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CyberAlien

@cyberalien.dev
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Full stack open source dev from Estonia, author of Iconify. github.com/cyberalien github.com/iconify

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Mohammad Bagher 👾 @aslemammad.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
renewing the bolt open source fund for 2026. $1,700/month in new sponsorships, $11,333/month total. @bolt.new and webcontainers are built on other people's open source. here's who we fund. bolt.new/blog/bolt-op...
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Bolt Open Source Fund 2026
StackBlitz is renewing the Bolt Open Source Fund in 2026, adding $1,700/month in new sponsorships for a total run-rate of $11,333/month.
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Mohammad Bagher 👾 @aslemammad.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
iconify gives you 300,000+ icons from 200+ sets behind one api. we sponsor @cyberalien.dev at $250/month.
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CyberAlien @cyberalien.dev · 21/09/2026
New location for pre-rendered icon components: gitlab.com/iconify-icons Packages for React, Vue, Svelte and SolidJS. One branch per icon set, which includes all icons in that icon set. Automatically kept up to date. Main branch lists all icon sets. Usage instructions in readme files.
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Iconify Icons · GitLab
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CyberAlien @cyberalien.dev · 20/09/2026
Currently attempting publishing icon components again. NPM: fails for large icon sets. GitHub: branches disappearing. Attempt 3: moving to GitLab. If successful, icon components will have a new home here: gitlab.com/iconify-icons
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Iconify Icons · GitLab
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CyberAlien @cyberalien.dev · 20/09/2026
Earlier today I've announced migration of icon packages from NPM to GitHub. Well... that failed. Branches on GitHub started randomly disappearing. GitHub supposed to have limit of 5k branches per repo, but cannot handle mere 200 branches. Did not expect that. Need to rethink it...
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CyberAlien @cyberalien.dev · 20/09/2026
Due to NPM issues, icon components for Vue, Svelte, React and SolidJS have been migrated from NPM to GitHub. From now on, you can install components from branches of repositories: github.com/iconify/icon... Readme has long explanation. NPM packages will eventually be deprecated. 1/2
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GitHub - iconify/icons-vue: 200+ open source icon sets as Vue components
200+ open source icon sets as Vue components. Contribute to iconify/icons-vue development by creating an account on GitHub.
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CyberAlien @cyberalien.dev · 20/09/2026
Iconify has generated components for each icon set for Vue, Svelte, React and Solid, such as "@iconify-vue/mdi". That's almost 1k packages! Due to NPM registry issues I'm currently moving them to GitHub. NPM client can install from GitHub, so NPM registry can be avoided. Long post coming later...
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CyberAlien @cyberalien.dev · 19/09/2026
Deploying a custom Iconify API can be tricky. To help, I've added a deployment script, which takes care of setting up Node environment, uploading files and starting API. All you have to do is create an empty VPS and run script. Docs: iconify.design/docs/api/hos...
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Iconify
All popular icon sets, one framework
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Schalk Neethling @schalkneethling.com · 14/09/2026
Today, I’m proud to announce Homebrew 7.0.0. The most significant changes since 6.0.0 are faster installations and upgrades, stronger sandboxing, a native macOS app, built-in vulnerability checks and an advisory database, the end of macOS 10.15... | brew.sh/2026/09/13/h...
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7.0.0
Today, I’m proud to announce Homebrew 7.0.0. The most significant changes since 6.0.0 are faster installations and upgrades, stronger sandboxing, a native macOS app, built-in vulnerability checks and ...
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Jeremy Keith @adactio.com · 14/09/2026
Journal: Stalling installing Trying to get past Webkit’s blockage at the W3C. 🔗https://adactio.com/journal/22757
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Laurie Voss @seldo.com · 13/09/2026
I have been writing this post about the economics of open source, on and off, for 13 years. I wasn't expecting to end up at "Microsoft should send corporations a huge bill" but nothing else we've tried has worked. seldo.com/posts/nobody-pays-for-ope…
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Nobody pays for open source. We can force them to. | Seldo.com
Thirty years of voluntary funding schemes haven't paid open source maintainers because asking doesn't scale. The real money already flows — to JFrog, Docker, Sonatype — at the registry layer. The fix: registries charge companies for supply (they already do), then route a slice automatically to the maintainers who make that supply worth having.
