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Rafael Gonzaga | Node.js @rafaelgss.dev · 7h

Node.js 25 is here! We have upgraded V8 to 14.1, bringing major JSON.stringify
performance improvements and JIT pipeline optimizations.

This release introduces the permission
model --allow-net, Web Storage is enabled by default, and more!

nodejs.org/en/blog/rele...

Node.js

Node.js® is a free, open-source, cross-platform JavaScript runtime environment that lets developers create servers, web apps, command line tools and scripts.

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Evil Martians @evilmartians.com · 9h

Agentic traces contain perfect info about agent behavior with every plan, action, and retry. But it’s lost in a sea of JSON.

So we built AgentPrism: open source React components that turn traces into visual diagrams for debugging agents. Plug in OpenTelemetry data and see your agent’s process.

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Azat S. @azat.io · 6h

An excellent guide to creating a search function on a website using @astro.build and @svelte.dev.

Thanks to this guide by Evil Martians, we have implemented a search on the ESLint Perfectionist website. It will be released soon. 🚀

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Andrey Sitnik @en.sitnik.ru · 7h

I’ve added coverage options to my wrapper around node --test:
github.com/ai/better-no...

Here’s how it’s used in Nano Stores:
github.com/nanostores/n...

GitHub - ai/better-node-test: The CLI shortcut for node --test runner with TypeScript

The CLI shortcut for node --test runner with TypeScript - ai/better-node-test

github.com

Andrey Sitnik @en.sitnik.ru · 7h

Node.js has had node --test, a built-in way to run tests without any dependencies.

But starting with Node.js 22, it now also supports code coverage out of the box:
nodejs.org/en/learn/tes...

For example, dropping c8 can remove up to 57 dependencies:
npmgraph.js.org?q=c8

Node.js — Collecting code coverage in Node.js

Node.js® is a free, open-source, cross-platform JavaScript runtime environment that lets developers create servers, web apps, command line tools and scripts.

nodejs.org

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Andrey Sitnik @en.sitnik.ru · 13h

In the context of this story it is especially funny to hear about “traditional values” from a Russian president who divorced his wife to raise kids out of marriage with his mistress.

Andrey Sitnik @en.sitnik.ru · 13h

Russia’s real traditional values:

Nicholas II’s uncle married a married woman and got banned from Russia.

His kids were sent to another uncle Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich, who was gay.

Today’s Russian homophobia is just prison culture in power and not “traditional values”.

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Nik Lopin @nlopin.bsky.social · 1d

If you need to send a POST request and you're not interested in the response, consider using Beacon API

It guarantees the request will be sent even if user is closing the page. Useful for analytics, user feedback and other non-critical interactions

developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/W...

Navigator: sendBeacon() method - Web APIs | MDN

The navigator.sendBeacon() method asynchronously sends an HTTP POST request containing a small amount of data to a web server.

developer.mozilla.org

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Simon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600.bsky.social · 1d

I was hoping to be slightly amused by this data but ended up being shocked. We see the most typically male and female reasons to be admitted to hospital in England. Only 10% of all psychosocial admissions are for men while men dominate suicide statistics. Source: buff.ly/W5PeSyl

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Alexey Ardov @ardov.me · 1d

The important yet missing piece in Hueplot is the boundary of human color perception.
Still figuring out how to close the shape but this is already something

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Andrey Sitnik @en.sitnik.ru · 1d

The new CSS property corner-shape lets you not only create “soft iOS-style corners” but also easily make cut corners, forward-arrow buttons, dropdown tips, or even highlight shapes that look like handmade marker strokes.

Lots of examples by @dxnny.fun:
css-tricks.com/what-can-we-...

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#sitnikfriday @friday.sitnik.ru · 1d

Vechereet & Alina Moro
t.me/vechereyet2

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Andrey Sitnik @en.sitnik.ru · 2d

Glad to see the “right to repair” slowly spreading across the industry.

For example, the new Pixel Watch 4 lets you replace the battery or screen just by unscrewing, no glue or tricky steps.

