As close to dawn as we'll see at that time of the morning for a while

If you ever want to feel out of place, I heartily recommend a stroll through the City of London wearing trackie bottoms, as I did today, heading to a physio appointment. I was a lone sportswear wearer in a sea of suits, dresses and finance gilets

🙋 have you ever _wanted_ to deploy a @nuxt.com site to some provider bc of their features/dx/price but decided not to because of a limitation in nuxt? (would love to know even minor nitpicks or frictions)

It's been a good long summer. Autumn is now with us and my morning walks now preface the sunrise

My church is marking 150 years of being open with this marvellous woollen post box adornment

I'm not very good at CSS, but I'm good at stealing. I plan to half inch @jakearchibald.com's fine work for personal entertainment purposes. This is brilliant! simple-vt-demos.jakearchibald.com/batman-trans...

Absolutely this! The next @squiggleconf.com is being planned for Spring 2027. YOU SHOULD BE THERE! IT WILL BE WONDERFUL! It's a fantastic conf put on by amazing people who care deeply about giving devs a place to come together. JOIN US NEXT TIME!

Another lovely trip to South Africa 🇿🇦. Two unexpected things: it's spring here and so my hay fever is off the chart, and it's so dry I'm getting nosebleeds!

I'm working on a report on the causes of burnout in open source software. If you're a part of the OSS community, I would love to hear your thoughts, either here on Bluesky, or privately via email (see post). Thanks 😊 mirandaheath.website/report-on-bu...

I've arrived safe and sound in Sandton. Each time I'm here I'm surprised by how many trees there are in Joburg. Half of this picture is a car park, but it looks like a forest 🇿🇦

Last UK dawn for a while as I'm due to fly to 🇿🇦 tonight

I sat down with @joshuakgoldberg.com for the Software Engineering Daily (@softwaredaily.bsky.social) podcast. It was a fun time! You can listen to it here: softwareengineeringdaily.com/2025/09/11/a...

NPM account restored. My packages should be back to normal; going to do a quick skim to make sure before calling it a day. NPM doesn't show audit logs so unfortunately it's on them to release any information I haven't already given myself. Post-mortem to come tomorrow. Thank you everyone <3

Woke up to an email from @github.com telling me my access to the webpack organisation was revoked due to lack of 2FA. I've had 2FA in place since 2017 and so this is puzzling. My guess is that many others are waking up to similarly puzzling emails. In my case I use authenticator app or passkeys

Filming happening at Tide Tables in Richmond tonight. I asked the people guarding the set (which is usually a very decent cafe) if it was Ted Lasso but they said it was Netflix.

Travelling London on a tube strike day is *wild*. It's like Lord of the Flies on the bits of London transport still running

𝐇𝐚𝐥𝐟𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐋𝐨𝐧𝐝𝐨𝐧 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟓 𝐢𝐬 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐠ⵑ 🎉 Join us on the 12th of November at 93 Feet East, Shoreditch, for a day of creative web presos, live demos, and plenty of fun with the dev community. ✨ Expect great presenters, music, quizzes, and even karaoke. 📅 Save the date → halfstackconf.com/london

Oh thanks for sharing @francoisbest.com!

If companies funded Open Source Software, given that they use it. The software world in general, and by extension the whole world would be better. I'm one of the few that receives a small amount of income from OSS; around $100 a month mostly paid by companies who agree they have a responsibility...

Think there's some Ted Lasso related filming happening in Richmond today. Saw film trucks and set preparation on "Ted's street" on my way to work

It is definitely autumn 🍁

A long time ago I wrote a rudimentary post on storing state in URLs: johnnyreilly.com/react-usesea... - at the time I thought there was much more that could be done... And it looks like @nuqs.47ng.com has done it!

Sadly I'm not going, but this is another reminder that @squiggleconf.com 2025 is looking *amazing*!

Just happened upon a telephone box that's been repurposed as a cake shop. Cakes inside. Bought a ginger cake!

Azure DevOps generates commit messages when pull requests are merged, that act against conventional commits. If you want to control your commit messages on merge in an automated fashion, there is a way: johnnyreilly.com/azure-devops...

Too rainy to get out for a walk, but gosh it's good to have the rain back

Played Minecraft with my boy tonight. I know nothing about it but apparently I was useful for holding wheat to attract sheep whilst he was making a fence so that's good

As part of my back recuperation campaign, I'm following my PTs advice and arranged to try out my local gym. It's hard to express just how uncomfortable I am in a gym. I need to not pay too much attention to that, push on through and make it non-scary and a habit

Delighted to discover that with Zod functions are once again schemas. Very grateful to @colinhacks.com for making this adjustment - it will no doubt help many others who are hoping to upgrade from 3 -> 4 and it's certainly brightened my day ❤️ github.com/colinhacks/z...

The dawns are getting later

Glorious red dawn

Just filed an issue to turn `--strict` on by default in TypeScript. Maybe it's a little bit ambitious, but I'm excited for us to try this one. 😄 github.com/microsoft/Ty...

It actually feels autumnal

My boy met one of his heroes today; a scooter YouTuber named "Spanner". He was really nice to my son, and the lad has returned home with the firm view that today was the best day of his life. There's obviously an economic interest at play here, but I believe there was real human kindness as well ❤️

Don't know what's going on with GitHub Actions but they are queuing *forevermore*

Observe the heron on the post

First code changes in ts-loader for a long time. It looks like TS 5.9 lead to incompatible changes, which have now been fixed in webpack 5, and will now be brought into ts-loader. Mostly null checks, but will probably ship a new version later today I would think github.com/TypeStrong/t...

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