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François Best @francoisbest.com · 25/09/2026

Uh I can’t message you either 😅 I opened my DMs, try giving it another go from your end.

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François Best @francoisbest.com · 21/07/2026

If Doom was made in the EU 🍪 The HTM-in-canvas API is really fun to play with. Play it here: doom-c15t.vercel.app

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François Best @francoisbest.com · 02/07/2026

When people say that "@nuqs.dev just works": this is why. app.principal-ade.com/47ng/nuqs

The nuqs codebase visualised as a tree map. The e2e test make up 60%, the docs 20%, and the core package only 10%.

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François Best @francoisbest.com · 26/06/2026

A huge thank you to all my sponsors 💖 Y'all are the reason I can dedicate more time to open-source, my dream being able to do this full-time and still pay the bills and sustain my family while working in the open. Join these wonderful folks, it's one command away: $ npx cashcn franky47 100/m 🫶

You reached your goal of 20 monthly sponsors!

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François Best @francoisbest.com · 09/06/2026

Pareil chez moi, et l’appli ne fonctionne plus. 🫠

An error has occurred
We are doing our utmost to resolve the issue. Please try again later.

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François Best @francoisbest.com · 07/06/2026

Thanks, it went well ☺️ knip.dev was also featured:

Four icons on a black background:
TypeScript (tsc), Vitest, Knip, oxlint/oxfmt

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François Best @francoisbest.com · 05/06/2026

Talk prep is going well 🙈💀

MacBook on a table, Keynote slide reads: OPEN SOURCE IS DEAD.

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François Best @francoisbest.com · 03/06/2026

How it started / How it's going

Power rangers merging meme: Users + Maintainers + Commenters + Contributors + Sponsors = Healthy OSS

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François Best @francoisbest.com · 28/05/2026

Thank you so much upstash.com for sponsoring me! 💖 A lovely early birthday present 🥳

You have a new GitHub sponsor!
Upstash is sponsoring you for $100/month

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François Best @francoisbest.com · 25/05/2026

The new reality of open-source at the age of AI: - 📈 Downloads going up (3M weekly for @nuqs.dev) - 📉 Human engagement (visit to the docs, stars, issues & discussions) going down. I’ll be talking about this in my talk next week at @forkit.community

nuqs weekly download stats, showing 3M last week from 2M 90 days ago.

Traffic to the nuqs docs, showing a 39% reduction for the last 90 days

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François Best @francoisbest.com · 22/05/2026

Unless you wire that into the action that calls npm stage publish (push mode), there is no mechanism to be notified of changes of state of the staging area other than polling npm stage list (pull mode). Maintainers do receive an email on successful staging though.

Email screenshot from npm
Subject: Successfully Staged @47ng/staged-publishing-test@0.0.0-multi-approve-1
Body:
Hi franky47!

A new version of the package @47ng/staged-publishing-test (0.0.0-multi-approve-1) was staged for publishing at 2026-05-22T09:00:57.567Z from 2a01:e0a:fa7:fa40:1d80:4d8b:d270:430.
The shasum of this package is 244a6d0486e19932679878a904bb65ebaf7332ed.

This version has been staged and requires approval before it is published to the registry.

If you have questions or security concerns, you can contact us at https://www.npmjs.com/support.

Thanks,

The npm team.

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François Best @francoisbest.com · 22/05/2026

Perfect, thank you so much! 🫶

The last three messages above this one, in markdown form.

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François Best @francoisbest.com · 21/05/2026

Hum no it looks like provenance info is cleared when you reject a staged package, and creates a new record* when you stage it again. initial stage: github.com/franky47/npm... restaged after rejection: github.com/franky47/npm... *different logId & hash, but same contents otherwise.

https://search.sigstore.dev/?logIndex=1595487471

https://search.sigstore.dev/?logIndex=1595506773

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François Best @francoisbest.com · 21/05/2026

Playing with staged publishing: - You can reject then re-stage the same package. Useful if a workflow botched a release: cancel, reject, and try again. - You can't stage the same package twice (409 Conflict), makes sense. - Is there a timeout on staged packages? We'll see… ⏱️

The staged packages web UI on npmjs.com, showing two test packages waiting for approval or denial (or timeout for one of them).

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François Best @francoisbest.com · 21/05/2026

Staged publishing TL;DR 1. You replace `npm publish` with `npm stage publish` 2. It puts the tarball in a staging area for review 3. You approve it via the CLI or web It will land in npm@^11.15.0. I've already turned off non-staged publishing in @nuqs.dev (in the Trusted Publishing settings).

