CyberAlien

CyberAlien

@cyberalien.dev

Full stack open source dev from Estonia, author of Iconify. https://github.com/cyberalien/ https://github.com/iconify/

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Joaquín Sánchez
@userquin.bsky.social

After a few months of hard work, we're happy to announce the initial @unplugin-pwa v0.0.2 packages! We completely rearchitected the core. Just look at the diet: we went from 321 total dependencies down to just 22, cutting the install size from 43.3MB to 4.1MB. Leaner, faster, and bundler-agnostic.

CyberAlien
@cyberalien.dev

Rebuilt Iconify API servers network. Old servers were running for almost 3 years, time to switch to new ones. New servers have 4gb of memory instead of 2gb and faster hardware. There should be no downtime or reduced performance.

CyberAlien
@cyberalien.dev

Iconify just received first ever DMCA notice. Notice is related to URL at Iconify API. It seems to be spam, whole notice makes 0 sense, but now I have to explain it to both Cloudflare (hosting domains) and Vultr (hosting actual servers). Is this something to worry about?

CyberAlien
@cyberalien.dev

To make it clearer, offending URL is Iconify API link to get "whatsapp" icon. URL it seems to offend is about a football match.

CyberAlien
@cyberalien.dev

Added 3 more icon sets to Iconify. Now there are 227 icon sets with 401k icons! Recent additions (including 2 more added last week) are very well designed and coded. Those icon sets are pleasure to work with. If I'm not mistaken, all were designed in Figma. It is brilliant for making icons.

CyberAlien
@cyberalien.dev

Current stats: 222 icon sets, 367704 icons. Components are rendered as SVG+CSS, where .css files include all attributes and SVG includes only tags with class names. This massively reduces HTML size by moving majority of code to CSS.

CyberAlien
@cyberalien.dev

Good news. GitLab seems to work flawlessly! I've also kept code that published on GitHub, seems to work now - detecting missing branches and re-publishing them makes them appear. At least for now. If nothing else goes wrong, I'll maintain packages in both, but will recommend GitLab to users.

CyberAlien
@cyberalien.dev

Earlier today I've announced migration of icon packages from NPM to GitHub. Well... that failed. Branches on GitHub started randomly disappearing. GitHub supposed to have limit of 5k branches per repo, but cannot handle mere 200 branches. Did not expect that. Need to rethink it...

CyberAlien
@cyberalien.dev

After debugging, I've noticed that it is the same branches disappearing in all 4 repositories. All those branches are for icon sets that have many icons, thus many files: over 10k files. I don't see such limit anywhere in docs and what's worse is branches disappearing without error.

CyberAlien
@cyberalien.dev

Due to NPM issues, icon components for Vue, Svelte, React and SolidJS have been migrated from NPM to GitHub. From now on, you can install components from branches of repositories: github.com/iconify/icon... Readme has long explanation. NPM packages will eventually be deprecated. 1/2

github.comGitHub - iconify/icons-vue: 200+ open source icon sets as Vue components200+ open source icon sets as Vue components. Contribute to iconify/icons-vue development by creating an account on GitHub.
CyberAlien
@cyberalien.dev

Iconify has generated components for each icon set for Vue, Svelte, React and Solid, such as "@iconify-vue/mdi". That's almost 1k packages! Due to NPM registry issues I'm currently moving them to GitHub. NPM client can install from GitHub, so NPM registry can be avoided. Long post coming later...

CyberAlien
@cyberalien.dev

After migration, those ~1k packages can be installed from GitHub (replace framework and icon set prefix): npm install github:iconify/icons-vue#mdi

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Schalk Neethling
@schalkneethling.com

Today, I’m proud to announce Homebrew 7.0.0. The most significant changes since 6.0.0 are faster installations and upgrades, stronger sandboxing, a native macOS app, built-in vulnerability checks and an advisory database, the end of macOS 10.15... | brew.sh/2026/09/13/h...

brew.sh7.0.0Today, I’m proud to announce Homebrew 7.0.0. The most significant changes since 6.0.0 are faster installations and upgrades, stronger sandboxing, a native macOS app, built-in vulnerability checks and ...

