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

Guess what!? Pure @typescriptlang.org @github.com Actions with no build process now work! I made this demo at github.com/bmuenzenmeye...

I gotta appreciate the cultural overlap of #fortnite - it just showed a set of Beavis and Butthead skins to my boys and they were positively fascinated - having never seen or heard of them before.

Brian Muenzenmeyer (@brianmuenzenmeyer.com), Principal Engineer for @nodejs.org, joins us on stage to share their insights. Don't miss "Finite Source Machines: Contribution for Busy Humans" at #AllThingsOpen! 2025.allthingsopen.org/sessions/fin...

fun news! I was laid off from Twilio. going to take this weekend to chill out, and will start looking for roles next week. if you or someone you know is looking for staff/principal level Developer Advocacy, OSPO, dev infra, or similar roles pass them along! reposts from tech folks appreciated <3

@aviv.sh and I are working on an End of Life (EOL) page for @nodejs.org. Better communicating the risks of staying on out of date software is work worth doing, and helps the entire ecosystem stay safer. github.com/nodejs/nodej... #opensource #nodejs #vulnerabilities #cve

New Pride spotlight from @thisismissem.social 🌈💚 She shares how coming out and contributing to open source shaped her journey in tech. Read it here: nodejs.org/en/blog/comm...

A two-fer - I'll be at @jsconf.bsky.social too, right after @allthingsopen.bsky.social - talking about advancements in @nodejs.org making userland simpler. I hope to see you there!

Happy Pride 🌈 In our latest blog post, @vcarl.com shares a powerful reflection on open source and identity: nodejs.org/en/blog/comm... We're spotlighting LGBTQ voices in the Node.js community. Got a story to share? Submit a PR: github.com/nodejs/nodej...

🚀 Announcement: I'll be speaking at #AllThingsOpen this October, talking about "​​Finite Source Machines: Contribution for Busy Humans". I hope to see you there!

I spent about a month ranking MLS team crests according to design principles, at least as I've come to know them. It was fun to compare notes with Jack too. brianmuenzenmeyer.com/posts/2025-m... #mls #soccer #design

⚽️New post: Soccer A running list of games I or the family have been fortunate enough to attend. This is a good post to tend, digital garden style. brianmuenzenmeyer.com/posts/2025-s...

The future of OSUOSL is in jeopardy - as a nonprofit, they provide free infrastructure for many OSS projects, nurturing smaller projects and filling out support matrices for bigger projects like Node.js. Please help them keep the lights on for the OSS world! osuosl.org/blog/osl-fut...

I also went to @brianmuenzenmeyer.com's Node dependency talk, where he shared some great tips on what's new in Node and what npm deps you don't need anymore!

Slides for my standing-room-only talk "Do I Still Need This Dependency for My @nodejs.org App?" Overwhelming feedback was that they wished this was on an official resource somewhere. noti.st/brianmuenzen... #nodejs #minnebar19

Join me at sold out, record turnout, and my first @minnestar.org Minnebar this Saturday. I'm slated for session 1 at 9:35 AM: "Do I still need this dependency for my @nodejs.org app?" sessions.minnestar.org

Are two nearly identical "hot takes" fusion or fission? Suppose that's what a screenshot if LinkedIn of a sceenshot of Twitter now on Bluesky gets us. Setting down the anxiety rectangle for now.

Here just to relay that my six year old said that the best #marchmadness team is "Dookie". Love that pronunciation, no notes little man.

🐕 Moved around some copies of Approachable Open Source today to make room for our puppy. Shameless marketing opportunities soon! #opensource #booksky

The world needs more light than heat right now. I explored making the book more discoverable through Amazon fulfillment, and three failed sign ups later, nothing happened. But they took my money. So screw it. More people will read this, one way or another. Enjoy! #opensource #booksky #free

🌇 create-react-app is finally deprecated. 🎈 This is a moment to celebrate clarity in a community. My team has been tracking this inevitability since 2021. It should not be a surprise to anyone paying attention. #create-react-app #opensource #sustainability

I think I finally resolved the source of so many #i18n problems with @nodejs.org work - reference-style markdown links without an id will use the display text...but that gets translated. ``` [link text][] // translate me, break the link! ... [link text](url...) ``` github.com/nodejs/nodej...

areward things about putting more and more of approachableopensource.com online is that I can add creature comforts, like link crawling. I started this today and already found dead links - like what I thought would be a good authoritative resource www.secondcity.com/network/how-...

💥 ANNOUNCEMENT: I’m excited to share that I — along with my brother Ian Frost — are going fully independent: bradfrost.com/blog/post/an...

Thanks Mike! Appreciate the kind words. 💚

Upgraded approachableopensource.com to @astro.build@5, cold, in about 14 minutes. Good resource and CLI help at docs.astro.build/en/guides/up...

