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Filip Sobol @filipsobol.com · 08/07/2026

⚠️ Already saw two cases today where newly created GitHub accounts posted comments with a ZIP file claiming to contain a fix for the reported issue. In both cases, the ZIP contained malware. **Remember to check issue comments before letting AI agents loose on them.**

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Filip Sobol @filipsobol.com · 10/06/2026

Just released sonda v0.13.0. It still has only 2 direct dependencies, but I replaced `open` with `tiny-open` by @fabiospampinato.bsky.social, which brought the total dependency count down from 17 to 6. Nice little dependency cleanup.

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sonda - npmx

Universal bundle analyzer and visualizer that works with most popular bundlers and frameworks.

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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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VoidZero @voidzero.dev · 07/05/2026

🚀Rolldown 1.0 is here!🚀 Rust-based high-performance JavaScript bundler. 🏎️ Runs at native speed that’s up 30x faster than Rollup 🤝 Compatible with existing Rollup & Vite plugins ⚡The underlying bunder for Vite After 2 years, Rolldown is officially stable and has 20+M weekly downloads.

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MDN Web Docs @developer.mozilla.org · 29/03/2026

CSS nesting is now Baseline 🎉 Write nested selectors directly in CSS — just like Sass, but natively. .card { color: black; &:hover { color: blue; } .title { font-weight: bold; } } No preprocessor needed. Learn more 👇 developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/...

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Marvin Hagemeister @marvinh.dev · 03/04/2026

Some thoughts about AI-assisted coding and how it affects my brain. I'm more productive and more exhausted at the same time. marvinh.dev/blog/ddosing...

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DDoS'ing the human brain

AI made us mass produce code at a scale we never could before. More code, more problems, same brain. Somehow I'm more productive and more exhausted at the same time.

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Jiahan Chen @chenjiahan.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Some recent Rspack benchmark trends. Rspack 2.0 work is helping improve performance steadily⚡️

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TypeScript @typescriptlang.org · 23/03/2026

TypeScript 6.0 is now available! This release brings better type-checking for methods, new standard library features, new module features for Node.js, and more! But most important, this release brings us one step closer to the upcoming native-speed 7.0! devblogs.microsoft.com/typescript/a...

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Announcing TypeScript 6.0 - TypeScript

TypeScript 6.0 is now available! TypeScript 6 is a stepping-stone release, aligning with the upcoming native-speed 7.0 release.

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James @43081j.com · 21/03/2026

new post on my personal blog. i think these three areas often go unexplained, so hopefully this explains why some of these packages exist. these are fine to exist but the majority of developers shouldn't have to pay the cost for them.

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The Three Pillars of JavaScript Bloat

A brief look at the three main causes of bloat in our JavaScript dependency trees, and how we can start to address them.

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Filip Sobol @filipsobol.com · 18/03/2026

Recently added a connection diagram view to Sonda 👀 It complements the treemap view and makes it much easier to see how bundles and source files connect. Also, you can now upload JSON reports and get an instant HTML report: sonda.dev/demo

Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG) showing connections between JavaScript files, with one file selected and its incoming and outgoing dependencies highlighted.

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Vitest @vitest.dev · 12/03/2026

Vitest 4.1 is out! 🚀 ✅ Vite 8 support from day 1 🏷️ Test tags to organize, filter & apply shared options 🪝 New hooks for easier tracing, transactions and AsyncLocalStorage 🔍 Async leak detection 🤖 Agent reporter to reduce token usage And much more! Full blog post at vitest.dev/blog/vitest-...

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Announcing Vitest 4.1

Vitest 4.1 Release Announcement

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Vite @vite.dev · 12/03/2026

⚡️ Vite 8.0 is here! The most significant architectural change since Vite 2. ⏬ Powered by @rolldown.rs bringing faster production builds and more consistency 🛤️ New features such as tsconfig paths and emitDecoratorMetadata support vite.dev/blog/announc...

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Vite 8.0 is out!

Vite 8 Release Announcement

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Node.js @nodejs.org · 10/03/2026

Node.js is moving to one major release per year starting with Node 27! 🚀 ✅ Simpler: Every release becomes LTS. ✅ Predictable: Version numbers now align with the year. ✅ New: A 6-month Alpha channel for early testing. bit.ly/4rnosLg

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Node.js — Evolving the Node.js Release Schedule

Node.js® is a free, open-source, cross-platform JavaScript runtime environment that lets developers create servers, web apps, command line tools and scripts.

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Keith Cirkel @keithamus.social · 16/02/2026

Happy Monday CSS gang. Let's improve CSS minifiers! Here's a suite of 350 minifier tests I've written that show there's lots of opportunities for minifiers to do better: www.keithcirkel.co.uk/css-minify-t... I know you all can help add 350 more, so come contribute! github.com/keithamus/cs...

