Austin Akers
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30 | Father | Husband | Breakdancer | DX Engineer @harper.fast | Cellist | Muay Thai Fighter | Community First | Author | OSS Contributor | Always Learning
IMPACT: that company that was offering to buy books for AI companies’ training data — and probably destroy them in the process — says it will no longer offer this service following 404 Media’s exposure of it www.404media.co/ai-company-t...
Company Offering Printed Books to Train AI Stops After 404 Media Coverage
Citing backlash, ISBNdb removed its webpages about training AI, denied ever buying, scanning, or selling a book for AI training, and said the site was a "test of market interest."
404media.co
I’m exploring the mental health effects of AI coding. This is a super quick (blazing fast), anonymous survey. Please fill out and share so that the responses will be well rounded. forms.gle/dpD8Tk1QnXAz...
AI Coding & Mental Health
All answers are anonymous.
forms.gle
Vite 8.2 is out 🚀 • Top-level `input` option: No need to use `build.rolldownOptions` • Warnings for config features the native loader can't handle yet • PostCSS config type export for type-safe configs • Dev URLs now labeled by their interfaces More info in the changelog github.com/vitejs/vite/...
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My first Minecraft data+resource pack and mod for shulker box and ender chest previews 👾 Data+Resource pack (forked from tryashtar's work): github.com/Ethan-Arrowo... Mod for rendering block models: github.com/Ethan-Arrowo... Assisted by Claude, and a fun exercise learning something new!
If you are using changesets for versioning, you can now use pnpm CLI directly for version management: pnpm.io/versioning
Release management | pnpm
Added in: v11.13.0
pnpm.io
Spain’s Nico Williams gave his mother, Maria, his World Cup winner’s medal after Sunday’s final ❤️💛 Nico's parents trekked some 2,000 miles across the Sahara from Ghana to Spain as refugees. Now, their son is a world champion 🥹
nuxters are the best ❤️ I have lots of PRs still to merge before we announce our winners, but ... this is incredible. can you believe we closed 242 issues in our inaugural nuxtathon? 🤯 now, please get some sleep! 😴
this answers like 80% of my #ama questions. I'm so pleased to have it out ... 😊 there's a lot here, on every level!
Nuxt@nuxt.com · 3w agoNuxt 4.5 is out, and it's a big one. 🚀 - ⚡️ Vite 8 - 🦀 Rspack 2, now powered by Rsbuild - 🌊 experimental SSR streaming for faster TTFB - 🩺 a new stable error code system - 🎨 useLayout, named views, and more ... plus a lot of groundwork for Nuxt 5! 💚💚💚
Literally called the *Chinese Exclusion* Act*🤡 If you don't like Asian people, I don't like you. And I said what I said: The US White nationalists only hate Black people as a side quest. They're not afraid of us. They're not talking about Black folk when they talk about a clash of civilisations.
White House Defends 1882 Immigration Law Excluding Chinese Immigrants
The Trump administration is defending the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act against the charge that the law had a racist intent.
forbes.com
Pinia v4 is out! Install size reduced by 77% ESM only Better errors with Nostics Vue Devtools as a peer dep github.com/vuejs/pinia/... Go give it a try!
Release v4.0.0 · vuejs/pinia
Pinia 4 Pinia 4 contains only technically breaking changes: ESM only and upgrading @vue/devtools-api which now must be installed alongside pinia. It contains a major refactor of errors and dev warn...
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We continue our summer spotlights with one of the most inspiring talks we've seen on our stage in 2026! @danielroe.dev talked about the importance of open source communities and the human side of technology in the age of AI. www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFy7...
Working backwards - Daniel Roe | JSHeroes 2026
YouTube video by JSHeroes
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If you want to learn how to build & deploy ML models, this course is for you. It covers Exploratory Data Analysis, Feature Engineering, Model Validation, & MLOps integration. By the end you'll be able to manage complex data projects & deploy your models. www.freecodecamp.org/news/end-to-...
*My daughter this evening* Her: "Can we have a daddy daughter date day?" Me: "Yes princess we can"🥹❤️ Context: We haven't had one since being blessed with our second little one. Saturday mornings were for daddy daughter outings. Can't wait for this Saturday ☺️❤️
The new Rust compiler in Astro 7.0 is COOL but it also changes how some things are rendered. I wrote about the whitespace changes here! cassidoo.co/post/astro-7...