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François Best @francoisbest.com · 20/05/2026

Microsoft game of the year 2026

The Halo Reach videogame cover, but it reads Halo Breach, and features Jun (Noble 3) with a red NPM armour, Carter (Noble 1) with a black GitHub armour, and a Shai-Hulud Dune sandworm in the background.

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François Best @francoisbest.com · 14/05/2026

Should be sorted, check your dashboard 🫡

Thanks for the heads up @franky47!

@JoshuaKGoldberg you should see your payouts come through over the next few days.

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François Best @francoisbest.com · 09/05/2026

Weekend project: making a cricket set for my wife’s birthday 🏏 It’s good to take a break from tokens and to make things with your hands from time to time. 🪚

Block of Douglas fir in a vise with a tenon saw ripping the cheeks of the handle for the bat

Mallet and chisel to detail the bat handle

The bat roughly shaped on the workbench, spokeshave, planes and mallet on the bench (with curls and shavings)

Finished result: three stumps, two bails forming the wicket, planted on a grass field, bat resting against it, and a tennis ball on the floor.

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François Best @francoisbest.com · 28/04/2026

Brooks is capturing exactly my feelings on AI at the moment. One minute very excited about what we can now do, head spinning with ideas, and the next speedrunning through the stages of grief for our industry, software craftsmanship and product quality.

How are people feeling about AI?

People are scared, annoyed, confused, befuddled, amazed, having a blast, disenfranchised, and completely franchised all at once.

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François Best @francoisbest.com · 22/04/2026

Oh that’s neat, if the os & cpu fields in the optional deps are exclusive, package managers will auto-install just the right one?

Code sample from the @typescript/native-preview package.json on npmx.dev

"optionalDependencies": {
"@typescript/native-preview-win32-x64": "7.0.0-dev.20260421.2",
"@typescript/native-preview-win32-arm64": "7.0.0-dev.20260421.2",
"@typescript/native-preview-linux-x64": "7.0.0-dev.20260421.2",
"@typescript/native-preview-linux-arm": "7.0.0-dev.20260421.2",
"@typescript/native-preview-linux-arm64": "7.0.0-dev.20260421.2",
"@typescript/native-preview-darwin-x64": "7.0.0-dev.20260421.2",
"@typescript/native-preview-darwin-arm64": "7.0.0-dev.20260421.2"
}

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François Best @francoisbest.com · 26/03/2026

Kawtar Choubari exposes the bad habits of our agents when generating React code: - useEffect state sync - key={index} - fetching in useEffect (“ @tanstack.com mentioned” counter: 2)

Kawtar on stage, title slide: “React anti-patterns in AI generated code”

Kawtar on stage, slide showing the Elmo cocaine meme, preferring useEffect to Zustand + TanStack Query

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François Best @francoisbest.com · 26/03/2026

Next, Gabriel Pichot is showing us how good tools help us reduce cognitive load (and it matters even more at the age of AI). Also TIL about Germane load

Gabriel on stage with Venn diagrams:
- Problems redux solves vs Problems you want to solve: no overlap
- Problems TanStack Query solves vs problems you want to solve: ~40% overlap

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François Best @francoisbest.com · 26/03/2026

@una.im starts with showing how amazing modern CSS is. interestfor is super interesting to add hover cards on links, without any JS.

Una on stage, slide reads:
Key UX principles
1. reduce noise
2. Guide users
3. Personalize

Una on stage showing the styleable parts of <select>

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François Best @francoisbest.com · 26/03/2026

Let’s go, @tej.as & @sarahdayan.com kicking off #ReactParis 2026 The lineup is amazing 🤩

Sarah and Tejas on stage with all the speakers on a slide

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François Best @francoisbest.com · 23/03/2026

Download stats counts have been down for 3 days last week and one day the week before.

Download stats for nuqs, showing zero-download days among regular numbers.

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François Best @francoisbest.com · 23/03/2026

Spammers have discovered vibe-coded UI slop. 🫠

A sloppy web UI looking like an alert (red everywhere, but classic tell-tale of AI-generation)

A sloppy UI for a fake alert (emoji, coloured shadows)

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François Best @francoisbest.com · 20/03/2026

Shrödinger's PR: both open & merged at the same time. 🐈

PR on GitHub, with the badge "Open" at the top, but a "Pull request successfully merged and closed" status at the bottom.

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François Best @francoisbest.com · 27/02/2026

Being a bit of a URL nerd, I love this idea danlevy.net/llm-connecti...

Anatomy of an LLM connection string

llm://app-name:password@api.openai.com/gpt-5.2?temp=0.7&max_tokens=1500

The scheme is llm://. The host is the provider’s API base URL. The path is the model name. And query parameters handle all the runtime options that usually clutter your code.

