@pnpm.io v11 will be released soon. On top of the new 24h minimumReleaseAge (and other security-related features), there is a ton of perf goodness, like a SQLite store instead of a plethora of small JSON files. Let's help them test the RC and report back:
> pnpm self-update next-11
TypeScript 7.0 Beta is here!
Built on a new native and parallelized foundation, it's already being used on multi-million line codebases.
Read up more here and try it on your projects today!
devblogs.microsoft.com/typescript/a...
Do not unleash your AI-powered bot into people's GitHub repos without asking first.
If you do that on any of the repos I maintain, your bot is likely to get banned.
(I've already banned a few).
Well hey, look at that. It works.
Rspack / Rsbuild 2.0 stable is coming next week!
One key improvement: we've trimmed npm deps across core packages to the bare minimum. This lowers supply chain risk and speeds up installs.
Have you ever scanned a dirty or crumpled up QR code, *certain* it wouldn't work, and then it instantly does?
They're built to be really resilient! Here's a guide I put together, full of interactive visuals to show the design choices in the QR spec.
perthirtysix.com/how-the-heck-do-qr-codes-work
I built an interactive guide on how GPS works!
perthirtysix.com/how-does-gps...
Since Anthropic publish their system prompts we can generate a diff between Claude Opus 4.6 and 4.7 - here are my notes on what's changed simonwillison.net/2026/Apr/18/...
Excellent talk from @mariozechner.at on coding agents, and "slowing the fuck down" www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rjfb...
18 minutes, this is a very good time investment (while your agent is coding for you of course ;-)
If you prefer to read: mariozechner.at/posts/2026-0...
ha ha! svelte!
svelte is officially Enterprise Ready™. tell your CTO on linkedin
www.thoughtworks.com/radar/langua...
We are happy to announce the NodeConf EU is returning in 2026. This time, things will be a little different. While the Irish countryside made for a beauttiful backdrop for getting the community together to talk about Node.js, there have always been a number of logistical challenges to hosting there;
Btw... Stay tuned for some possibly NodeConf EU shaped news very soon....
This React -> Web Components post by the MDN team touches on challenges and solutions I've seen dozens of times over frontend's lost decade. Kudos to them for the improvements in performance, and the bravery to tell the story in an unvarnished way:
developer.mozilla.org/en-US/blog/m...
Thank you, @broooooklyn.bsky.social, for taking time to review and merge my contributions!
We have significantly enhanced the CLI experience in @napi-rs/cli@3.6.2.
Huge kudos to @trivikram.bsky.social
Nerds in a Room.
Great Node.js Collab Summit in London the past 2 days. Lots accomplished.
Shortlisted proposals at the end of the "Node.js use of AI in contributions" session
The point made by @jasnell.me was worth - we should ask ourselves a question as collaborators when reviewing pull requests: "Do we trust the individual, and do we trust the proposed code change?"
And this is defined by the ability of the individual to explain the code.
There was a discussion on the retro board with Pros, Cons and Concerns/Thoughts
easyretro.io/publicboard/...
From Ecosystem:
➡️ Human accountability is non-negotiable
➡️ Purely machine-generated code without human involvement are not welcome.
➡️ Maintainers retain authority to accept or reject Al-generated contributions at their discretion.
➡️ Tool use should be disclosed (recommended
Assisted-by commit tag).
@openjsf.org allows AI-assisted code as long as a "human" is in the loop.
Only humans can certify a Developer Certificate of Origin (DCO)
openjsf.cdn.prismic.io/openjsf/aca4...
At #OpenJsSummit, we're now discussing "Node.js use of AI in contributions" - a very hotly debated topic 🍿
github.com/openjs-found...
📚 Colocation matters. Cognitive load matters. Boundaries matter. High cohesion matters. Yes, even in the age of AI (maybe even more so).
Enter the vertical codebase:
The USP of caveman skill/plugin might be time saved in reading responses, over the cost savings in tokens!
I liked it's tagline too 😆
"why use many token when few do trick"
github.com/JuliusBrusse...
The Linux kernel AI guidelines are the first sane that I read. It is not a coincidence. Where high level work is done, high level work is pretended, regardless of the tools. github.com/torvalds/lin...
I'm working on a feature called package maps for Node.js - it's leveraging everything I learned about package resolution these past six years, in a design that's both simple and flexible enough to be backward compatible with existing installs. I'm very excited about this! github.com/nodejs/node/...
