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Simon Boudrias @sboudrias.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

We deleted a year of AI context files—and our evals got better. On The AI Native Dev podcast, I share what changed as Datadog scaled AI coding tools to 1,000+ engineers. tessl.co/sb6 #AIagents #DevEx

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Maël Nison @mael.dev · 12/06/2026

Experimental package map support has been merged ! Now on to implement generation support into both Yarn and pnpm 🚀

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Maël Nison @mael.dev · 25/05/2026

I'll be at #jsnation EU in Amsterdam on June 11 to talk about @yarnpkg.dev's Rust rewrite! Met amazing people every year, will anyone be there as well? @acemarke.dev @danielroe.dev @tkdodo.eu @nicr.dev maybe?

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Yarn @yarnpkg.dev · 19/05/2026

We just released the 4.15 branch 🎊 One important change is that npmMinimalAgeGate will now default to 1d for new projects.

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Maël Nison @mael.dev · 13/05/2026

Let me tell you, "sustainability in OSS" is going to become a matter of mental health rather than money more than ever before. I fear the field will get toxic pretty fast as projects start competing entirely on social marketing antics 🫤

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Yarn @yarnpkg.dev · 12/05/2026

Reminder that Yarn lets you filter out fresh packages with `npmMinimalAgeGate` and it's a good idea to use it on your work repos!

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Maël Nison @mael.dev · 20/04/2026

I'll be speaking at #JSNation to tell you the story of how we ported Yarn to Rust over the past year, and what we learned doing that (A LOT 😁) Check out my #JSNation badge: gitnation.com/badges/jsnat.... Register via the badge and watch the stream for FREE! See you on June 11 & 15.

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Maël Nison @mael.dev · 17/04/2026

Is *anyone* using "Require branches to be up to date before merging" ? Always saw this setting as pretty harmful (N people update their branch in the hope to merge, only one can, all others wasted their CI time; rinse and repeat).

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Yarn @yarnpkg.dev · 17/04/2026

We just released the 4.14 branch! 🎊 Two important security changes: - `enableScripts` now defaults to `false` (can be overridden on a per-package basis) - A new `approvedGitRepositories` setting should be used to tell Yarn which git repos are safe to pack.

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Maël Nison @mael.dev · 10/04/2026

I'm working on a feature called package maps for Node.js - it's leveraging everything I learned about package resolution these past six years, in a design that's both simple and flexible enough to be backward compatible with existing installs. I'm very excited about this! github.com/nodejs/node/...

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loader: implement package maps by arcanis · Pull Request #62239 · nodejs/node

This PR adds a new --experimental-package-map=<path> flag letting Node.js resolve packages using a static JSON file instead of walking node_modules directories. node --experimental-package-ma...

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Maël Nison @mael.dev · 19/03/2026

It should go without saying: Yarn isn't and will never be a company. My vision of sustainable OSS has always been that not only should the tool be free, but its maintainers as well.

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Maël Nison @mael.dev · 03/03/2026

I got my kid interested in his first fantasy book! We read one chapter every day 🥰 www.goodreads.com/book/show/21... by @liliwilkinson.bsky.social

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Bravepaw and the Heartstone of Alluria (Bravepaw #1)

An epic Tail of Adventure! Can one gallant mouse find t…

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Maël Nison @mael.dev · 26/02/2026

Perhaps a silly question - are multi-tenancy OSes legacy at this point? It feels like every machine nowadays only ever use a single user (perhaps a second for root). As far as I understand it even cloud deployments went away from unix's multi-user towards virtualization.

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Maël Nison @mael.dev · 24/02/2026

I'm implementing task management primitives into Yarn. I think tools like Turbo having to parse the lockfile is sign enough that they should be native features. Scripts have always been too limiting for local development.

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Maël Nison @mael.dev · 20/02/2026

The state of GitHub's "Require status checks to pass before merging" section is incredible. Never saw what should be such a simple feature that simply couldn't work in two different companies. I get 500s just by searching for my jobs !

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Maël Nison @mael.dev · 29/01/2026

I can now say it: Rust is really neat. I'm still on my learning journey, but I like many of its constructs. And I'm in love with pattern matching.

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Maël Nison @mael.dev · 28/01/2026

Noticed the amazing website? It's built with @astro.build from the ground up thanks to the help of the fine folks at luckymedia.dev, and the GLSL mad skills of shadertoy.com/user/Kali 😊

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Maël Nison @mael.dev · 28/01/2026

It’s happening. Yarn 6 Preview is here 💫 Yes, we rewrote it in Rust 🦀⚡️ I'm incredibly excited for the future of our beloved package manager. See the benchmarks and plans in our latest post:

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Yarn 6 Preview

Yarn is a modern JavaScript package manager focused on speed, security, and reliability.

