Bro can I just call you from that? 😅

Anthropic secretly installs spyware when you install Claude Desktop — That Privacy Guy! Anthropic's Claude Desktop silently installs a Native Messaging bridge into seven Chromium browsers, including browsers Anthropic's own documentation says it does not support, and browsers the user ha...

Can confirm this for Arc, Brave, Edge, Chromium, Vivaldi on my machine:

#Anthropic secretly installs spyware when you install Claude Desktop
www.thatprivacyguy.com/blog/anthrop...

this is your reminder that Tailscale has a feature called Taildrop to share files between devices

it's *very good* and i no longer have to worry about file sharing solutions now

Has anyone found a good use for apfel? Struggling to see where it could fit and what tier / scale of task it can reliably so. Seems apple intelligence isn't well suited to compose.

On a MBP M3.

A screenshot of Hex packages showing gleam_stdlib v1.0.0. with description "A standard library for the Gleam programming language". Above the screenshot there's a pink star smiling - Gleam's mascot, lucy

It's here! gleam_stdlib v1 released!

@typescript/native-preview - npmx Preview CLI of the native TypeScript compiler port

An internal team just adopted tsgo (soon TypeScript 7) and told us they were able to shave off about 400 hours a month of waiting on CI builds.

npmx.dev/package/@typ...

GitHub - module-federation/vite: Vite Plugin for Module Federation Vite Plugin for Module Federation . Contribute to module-federation/vite development by creating an account on GitHub.

The Vite plugin is now the official recommendation for Module Federation with Vite!

github.com/module-federation/vite

What happened?

We spent months exploring built-in MF support in Rolldown, even reimplemented MF 2.0 from scratch for both Rolldown and Vite.

What...

pnpm's experimental global virtual store Without the global virtual store, each worktree would have its own .pnpm virtual store inside node_modules, with hardlinks or copies of every package. With enableGlobalVirtualStore: true, pnpm keeps all package contents in a single shared directory (the global store, which you can find by running pnpm store path), and each worktree's node_modules contains symlinks pointing there: your-monorepo/ (bare git repo) > main/ (worktree: main branch) >> packages/ >> node_modules/ >>> lodash → <global-store>/links/@/lodash/... >>> express → <global-store>/links/@/express/... > feature-auth/ (worktree: feat/auth branch) >> node_modules/ >>> lodash → <global-store>/links/@/lodash/... ← same target >>> express → <global-store>/links/@/express/... > fix-api/ (worktree: fix/api-error branch) >> node_modules/ >>> lodash → <global-store>/links/@/lodash/... ← same target >>> express → <global-store>/links/@/express/...

@pnpm.io's experimental global virtual store is brilliant. The install performance gains are a game-changer for git flows. You get near-zero per-worktree overhead and instant installs for new worktrees as packages are already in the global store. @kochan.io can't stop making pnpm better 🤌

The #WebGPU AVBD-based physics engine is now live!

Webphysics Live Demo: jure.github.io/webphysics/
Code: github.com/jure/webphys...

We'll need a way for agents to discover a policy we put on repos that basically say, if any contributor determines an e2e agentic pr, we can close it at any time.

Then we probably need some cheap, auto-close pipeline to handle it at scale.

Easy start to include policy in CONTRIBUTING guide

not married to the browser tbh. i saw electrobun has webgpu, but looking like LM Studio or vLLM might be enough

Sarah smiling and holding a Google mug

📣 After nearly 5 fulfilling years leading Core infrastructure organizations for Google, I’m thrilled to share that I’ve taken on a new role!

I’m going back to IC work as a Distinguished Engineer- my new role is in Chrome as Area Tech Lead, AI Web Ecosystem! 💥

I am also following LM Studio's tailscale based solution. Would be cool if we saw a bunch of webGPU/WASM based solutions in the space and contributions to a truly shared and already distributed (via browsers) sandbox!

The web is the real enduring winner, that and OSS.

WebLLM Chat Chat with AI large language models running natively in your browser

Just saw this VOD on YT, great talk!

I recently found this project, webllm, and I've been thinking how I would go about leveraging WASM more for local inference and agentic workloads: chat.webllm.ai

feat: decentralized registries and mirrors by Aslemammad · Pull Request #2386 · npmx-dev/npmx.dev This is a pull request for my two months of research on how we can decentralize npm by not breaking any mainstream behavior, so we make it as easy as possible to adopt new paradigms by users withou...

DECENTRALIZING NPM!!!!!

ok everyone! been researching an idea for the last two months and i dropped my ideas here in a pr to @npmx.dev.

it's about decentralizing npm, bringing more registries and potentially solving solving the single point of failure nature of npm.

github.com/npmx-dev/npm...

That's hardcore Jake, damn.

At several points, I lost the mental model of the codebase. I had become the engineering manager who doesn't actually understand the code, the exact person I used to complain about. AI makes it dangerous to stop owning the "why" behind your implementation.

Gotta Go Fast (Sonic X Theme) YouTube video by NateWantsToBattle - Topic

SWE rn be like "don't blink don't think just go"

music.youtube.com/watch?v=LIfg...

The Iran economic shock is coming. How to protect yourself YouTube video by Garys Economics

in b4 post-capitalism feudal era style feifdom wars (referencing ~37:00 in latest gary's video)

youtu.be/Oi265I48MdI?...

Post Mortem: axios npm supply chain compromise · Issue #10636 · axios/axios Post Mortem: axios npm supply chain compromise Date: March 31, 2026 Author: Jason Saayman Status: Remediation in progress On March 31, 2026, two malicious versions of axios (1.14.1 and 0.30.4) were...

This is scary as hell. Be safe out there, folks. github.com/axios/axios/...

How would Anders suggest to fund OSS dev and maintenance? Which funding model has the most durability? Which makes the most sense in the agentic era?

I'll be doing a podcast with Anders Hejlsberg, the creator of Turbo Pascal, C#, and TypeScript.

What would you like to know?

What's holding most engineers back the most?

Are DSLs more or less powerful in the agentic era?

How do you measure architectural or design decisions' impact and when have you reversed course when a less optimal decision started hurting?

What is the highest impact, least glamorous, furthest away from code effort he has undertaken?

Knowing bits and pieces about MS over the years, I wonder how much AH has had to advocate for himself / others / TS; essentially the staff/principal/distinguished level work (outside code).

ref: switch from throwing promises to React.use by TkDodo · Pull Request #10366 · TanStack/query Summary by CodeRabbit New Features Added new utilities for improved suspense promise management and fallback handling Improvements Enhanced async query state transitions when using React Sus...

Looking for volunteers that use @tanstack.com query with suspense. I have a PR that switches from throwing promises to `React.use` (with a shim for React18). Tests pass after changing them 😅.

Try it out pls🙏

npm i pkg.pr.new/@tanstack/re...

Earning a physical body eh?

jesus christ

Yeah turboquant made me go like; OK what is possible when we pull out **all** the stops?

No more data centers needed 😈 just a bit bigger power bill on my end I guess lol

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Been thinking about getting "dirty" with local compute in the agentic era. Infinite tokens! Might be slower, might be less powerful. But could be right sized for many tasks.

sean.offprint.app/a/3mi6trhkaz...