iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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WebStorm, a JetBrains IDE @webstorm.jetbrains.com · 25/09/2026

What if you could make one change to JavaScript? Absolutely anything you like. Justin Ridgewell tells us what he'd pick, straight from TC39's 114th meeting in Amsterdam. Watch the video 🎥 youtu.be/RHesVP6Seuo

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If you had a superpower to make a single change to JavaScript – what would it be?

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Chris Krycho – Composer @music.chriskrycho.com · 29/09/2026

One of them is me! One of them could be you, as either a supporter or an artist! This is good!

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Subvert @subvert.fm · 29/09/2026

30,000 artists, labels and supporters collectively own Subvert. Join and become a co-owner today. subvert.fm

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Chris Krycho @chriskrycho.com · 27/09/2026

I have somehow managed to tune my following list so that I almost never have any idea what the Discourse is, and it’s *great*.

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Chris Krycho @chriskrycho.com · 25/09/2026

I have a nice big monitor; I would like to make use of that screen space rather than just having everything expand to fill it. (…same with RAM. 😂)

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Chris Krycho @chriskrycho.com · 25/09/2026

I know it has become a de facto norm to style everything with LOTS OF WHITE SPACE but… actually I’d really like it if I had the option to make a lot of UIs much, *much* more information-dense.

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Chris Krycho @chriskrycho.com · 25/09/2026

Curious to hear what the analysis turns up as differences in implementation choices.

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Chris Krycho @chriskrycho.com · 25/09/2026

Top-level side effects in module scope definitely complicate this one. You could do a fair bit here anyway, of course, but it's telling that rollup had, and rolldown and others still have, comment pragmas to mark "purity". 😮‍💨 But also, now you're tempting me, @rossipedia.com 😂

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drew mca @drewmca.net · 24/09/2026

Really cool piece from the @subvert.fm coop annual general meeting (at 1:35:20): They went for an optional contribution at checkout, rather than taking a percentage of artist's revenue. They saw an average contribution of 27% per transaction, almost twice as much as bandcamp's mandatory 15%.

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Jake Bailey @jakebailey.dev · 24/09/2026

that scene from the matrix except it's me reading articles, talk slides, PR descriptions, saying "that's Claude", "that's GPT", "that's Claude", "Claude", "GPT", ...

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Chris Krycho @chriskrycho.com · 24/09/2026

Very strange and bittersweet to read the end of Darths and Droids: a webcomic parody adaptation of the entire Star Wars saga that I’ve been reading for most of my adult life—no exaggeration. It’s lovely and funny; if you haven’t read it, I commend it to you! www.darthsanddroids.net/episodes/000...

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Darths & Droids

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Chris Krycho @chriskrycho.com · 23/09/2026

Things that are still worse on Golden Gate than Sequoia once you have done the requisite “Reduce Transparency” and “Enable Outlines” dances (both very strongly recommended!): tabs and the ongoing march away from nice little title bars with reasonably-sized buttons below them in distinct toolbars.

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Chris Krycho – Composer @music.chriskrycho.com · 23/09/2026

I’ve now gotten my full (yes, full! So it’s tiny! I don’t care! It’s *something*!) catalog up on @subvert.fm to match Bandcamp: www.subvert.fm/chriskrycho Along the way I also discovered that I have done a pretty poor job of keeping my ready-for-distribution files organized. 🤦🏻‍♂️

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Chris Krycho @chriskrycho.com · 23/09/2026

It is in fact noticeably snappier in a bunch of little ways. I still think basically everything about Liquid Glass was a mistake, and the decreased-yet-again layout density that came with it was one of the worst bits. I *do* like the return of color and vibrancy in the UI, though. Baby steps. 😮‍💨😂

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Chris Krycho @chriskrycho.com · 23/09/2026

Yeah! I’ve been really happy with it since installing yesterday after updating the work machine to Golden Gate—I knew I didn’t want the heavier approach that Raycast was going to, and I *love* that Tinycast has a bunch of strict performance requirements for new features.

