I'll be speaking there! You should come too!

Every time I come back to Manchester it looks better

If you delete the issue template I will find you

Just got the last part of my mini pedal board. It's literally everything I need: octaver, Rat-style distortion, delay/reverb, looper/drum machine. With this combination I can do all music.

Last night at @viennajs.bsky.social: give a talk about dotfiles and key bindings and you are guaranteed to be swarmed by devs for the rest of the night 😂 Great talk by our new @vendure.io team member Housein 👏

I think back to the hours of my life spent painfully trying to figure out how to make JavaScript work. Copy-pasting from random forum posts. This was even before Stack Overflow (RIP). Yes I'm that old. And I compare it to the velocity I now have using AI tooling.

6,666 commits over 7 years of building @vendure.io that's an average of 3-4 commits *every* work day for the past 7 years. Consistency. Just show up and get the work done.

Sometimes I hear that it was a mistake to build @vendure.io on top of GraphQL. "Too complex", "Can't be cached", "Poor performance", "It was all hype" Yes, every technology has its tradeoffs. I'm keenly aware. There *are* some aspects you need to be mindful of when working with GraphQL.

> @vite.dev is my new favourite thing. If you're a @vendure.io developer it's gonna become your new favourite thing too, very soon! I was vaguely aware that it was slowly taking over the frontend world - every framework seemed to use it for some reason.

There's one lesson that has taken me years to *really* learn in software development: Simplicity should be prized above all other things. Simple code. Simple logic. Simple dependencies. Simple deployments.

I love building stuff for developers. Here's what's coming in the new @vendure.io dashboard:

“This is how big the pile of money is I got from my dad to work on open source” 😂

𝐍𝐨𝐭 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐞𝐜𝐡 𝐧𝐞𝐞𝐝𝐬 𝐚 𝐛𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐥𝐞. @michlbrmly.dev reminded us at HalfStack Vienna that “it depends” is a valid answer ✌️ Watch his talk: youtu.be/WBpzS36-eIc Submit your CfP for Vienna 2025! 🔗 halfstackconf.com/vienna #TechWithoutTribalism #HalfStackEvents

New weekly record for npm downloads this week for @vendure.io

This is what it looks like when an abandoned open source project comes back to life

Just released! TypeORM v0.3.25 ✨ github.com/typeorm/type...

Extremely annoying LLM behaviour

I'm excited to speak at the upcoming @viennajs.bsky.social meetup alongside @tkdodo.eu I'll be talking about life as a full-time OSS maintainer. Anything you wanna know about? viennajs.org/en/meetup/vi...

First back flip landed at age 41. How much harder is it to land one on flat ground?

Achievement unlocked: I actually started a conversation with a stranger in Mandarin while waiting with my kids at a doctors office. It was very, very basic but we managed to make it work 😂

9yo made a working sniper rifle from Lego

Just sat next to some teenage girls who were chatting in German and referring to each other as "bro". Is that a thing now?

Some premium presentation on tonight's glazed belly pork 😋

Coming soon: Draft Orders in our new @vendure.io dashboard

I had the pleasure to meet @danielroe.dev at the @viennajs.bsky.social this evening. A very inspiring speaker and all around nice chap, I must say.

It's that time of year when I'm glad that the @vendure.io office is right above one of the best ice cream places in the city 🍦

We have an extremely 🔥 role open in Vienna right now.

We just released TypeORM v0.3.22. Oh you thought TypeORM was dead? Nope, we have an incredible new team of maintainers already on their second big release in the past 4 weeks! github.com/typeorm/type...

Weekend coding project with my kid: ⚔️ Rome: Total Vibes ⚔️ Mostly built by Cursor with a few manual interventions. Features: - Multiple factions & units - Ranged & melee combat - Tile-based map - Perlin noise-based elevation - Elevation-based range & speed buffs - Enemy AI which is pretty hard!

I finally broke through my AI-hesitancy. Today was one of the most productive, flow-filled days of building I have experienced. And I mostly typed English, not TypeScript.

I'm excited to announce the first TypeORM release in over a year! 🎉 Since taking over maintenance with David late last year, we've been working to build a sustainable model to guarantee the future of this amazing & critical project (2m+ downloads PER WEEK)

Look the thumb is just a meme. My friendship with @angular.dev will *never* end ❤️ But here's why we switched and what I've been building with React this week. youtu.be/Se0MeF9xsts?...

✨ Vendure v3.1.4 is out now! 📘 Changelog: github.com/vendure-ecom...

I've been hacking on our new React dashboard for a week on and off. I've got some really exciting proof of concept work that I want to show off later this week. I have a very ambitious goal with the DX and power of this project. Pretty confident we can get there too!

I've been doing Angular for well over 10 years, starting with v1.x. 7 years ago I chose Angular to power the admin interface of @vendure.io. We just announced that we'll be moving to React. Some thoughts 👇 vendure.io/blog/2025/02...

Meet your new TypeORM maintenance team! Thanks Naor for organizing the first maintainer call. It's really exciting to see this project coming back to life with a motivated group of individuals pushing things forward.

After 11 years living im Austria I finally got myself Lederhosen. Photos to follow.

Anyone got a good counter argument? www.olivare.net/blog/2023/de...

In the Vendure Discord we started getting questions about "I have created this backend NestJS service. How do I use it in my frontend Angular code?" I realized that the rise of Nextjs and other "full stack" frameworks have sufficiently blurred the boundary...

We just added a new docs page on implementing the dataloader pattern to speed up problematic queries in your @vendure.io app! Thanks to community team member Marc for contributing this guide! docs.vendure.io/guides/devel...

Reading stories of the banter between TikTok refugees and Chinese RedNote users is fun. Actually speaking to people and learning about them first hand is the best way to circumvent propaganda. But I'm sure it won't last. CCP will not tolerate free exchange for long I think.

Here's a beautiful new web shop that recently launched with @vendure.io: Ciocca migrated from PrestaShop to Vendure and make great use of a number of Vendure's advanced capabilities:

Who has a suggestion for a new, simpler, cooler logo for TypeORM?

I started building an internal training platform for our developers. It's going to cover the very basics (what is an expression? What is a statement?) All the way through our entire stack (TS, Node, SQL, React, Angular) To senior topics like API design, system design.

We've now got public test coverage reporting set up for TypeORM (thanks @osa413.bsky.social) Currently at 72% - not a bad starting point! coveralls.io/github/typeo...

Testing the level of bot infestation here. I absolutely don't want anyone to pitch me to create a custom logo.

Found a new killer app for LLMs: make it possible to understand postmodern art exhibitions.

Repo stats for TypeORM for December: - 17 PRs merged - 62 issues closed We're aiming for a release in the next couple of weeks.