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Laurie Voss
@seldo.com

I have been writing this post about the economics of open source, on and off, for 13 years. I wasn't expecting to end up at "Microsoft should send corporations a huge bill" but nothing else we've tried has worked. https://seldo.com/posts/nobody-pays-for-open-source-we-can-force-them-to/

seldo.comNobody pays for open source. We can force them to. | Seldo.comThirty years of voluntary funding schemes haven't paid open source maintainers because asking doesn't scale. The real money already flows — to JFrog, Docker, Sonatype — at the registry layer. The fix: registries charge companies for supply (they already do), then route a slice automatically to the maintainers who make that supply worth having.
CyberAlien
@cyberalien.dev

Iconify is constantly growing, domain has passed a big milestone: 10 billion requests in last 30 days! It is a double of what it was a year ago. While project is free, servers cost money. If you are using Iconify, please consider supporting the project: iconify.design/sponsors/

CyberAlien
@cyberalien.dev

Short version of possibly upcoming long post: open source funding for Iconify failed. I don't post much. Project works, many people use it, not much to post about. When I do mention funding there are some replies, but close to 0 actual help. Next steps are either sale of Iconify or API shut down.

CyberAlien
@cyberalien.dev

Major update to icons filter on Iconify website and in Figma plugin: AI search is now used when filtering icons in an icon set. New version shows related matches, making it easy to find icons by related words. icon-sets.iconify.design Screenshot: before (left) and after (right):

CyberAlien
@cyberalien.dev

Added more open source icon sets to Iconify. There are now 218 icon sets with 317k icons! Hosting that many icons on API is expensive. Traffic is massive (attached stats). Please do consider supporting Iconify if you can, as current support barely covers hosting: iconify.design/sponsors/

CyberAlien
@cyberalien.dev

Iconify has reached a new milestone: over 300k open source icons! Huge thanks to all developers that release open source icons and maintain them. Most developers don't realise how many amazing open source icon sets exist.

CyberAlien
@cyberalien.dev

Yay, another day, another email from "security researcher" about CVE "discovered" in a package I've published. And yet again, it is AI slop. At first glance it seems like solid CVE, but yet again relies on unrealistic scenario user has no access to. I'm tired of AI slop.

CyberAlien
@cyberalien.dev

Automated deployments have been very unreliable lately with NPM. Usually NPM fails to download and install packages for about 20-30 minutes after new version has been published. But today, deploy failed because NPM thinks "@vue/shared" 3.5.39 (released 2 days ago) does not exist.

CyberAlien
@cyberalien.dev

Added support for Astro to Iconify Unplugin: github.com/iconify/icon... However, it is not recommended because icons are generated by splitting SVG to SVG + CSS, which all browsers support, except for Safari. Use islands with Vue, Svelte or React components instead, which have Safari fallback.

github.comGitHub - iconify/iconify-unplugin: Icon components on demand for almost 300k icons, rendered as SVG + CSSIcon components on demand for almost 300k icons, rendered as SVG + CSS - iconify/iconify-unplugin

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Kevin Deng
@sxzz.dev

It’s been really encouraging to see tsdown adopted by companies like @vercel.com and @cloudflare.social, as well as open-source projects like OpenClaw and LobeHub. If tsdown has been useful to you or your project, please consider sponsoring my work ❤️ github.com/rolldown/tsd...

github.comWho's using tsdown? · rolldown tsdown · Discussion #143Which Projects Are Using tsdown? Share Your Insights! Hey everyone! 🚀 We're curious to know which projects or teams are currently using tsdown. Whether it's a personal side project, a startup, or a...
CyberAlien
@cyberalien.dev

Spent last 2 full days coding in Zed... and I'm not planning to go back to VSCode. Zed is very impressive! There are minor annoyances and quirks, mostly related to syntax highlight and functionality of code autocomplete, but it is significantly faster and works perfectly in large monorepos.

CyberAlien
@cyberalien.dev

I'm experiencing a huge issue with VSCode for last 2 days: import suggestions no longer work in any project. Nothing new installed recently. Disabled all extensions, VSCode is still broken. Anyone experiencing the same issue?

CyberAlien
@cyberalien.dev

New feature on Iconify icon sets website: select multiple icons, generate bundles in various formats. It can export multiple icons as bundles, SVG and CSS sprites, components for several frameworks, raw data. You can load and save selected icons. Website: icon-sets.iconify.design Demo:

CyberAlien
@cyberalien.dev

About a week ago I got rid of infinite scroll for icons on Iconify website. Didn't realise how bad it affected SEO until I looked at search performance emails. Last month: 192k impressions, 4.43k clicks 2 years ago: 2.07m impressions, 106k clicks. Infinite scroll was such a bad idea!

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Svelte
@svelte.dev

We've just published patch releases of devalue, Svelte, and SvelteKit that fix a number of vulnerabilities. No need to panic — they're all hard to exploit or reliant on experimental features — but we recommend updating as soon as you get a chance. More details in the advisories:

CyberAlien
@cyberalien.dev

New Iconify icon sets website no longer has infinite scrolling for icons. However, now it has more settings for icons list: - Layout: large icons with names, medium or small without names. - Size of icons. - Number of icons per page. - viewBox outline. icon-sets.iconify.design Demo below: