🕹️ Game Jam: Ludum Dare 58 🕹️ ldjam.com/events/ludum... What: Let's make a game in 72 hours!!! Who: Anyone that wants to make a game! When: Friday October 3rd - Monday October 6th How: * Rules: ldjam.com/events/ludum... * Suggest/vote on themes! ldjam.com/events/ludum...

Community highlights ✨ - @squiggleconf.com happened! - @brianmuenzenmeyer.com shares pure TS GitHub Actions - @azraelsec.sh type branding ELI5 - @evanhahn.com don't use ts-ignore - Matt Brown explains using Node's Test Runner with TypeScript & React - Motion AI on why they're moving off of TS

Today on the pod: Shai-Hulud attack on npm, WebAssembly 3.0, type branding and tuple techniques, what to use instead of @ts-ignore, and discussing Motion's move off of TS for their backend share.transistor.fm/s/47197c83 #typescript

This is truly exceptional execution of a classic!! #indiedev

🎉 I found that if I prop it up just right, with a certain charger, I'm able to charge my laptop. Anyway, I made an #LDJam post. Letting it juice up some more before I edit other things for the event. Theme Suggestions open. ldjam.com

To anyone asking about next month's Ludum Dare, I'm honestly not sure what to do. I'd like to run an event, but I'm too terrified about my ability to pay my bills to focus on it. I've been sending so many job applications that my Google Docs is all cover letters. 🤷

🧱 Excalitris! A brand new Excalibur tetris-like sample is live! Check it out now! You can even do vim motions! Thanks to @chrisk-7777.bsky.social Did you know you can do game dev with TypeScript? Play: excaliburjs.com/sample-excal... Repo: github.com/excaliburjs/... #typescript #gamedev #tetris

had an amazing time with @typescript.fm. if you're interested in a deep-dive on typescript validation and @arktype.io, this is for you! 👇

ICYMI: @squiggleconf.com Is live right now! Be sure to rewind and catch @jakebailey.dev's talk on porting TypeScript to GO!!! #typescript youtube.com/live/C_ePbVZqXrw?si=yv-qp9GRYd_L6yHb

Today on the pod, major TS ecosystem updates: TypeScript Go gets biggest nightly update yet, Rspack announces new Rslint linter, Bun 1.2.21 features 500x faster postMessage, plus Next.js 15.5 has typed routing! share.transistor.fm/s/0304855f #typescript

Excalibur game on Steam! Go wishlist it now! store.steampowered.com/app/3834590/... #indie #gamedev #excaliburjs #typescript

I built a realtime LED grid and let the internet control it. Here is the stack: Cloudflare Durable objects Partykit React + Websockets ESP32 microcontroller 3D printing + lots of soldering

A friend in the ExcaliburJS discord server has just started up their steam page for the upcoming new idle clicker game! I want to spread the word! Its fun to see someone put the work into it and reap the rewards! #indiedev #gamedev #games #idleclicker store.steampowered.com/app/3834590/...

I have a new blogpost out on using dual Tilemaps for autotiling. #indiedev #gamedev #tilemap @excaliburjs.com excaliburjs.com/blog/Dual%20... I have a demo application to play with this technique on Itch.io... mookie4242.itch.io/dual-tilemap... Leave a comment and let me know your thoughts!

Community highlights ✨ - Rob Hameetman recreates CSS light-dark() in TS - @boshen.github.io teases type-aware linting with TSGo - @weeklybrew.dev interviews Daniel Ehrenberg on JS evolution - @mookie4242.bsky.social made an Excalibur game - @jakebailey.dev on 'Why's TS so slow?! 🐢

WebStorm adds TS Go support, V8's JSON.stringify is 2x faster, Bun gets type-level assertions, and a TypeScript AI conf! Plus top tools & tips for TS devs. share.transistor.fm/s/0c4f280f #typescript

This is one of my favorite podcast episodes I've ever been on. I love this conversation and the points covered: linting in 2025, performance vs. devX tradeoffs, and all sorts of interesting dives into architectures. If you never thought you should care about your linter, this will blow your mind! 🧠

Today on the pod: Joshua Goldberg breaks down the latest TypeScript linters, how to pick the right one, and best practices for 2025. #typescript

My NDC Oslo talk is live!!! Let's Make JavaScript BLAZINGLY FAST! Lessons from a Game Engine @excaliburjs.com www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCB9... #gamedev #javascript #excaliburjs

Checkout my buddy’s NDC talk on how to make JavaScript performant! This is what powers ExcaliburJS as a game engine. #gamedev #indiedev youtu.be/xCB9cB9YZL8?...

Today on the pod, Node 22.18 LTS brings TypeScript to the masses! TS 5.9, a Rust-based alternative to Next.js, Laravel Wayfinder, and top community picks. Listen: share.transistor.fm/s/5216ca1c #typescript

Did you know you can just say things on the internet? Like "July is National Carpet Cleaning Month"? Welp worked on me, got my carpets cleaned haha.

