monorepo of published packages with the new npm Trusted Publisher requirements. Every package needs a multi-step access change in the UI. Which keeps captcha-ing me. Repeatedly. npm needs more funding.

📮 What Flint Does Differently Flint is an experimental linter. It intentionally revisits many of the core design decisions from other popular web linters. Please enjoy this medium dive how Flint's intentionally deviating from other linters and trying new things. ❤️‍🔥 www.flint.fyi/blog/what-fl...

✂️ Knip for Editors & Agents Couldn't be more excited and proud to introduce the brand new VS Code Extension and MCP Server. For humans and coding agents alike, Knip will help keep your codebases tidy. → Read the blog post:

JSHeroes is one of my *favorite* conferences of all time. Lovely people, high quality event, and the best desserts 🍩. I tried to resist the urge to submit but couldn't. Happy new year!

Today on the pod, we wrap up 2025 with Microsoft's JS/TS modernization agent, Next.js 16.1, Bun 1.3.5, and Standard Schema V1. Plus community tips on types vs interfaces! At the end, we read some of your listener feedback and reflect on our 50+ episodes 🎉 youtu.be/q9PYRBqLNgM?... #typescript