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Jacob Bolda

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Board and Core Team @tauri.app Senior Software Engineer @frontside.bsky.social | Consulting for Fortune 100 | frontside.com 📺 watch | youtube.com/@JacobBolda 📖 read | www.jacobbolda.com 🧑‍💻 code | github.com/jbolda

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Jacob Bolda @jacobbolda.com · 27/09/2026
Well, got lucky with the wait-list lottery, and pulled the trigger. The steam frame isn't perfect and a bit pricey in this current market. It checks enough of the boxes though for what I've been waiting for for more than a decade now 😅
A steam frame sitting in the box that is newly opened. It is a new to the market virtual reality (VR) headset released by Valve.
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danielroe @danielroe.dev · 19/09/2026
don't be nice.
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Don't be nice
Sometimes, it's more important to be good than it is to be nice.
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Jacob Bolda @jacobbolda.com · 17/09/2026
Amazing but color me unsurprised
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Jacob Bolda @jacobbolda.com · 16/09/2026
I've been waiting for wireless PC VR for sooo long 🥹
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Jacob Bolda @jacobbolda.com · 10/09/2026
This is such a strong comparison.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
this is the kind of design costume designers make to tell you who are the bad guys in a space movie
Donald Trump posts an image on his Truth Social account. It shows a new uniform for US Space Force members, comprising of an all-black outfit with knee-high black leather boots, black cap, and minimalist looking suit.
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Jacob Bolda @jacobbolda.com · 31/08/2026
Remove all those TV apps, folks! 🧵
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Jacob Bolda @jacobbolda.com · 15/08/2026
Building things is always better with friends 🎉 So excited for what's to come!
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Frontside Software @frontside.com · 30/07/2026
Effection 4.1 is out: ⚡️ faster runtime, package half the size 🤝 support for JavaScript's explicit resource management 🧬 New `experimental` entry: Contextual APIs, our take on algebraic effects frontside.com/effection/bl...
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Jacob Bolda @jacobbolda.com · 10/07/2026
omg, how did I not notice that dependabot can exclude folders now?
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Jacob Bolda @jacobbolda.com · 27/06/2026
When you don't touch a project for a bit and all your deps are behind...
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~paul @paulvall.dev · 25/06/2026
more coming soon. exciting stuff that's gonna bring new life to the javascript ecosystem & tty envs 💣
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Jacob Bolda @jacobbolda.com · 26/06/2026
Real excited for more of this. Just need to figure out how to buy more time to play with it!
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~paul @paulvall.dev · 19/06/2026
clack 1.6.0 is out. keyboard hints on select menus, cleaner note() output, and a handful of fixes that make multiline + password prompts behave the way you'd expect. big thanks to @florian-lefebvre.dev for helping ship this 💣
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Release @clack/prompts@1.6.0 · bombshell-dev/clack
Minor Changes #568 f87933f Thanks @florian-lefebvre! - Updates default formatter of note() to note dim lines anymore If you want the old behavior, provide a format() function: import { note } fro...
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npmx @npmx.dev · 12/06/2026
Given the feedback, we decided to move forward and start verifying maintainers and projects in the npm ecosystem. Later on, large ecosystem projects could also become verifiers for their communities. Reach out if you're interested in these conversations! Here are the first 100+ verifications 🩷
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app.bsky.graph.verification - @npmx.dev
Browse @npmx.dev's app.bsky.graph.verification collection on Taproot
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Jacob Bolda @jacobbolda.com · 30/04/2026
What's the landscape for local-first in vue? Seems like everything defaults to React these days (at least at first).
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Filippo Valsorda @filippo.abyssdomain.expert · 28/04/2026
… are fucking kidding me. A github.com cross-account RCE due to the most pedestrian of injection attacks along the obvious exposed surface… and they actually have a globally shared “git” UNIX user!! This is not what taking the role of supply chain stewards seriously looks like.
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GitHub RCE Vulnerability: CVE-2026-3854 Breakdown | Wiz Blog
A CVSS 8.7 vulnerability in GitHub Enterprise Server allows remote code execution. Read the threat brief and find vulnerable GHES instances from Wiz.