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Kevin Powell @kevinpowell.co · 28/08/2026
Anchor positioning makes this type of effect feel almost too easy to make now. If you want the long-form where I break it down in more detail, you can find it here: youtu.be/8_NQ7ARXz8c
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Nicolas Hedger @hedger.ch · 29/08/2026
Just contributed 200$ to Iconify. If you can, please help @cyberalien.dev cover the cost of hosting this awesome project ❤️. opencollective.com/iconify
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CyberAlien @cyberalien.dev · 29/08/2026
Iconify is constantly growing, domain has passed a big milestone: 10 billion requests in last 30 days! It is a double of what it was a year ago. While project is free, servers cost money. If you are using Iconify, please consider supporting the project: iconify.design/sponsors/
Iconify website traffic for last 30 days
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CyberAlien @cyberalien.dev · 25/08/2026
Major update to icons filter on Iconify website and in Figma plugin: AI search is now used when filtering icons in an icon set. New version shows related matches, making it easy to find icons by related words. icon-sets.iconify.design Screenshot: before (left) and after (right):
Search results on Iconify website: old and new version comparison
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CyberAlien @cyberalien.dev · 24/08/2026
Added new experimental search engine for icons on icon-sets.iconify.design and Figma plugin. Old search engine matched icon name, this version also checks for related keywords. Used AI to map related keywords for all icons. Idea is based on this article: dev.to/tito10047/ho... by Jozef Môstka
icon-sets.iconify.design
Iconify - home of open source icons
Open source vector icons from all popular icon sets
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CyberAlien @cyberalien.dev · 20/08/2026
Iconify packages "@iconify-icons/{prefix}", which have been deprecated several years ago, are now revived and kept up to date. Packages store icon data, one file per icon. These are not icon components. For components, see iconify.design/docs/usage/s... See iconify.design/news/2026.ht...
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Iconify
All popular icon sets, one framework
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Kevin Powell @kevinpowell.co · 15/08/2026
The most undervalued front-end skill right now isn't prompting, it's being able to look at a broken layout and know what's causing it. youtu.be/2pJHWhmqlNU
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The most undervalued front-end skill right now
YouTube video by Kevin Powell
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CyberAlien @cyberalien.dev · 08/08/2026
Added 2 more icon sets to Iconify. Now there are 220 open source icon sets with 322k icons!
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CyberAlien @cyberalien.dev · 07/08/2026
Added more open source icon sets to Iconify. There are now 218 icon sets with 317k icons! Hosting that many icons on API is expensive. Traffic is massive (attached stats). Please do consider supporting Iconify if you can, as current support barely covers hosting: iconify.design/sponsors/
Cloudflare stats for Iconify
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CyberAlien @cyberalien.dev · 10/07/2026
Iconify has reached a new milestone: over 300k open source icons! Huge thanks to all developers that release open source icons and maintain them. Most developers don't realise how many amazing open source icon sets exist.
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Michael Hoffmann @mokkapps.de · 06/07/2026
🔥 Most engaged article last week on VueDigest.com: "Performance Optimization in Nuxt" vuedigest.com/news/019f1e68-a398-76… 👉🏻 vuedigest.com for daily Vue & Nuxt news!
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Stop Killing Games @stopkillinggames.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
#StopKillingGames relies on creators spreading the word and giving commentary on us like @f4mi.bsky.social, @conkerax.bsky.social, Ross Scott, and many others. We would not be here without them. Treating them as second-class voices under whoever someone else deems “trusted” is deeply concerning.
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CyberAlien @cyberalien.dev · 05/07/2026
Yay, another day, another email from "security researcher" about CVE "discovered" in a package I've published. And yet again, it is AI slop. At first glance it seems like solid CVE, but yet again relies on unrealistic scenario user has no access to. I'm tired of AI slop.
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CyberAlien @cyberalien.dev · 27/06/2026
Automated deployments have been very unreliable lately with NPM. Usually NPM fails to download and install packages for about 20-30 minutes after new version has been published. But today, deploy failed because NPM thinks "@vue/shared" 3.5.39 (released 2 days ago) does not exist.
