PSA: Use @pnpm.io minimumReleaseAge. A simple way to make NPM supply chain attacks, like the one affecting the `axios` NPM package, more unlikely. maier.tech/notes/pnpm-m...

Not sharing the link but watched a YT video in which a known dev/creator normalized maintaining multiple 200$ per month AI subscriptions to get things done. The pressure is on to spend more than 10$ per month for AI 🤣

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If you have been wondering what agent skills are: this video is for you. Introduction to agent skills and I’m installing the official #svelte skills. youtu.be/YdULRvgNODg

I recently did a deep dive into European hosting alternatives to Big Tech players like Vercel and Cloudflare. I was excited to see many European players trying to take on their US counterparts. But is European hosting ready for your website? Find out in my video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=BbEY...

Sometimes, it's the smallest improvements that create the biggest excitement. maier.tech/notes/commen...

Uhm, @github.com, would you mind running some integration tests before updating your website?

New video coming to my YouTube channel on Monday. Subscribe to get notified when it's published: www.youtube.com/@maiertech

It's 2026 and Google happily sends out spam calendar invites with easy to catch fake invoice content and no option to report as spam 🤦‍♂️

Why is this still on the agenda? This has been democratically rejected only recently. Yet, European conservatives can't take a no for a no. Democracy is not a game in which you repeat a vote until you get the result you please.

SVG files are often the byproduct of vector-based graphic design. You design in some pro tool with proprietary file format and then export to SVG. The result is often a messy SVG file. This does not do justice to SVG. You can use SVG as your main design format. maier.tech/posts/svg-po...

The last time I installed a skill there was no lockfile. Now there is. Skills are now managed dependencies, which is wild. maier.tech/notes/a-lock...

One nugget in this episode was @wesbos.com saying that whoever will make the handoff between local and remote agents seamless (in both directions) will be the winner in this market. Once more, it's not AI but the tooling around that makes or breaks the experience. www.youtube.com/watch?v=S916...

In my latest video I'm trying to answer the question how feasible it is to move web applications to European hosting providers. Lot's of promising options but can they match what US Big Tech has to offer? youtu.be/BbEYnN-1c5Q

Europe is pushing back against its dependence on US Big Tech. But how realistic is it to actually host a web application with a European provider in 2026? I try to answer this question in a deep dive: www.youtube.com/watch?v=BbEY...

Handy to have a shiny new dashboard that helps me navigate to the changelog of an NPM package super fast. Well done, @npmx.dev 👏

New blog post ✍️ How to track page visits in SvelteKit - without any external analytics provider scriptraccoon.dev/blog/track-p...

Dipping my toe in the waters of agent skills. The idea is to unclutter your context and let the agent decide when to pull more advanced stuff into the context. @vercel.com put together a site to discover skills: skills.sh Yet to be seen if skills improve my perceived agent experience.

Animotion update 🪄 - Added API for code scrolling - Added LLM-friendly documentation - Added agent skill to the template - Added various fixes and improvements animotion.pages.dev

Holy cow! This IDE abstracts away the source code. It's @steipete.me's approach to building stuff (without looking at source code) baked into an IDE. In @vscode.dev, the source code is in your face. Everything revolves around code. Imagine that paradigm going away.

It's maybe obvious, but it's so liberating that with #SvelteKit remote functions you don't have to think about fetch calls any longer.

Holy cow! Railway is picking up steam. blog.railway.com/p/series-b

As much as I love Svelte(Kit), its job market has been bad and is not trending upwards. In NL, React and Vue dominate openings. Svelte is close to nonexistent. The screenshot from an opening in DE is a painful reminder that the stack most loved by devs, is perceived differently by decision makers.

Anything I have ever tried to accomplish on Cloudflare withered between a complicated dashboard and docs that were completely outdated. So, I am not sure if this is great news for Astro.

One missing file might ruin your SEO. maier.tech/notes/fix-yo...

I have long refrained from calling out people and orgs that are still on X. Whether you are a politician, part of government, a private company or a dev, you have no reason or justification any more to be on X. Even more so when you are supposed to investigate felonies on X, @politie.bsky.social.