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CSS Minify Tests

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danielroe @danielroe.dev · 12/02/2026

🙋‍♂️ I _could not be more thrilled_ this isn't a zero-sum game we're here to make the web better for everyone, and this is a win 🔥 props to @npmjs.bsky.social 🙏

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Filip Sobol @filipsobol.com · 12/02/2026

Well, well, well... look who suddenly remembered they can ship new features. Right after the community started working on an alternative. What a coincidence! 🙃

The following new buttons were added to the package details page on npmjs.org: “Analyze security,” “Check bundle size,” “View package health,” and “Explore dependencies.”

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Filip Sobol @filipsobol.com · 11/02/2026

We’ve already tested how AI can help with the migration, and the results are VERY promising. Vitest’s popularity and API similarity to other runners helps a lot. We’ll likely be able to automate the vast majority of the migration and only manually handle the tricky parts.

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Filip Sobol @filipsobol.com · 11/02/2026

We’ve been very happy users of Vitest’s Browser Mode since it was introduced. Soon, we’ll be migrating our largest codebases (~35k tests) from Karma to Vitest. Not exaggerating when I say that we can’t wait to get started 😅

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TypeScript @typescriptlang.org · 11/02/2026

TypeScript 6.0 beta is now published! This release brings - inference improvements for functions - updates to package.json 'imports' - the Temporal APIs - alignments for the upcoming TypeScript 7.0 - & more! Try it today! devblogs.microsoft.com/typescript/a...

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Announcing TypeScript 6.0 Beta - TypeScript

Today we are announcing the beta release of TypeScript 6.0! To get started using the beta, you can get it through npm with the following command: npm install -D typescript@beta TypeScript 6.0 is a uni...

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Firefox for Web Developers @webdevs.firefox.com · 21/01/2026

In Firefox 147, you no longer need heavy libraries to (de)compress brotli with JS - you can just use CompressionStream and DecompressionStream!

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Jordan Harband @jordan.har.band · 22/12/2025

I made something new: an eslint plugin to validate your npm ecosystem lockfiles! It supports npm, pnpm, yarn, bun, and vlt, and it's already helped find a supply chain security attack vector inside a fortune 500 tech company. www.npmjs.com/package/esli...

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VoidZero @voidzero.dev · 17/12/2025

Want to understand why some of your @vitest.dev tests are slower than expected? Then you can use the built-in experimental @opentelemetry.io support to figure out what makes tests slow and how much time is spent on each part of it. 📈

A JAEGER UI chart showing a run of vitest with data collected through the OpenTelemetry integration.

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MichiganTypeScript @michigantypescript.com · 11/12/2025

⚔️introducing TypeSlayer⚔️ A #typescript type performance benchmarking and analysis tool. A summation of everything learned from the benchmarking required to make the Doom project happen. It's got MCP support, Perfetto, Speedscope, Treemap, duplicate package detection, and more.

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TypeScript @typescriptlang.org · 02/12/2025

We've got some updates on TypeScript 7! The new native port - can type-check any project - supports --build and --incremental - has rich editor features implemented - is still 10x faster and is ready for you to try today! devblogs.microsoft.com/typescript/p...

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Progress on TypeScript 7 - December 2025 - TypeScript

Earlier this year, the TypeScript team announced that we’ve been porting the compiler and language service to native code to take advantage of better raw performance, memory usage, and parallelism. Th...

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danielroe @danielroe.dev · 21/11/2025

I actually love this disclaimer

a GitHub PR titled `fix(adobe): handle provider configuration objects properly` with the following text:

🐛 Bug Fix

Potentially fixes Adobe font-face declaration generation regression introduced in v0.12.1.

Closes #736

⚠️ Note: This fix was developed with AI assistance This PR was blindly developed by AI, without me having deep any knowledge of @nuxt/fonts internals. While it's (claimed by Claude to) been tested and appears (again, according to Claude) to work correctly, a thorough review by @danielroe or someone familiar with the fontless/unifont architecture would be appreciated.

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Ben McCann @benmccann.com · 18/11/2025

The glob library on npm currently has a CVE. It's entirely predictable since it has 26 dependencies. If you're getting a security warning from glob it's a good time to see if you can switch to a lighter dependency such as tinyglobby or Node's built-in glob functionality: nodejs.org/api/fs.html#...

