If I stopped following you on Twitter it might mean I've already found you on Mastadon and I'm slowly shutting down here!

tldr; if you used @vltpkg as your package manager, then you were protected the minute @SocketSecurity flagged the malicious packages in the `axios` attack yesterday. The best time to switch your package manager was 48hrs ago, the next best time is right now. More below: blog.vlt.sh/blog/vlt-build

I built a browser-based Gopher client / proxy in Node.js. Go check it out! burrow.din.gy/

Yesterday we saw the most _new_ NPM packages being released in the last 12 months, at 2804 packages. Pretty steady upward trajectory here, unlike we've ever seen. This graph is spiky because it's daily data and weekends are lower.

"There is nothing special about Elon Musk, Sam Altman, or Mark Zuckerberg. Accepting that requires you to also accept that the world itself is not one that rewards the remarkable, or the brilliant, or the truly incredible, but those who are able to take advantage of opportunities, which in turn leads to the horrible truth that those who often have the most opportunities are some of the most boring and privileged people alive." -@EdZitron, You Can't Make Friends With The Rockstars wheresyoured.at/rockstars/

I just blogged: "New Structured Fields RFC out, and so is my Javascript package" evertpot.com/structured-fiel…

I just blogged "Hello world! meet Kian: evertpot.com/hello-world-kia…"

Funny but also people are dicks in the comments. I still thinks tabs need to be rethought in modern browsers. This usage pattern is very common and browsers don't cater people well: evertpot.com/tabs-are-the-wr…

I wrote something! Creating an open source download counter with Web Components: evertpot.com/webcomponent-do… #npm #php #packagist #js #webcomponents

tale as old as time

I wrote this Format dialog back on a rainy Thursday morning at Microsoft in late 1994, I think it was. We were porting the bajillion lines of code from the Windows95 user interface over to NT, and Format was just one of those areas where WindowsNT was different enough from Windows95 that we had to come up with some custom UI. I got out a piece of paper and wrote down all the options and choices you could make with respect to formatting a disk, like filesystem, label, cluster size, compression, encryption, and so on. Then I busted out VC 2.0 and used the Resource Editor to lay out a simple vertical stack of all the choices you had to make, in the approximate order you had to make. It wasn't elegant, but it would do until the elegant UI arrived. That was some 30 years ago, and the dialog is still my temporary one from that Thursday morning, so be careful about checking in "temporary" solutions! I also had to decide how much "cluster slack" would be too much, and that wound up constraining the format size of a FAT volume to 32GB. That limit was also an arbitrary choice that morning, and one that has stuck with us as a permanent side effect. So remember... there are no "temporary" checkins :) Follow me for more random code musings!

Find someone that loves you like this man loves his own coolaid. Read the whole thread for the funny context!

Using JSX on the server as a template engine: evertpot.com/jsx-template/

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We just released TypeScript 5.2 Beta! Check out - 'using' Declarations - Decorator Metadata - Easier Tuple Type Notation - The "Inline Variable" Refactoring - Comma Completions in Object Literals and more! Try it today! devblogs.microsoft.com/types…

I want to start a new newsletter, and really miss Revue's authoring tool. Anything like that that's similarly simple?

🚨 nginx-1.25.1 mainline version has been released which includes a new feature allowing a plain TCP socket to support HTTP/1.1 and HTTP/2 simultaneous, removed HTTP/2 server push and “ssl” directive, and several bug fixes. Learn more: bit.ly/3YmdPva

🥁 Your 0$ MRR bootstrapped SaaS will not need a infinite scale cloud database right from the start

In 2020 Figma started hitting growing pains with their single managed Postgres database. That means they managed to grow to a $2B company on a single mged instance. I bet at they hired engineers around this time who grumbled about not picking a more ‘scalable’ tech.