Whitespace in Astro 7.0
The way whitespace is rendered is different in the latest version of Astro, and here's how you can fix it.
cassidoo.co
Old enough to recognize this as a data center
Finally, AI finds its ultimate use case. A diffusion model trained on burger recipes "discovers the classic Big Mac without explicit supervision and generates novel burgers optimized for deliciousness, sustainability, or nutrition." ASI= automated slider intelligence www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Generative artificial intelligence creates delicious, sustainable, and nutritious burgers - npj Science of Food
npj Science of Food - Generative artificial intelligence creates delicious, sustainable, and nutritious burgers
nature.com
Some great usage of prototypes in JS! tanstack.com/blog/tanstac...
How an Underrated Refactor Saved 90% Memory Usage | TanStack Blog
TanStack Table V9 can use dramatically less memory than Table V8 in large tables because row, column, cell, and header APIs now live on shared prototypes instead of every object instance.
tanstack.com
And speaking of Blacksky ... the code doesn't write itself, the servers cost money, and so does moderation & trust and safety. So please support Blacksky! Here's their OpenCollective link. opencollective.com/blacksky
Blacksky - Open Collective
Decentralized social media built for community power, culture, and collective freedom.
opencollective.com
Jon P@jdp23.thenexus.today · last mo.Yeah in the blog post I made it a point to link to feeds on Blacksky (which is also where @getfisaright.net's account is hosted) ... it's really about the Atmosphere more than Bluesky. But, fedi has its good points too, the compare-and-contrast really is interesting to me!
ICYMI: You can now switch repos easily from this new repo switcher tool!
This weekend DoorDash tweeted about the World Cup but repeatedly tagged T-Pain, as if they were mixing him up with NZ soccer player Tim Payne. T-Pain got in on it too, acting confused. Turns out it was all a "partnership." No ad disclosure on any of the posts. www.theverge.com/news/954145/...
AI has not changed the way software is built. Code is written using the same syntax, version controlled using the same version control systems, compiled using the same compilers, deployed to the same servers, and neglected by the same developers.
ECMAScript excitement 😉 JSC just landed a long-planned rewrite of their ESM module loader that will fix multiple famous spec bugs including those holding back ES2022 Top-Level Await 🎉 JSC is the JS engine used in Safari and Bun. github.com/WebKit/WebKi...
[JSC] Rewrite module loader by heimskr · Pull Request #57827 · WebKit/WebKit
4a63810 [JSC] Rewrite module loader https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=242740 rdar://97370038 Reviewed by Yusuke Suzuki and Sosuke Suzuki. The current module loader has long-standing bugs. T...
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Every shell and terminal emulator ever with 100% confidence that they're doing the right thing for the user: ^[[A^[[A^[[A^[[A^[[A^[[A^[[A
right now the astronauts are calling houston because the computer on the spaceship is running two instances of microsoft outlook and they can't figure out why. nasa is about to remote into the computer
Large React apps get harder to scale when every feature has to live inside the core codebase. Here, Jessica shows you how to design a React plugin architecture with TypeScript that is type-safe, lazy-loaded, and secure. www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-to-...
“He knew more about cartoons than you or I ever will (trust me on this) yet he was incredibly generous with his time and his talent. And my God, could he make you laugh! When it comes to humor, it takes a special kind of genuis to be both dry and warm. Barry was both" deadline.com/2026/03/barr...
Barry Caldwell Dies: 'Animaniacs' Animator Was 68
Barry Caldwell, the animator and director known for 'Animaniacs' (1993-'98) and 'Osmosis Jones' (2001), has died. He was 68.
deadline.com
@trezy.codes it was an absolute joy to sit down with you!!!
Harper@harper.fast · 5mo agoFrom pro drummer to open source maintainer. Trezy shares his path into software engineering, work on PixiJS, thoughts on AT Protocol + Bluesky, and why data sovereignty matters for devs. Great insights for builders 👇 www.harper.fast/resources/in... #OpenSource #GameDev #ATProtocol