I gave this a read and can't recommend it enough for folks who want a holistic view of what open source really means at the ground level.

Jeff Atwood steps up to be a thing that’s sorely needed in tech right now: a leader. He actually *gives* half of his current net worth (not a pledge — he already cut checks) to 8 organizations helping the most vulnerable. blog.codinghorror.com/stay-gold-am... An inspiring move, when it most matters.

🎙️ ICYMI: Approachable Open Source has a trio of podcast appearances for your enjoyment. - 1️⃣ Shop Talk Show with @davatron5000.bsky.social and @chriscoyier.net - 2️⃣ @sustainoss.bsky.social with @richlitt.bsky.social and @abbycabs.dev - 3️⃣ CloudChat with Carl Schweitzer and @brandonmartinez.com

Great to see the project doing everything it can to make software more secure! Many organizations have SLAs to mitigate vulnerabilities, and this intakes into them.

🤔 Pretty much since the inception of Approachable Open Source, I’ve asked myself and others, “should the book itself be #opensource?” We’ll get to that below. But, let’s not bury the lede. 📗 Read the book at approachableopensource.com/read/ 📑 View the source github.com/approachable...

Brian Muenzenmeyer (https://brianmuenzenmeyer.com/) talks about his book, Approachable Open Source (https://approachableopensource.com/), emphasizing diverse contributions and inclusive paths in open source. Listen at 🎙️ https://podcast.sustainoss.org/262

Just released a new post: Do I Need This Node Dependency? Wherein I step by step highlight a bunch of new features released on the Node.js project, and wrap up with a longer narrative about open source pace layers. brianmuenzenmeyer.com/posts/2024-d... #nodejs #opensource #pacelayers

Forgot how much Christmas morning is just tech support as a parent

I loved A Book Apart; it was a huge part of my life for around a decade, and I was devastated when it shuttered. I just learned that David Demaree has built a site tracking where titles (whose rights have reverted to the authors) are popping up as they become available again authors-together.org

👋Hola @nodejs.org , ahora en nodejs.org/es! Con la implementación de github.com/nodejs/nodej..., cerramos una brecha de larga data en nuestros esfuerzos i18n. ¡Gracias a todos los que ayudaron a hacer esto posible!

And I'm very humbled that @alandalton.bsky.social included @approachableopensource.com, @heyrocker.com, and @clearwriter.bsky.social within the collection 💚❤️💙💜

Are there any folks in the @nodejs.org community interested in taking a slightly more active role in internationalization efforts? We have a number of languages in need of proofreaders, and even language coordinators that can resolve questions/approve suggestions, etc. Here's our biggest needs:

lol just misheard someone say "egosystem" and I think it's perfect for describing a multitude of communities

Looking to spend your training budget before the end of the year? Consider approachableopensource.com 📦$19 shipped in the US ⛅$9 digital everywhere 💼I emphasize corporate technologists as the latent energy the movement needs, and equip them with tactics and air-cover to get off the ground.

@alandalton.bsky.social I learned of alandalton.github.io/Authors-Apar... from a Discord many ABA authors are in. There are 5 to 7 folks (myself included) cut loose from ABA prior to publish. Some are near or past the finish line in publishing elsewhere. Would you be amenable to adding them too?

Are there any #informationarchitects and #ux designers in my network here that could consult with me on improving the IA of the @nodejs.org Learn section? At the recent Collab Summit in Dublin, we discussed the need to refactor our linear journey. Tracking working at github.com/nodejs/nodej...

Verified this account with my domain - so might as well give a long-delayed intro. 👋 I have four boys that keep me bald. I like to trope around by landscaping, woodworking, drinking coffee, and helping maintain the Node.js website in my spare time, of which there is little.

Adding Korean to @nodejs.org - now a part of automated translations sync and format initiated via cron. github.com/nodejs/nodej... Thanks to @crowdin.bsky.social for support along the way!

bizarre reproducable @github.com bug in commit UI 1. go to github.com/nodejs/nodej... 2. Toggle between code and rendered view of the yml diffs 3. Each time you do this, the UI renders another instance of the actions listed in the workflow and prompts you to "Give feedback on dependency review"

That’s…that’s the job? Someone might want to tell them 😂 This is why AI can’t do it!

Fan of @infrequently.org infrequently.org/2024/11/if-n... I'd summarize a lot of React cronyism as... "We hold these truths...to be self-perpetuating."

hoping this unblocks a lot of work for the i18n efforts on the @nodejs.org site.

Just merged, a small change to make the link to the @nodejs.org CONTRIBUTING document present on the top nav of the site. Credit to @joyeecheung.bsky.social for the idea. Open source is only as vibrant as we can make it welcoming. github.com/nodejs/nodej...