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François Best @francoisbest.com · 25/02/2026

I love the achievements section on @ntatoud.bsky.social's personal website 🙌 noe.tatoud.com/achievements

Achievements: 4/13 unlocked
Unlocked: Welcome (first visit), I'm back (came back), Explorer (visited every section), Reader (read a blog post to the end).
Locked: Night owl (visit between midnight & 5am), audiophile (???)

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François Best @francoisbest.com · 24/02/2026

I saw this pop in my notifications as they have a test for @nuqs.dev, very interesting 👀

New project using nuqs: cloudflare/vinext, 13 stars

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François Best @francoisbest.com · 20/02/2026

Urgh the @npmjs.bsky.social download stats are down again.. 😓

API response for https://api.npmjs.org/downloads/range/2026-02-16:2026-02-20/vue, showing ~1.4M downloads on the 16th & 17th of February, but zero on the 18th and 19th.

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François Best @francoisbest.com · 13/02/2026

Thank you!!! @nuqs.dev is on the board now 🙌 Quick nitpicks (sorry to be annoying): - The URL is nuqs.dev (not nuqs.47ng.com, that's the old domain) - Redux & Zustand are already part of the main graph for state management libs, why are there small numbers for them here too?

The updated "other state management libraries", showing nuqs at 5%, between Redux & Zustand.

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François Best @francoisbest.com · 13/02/2026

I just tried the package comparison in @npmx.dev to decide between two packages. Where has this been all my life?! 😍

Comparison of fast-xml-parser and htmlparser, showing differences on package size, install size, deps, downloads, last published date, types, module format, license, vulnerabilities.

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François Best @francoisbest.com · 12/02/2026

Ah, I found how to get them via the GraphQL API 🙌

$A GraphiQL client showing results for the following query: query { surveys { state_of_react { react2025 { state_management { state_management_others { responses { rawData { answers { raw } } } } } } } } }$

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François Best @francoisbest.com · 12/02/2026

I tried that, but it shows zero results:

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François Best @francoisbest.com · 12/02/2026

Thank you for your work! 🙌 Is there a way to see the replies for "Other answers"? The "other state management libraries" section has way more answers in that category, it would be nice to see what those 76% are made of.

Other state management libraries
- TanStack Query: 21% (38 comments)
- Valtio: 7% (12 comments)
- Nano Stores: 7% (12 comments)
- Redux: 6% (10 comments)
- Other answers: 76% (138 comments)

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François Best @francoisbest.com · 11/02/2026

Keeping track of my @github.com Copilot usage. It also shows the progress in the current month so I know whether to prompt away or to go touch grass. 🤖🌿 Source: github.com/franky47/gh-...

TUI/CLI showing GitHub Copilot Pro - Premium Requests Usage
February 2026 • franky47
Overall: 110.33/300 (36.8%)
[usage bar]
[month progress bar]
Resets March 1, 2026
Per-model usage breakdown including GPT-5.2-codex, Claude Sonnet 4.5, Claude Opus 4.5 & 4.6, Code Review model, Claude Haiku 4.5.

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François Best @francoisbest.com · 19/01/2026

The Mothership is reconnected 🤘 A little work to do to shorten the desk, and I can move it to the other wall for a nice background for live streams (maybe we can do some music too while the agents are working).

A desk with musical instruments:
From left to right: Behringer mixing desk, Specular Reverb, a rack of Korg Volca (Beats, FM, Drum, Keys, Sample & Bass), an Arturia Keystep Pro, a key-less Arturia Minibrute. A pair of Focal Shape monitors on either side. Under the desk: Kawai digital piano and a Marshall tube amp.

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François Best @francoisbest.com · 17/01/2026

Hum it'd be nice if it could detect the end of stream automatically, but I'll give it a try on Tuesday.

Go Live
Shows a form where you connect your twitch handle, and select how long to go live for (1 hour selected).

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François Best @francoisbest.com · 16/01/2026

No wonder I feel rough after conferences 😷🤧

Aranet Carbon dioxide chart for the 16th Jan 2026. Low values are in the 700ppm before the conference, cruises around 1200 all day, peaking at 2021ppm at lunch time.

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François Best @francoisbest.com · 16/01/2026

Next we have @sinedied.bsky.social with genaiscript, an AI-native JS-based scripting environment. Think Google zx meets LLMs. The demos in how to make smart scripts to help you with OSS maintenance resonated a lot with some of the problems I’ve encountered.

Yoann in front of a slide showing an open GitHub issue titled “Not working”, with a description of “So I followed the setup instructions, but I can’t get it to work, can you help?”

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