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Maël Nison @mael.dev · 04/12/2025

Just left the theater - I found Zootopia a little lacking execution-wise, but overall I liked the universe enough that I could get past that and have a good time

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Maël Nison @mael.dev · 24/11/2025

I joined a middle school that turned out to have a programming club (ie 2-3 pro-linux kids self-learning Dark Basic on the school computers during lunch break).

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Maël Nison @mael.dev · 14/11/2025

I just realized it's the 10-years anniversary of my Secret Santa planner! I hope you'll find it useful this year as well 🎄☃️ mael.dev/secretsanta/

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Secret Santa Planner - by mael.dev

Organize your Secret Santa gift exchange easily and securely. No accounts needed, no emails - just have fun!

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Josh Goldberg @joshuakgoldberg.com · 30/10/2025

I am looking for a full-time job. Being independent in open source for 3.5+ years has been wonderful. I've gotten done most of the high-level goals I wanted to, and miss having people & structure around me. If you know of a role for a staff-level TypeScript+web developer, let me know! 🙂

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Maël Nison @mael.dev · 27/10/2025

Those discussions about 'use workflow' remind me something!

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Maël Nison @mael.dev · 18/10/2025

I started a new position at Mistral AI this week, still focused on developer experience. Interesting change of pace, going from a huge IPO'd company to a super fast growing startup on the rise! And a European one at that 🇪🇺🥳

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Maël Nison @mael.dev · 11/10/2025

I heard good things about Zed and Warp so I decided to try them, as I needed to reinstall a laptop anyway. So far they seem nice enough !

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Maël Nison @mael.dev · 06/10/2025

An unfortunate oversight

The "Velo fall" meme. Frame 1: "Invent the exports field, block access to undeclared files"; frame 2: "No implicit access to package.json files"; frame 3: "Can't reliably know where packages are on disk anymore"

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Maël Nison @mael.dev · 16/09/2025

A good security aspect of my job lately has been that I spend significantly more time writing package managers than installing packages 😄

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Maël Nison @mael.dev · 20/08/2025

Non-AI items on my GitHub wishlist: 🔍 GH Pages previews for PRs ⚠️ Status checks for issues 📝 Type hints in the viewer 🔗 GH first-parent iterator in the API Anything else I forget?

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Jan Martin @hybrist.dev · 17/08/2025

Can’t wait for this to land: drafts.csswg.org/mediaqueries... (API for recording user preferences in a way that just works)

drafts.csswg.org

Media Queries Level 5

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Maël Nison @mael.dev · 17/08/2025

Why is there no JS API that can flip prefers-color-scheme for the current page? Dark mode switches require adding custom selectors, which doesn't compose with third-party components.

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Maël Nison @mael.dev · 17/08/2025

Mistral is very good at building interesting narratives; much better than ChatGPT it feels: chat.mistral.ai/chat/5110f7a...

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Le Chat

Chat with Mistral AI's cutting edge language models.

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Maël Nison @mael.dev · 08/08/2025

The more I see async iterators, the more I feel like they're a really fancy way to make a frustrating and painful API

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Bruce Lawson @brucel.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

We need a European Sovereign Tech Fund github.blog/open-source/... "Open source software is critical infrastructure, but it’s underfunded. With a new feasibility study, GitHub’s developer policy team is building a coalition of policymakers and industry to close the maintenance funding gap."

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We need a European Sovereign Tech Fund

With a new feasibility study, GitHub’s developer policy team is building a coalition of policymakers and industry to close the maintenance funding gap.

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Maël Nison @mael.dev · 12/07/2025

My wife gave me a birthday present and the kid inside me is screaming 😱

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Maël Nison @mael.dev · 20/06/2025

I'm thinking perhaps we could expose the `pnpapi` module to every install, whether PnP or not, so that 3rd-party tools could easily introspect the dependency tree without parsing the lockfile.

yarnpkg.com

PnP API | Yarn

In-depth documentation of the PnP API.

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Maël Nison @mael.dev · 20/06/2025

Do you know any blind developers? What do they think about AI in their day-to-day work?

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Maël Nison @mael.dev · 13/06/2025

The GH API is simultaneously great and frustrating. It's mostly complete, but lacks a couple of fields for seemingly no particular reason (here, it's the job summary that's missing).

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Maël Nison @mael.dev · 12/06/2025

Ah, seems to be because of Cloudflare (www.cloudflarestatus.com), which in turn might be because of GCP

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Cloudflare Status

Welcome to Cloudflare's home for real-time and historical data on system performance.

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Maël Nison @mael.dev · 12/06/2025

@kochan.io's talk about configDependencies made me realize we forgot to document remote plugins on the Yarn website 🙈

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