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

hueful has better types now and can convert to/from CMYK (using CSS level 5 `device-cmyk`) 🎨

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!

Adam Chalmers@adamchalmers.com · 3d ago

Hyperfine 2.0 is out, and it supports lots of new metrics, e.g. benchmarking RAM usage, CPU instructions, cache hit/miss etc! (screenshot from Charlie Marsh) github.com/sharkdp/hype...

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 💙

i wanted a more modern colour library, so i've created hueful! 🎨 - Convert between colour spaces - Stringify a colour in a space - Parse a colour string - Manipulate colours (e.g. lighten) This does the same job as the `color` lib & much more, without the weight of `colorjs.io`

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

ESLint jumped in install size by 2MB recently from a basic dependency update. Here's a short thread of the observations 🧵

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 🙏

AI Contribution Policies

Ready-to-use AI contribution policies for open source projects.

ai-policy.dev

Vitest@vitest.dev · 7d ago

We are updating our AI Policy to reduce maintenance stress. All pull requests are now automatically closed, unless they are created by maintainers or users from an approved list of contributors. The PR is not lost. If the team decides the change is worth pursuing, we will reopen it.

Jovi doing good stuff as always 🤌

Jovi 🐨@jovidecroock.com · 2w ago

The npm package went from 1.56 MB to 609 kB (−61%). v11 ships ES modules only, so the CommonJS, UMD and duplicate builds, and most source maps, are gone. The runtime you ship is the same ~40 kB of ESM.

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

chai - npmx

BDD/TDD assertion library for node.js and the browser. Test framework agnostic.

npmx.dev

one great project is better than many half-baked ones you're going to lose interest in tomorrow

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.

Designing a Programming Language for the AI Era

What makes a programming language effective when AI agents write, test, and review code, and why being optimized for WebAssembly is being optimized for AI.

zena-lang.dev

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...

GitHub - 43081j/tangleflow: Convert GitHub actions workflows to tangled pipelines and vice versa.

Convert GitHub actions workflows to tangled pipelines and vice versa. - 43081j/tangleflow

github.com

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 💙

AtmosphereConf 2027

The third edition of the global gathering for the Atmosphere Community is taking place in Amsterdam, April 29th - May 2nd. This includes side-events and main conference days. Please RSVP with your i...

atmo.rsvp

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!

~paul@paulvall.dev · 3w ago

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check it out! some pngwn goodness ✨

pngwn@pngwn.at · 3w ago

After about a year, on and off, I am veeeery happy to release TWINKLEPLOP, a syntax highlighter of tremendous power! The speed of prism with the customisation of Shiki. twinkleplop.pngwn.at

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.

GitHub - 43081j/nano-notifier: A somewhat small tool for notifying when your package has updates available.

A somewhat small tool for notifying when your package has updates available. - 43081j/nano-notifier

github.com

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.

we need time to assimilate

the reason behind one sort function got lost in a rewrite, and a tarball came out nine times bigger. on comprehension debt, peter naur, and why open source should slow down.

paulvall.dev

New version of module replacements 🎉 Lots of micro utilities added 🤏

giving old domains some use, we've published a basic site on ESM and how to migrate to it at esmodule.com if anyone wants to contrib a guide or improve one, please do! thanks to @iamstan.dev for putting the domain to good use 🙏

cooking something up with @matteogabriele.npmx.social and @danielroe.dev 👀

started a project somewhere on one of my laptops. can't remember which laptop and which directory. seems to have vanished 😂 time to do it again!