On Friday I gave the closing keynote at the WeAreDevelopers World Congress North America in San Jose. I tied together the key trends from the past year into a chronological …

I'd be willing to implement this feature (contributing guide) Describe the user story pnpm supports package.yaml and package.json5 since #1799. But, there are a bunch of npm packages that directly ...

I would like the "rename" action to just work everywhere for the symbol under the cursor. This is wired into my muscle-memory from using other editors and I tend to do it even when it&#39...

On building small CLI tools for myself – and now for my agents too. Walks through a recent one for querying CloudWatch Insights, and how I use Claude to analyze the logs it pulls down.

A data model for Git (and other docs updates)

In this post I investigate "ignored build scripts" warnings in pnpm, explain what this refers to, and suggest strategies for dealing with them.

Like it was 2003, or something.

Key Takeaways • The claim that "You should only believe that for which you have sufficient evidence” is popular but it contains an extremely important error. It treats belief as binary: either you bel...

Nico, uChill · These Days (Slowed + Reverb) · Song · 2022

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Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nate Soares are publishing a mass-market book, the rather self-explanatorily-titled If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies. (Yes, the “it” means “sufficiently po…

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Preparing for a world with AGI. Click to read AI Futures Project, a Substack publication with thousands of subscribers.

The prospect of reaching human-level AI in the 2030s should be jarring

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The Cure, Four Tet · Alone (Four Tet Remix) · Song · 2025

"There’s almost no story of the future going well that doesn’t have a part that’s like '…and no evil person steals the AI weights and goes and does evil stuff.' So it has highlighted the importance of...

Ever wondered which AI model is the best fit for your GitHub Copilot project? Here are some things to consider.

Continuing the trend from last week, here are some links and things that I’ve found interesting this week.

Various links and things that I’ve found interesting this week.

Explore how JSDOM's browser simulation works, and learn front-end testing approaches using Vitest Browser Mode for direct browser testing and native APIs

Scan for React performance issues and eliminate slow renders in your app - aidenybai/react-scan

There is a kind of ultramarathon race called a backyard ultra. Here’s how it works. Every hour a new lap starts. You need to finish the lap within the hour. ...

I recently built a small race timer tool for the browser using React. I think I will write a separate blog post about that, but first I wanted to discuss a s...

TypeScript is coming to Node 23. Let's break down what that means.

The other day, I was playing around with some React code. I have some ideas of a simple deploy tool, and basically just wanted to try out some UI ideas. One ...

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This is an abridged, less technical version of our longer report, found here.You’ve probably heard that people who are bad at something tend to overestimate how skilled they are. They don't even know ...

The Dependency Manager for iOS & Mac projects.

Why pipes sometimes get "stuck": buffering