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Kevin Deng @sxzz.dev · 09/06/2026
I’m designing a transparent, ecosystem-neutral package registry. Content-addressed releases, append-only events, mirrorable state, and projections for npm/PyPI/Cargo/Go/OCI. Feedback welcome: regesta.dev
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Regesta
A transparent, secure, modern, scalable universal package registry.
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Joaquín Sánchez @userquin.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Do I know anyone that works at @discord.com ?
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Kevin Powell @kevinpowell.co · 05/06/2026
A few weeks ago, I talked about AI and its impact, and the uncertainty it's causing. It was a bit downbeat. I thought it would be a good idea to make something with a bit more of an uplifting message as a follow-up. Of course it hit a new audience and all the haters have shown up in the comments 😅
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AI Coding Is a Dead End
YouTube video by General Musings with Kevin Powell
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Kevin Deng @sxzz.dev · 04/06/2026
I'm designing and creating a new registry
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CyberAlien @cyberalien.dev · 29/05/2026
Added support for Astro to Iconify Unplugin: github.com/iconify/icon... However, it is not recommended because icons are generated by splitting SVG to SVG + CSS, which all browsers support, except for Safari. Use islands with Vue, Svelte or React components instead, which have Safari fallback.
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GitHub - iconify/iconify-unplugin: Icon components on demand for almost 300k icons, rendered as SVG + CSS
Icon components on demand for almost 300k icons, rendered as SVG + CSS - iconify/iconify-unplugin
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Kevin Deng @sxzz.dev · 29/05/2026
It’s been really encouraging to see tsdown adopted by companies like @vercel.com and @cloudflare.social, as well as open-source projects like OpenClaw and LobeHub. If tsdown has been useful to you or your project, please consider sponsoring my work ❤️ github.com/rolldown/tsd...
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Who's using tsdown? · rolldown tsdown · Discussion #143
Which Projects Are Using tsdown? Share Your Insights! Hey everyone! 🚀 We're curious to know which projects or teams are currently using tsdown. Whether it's a personal side project, a startup, or a...
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CyberAlien @cyberalien.dev · 28/05/2026
Spent last 2 full days coding in Zed... and I'm not planning to go back to VSCode. Zed is very impressive! There are minor annoyances and quirks, mostly related to syntax highlight and functionality of code autocomplete, but it is significantly faster and works perfectly in large monorepos.
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CyberAlien @cyberalien.dev · 27/05/2026
I'm experiencing a huge issue with VSCode for last 2 days: import suggestions no longer work in any project. Nothing new installed recently. Disabled all extensions, VSCode is still broken. Anyone experiencing the same issue?
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CyberAlien @cyberalien.dev · 23/05/2026
New feature on Iconify icon sets website: select multiple icons, generate bundles in various formats. It can export multiple icons as bundles, SVG and CSS sprites, components for several frameworks, raw data. You can load and save selected icons. Website: icon-sets.iconify.design Demo:
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CyberAlien @cyberalien.dev · 22/05/2026
About a week ago I got rid of infinite scroll for icons on Iconify website. Didn't realise how bad it affected SEO until I looked at search performance emails. Last month: 192k impressions, 4.43k clicks 2 years ago: 2.07m impressions, 106k clicks. Infinite scroll was such a bad idea!
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Firefox for Web Developers @webdevs.firefox.com · 18/05/2026
Chrome shipped an LLM Prompt API to the web platform. At Mozilla, we oppose this API. Here's why:
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Svelte @svelte.dev · 14/05/2026
We've just published patch releases of devalue, Svelte, and SvelteKit that fix a number of vulnerabilities. No need to panic — they're all hard to exploit or reliant on experimental features — but we recommend updating as soon as you get a chance. More details in the advisories:
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CyberAlien @cyberalien.dev · 15/05/2026
New Iconify icon sets website no longer has infinite scrolling for icons. However, now it has more settings for icons list: - Layout: large icons with names, medium or small without names. - Size of icons. - Number of icons per page. - viewBox outline. icon-sets.iconify.design Demo below:
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CyberAlien @cyberalien.dev · 14/05/2026
I've rebuilt Iconify icon sets website. Same UI, new UX! Check it out at icon-sets.iconify.design Changes: - Got rid of infinite scroll - No more overlapping elements - New code generator - Select multiple icons, generate bundles and sprites I'll write articles about each major change later...