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Jacob Bolda @jacobbolda.com · 23/04/2026
Getting real excited to use this to build utility CLIs in TS that just weren't really possible before.
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Charles Lowell @cogentdude.com · 09/04/2026
Added "line" mode to clayterm to support nice interactions in normal scrolling CLIs. The trick: 1. render frame continuously into the region at the bottom. 2. "commit" the final frame to scroll history. Non-terminal pipes like CI logs see the last frame only, so look nice github.com/thefrontside...
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Socket @socket.dev · 31/03/2026
🚨 Active supply chain attack on axios@1.14.1. The latest version pulls in plain-crypto-js@4.2.1 -- a brand-new package that didn't exist before today. We're still investigating. If you use axios, pin your version and audit your lockfile. socket.dev/blog/axios-n...
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Supply Chain Attack on Axios Pulls Malicious Dependency from...
A supply chain attack on Axios introduced a malicious dependency, plain-crypto-js@4.2.1, published minutes earlier and absent from the project’s GitHu...
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⭑ salma @whitep4nth3r.com · 03/03/2026
To celebrate the launch of the @npmx.dev alpha, I wrote up a guide on how to make your first contribution to an open-source project. Let me know if this helps you make your first contribution (and it doesn't have to be code)!
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How to make your first contribution to an open source project
Getting involved in open source doesn't have to be scary! Understand how to find a great project and make your first contribution in this ten-step guide.
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Jacob Bolda @jacobbolda.com · 03/03/2026
Lovely to see this evolve over the past weeks. Cheers to all the effort and care folks have put into this!
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patak @patak.cat · 28/01/2026
Heartbreaking. Take the time to read this post. We're doing such a terrible job as a society in distributing resources. Emelia's work is so valuable. We need her focused on open networks. She would be fully funded in any sane universe. Hire her. Or donate to help her thrive so she can help us.
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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 25/01/2026
Protests happen, but most of what is happening in Minneapolis isn’t protesting. More accurate terms: - observers - witnesses - volunteers - neighbors - residents - people
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jenn schiffer 😎 @jennschiffer.com · 07/06/2025
wonder how the “our ICE contract was only $200,000” githubbers feel these days
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Jacob Bolda @jacobbolda.com · 16/01/2026
Spending some night brain cycles thinking about open source sustainability. 😮‍💨
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Veni Kunche @veni.dev · 12/01/2026
With Elon enabling and profiting of the production of CSAM (Child sexual abuse material), I finally think of Twitter as X now
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patak @patak.cat · 05/01/2026
Interop is brilliant. Aligning the efforts of all browsers around crucial focus areas every year is doing wonders for interoperability, and its effect is compounding.
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Rob Palmer @robpalmer.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
ECMAScript excitement 😉 The Temporal API ships in Chrome 144 Beta today 🎉 developer.chrome.com/blog/chrome-... Right on time. Arriving in the Chrome Stable release in approximately one month!
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Chrome 144 beta  |  Blog  |  Chrome for Developers
Learn about the latest features shipping in Chrome.
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Jacob Bolda @jacobbolda.com · 16/12/2025
I've turned on automatic tab closing on my new phone, in part, because my previous phone still has 300 tabs open. It's jarring but... I think I might like the forced cleansing? Helps to force me to immediately shift something to a long term location if I really care.
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Jacob Bolda @jacobbolda.com · 16/10/2025
One of those days where I found a werewolf shaped problem for a client. Wasn't specifically looking for that type of problem, but glad I had that silver bullet ready.
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Char's lil meow meow mewtype @mewtype.online · 12/10/2025
tumblr shitpost poll
do you think ms understands consent?
yes <1%
remind me in 3 days 99.2%
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Jacob Bolda @jacobbolda.com · 10/10/2025
Excited to talk about local dev and testing through "simulating" data for your APIs on the @github.com OSS live stream today. We are diving into a project that I have been using with clients for years to quickly stand up APIs to test your apps. Starts in 2 hours! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uw8k...