I've been trying to give web components a real shot. I used to think the API 100% sucked but I've mostly come around on it. Thinking of them as "enhanced elements" rather than bespoke components has helped make their use-case click (thanks enhance.dev, great resources there @brianleroux.bsky.social)

More people should hire Rob tbh

Fooled around and made a ExcaliburJS level design tool that uses Excel or Google Sheets to design the level, parses it, and automagically creates your tilemap and entities for you in Excalibur!!!! #gamedev #indiedev @excaliburjs.com

Liran Tal from Snyk shares how to build secure TypeScript apps, avoid common pitfalls, and not over-trust types or LLMs. Listen: share.transistor.fm/s/c587816d #typescript

@distraction.engineer Howdy! I'm planning on organizing a local get together for LDJAM in October for igdatc.org! Anything we should sign up for/notify/participate in?

Today on the pod: Deno Fresh 2.0 alpha, TS 5.9 RC, npm linter attack, learn TS in an hour, generics, DI libs & more! share.transistor.fm/s/857c045a #typescript

My talk titled "Your GPU is a JavaScript Runtime*" just landed on YouTube! 👨‍💻 I answer WHY and HOW we compile JS/TS to WGSL, how it improves interop for the whole ecosystem, and the added dimension of customizability it unlocks for WebGPU libraries Video below ⬇️ #webgpu #typegpu #typescript

The latest alpha version of fresh can be installed with: deno -A jsr:@fresh/[email protected] fresh.deno.dev/docs/canary/...

Today on the pod! Deno Bundle is Back in Black in 2.4! We coin the term "Bweet", Deno also gets some non-standard import attributes for text and bytes, OTEL is now stable in Deno, and Next.js has a DoS vulnerability. Listen: share.transistor.fm/s/cee76c97

TypeScript 5.9 Beta just went out! Try it in your project and let us know what you think: devblogs.microsoft.com/typescript/a...

stylized night sky shader i've been poking at...might be cooking up an actual game project who knows 🙈🫣 #godot #gamedev #indiedev

Today on the pod: ES2025 is ratified, Vite 7 deprecates features, Node LTS updates, plus 6 advanced TypeScript tricks & more. Listen: share.transistor.fm/s/9502cc66 #typescript

I wrote an update on our JavaScript™ cancellation effort deno.com/blog/deno-v-... #FreeJavaScript

🧩 New ECS feature to improve Query options just landed in main Excalibur thanks to @mattjennin.gs! Latest alpha `npm install excalibur@next` Queries can now take additional options to filter in/out by components or tags! This is huge for our ECS fans out there and a long requested feature!

🗺️ New Graph module to do graph data structures and algorithms with built in path finding! Thanks @mookie4242.bsky.social! Features: - Nodes with custom data - Weighted, directed or undirected edges - Position nodes in 2D space for spatial algorithms - Built in BFS and DFS - Path finding!

Biome v2 brings type-aware linting, Mocha & Jest add native ESM/TS, k6 runs TS tests, plus tips on map/index key type safety, import maps & WebGPU. Listen: share.transistor.fm/s/48085fcd #typescript

Community highlights ✨ - @lirantal.com on securing TS - @socket.dev post on pnpm's new virtual store - @nxjosh.bsky.social introduces TypeFire - @cinny.bun.how shares a JIT schema validation library - @dr-axel.de releases new ES2025 edition for Exploring JS - @ycmjason.codes wants #ROLP to trend

Today on the pod: Node's type stripping wrapper is now standalone, Oxlint brings Rust speed to TS linting, pnpm gets faster, and more! share.transistor.fm/s/e55fe2aa #typescript

📣 We're proud to announce today the speakers for SquiggleConf 2025! This amazing list of people are going to give talks on the latest and greatest in web dev tooling. SquiggleConf 2025 is going to be a wonderful time. We hope to see you there! 💙 squiggleconf.com

I'm so pumped for this year's list of speakers! It's a fantastic group from all sorts of different tech areas. C++, .NET, Go, Rust, TypeScript, etc. - all revolving around superb web dev tooling. Hype! 🙌

@typescript.fm has rapidly become one of my favorite podcasts. It's great for catching up on TypeScript & web things regularly. Thanks @erikonarheim.com @kamranicus.com for making an awesome resource! 🙌

The Weekly Dev's Brew Podcast is now also available on Amazon Music, took way longer than I expected. But it's a perfect time to listen to the latest episode with @joshuakgoldberg.com music.amazon.com/podcasts/e54...

My core guiding principle to writing clean code! #javascript #typescript youtu.be/f3RiI9VRohs

Today on the pod: tsc --init gets modern defaults, Vite 7 & Babel 8 betas, plus advanced TS tips for monorepos. Listen: share.transistor.fm/s/ed088fd9 #typescript

Every try upgrading your TSConfig? It can be painful for big codebases. No longer! In todays episode, Jason Yu (@ycmjason.codes) shares how to migrate to modern compiler options progressively with his new tool ts-migrating. Don't miss this one! Listen now: share.transistor.fm/s/cd59a068 #typescript

Angular 20 brings DX boosts, Remix is back, Temporal API hits Firefox, plus new TS tools & community highlights. Listen: share.transistor.fm/s/a8f236c7 #typescript

Good News everyone! A new version Excalibur Dev Tools Extension had been deployed to the Chrome/FF web stores!!! Release: github.com/excaliburjs/... Chrome: chromewebstore.google.com/detail/excal... FF: addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefo...

Be sure to check out @deno.land's Brief History of JavaScript, it'll give you some nostalgia. 🥹 deno.com/blog/history...