Jacob Bolda

That better be their last seat at the table.

Patching your services is one thing, but dealing with this will be awful.

Woo that's bad.

This is part of the endgame of Big AI in an era when everything we do is mediated through digital platforms. This is also why I keep trying to tell people that just wishing AI away isn’t a useful or effective answer — there has to be actual *countermeasures*. That means alternative technologies.

Hi, I’m a sighted alt text user! Here are some reasons I use it: - Slow Internet on an airplane - I’m over 40, I have no idea who that celebrity is - Bluesky broke images again - My vision sucks and that text is too small to read otherwise - Conveys further context and authorial intent

I am looking for my next thing. If you think you know where that could be please reach out.

don't be nice.

Amazing but color me unsurprised

I've been waiting for wireless PC VR for sooo long 🥹

This is such a strong comparison.

this is the kind of design costume designers make to tell you who are the bad guys in a space movie

Remove all those TV apps, folks! 🧵

Building things is always better with friends 🎉 So excited for what's to come!

Effection 4.1 is out: ⚡️ faster runtime, package half the size 🤝 support for JavaScript's explicit resource management 🧬 New `experimental` entry: Contextual APIs, our take on algebraic effects frontside.com/effection/bl...

omg, how did I not notice that dependabot can exclude folders now?

When you don't touch a project for a bit and all your deps are behind...

more coming soon. exciting stuff that's gonna bring new life to the javascript ecosystem & tty envs 💣

Real excited for more of this. Just need to figure out how to buy more time to play with it!

clack 1.6.0 is out. keyboard hints on select menus, cleaner note() output, and a handful of fixes that make multiline + password prompts behave the way you'd expect. big thanks to @florian-lefebvre.dev for helping ship this 💣

Given the feedback, we decided to move forward and start verifying maintainers and projects in the npm ecosystem. Later on, large ecosystem projects could also become verifiers for their communities. Reach out if you're interested in these conversations! Here are the first 100+ verifications 🩷

What's the landscape for local-first in vue? Seems like everything defaults to React these days (at least at first).

… are fucking kidding me. A github.com cross-account RCE due to the most pedestrian of injection attacks along the obvious exposed surface… and they actually have a globally shared “git” UNIX user!! This is not what taking the role of supply chain stewards seriously looks like.

Getting real excited to use this to build utility CLIs in TS that just weren't really possible before.

Added "line" mode to clayterm to support nice interactions in normal scrolling CLIs. The trick: 1. render frame continuously into the region at the bottom. 2. "commit" the final frame to scroll history. Non-terminal pipes like CI logs see the last frame only, so look nice github.com/thefrontside...

🚨 Active supply chain attack on axios@1.14.1. The latest version pulls in plain-crypto-js@4.2.1 -- a brand-new package that didn't exist before today. We're still investigating. If you use axios, pin your version and audit your lockfile. socket.dev/blog/axios-n...

To celebrate the launch of the @npmx.dev alpha, I wrote up a guide on how to make your first contribution to an open-source project. Let me know if this helps you make your first contribution (and it doesn't have to be code)!

Lovely to see this evolve over the past weeks. Cheers to all the effort and care folks have put into this!

Heartbreaking. Take the time to read this post. We're doing such a terrible job as a society in distributing resources. Emelia's work is so valuable. We need her focused on open networks. She would be fully funded in any sane universe. Hire her. Or donate to help her thrive so she can help us.

Protests happen, but most of what is happening in Minneapolis isn’t protesting. More accurate terms: - observers - witnesses - volunteers - neighbors - residents - people

wonder how the “our ICE contract was only $200,000” githubbers feel these days

Spending some night brain cycles thinking about open source sustainability. 😮‍💨

With Elon enabling and profiting of the production of CSAM (Child sexual abuse material), I finally think of Twitter as X now

Interop is brilliant. Aligning the efforts of all browsers around crucial focus areas every year is doing wonders for interoperability, and its effect is compounding.

ECMAScript excitement 😉 The Temporal API ships in Chrome 144 Beta today 🎉 developer.chrome.com/blog/chrome-... Right on time. Arriving in the Chrome Stable release in approximately one month!

I've turned on automatic tab closing on my new phone, in part, because my previous phone still has 300 tabs open. It's jarring but... I think I might like the forced cleansing? Helps to force me to immediately shift something to a long term location if I really care.

One of those days where I found a werewolf shaped problem for a client. Wasn't specifically looking for that type of problem, but glad I had that silver bullet ready.

Excited to talk about local dev and testing through "simulating" data for your APIs on the @github.com OSS live stream today. We are diving into a project that I have been using with clients for years to quickly stand up APIs to test your apps. Starts in 2 hours! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uw8k...

Has anyone happened across a plugin or extension or something that hides private GitHub repos, etc, for use when pairing/sharing/streaming?

That urge to stack up projects to freely swap between and never be bored, but then invariably way over extend myself. 🫠

Our youngest kiddo wants to watch Cake Pop Demon Hunters. Worth the watch?

This initiative looks like a lovely way to help the ecosystem shift forward!

A commonly proposed alternative to structured concurrency in JavaScript is "why not use async/await + AbortController" But strangely enough, nobody actually ever does this in practice 🤔 Here's why it's not a real solution frontside.com/blog/2025-0...

Argh, Windows... The apps and windows seemingly random behavior opening and moving between monitors. *annoyed sigh*

I am the destroyer of useEffect. I ruthlessly cull the many instances in each component I touch. Also, please stop. I have enough on my hands making certain the node_module black hole doesn't kill us first.