Two of my former UN employers are listed in yesterday's executive order. You can say what you want about the lack of UN efficiency and the weaknesses of multilateralism, but we will all lose in a world where 3 countries bully the rest.

3 days of frost and 0 C during the day in the Netherlands were enough to knock out a common video doorbell. Severe battery drain and event trigger failure despite wired installation. And despite lots of marketing promises.

This is a new sort of post for me. Trust in OSS is a thing I care a lot about. This post is my attempt to frame AI slop PRs as an attack on trust in open source.

Great talk by @derk-jan.com at the @fronteers.bsky.social meetup in Utrecht about practical solutions for accessible components.

“They do lie to you all the time. In fact, if they were truly a junior developer, which is how sometimes people like to say they should be characterized, I would be having some words with HR.” @martinfowler.com over LLMs on the @pragmaticengineer.com podcast. m.youtube.com/watch?v=CQmI...

What does front-end look like in 2026 and beyond? 🤔 Our panel at tomorrow's meetup digs into design systems, AI assistants, DX vs performance, and what this means for teams. Bring your questions and jump in! 📅 Nov 20, 17:30 📍 Capgemini Utrecht 🔗 Join us: www.meetup.com/fronteers-nl...

The @cloudflare.social outage is so bad that @t3.gg is hanging out on Bluesky today. bsky.app/profile/t3.g...

It's bottleneck dependency day again.

Transparency questions aside, EU foreign ministers deserve some credit for choosing a secure option for encrypted group chats. And good to know that @signal.org's threat to exit the EU over #chatcontrol is quite a leverage when politicians depend on it. www.ftm.eu/newsletters/...

📒 If you use PNPM you can use the `minimumReleaseAge` setting to lower the chance of installing compromised NPM packages while they have not yet been detected and removed from the NPM registry. maier.tech/notes/pnpm-m...

Svelte turns 9 today 😍😍😍

I refactored the Footer component of my SvelteKit website to use a `prerender` remote function to read a commit hash from an env variable. But @kevinmackenzie.bsky.social pointed out that it broke the navigation. This was the fix: github.com/maiertech/we... I have no idea why it broke. #Svelte

📝 Updated post: Do I need a sitemap for my SvelteKit app, and how do I create it? maier.tech/posts/do-i-n...

New trend in my inbox: SPAM emails wrapped in Google Calendar entries. Interesting approach to wrap crap in an email that will breeze through SPAM filtering. And a potential problem for any service that uses customizable transactional emails.

📝 New post: My website now runs on Railway but it was way more work than I thought to move it there. maier.tech/posts/it-ain...

One of the few real world examples of a bookmarked PWA being promoted at a larger scale. This is what you see when you try to install the official emergency app in my area. Kudos to to whoever decided to opt for web standards 👏

Self reviews were a good idea before AI but are now a necessity. Don't put that burden on your co-workers. If you use AI, review it 🤖

If getting hired is broken even for @nerdy.dev, it needs to be fixed! Adam's interview with @kevinpowell.co really resonated with me. I wrote down some insights from the interview. www.maier.tech/notes/job-hu...

Can the distinction of AI-assisted engineering vs. vibe coding save the value proposition of traditional software engineering? Not sure. podcasts.apple.com/nl/podcast/t...

New note about a great article that distilled my perception about multi-step AI workflows into words. www.maier.tech/notes/why-mu...

I started adding Content Collections to my SvelteKit website and had to migrate a couple of old plain Svelte posts to Markdown. Here is an evergreen posts I migrated about `:active`, `:focus` and `:focus-visible` pseudo-classes. www.maier.tech/posts/grokin...

Does your browser protect you from fingerprinting? I was surprised to find out that Safari does a much better job than a Chromium-based browser. www.maier.tech/notes/cover-...

While I wait for Apple to fix all the little things broken across devices, I'm still trying to wrap my head around that they had nothing else to do for a year other than focus on transparency gimmicks and rounded corners.

I like Claude Haiku 4.5 so far. It's like putting a cork in that pipe that kept leaking all your included tokens in a week.