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Lit @lit.dev · 9h

Lit is joining @openjsf.org! 🎉

Today at JSConf, The OpenJS Foundation announced Lit is officially joining as an Impact Project!

We're beyond excited for this move and look forward to continuing our work to build the open web with OpenJS!

Read more on our blog: lit.dev/blog/2025-10...

Lit is Joining the OpenJS Foundation!

Lit is officially joining the OpenJS Foundation as an Impact Project!

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Rob Palmer @robpalmer.bsky.social · 3h

ECMAScript excitement 😉

Congrats to proposal champion Dan Minor @mozilla.org on shipping the TC39 Stage 3 Upsert proposal in Firefox 144 🎉

let map = new Map();
map.getOrInsert(key, defaultVal);

It lets you set a default value on a map key without overwriting an existing value 👍

// Currently
let prefs = getUserPrefsMap();
if (!prefs.has("useDarkmode")) {
prefs.set("useDarkmode", true); // default to true
}

// Using getOrInsert
let prefs = getUserPrefsMap();
prefs.getOrInsert("useDarkmode", true); // default to true

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TypeScript.fm @typescript.fm · 7h

Today on the pod: ReactConf 2025 highlights: React 19.2 & Compiler 1.0, Bun 1.3 security features, TS 7 preview in VS 2026, plus community insights on CSS & ESLint perf! Also plenty of The Witch references. 🐐

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News of the week of October 6, 2025: Highlights from ReactConf 2025, Bun 1.3's (delicious) security lede got buried, and how to buy lifetime access to someone's webcam for $500. From the community: CSS...

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Rob Palmer @robpalmer.bsky.social · 23h

You are probably right.

In 2011 my taxi driver was trying to sell me the app he had written as a side gig.

I felt like Richard in Silicon Valley S01E01 when his doctor reveals he has a startup and tries to get Richard to invest.

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Rob Palmer @robpalmer.bsky.social · 1d

A blog post on Vite+ and the future of web tooling 📜

🔶 A new CLI that combines Vite, Vitest, Oxlint, Oxfmt
🔶 Centralized simple config
🔶 Adds easy monorepo tooling
🔶 Free for individuals, OSS, & small companies
🔶 Existing tools remain independent & assertively MIT

It’s important to emphasize that Vite+ is a separate, additive layer built on top of the open source projects we maintain. All existing projects — Vite, Vitest, Rolldown, and Oxc — will remain open source under MIT forever. Since Vite+ relies on these open source projects, improving Vite+ requires improving them as well. You are welcome to hold us accountable to that commitment.

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Rob Palmer @robpalmer.bsky.social · 1d

This matches my experience in a Waymo.

After a week of using them as a ride-sharing replacement in April 2025, my initially-terrified family did not want to use anything else.

It felt like a premium service and aroma but did not cost more.

Gergely Orosz @gergely.pragmaticengineer.com · 1d

Thoughts after my first Waymo ride:

1. It drives smoother than ~80% of drivers I rode with

2. The “you know exactly what to expect” aspect (no driver who might or might chat me up, or be on the phone, or be a bad driver) is underrated

3. Waymo is the best ad for Jaguar

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Rob Palmer @robpalmer.bsky.social · 2d

My interests mean I tend to accrue a per-person agenda of topics to engage on.

Jess clocked it right away, which was helpful & impressive.

Waiting for others to make the first move doesn't work. At confs people like cold intros esp with enthusiasm & levity. I learned by copying mentors.

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