James

Good fun catching up with everyone at react advanced yesterday 🎉

tinyps 0.5.1 🚀 Added a new function to get ancestors of a process. If you use ps-tree, find-process, etc - you can consolidate them by using this package instead, and at roughly the same size or smaller

repos that enable the `no-undefined` ESLint rule...

looks like ill be in London this week for React advanced 👀 come say hi if you see me!

we released chokidar 6.0.0 yesterday 👀 this was a pretty big rewrite by Paul which fixes a whole bunch of flakiness and Windows problems. the main win for me: that pesky EBADF error goes away now that it supports recursive watchers! 🎉

helping revive the json5 package a bit this week, in the next release: - ESM only - ~35% faster parse - ~40% faster stringify

vue-data-ui v3.27.1 is now -1.5 MB lighter

found another project to modernise 😄

TIL node has a built in way to strip typescript types 👀

couple of updates to maplint so it can now be used programmatically to validate sourcemaps! thanks to @jonkuperman.com

finally been hit by the agents on one of the older projects i maintain 😅

> npm test passes (lint, 384 tests with 6 existing skips) 🤖

closing old issues and issues that don't get reported enough to be fixed is a good way to deter the bad agents

A new text encodings library, iconv-nano, was posted in the @e18e.dev discord. A day later, the author (Jeremy) is collaborating with @hyeseong.kim on making it ~80% smaller! 🤯 Always impressed by how e18e has managed to join up people with knowledge in such niche subjects 😄

i use this regularly. highly recommend checking it out!

not too long ago i joined as a maintainer of svelte's acorn-typescript plugin 👀 i missed hacking away at ASTs and parser stuff 😄 has also been super nice working with @baseballyama.bsky.social on modernising a bunch of it 🙏 always a joy to collab with the svelte team

community is key 💙

working on some colour system stuff - so, so, so many magic numbers 😅

there are no rogue agents, its all PR.

I would love to do a deep dive into what's in nuxt/cli v4, but sleep calls and for now I just want to leave this one here 🔥

As part of this, vitest also adopted the Human Voice AI contribution policy from ai-policy.dev 🤝 It's unfortunate the PRs have to be locked down to known contributors, but the vitest team are approaching it well here 🙏

Jovi doing good stuff as always 🤌

chai v6.3.0 🎉 a few bug fixes, and now published via staged publishing 🚀

tinyrainbow 3.2.0 🌈 - hex colour support (`colors.hex('#303')`) - rgb colour support (`colors.rgb(51, 0, 51)`) - perf improvements (fastest in many cases now!) ❕ If you support a new enough Node, remember you can use `styleText` (built-in!) instead

New blog post on zena-lang.dev: Designing a Programming Language for the AI Era zena-lang.dev/blog/2026/09... Includes why I think a language good for humans and WebAssembly is good for AI, and why Zena is a project that's optimistic that humans have a place in software development.

the best kind of PR 😀

I've been helping out @43081j.com on github.com/43081j/tangl..., and wanted a way to prioritize what to work on. I had an assumption that repos on Tangled, who have GH workflows but not yet Tangled workflows would be great candidates. So I did a quick script that goes through repos on Tangled...

Today we're launching ai-policy.dev! A collaboration of me, @danielroe.dev and @matteogabriele.npmx.social - this provides a few human curated AI contribution policies you can choose from. Our hope is that this will help you better define your stance and what kind of contributions you accept 🙏

looking forward to seeing all the great people of the atmosphere again 💙

today we released a new library as part of tinylibs: tinyps ⚙️ this exposes a few utilities for dealing with system processes. you can use it to list, kill and find processes amongst other things. check it out and let us know if anything needs improving! 🙏

was curious what the various increments were, so here's the pnpm size bumps labelled!

check it out! some pngwn goodness ✨

was bugging me that update-notifier is 1MB+ so i made an alternative if anyone wants to use it! nano-notifier is ~275KB much of that is from clack, which itself is used by many of the consumers of update-notifier already, so will be de-duped.

understanding is the one part of software that still runs at human speed. that's not a bottleneck. that's where we're still needed. i wrote about why open source gets to choose its own pace.