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Chris Krycho @chriskrycho.com · 22/09/2026

Yeah. As someone who is frankly not excited by or particularly happy about a fair bit of this—honestly, as practitioner a lot of days it just makes me sad, and I have long-term concerns about the impact it will have on these fields—a lot of this is what I hear the kids these days call “cope”. 😮‍💨

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Chris Krycho – Composer @music.chriskrycho.com · 22/09/2026

Spent a good chunk of last night reading @subvert.fm’s bylaws etc. and: I’m on board and thoroughly enthusiastic about the direction. We’ll see if it works, of course, but the goal is good. More on that in a video essay Soon™, I hope. In the meantime, catalog inbound! www.subvert.fm/chriskrycho

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Chris Krycho – Composer @music.chriskrycho.com · 22/09/2026

Why it is always *so* hard to get back into the flow after even just a couple weeks away from composing I may never know. 😮‍💨 Read: it took a bit, but I did find my way back into Mvt. IV a bit this morning. Steady on. 🎼 🖊️

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Chris Krycho @chriskrycho.com · 21/09/2026

My take on Golden Gate on my work machine so far: it’s fine. There are definitely things that I miss from Sequoia, but it’s fine.

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🇨🇦 🇺🇸 Zoë Keating @zoekeating.com · 21/09/2026

The more people obtain music directly from artists, the more those artists will be able to survive to make more music. Similar to buying food directly from farms via a CSA or farmers market, the less our lives are mediated by billionaires, the better.

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Chris Krycho – Composer @music.chriskrycho.com · 21/09/2026

Oh! @zoekeating.com recently mentioned her membership in (and indeed that she’s running for a board seat for) Subvert and I am *extremely* intrigued. More: v5.chriskrycho.com/notes/subvert.…

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Subvert.fm — Sympolymathesy, by Chris Krycho

A co-op for musicians? You have my attention.

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Chris Krycho @chriskrycho.com · 21/09/2026

Yes/and-ing a post from Robin Sloan on using LLMs to build apps like home-cooked meals, because it does in fact matter—a lot—whether you’re building for yourself or building with a big team for a bunch of end users. (Robin would agree, I’m pretty sure!) v5.chriskrycho.com/notes/witherin…

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Withering — Sympolymathesy, by Chris Krycho

What mental muscles can you afford to see waste away?

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Chris Krycho – Composer @music.chriskrycho.com · 20/09/2026

Finally done with weeks of travel and catchup-from-travel for work, which hopefully means this is the week I get back to composing. 🎼

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Chris Krycho @chriskrycho.com · 19/09/2026

The name is about as on brand for you as it’s possible to be. 😂

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Chris Krycho @chriskrycho.com · 19/09/2026

Read the thread! And then do what James is doing!

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Chris Krycho @chriskrycho.com · 18/09/2026

Got my own first piece of evidence of how that Coxon story “broke containment” (what a funny phrase in its own right)—an old friend messaging me about a WSJ op-ed on pausing AI.

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Chris Krycho @chriskrycho.com · 17/09/2026

I have a new test for ML training, one waaaaaay harder than the “pick all the pictures of a (bridge|truck|etc.)”: Actually find these unread comments in a Google Doc.

The Google Docs unread-comments icon, showing two unread comments.

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Chris Krycho @chriskrycho.com · 17/09/2026

You will never see another recommendation that *doesn’t* involve a brass key again. obi-wan-you-have-done-that-yourself.jpg 😂

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Chris Krycho @chriskrycho.com · 17/09/2026

I’ve recently noticed a bunch of apps doing an “update on quitting the app” approach that is clearly meant to help users not have to deal with an interruption in the middle of their work. Good goal! Unfortunately, all of them (most recently Figma) then *relaunch the app*. I just quit it, though! 🙃

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Bryan Cantrill @bcantrill.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

The contagion of fear bcantrill.dtrace.org/2026/09/13/t...

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Chris Krycho @chriskrycho.com · 12/09/2026

Started the phone number transfer process to move a line from Verizon to US Mobile and in a matter of seconds I got a text message from Verizon offering me a discount. 😂

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Chris Krycho @chriskrycho.com · 11/09/2026

The Ricoh GR III (or IIIx) or IV is a good option. It’s not cheap, but everyone I know who has one really likes it for exactly that kind of use!

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Steve Klabnik @steveklabnik.com · 10/09/2026

We've been cooking at @ersc.io "What comes after git" ersc.io/blog/what-co...

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What comes after git

Our thoughts about the future of version control

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Colin @colin-fraser.net · 10/09/2026

In the paperclip thought experiment you’re not supposed to explicitly tell the paperclip maximizer to convert the planet into a paperclip

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Chris Krycho @chriskrycho.com · 10/09/2026

Aside: this isn’t a new theme for me! I said exactly this in a talk back in 2024! v5.chriskrycho.com/elsewhere/cutt….

