npm is great but what if there was a better, more secure way. there is! @byk.im shows us.

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Next level DIY skill unlocked: modify an IKEA furniture using a hired mitre saw (which I have never used in my life), in my backyard. Complete with Crocs slippers and an old pair of Bose ANC headphones for ear protection.

Run `gh api -H "Accept: application/vnd.github+json" -H "X-GitHub-Api-Version: 2022-11-28" /repos/$OWNER/$REPO/pulls/$PULL_ID/comments | jq '[ .[] | { diff_hunk, line, start_line, body } ]'` to get all comments. Build a todo list from these and finish it. Do not stop until you are done.

Okay I'm a full AI and @cursor.com.web.brid.gy convert due to the amazing planning mode. It's my 6th PR today and one of the things was creating an entire npm package from scratch (stay tuned for that). 🤯

`spotlight mcp tools/list` `spotlight mcp tools/call get_local_errors --args '{"timeWindow": 60}'` Useful? Not useful? Don't even know what I'm talking about?

My laptop has been dog slow for the past couple of days and then I realized why 🤦🏻‍♂️

Young people are using ChatGPT to write their applications; HR is using AI to read them; no one is getting hired. @annielowrey.bsky.social reports:

This episode really got me struggling to take sides and also took me back to the old (better?) days of the Internet...

"Celebrate underrepresented groups in tech, but do not focus on their gender identity. Celebrate their achievements, use your privilege to lift them up, share their work, make their voice heard: not because they are not men, but because their work is worth celebrating." 💯

🎉 Big news! @muppet.dev is being acquired by @sentry.io! I'm thrilled to be joining Sentry - their vision aligns perfectly with what I've been building with Muppet, and together we can achieve our goals much faster 🚀

I feel like we're kind of back in the dark days of the Internet again. X/Twitter seems mostly dead maybe unless you're paying. BlueSky didn't get enough traction and became another political war zone and I don't think Google surfaces my articles at all. How do y'all reach people nowadays?

A heart-warming story about Markdown, its evil cousing MDX, LLMs, and build optimization: byk.im/posts/markin...

New post up: byk.im/posts/uk-pay... Another should follow tomorrow and this time it is not a horror story, I promise!

It's shocking how much time you can save off of builds by just using async, multi-thread/multi-process, and some very naive caching even in 2025. Especially so when we already have things like Ucacher: earthly.dev/blog/ucacher/

Loving this so much 🤣

Once they discover adding electric zapping to our cells too, we can welcome Bioshock into reality from sci-fi www.earth.com/news/crispr-...

Big day today, for many reasons: 1. Couple of months ago, we started to look for a new member on @sentry.io's Special Projects Eng team and today Miguel "bete" Betegon (betegon.com) started. His energy is infectious, I can't wait to see the things we'll be building together!

Yesterday, @opensourcepledge.com was on Nasdaq Tower in Times Square. I got to be there for it! Thank you to Nasdaq and congratulations to all of the featured companies who #paythemaintainers! 👏 What a great way to keep celebrating #maintainermonth! 💃

As promised, new post up on signing binaries for macOS w/o using Apple tooling: byk.im/posts/apple-...

Some very nice blogs I discovered here so sharing. Also such a great way to use his reach, hat tips to @danabra.mov

In an executive order, President Trump directs the Corporation for Public Broadcasting to stop funding NPR and PBS, the nation's primary public broadcasters.

This might be the first exciting news about Firefox over so many years: blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/t...

Back in the game!

Tariffs xkcd.com/3073

Hello Fallout universe 👋🏻 www.techspot.com/news/107357-...

📢 I'm excited to share MCP Tools - an open-source CLI I built to solve my own struggles with testing Model Context Protocol servers. If you're working with MCPs, this might make your life easier too. Simple and interactive. 👉 github.com/f/mcptools 📖 blog.fka.dev/blog/2025-03...