Funny how the watch is easier to repair than the phone.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=3pQW...

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Andrey Sitnik @en.sitnik.ru · 2d

Yes, It is more correct to call the reason “gender role based society” (but I haven’t letters left)

But anyway, the core idea that “gender role based society” created problems both for women and men, and now we need to use the similar systems to solve men’s problem created by it too.

Do you agree?

Andrey Sitnik @en.sitnik.ru · 2d

In 2014, people ran an experiment on Skype avoiding using any shared language like English, and developed their own pidgin-like language. That’s how Viossa was born.

It was based on Russian, Albanian, Japanese, Greek, Finnish, Norwegian, and German.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viossa

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Andrey Sitnik @en.sitnik.ru · 2d

Youth suicide in the U.S. has risen by roughly 30% in 15 years.

1. Men’s greater risk of dying by suicide is because of the culture, not just biology
2. We need wider thinking of gender equality. Great progress in feminism didn’t automatically address other gender issues

aibm.org/research/dat...

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#sitnikfriday @friday.sitnik.ru · 3d

Masha & Ruslan by t.me/raziltg

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Socket @socket.dev · 5d

North Korea’s “Contagious Interview” campaign continues to weaponize npm: 338 malicious packages, 50K+ downloads. Leveraging typosquats, loader tweaks, and new aliases, it targets #crypto devs and job seekers via recruiter lures.

Full Report →
socket.dev/blog/north-k... #NodeJS

North Korea’s Contagious Interview Campaign Escalates: 338 M...

The Socket Threat Research Team is tracking weekly intrusions into the npm registry that follow a repeatable adversarial playbook used by North Korean...

socket.dev

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firefoxdevtools.bsky.social @firefoxdevtools.bsky.social · 6d

As an experiment, we (the Firefox team) wanted to try a new way to get feedback on which Interop proposals matter most.

So, here's a web app where you can rank the proposals you care about, giving us data we can use when reviewing which ones to champion.

interop-rank.jakearchibald.com

Interop Feature Ranking

Rank the web platform features you care most about

interop-rank.jakearchibald.com

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Andrey Sitnik @en.sitnik.ru · 5d

If you, like me, are worried about surveillance, get involved in hacker, local-first, and decentralization communities.

A good system is built by a community, not by a single dictator.

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Andrey Sitnik @en.sitnik.ru · 5d

It’s frustrating that the real issue of surveillance is now being used for political propaganda.

Durov talks about the problems of the EU and the Democrats, but stays silent about similar laws and projects from Republicans (HB 1181, IODA).

And he talks about “saving forefathers traditions”.

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San Francisco Ruby Conference, Nov 19-21 @sfruby.com · 7d

This November in San Francisco... 💎❤️
Grab your tickets before October 20 at sfruby.com
youtu.be/m2P9PZwi8W4

The San Francisco Ruby Conference: join in at sfruby.com

YouTube video by Evil Martians

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Andrey Sitnik @en.sitnik.ru · 7d

Astro is amazing, and we are using it of course.

Our new frontend developer wrote a post about his experience.

Evil Martians @evilmartians.com · 7d

Your snappy statically generated @astro.build site deserves a search that likewise feels instant. Here’s how to get build-time indexing and client-side search that’s fuzzy, performant, and accessible. evilmartians.com/chronicles/h...

How to add fast, client-side search to Astro static sites—Martian Chronicles, Evil Martians’ team blog

Join me on a breathtaking journey as we add a client-side search to an SSG docs-first site, built with Astro!

evilmartians.com

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Andrey Sitnik @en.sitnik.ru · 7d

Starlink satellite “train” from orbit by Don Pettit

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Andrey Sitnik @en.sitnik.ru · 8d

BTW, @evilmartians.com (where I am working for 15 years) helped in creating create Bolt 2 release

www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDGC...

Bolt.new V2 Is Here: The Future of Building

YouTube video by Bolt․new

www.youtube.com

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