Screenshot of text that reads, “Bake the concept of peer dependencies into your language and package tooling. Make it easy for library authors to check their compatibility with a whole array of different versions of a framework, and for application developers to pick one of those supported versions, and for all of this to be automate-able. No ecosystem has really solved this yet. If you get it right, though, it will make it much easier for your ecosystem to evolve over time.”

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Chris Krycho @chriskrycho.com · 10/09/2026

Haha, yes, the Unison model definitely has a lot going for it. I haven’t used it “in anger” enough to know whether I would prefer it on balance, but there’s a reason it appeared in my Cutting Edge of Versioning talk (v5.chriskrycho.com/elsewhere/cutt… – text, slides, video) a couple years ago.

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The Cutting Edge of Versioning (LambdaConf 2024) — Sympolymathesy, by Chris Krycho

Semantic Versioning, library & framework evolution, programming language design, type systems, and you.

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Chris Krycho @chriskrycho.com · 10/09/2026

To my knowledge, *no* package manager out there tries to integrate/synthesize that information! And trying to express it in JS land is rough—roughly “keep knip and your package manager in sync and… uhh… audit your deps?”

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Chris Krycho @chriskrycho.com · 10/09/2026

One thing that catches my attention in thinking about all of this: you really do need the package manager to be closely integrated with the code itself to help you catch this stuff. You need to know whether it’s a “library” or “app” package, and how it *uses* the dependency.

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Chris Krycho @chriskrycho.com · 10/09/2026

That’s interesting: I don’t feel that way—I generally find it works well in the ecosystems I use most (Rust and TS)—, but I do have an extremely high degree of scar tissue here, per the thread, and I definitely think it’s much subtler than we tend to give it credit for.

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Chris Krycho @chriskrycho.com · 10/09/2026

It does highlight to me that for all the progress a bunch of ecosystems have made in this area over (especially) the past ~20 years (yes, Perl nerds, I know CPAN is much older than that!), there is still an awful lot we could do to make it better.

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Chris Krycho @chriskrycho.com · 10/09/2026

I don’t really blame working engineers for not understanding any of this. I had to learn it by thinking very deeply about the intersection of framework and library development with TypeScript types packages on DefinitelyTyped. If you haven’t had that particular punishing experience… good luck. 😂

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Chris Krycho @chriskrycho.com · 10/09/2026

…usually all shared and often intentionally resolved to the same version anyway. The problem, though, is that it can and will cause weird resolution issues—things like not resolving some *other* package’s peer dependencies the way you expect—, because pnpm et al. want you to, well, be accurate. 😮‍💨

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Chris Krycho @chriskrycho.com · 10/09/2026

…should then *also* specify it in their own `devDependencies`, so that they resolve it correctly for their own tests. The same basic dynamic holds for libraries with runtime (not dev) dependencies, mutatis mutandis for `dependencies`. In a monorepo, the difference “doesn’t matter”: the deps are…

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Chris Krycho @chriskrycho.com · 10/09/2026

Classic example: if you have a package that is designed to work with Vitest, but which is a library, it should explicitly include Vitest in `peerDependencies`. If it also uses Vitest for its own tests (which it probably should), it should *also* specify it in `devDependencies`. Consuming packages…

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Chris Krycho @chriskrycho.com · 10/09/2026

Looking at a bunch of our package.json files internally and considering the extent to which they’re actually just *wrong* on the strict semantics of our packages, but also considering how hard it is to have the *right* mental model for this—and monorepos make it harder by “absorbing” wrongness.

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Colin @colin-fraser.net · 10/09/2026

I'm having some fun in this thread but I do think you should get in trouble for unleashing insane hacker robots on the open Internet that you've explicitly instructed to attack critical public infrastructure, which, to be clear, it eventually succeeds at.

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Chris Krycho @chriskrycho.com · 09/09/2026

Holy smokes, this is *amazing*.

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Shriram Krishnamurthi @shriram.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Super excited to share "A Design Space Exploration of Async/Await". How differently does async/await behave across today's languages? (More than you might expect!) And what *is* "structured concurrency"? Check out our ~interactive~ blog post introducing the paper: cel.cs.brown.edu/blog/design-...

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A Design Space Exploration of Async/Await

Every language pitches async/await as synchronous-looking code, and the same two keywords appear everywhere. But behind the shared syntax hide nine independent design decisions, and no two of seven mo...

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