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Open Source Friday with Simulacrum - Simulate the GitHub API Like a Pro
YouTube video by GitHub
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Jacob Bolda @jacobbolda.com · 25/09/2025
Has anyone happened across a plugin or extension or something that hides private GitHub repos, etc, for use when pairing/sharing/streaming?
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Jacob Bolda @jacobbolda.com · 16/09/2025
That urge to stack up projects to freely swap between and never be bored, but then invariably way over extend myself. 🫠
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Jacob Bolda @jacobbolda.com · 04/09/2025
Our youngest kiddo wants to watch Cake Pop Demon Hunters. Worth the watch?
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Jacob Bolda @jacobbolda.com · 13/08/2025
This initiative looks like a lovely way to help the ecosystem shift forward!
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Charles Lowell @cogentdude.com · 04/08/2025
A commonly proposed alternative to structured concurrency in JavaScript is "why not use async/await + AbortController" But strangely enough, nobody actually ever does this in practice 🤔 Here's why it's not a real solution frontside.com/blog/2025-0...
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Jacob Bolda @jacobbolda.com · 09/06/2025
Argh, Windows... The apps and windows seemingly random behavior opening and moving between monitors. *annoyed sigh*
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Jacob Bolda @jacobbolda.com · 05/06/2025
I am the destroyer of useEffect. I ruthlessly cull the many instances in each component I touch. Also, please stop. I have enough on my hands making certain the node_module black hole doesn't kill us first.
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Jacob Bolda @jacobbolda.com · 04/06/2025
I probably don't talk about it enough, but we made a package to help in building up a changelog and handling releases. We made it for @tauri.app as we needed to release multiple Rust crates and JavaScript npm packages all from the same repo, coordinated. github.com/jbolda/covec...
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GitHub - jbolda/covector: Transparent and flexible change management for publishing packages and assets.
Transparent and flexible change management for publishing packages and assets. - jbolda/covector
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Jacob Bolda @jacobbolda.com · 03/06/2025
Went (indoor) rock climbing for the first time in probably more than a decade. Pretty certain I blacked out on the way out and got hit by a truck because oh my do I hurt... Brought the kiddos along though and they enjoyed it 😁
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Jacob Bolda @jacobbolda.com · 01/06/2025
Looking through the TODO list and seeing those entries from 2022 🫠
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Ashley Willis-McNamara @ashley.dev · 13/05/2025
There are a lot of incredibly talented people on the job market right now. Many of my friends in DevRel, OSPO, program management, and engineering are looking for their next role, some have been searching for months. If you’re hiring, please consider sharing a link to your open roles below. TY ❤️
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Jacob Bolda @jacobbolda.com · 13/05/2025
It baffles me the number of things that appear in my head, but promptly disappear before I can even add it to the TODO list.
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Jacob Bolda @jacobbolda.com · 13/05/2025
This tracks...
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Jacob Bolda @jacobbolda.com · 10/05/2025
The ecosystem is coming along! Looking forward to try out more local-first libraries, and this is a great reference for it.
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Frontside Software @frontside.com · 21/04/2025
Surprise — we’re turning 20 later this year. We've impacted millions of users and 300K+ developers—from startups to enterprises to OSS. We never chased the spotlight, just the hardest problems— and after 20 years, boy, do we have stories. 😅 Follow along at #Frontside20
Frontside 20th anniversary teaser graphic featuring the text 'Our 20th Is Coming' and a glowing treasure chest with the number 20 rising out, surrounded by colorful icons like code brackets, stars, and gears. Subtext reads: 'Follow along as we unlock the impact and the stories that shaped us.'"
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Jacob Bolda @jacobbolda.com · 05/05/2025
Less than 40 hours for this stream! Excited to explore more alternative rendering options in @tauri.app. Looking at chromium with Bill! www.youtube.com/live/6SO_hRD...
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Chromium (CEF) In Tauri With Bill Avery: Swapping Out The Webview
Tauri is expanding beyond relying solely on the system webview. We have Bill Avery on today whom has pushed forward important efforts in the Tauri ecosystem. The latest is his work with Chromium Embed...
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Jacob Bolda @jacobbolda.com · 02/05/2025
I added home row mods on my split keyboard weeks ago. And... have yet to actually try them.
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