All maintainers. All the time. No excuses, join the Pledge. @opensourcepledge.com

God YouTube can be cool and good sometimes. What a brilliant video that not only has a great fucking message, but is also beautifully shot/edited. youtu.be/tWYxrowovts

Wow! This video by @mitchellh.com on feature design is such a gem. A perfect illustration of what it means to excel as a software engineer! 😍 x.com/mitchellh/st...

The Liveblocks team met in Punta Cana for this year's retreat 🇩🇴

Cannot think of even one single time I've ever wanted to "paste with formatting"

Amen! 🙏 tanstack.com/blog/directi...

Our new open-source tool, git-flow-next, has just received a powerful seal of approval from @nvie.com , the creator of git-flow 🤩 We are honored by Vincent's kind words and are committed to carrying the torch forward! 🙏

Didn't know Claude had specific keyword for how much let the model think: "think" < "think hard" < "think harder" < "ultrathink." anthropic.com/engineering/... ultrathink is specifically rainbowed in Claude Code.

how I got better at debugging permalink: wizardzines.com/comics/bette... from our free zine "So you want to be a wizard": wizardzines.com/zines/wizard/

Did you know your MacBook has a sensor that knows the exact angle of the screen hinge? It’s not exposed as a public API, but I figured out a way to read it and make it sound like an old wooden door.

Vitest 4 runs simple test files faster! You can already check it out by installing Vitest 4 beta. On average, Vitest now takes 25% less time to start the test. Due to parallelisation, the overall time difference can vary. We are focusing our efforts on improving the time even more in the next beta!

Not just better for scientists. Better for everyone 🦋 https://www.webpronews.com/scientists-abandon-x-for-bluesky-amid-toxicity-and-misinfo/

entry ≠ exit. A design principle that's rarely mentioned is that entry and exit animations should not be the same. These tabs slide in, yet fade out. Why? Because we're showing intent ↓

We’re exploring ways to improve how Markdown is rendered in our components during streaming. • Complete partial syntax when possible (bold, links, table headers, …) • Buffer incomplete elements (partial images, broken emojis, …)

The full story behind Liveblocks 3.0 is here. In this 6-minute interview, @stevenfabre.com shares how we got here, why interacting with AI often feels disconnected and clunky, and how we’re fixing that at Liveblocks. lblcks.io/story-3.0

Thank you everyone for your support. We've been voted Product Hunt's #1 Product of the Day!

How to build an AI chat that can take actions! This chat can automatically redirect users to the correct page on your site. Takes 2 minutes with the new <AiChat /> component by @liveblocks.io

Liveblocks 3.0 is on Product Hunt today, we'd love your support! lblcks.io/ph-3.0

<AiChat /> just dropped. ✦ AI understands app context, can take actions, modify state. ✦ Render custom components or use pre-built UI skeletons. ✦ Persistent chats, RAG support, choose your AI, more. Just import the component and @liveblocks.io handles the rest.

Say hello Liveblocks 3.0, the fastest way to let people collaborate with AI in your product. What makes AI Copilots different: • Just import React components • Understand context & take in-app actions • Collaborative by design, no AI expertise needed lblcks.io/meet-3.0

Coming very soon! 👀

AI is enabling a new type of programming, it's fascinating. Don't return structured data, just write natural language for AI, and it can figure out what to do next. This is not theoretical either—this is how our AI devtool will reply & call tools. Even better than this though…

Haha

This is high art

There is an insidious idea that has crept into software through the open source movement, which is that software no longer being modified is "abandoned". It's very possible - even desirable - for software to simply be "finished". To serve its purpose reliably, as a tool should.

Trying out Skeets Pro, which supposedly has support for keeping track of your last-read post between app launches, unlike the default Bluesky app. So far it looks better too!

Programming jargon can seem intimidating until you figure out that a fancy term like "immutable variable" means "unchanging changeable", and it becomes clear that technical language is just a crowd sourced API design with serious backward compatibility issues

Where have all the tech creators gone?

You can now update @liveblocks.io real-time storage from Node.js. This is pretty handy for adding AI to your app, and letting it update properties live. For example, below I'm fetching a real-time string and creating a summary, with @vercel.com ai sdk.

We’re open-sourcing Frimousse—a lightweight, unstyled (but with a shadcn​/ui version too), and composable emoji picker for React. 😊 frimousse.liveblocks.io

Been a Vim user for over 20 years, and TIL that `gx` will open any URL under the cursor.

This comment by Anders Hejlsberg on the choice of languages for TypeScript is worth reading. Spead that type of thinking! (And recognize the massive shift that Microsoft made)

New post—How to write exceptional documentation 📝 A detailed, practical guide on creating comprehensive docs for developers. chrisnicholas.dev/blog/how-to...

Such a pity they didn't make this ergonomic form work out of the box. AbortController is such a good API, but not being able to unpack the only two methods on there really feels like a flaw in the design to me.

In 2025, we’re doubling down on our support to Open Source. We’re thrilled to announce the Bolt 100K Open Source Fund:

Wow, this seems pretty big.

@fast-check.dev Good morning! I was following the upgrade guide from 3.x to 4.x, but then noticed… no version 4.x exists yet on NPM, is that correct?

New blog post! Let's move to ESM! 😈 👀 antfu.me/posts/move-o...

Decoders now also joined the Standard Schema spec, standardschema.dev

Accepting community contributions to open source projects has been getting harder over time on GitHub. You used to be able to push a couple of extra commits to a contributed PR as a maintainer, but this seems not possible any more?

Do not dunk. Do not quote-post. Do not screenshot and repost. They wish to be visibly cruel because it makes them feel big and strong. Block them with the most powerful block button we've had on social media to save yourself the energy, and save others from the garage being spread

A nice and beefy release to close off the week! Have a great weekend, y'all! 🍻

Introducing AI Copilots… ready-made interfaces for human‑like collaboration. Learn more → lblcks.io/ai-copilots

Explain your username: Chosen when I was 15 yo or so. Friends used to call me Vinnie. So the name literally is a “v” in “nie” ;) Still love its brevity and uniqueness, and the easy way to type it.

There's literally no tech I'm more bullish on than Vitest. Even TypeScript. If you're using some other test runner, you're making your job harder for no reason.

Tell me you're a Vim user without telling me you're a Vim user…

Monument Valley 3 is so well done 😍 They really outdid themselves with this new version, and that’s a hard thing after the amazing first two versions. Still my favorite iPhone game ever made.

You can tell sync engines are hot tech because none of the companies have pivoted to AI yet.

Dear friends, I'm rejoining Redis. It's a long story, so it deserved a blog post to explain all the details: antirez.com/news/144