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File system | Node.js v25.2.1 Documentation

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James @43081j.com · 11/11/2025

tinyglobby is a great success, and has shown us how much we can improve perf for everyone. here's some of the story! big thanks to @superchupu.dev and @benmccann.com for putting so much work into this and the migrations/adoption. we're lucky to have both in the @e18e.dev community 💙

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tinyglobby: a success story in modernization and performance

The story of tinyglobby, one of the e18e community's most successful projects

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Una Kravets @una.im · 14/10/2025

View transitions are in every browser now ✨

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rich harris @rich-harris.dev · 09/09/2025

second: devs tend to fixate on repetitiveness as a sign of poor code quality. but the cure is often worse than the disease, because if unchecked it leads to the thing that, in my experience, really _is_ a sign of poor code quality: indirection. when you're writing code, indirection is your nemesis.

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Rspack @rspack.dev · 02/09/2025

Great benchmark! We're continuously optimizing Rspack for faster builds and smaller bundle sizes. It's worth noting that webpack/Rspack produce larger bundles in this case due to different handling of dynamic require() in moment.js, see github.com/filipsobol/b...

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fix: ignore context require for `moment/locale` for webpack by SoonIter · Pull Request #2 · filipsobol/bundle-size-benchmark

There is a lib moment which contains code like var aliasRequire = require aliasRequire('./locale' + name) This means require subfoloder in moment dynamically. Rollup, webpack and Rspack al...

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Josh Bressers @josh.bressers.name · 28/08/2025

The Register wrote a story about a single maintainer open source project, I think it's shameful and upsetting So I wrote a blog post about it An absolutely ridiculous amount of open source is one person projects. I have the data to prove it opensourcesecurity.io/2025/08-oss-...

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Open Source is one person

The Register recently published a story titled Putin on the code: DoD reportedly relies on utility written by Russian dev. They should be ashamed of this story, and the company behind the ambulance ch...

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Filip Sobol @filipsobol.com · 26/08/2025

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Filip Sobol @filipsobol.com · 25/08/2025

Looks like Rspack 1.5.0-rc.0 improves build speed by another 2.52%, bringing the total improvement to 18.19% compared to 10 months ago.

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Filip Sobol @filipsobol.com · 25/08/2025

Rspack: 1.2.0-alpha.0 => 1.4.11 esbuid: 0.24.0 => 0.25.9 Parcel: 2.13.2 => 2.15.4 Rolldown: 0.15.1 => 1.0.0-beta.34 Rollup: 4.27.4 => 4.48.1 Vite: 6.0.3 => 7.1.3 Webpack: 5.96.1 => 5.101.3

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Filip Sobol @filipsobol.com · 25/08/2025

Here are the charts with absolute numbers👇

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Filip Sobol @filipsobol.com · 25/08/2025

Rollup / @vite.dev also saw improvements: Bundle size improved by 1.48% (-31 KiB). Build speed improved in Vite by 1.5%. Solid but incremental progress.

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Filip Sobol @filipsobol.com · 25/08/2025

Meanwhile, @rspack.dev made huge gains in both areas. Build speed improved by 15.7%. Bundle size also improved by 0.91%. For developers, upgrading is basically a win-win.

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Filip Sobol @filipsobol.com · 25/08/2025

But that gain came at a cost. Build speed with Rolldown + oxc dropped by 9.5%. It moves further away from esbuild (the speed leader), but still remains much faster than most other bundlers.

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Filip Sobol @filipsobol.com · 25/08/2025

The big story: @rolldown.rs + built-in oxc minifier. After 10 months the bundle size improved by 18% (-463 KiB). This result not only outperforms the recommended Rolldown + esbuild combo, but also beats more mature bundlers *in this specific scenario*.

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Filip Sobol @filipsobol.com · 25/08/2025

About 10 months ago I benchmarked the most popular bundlers to compare build speed and bundle size (tree-shaking + minification). I just re-ran the tests with the latest versions to see what’s changed 👇

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Boshen @boshen.github.io · 19/07/2025

oxlint + tsgolint = no slow down! no-floating-promises completes 4.4k files in 3.2 seconds, in the vscode repo. typescript-go is the future, all credits to the ts-go team! We just glued everything together 😀 github.com/microsoft/ty...

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Alexander Lichter @thealexlichter.com · 19/07/2025

Oxlint is making a huge step forward! Two new updates: JS custom rules, with ESLint compatible API are on the way. The first prototype gives a good speedup already! 🔥 Type-aware rules. Full coverage no-floating-promise through tsgolint, integrated like the other oxlint rules and extremely fast.

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Filip Sobol @filipsobol.com · 09/07/2025

When @eslint.org added official support for Markdown files, I figured it could be perfect for validating changeset files. It fits the use case really well.

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Filip Sobol @filipsobol.com · 20/06/2025

Big week for Sonda. After 6 months of work, v0.8 is finally out. v0.8.1 and v0.8.2 followed with QoL improvements and minor bug fixes. This week, it also hit 500+ GitHub stars and 20K weekly downloads on npm. Feels like v1.0 is getting close.

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