New Iconify icon sets viewNew Iconify icons grid and code generator
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Alexander Lichter @thealexlichter.com · 12/05/2026
Yes! @svelte.dev goes from 🔴 -> 💚 on the Oxfmt side 🔥 You can now format your Svelte components with Oxfmt too. See oxc.rs/docs/guide/u... for more details
Screenshot of https://oxc.rs/compatibility.html showing Svelte Oxfmt compat!
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Kevin Powell @kevinpowell.co · 10/05/2026
Wrote an article on this three and a half years ago, happy to see it finally making into browsers 😅 12daysofweb.dev/2022/css-ima...
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CSS image() | 12 Days of Web
The working draft for image() proposes new features to enhance the capabilities of background-image declarations.
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Kevin Deng @sxzz.dev · 07/05/2026
🚀 tsdown v0.22 is out, now powered by Rolldown 1.0.0! What’s new: ✦ Upgraded to Rolldown v1.0.0 ✦ Reduced install size by 1.33 MB ✦ Auto-detects the `bin` field ✦ Dropped support for Node.js 20, 21, and 23 ✦ `dts` is now inferred from `compilerOptions.declaration` github.com/rolldown/tsd...
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Release v0.22.0 · rolldown/tsdown
🚨 Breaking Changes Drop Node.js < 22.18.0 support, make unrun optional, add tsx config loader  -  by @sxzz (a1042) dts: Auto-enable dts when tsconfig declaration is true  -  by @sxzz in #872 (0...
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CyberAlien @cyberalien.dev · 30/04/2026
Fun fact: NPM has limit on how many packages you can publish consequently! Ran a script to update packages for over 200 icon sets for 4 frameworks (adding new feature), so 800+ packages. NPM started timing out after about 500 packages. Had to wait for about an hour before I could publish again.
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CyberAlien @cyberalien.dev · 30/04/2026
There are many excellent icons with multiple colors, but hardcoded palette makes them hard to use. Now, when using Iconify icon packages, you can customise colors, opacity and stroke-width of icons using CSS variables! See documentation: iconify.design/docs/usage/s...
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CyberAlien @cyberalien.dev · 27/04/2026
A while ago I've implemented infinite scroll for icons list on Iconify website. That was a huge mistake. UX got a lot worse. I tried fixing it, but it is unfixable. So I'm reverting back to good old pagination. Long article with details: cyberalien.dev/articles/inf...
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Infinite scroll for icons
Why infinite scroll is not a good idea for icon sets
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danielroe @danielroe.dev · 25/04/2026
AI now writes 127% of my code. Here's what I learned.
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AI writes my code
Published 25/04/2025 — AI · Real Talk
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Michael Hoffmann @mokkapps.de · 09/04/2026
🚨 After working on some amazing projects with 𝗩𝘂𝗲 & 𝗡𝘂𝘅𝘁, I'm ready for my 𝗻𝗲𝘅𝘁 𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗻𝗴𝗲 as a Senior Frontend Developer. If that sounds useful for your team, let's talk 👇 mokkapps.de/hire-me
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CyberAlien @cyberalien.dev · 09/04/2026
A new version of Iconify components for SolidJS has been published. This fixes server side rendering and generation, so now components work as expected on server and in browser. Docs: iconify.design/docs/usage/s...
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Iconify
All popular icon sets, one framework
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CyberAlien @cyberalien.dev · 25/03/2026
Anyone else got hit with massive wave of GitHub issues spam? My repo just did, over 4000 issues of spam. GitHub was fast to clean it up, only several issues remained for me to delete when I got home, but my poor mailbox is dealing with 4000+ email notifications...
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CyberAlien @cyberalien.dev · 06/03/2026
In addition to pre-made SVG+CSS components for Vue, Svelte and React, now there are components for SolidJS! Very easy to use. Almost 300k open source icons! SVG+CSS minifies SVG by moving all props to CSS, way better than SVG sprites! Docs: iconify.design/docs/usage/s...
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