💪🏻 💪🏻 💪🏻 This is SO COOL I build an app to count dumbbell reps with an AI model in the browser using Tensorflow.js and a pose detection model

Millions of websites rely on PHP. That's a lot of responsibility on the shoulders of a few core developers. Enter @thephpf.bsky.social to combat the "bus factor" and ensure that the language keeps moving forward. @gregkumparak.bsky.social spoke to @pronskiy.bsky.social to get the backstory...

TIL you can just open a TCP connection and interact with it right inside bash. Wrote this monstrosity for a Docker image healthcheck: `exec 3<>'/dev/tcp/localhost/8969' && printf 'GET /health HTTP/1.0\r\nHost: localhost\r\n\r\n' >&3 && read -r line <&3 && echo "$$line" | grep -q '200 OK'`

Aww, my first Rust code contribution made it to the real world 🦋 github.com/getsentry/se...

Today's random images by yours truly

The new native TS compiler is a stunning tech feat. A gift to the community. A thoughtful plan to preserve expectations. So reactions surprised me! JS folk: Cool! An OSS project I rely on & don't pay for is now 10x faster 😍 Rust folk: Curious! Let's learn more about this choice. C# spokespeople:

Heavy snow in March?!

I used to be able to say "Hey Google, play Discover Weekly" and it played my personal weekly discovery playlist album on Spotify. Now some a** created a playlist with the same name with probably computer generated garbage songs and there's no way to block it. Why can't we have good things?

TypeScript team: rewrites compiler in Go. Go community: what do you mean your new compiler takes more than a minute to compile? Unacceptable. Dishonorable even. We are so sorry for this sub par experience. Not how we do things around here. Two days later: WIP 5x speedup. HN: why pick Go anyway?

@nikolovlazar.com will be hosting a live workshop on Wednesday the 12th at 9 AM PT. Think of it as a "build it live" event so bring your computer and questions. sentry.io/resources/in...

Introducing Dammit Sans: A @sentry.io typeface created during our most recent hack week sentry.design/blog/dammit-...

I've recently started playing Prince of Persia The Lost Crown and feels like it is a perfect mix of the very first PoP games and Sands of Time in terms of game mechanics. Anyone feeling similar?

I was wondering why the government was using WinZip and this thread is a good answer. Apologies for my ignorance and thanks @ssg.dev for the explainers!

We are looking for a second full-time engineer to help accelerate Special Projects at @sentry.io. This is a unique opportunity that is great for someone who wants the stability of a more established startup, but the flexibility of working on fresh ideas. 🧵

Sentry's Special Projects division has been a great place for me to flex my engineering muscles outside of language or project specifics. We're now looking to expand the team so we can go faster. Would love to work with you if you're interested! https://x.com/zeeg/status/1896611681444491305

Disclaimer: I don't like what's happening in US politics right now BUT 1. Why are you paying for WinZip at all? (7-zip et al?) 2. And why are you paying for 37 THOUSAND of it?! I know it's a fraction of a fraction of the entire government costs but it doesn't make it less silly.

We silently released a new version of Spotlight that can now graft profiling information into manually instrumented traces/spans to fill in the gaps. It works for JS and Python right now but should work for anything that Sentry SDKs support profiling on (Ruby, PHP, Java..)

We silently released a new version of Spotlight that can now graft profiling information into manually instrumented traces/spans to fill in the gaps. It works for JavaScript and Python applications right now but should work for anything that Sentry SDKs support profiling on (Ruby, PHP, Java..)

Already hit v0.4.1 with fossilize: github.com/BYK/fossilize Notable updates so far: - Node v18 support (not as a target) - Control flags like `--sign` and `--platform` through env variables Getting closer to a 1.0 release!

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This is the best thing I've seen in a while 😅 (not just the PR but the whole BritCSS project)

Just read "monorepository" as "monstrosity" and I'm pro-mono. Don't know what to make of this 🤷🏻‍♂️

JSON.stringify(undefined) -> undefined JSON.parse(null) -> null More like JSON.UGH amirite