✂️ Knip v6.41.0 is out → Even better script parsing w/ unbash v5 → New Flue plugin → Faster globbin' & better gitignore handling → Improved Expo & RN plugins Enjoy your Friday! ✨ Changelogs: github.com/webpro-nl/kn... Knip: knip.dev
Lars
@webpro.nl
Independent developer/architect. JavaScript/TS, DX, automation, tooling, performance & OSS. 🏡 https://webpro.nl 🦋 https://webpro.blue 🧑💻 https://github.com/webpro ✂️ https://knip.dev
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Here's fully converted from Raycast to its alternative Tinycast and got my first PR in. OSS is great 🐬 tinycast.dev
Tinycast: a free, native launcher for macOS
A free, open source macOS launcher with app search, clipboard history, snippets, custom commands, window management, your own AI keys and Raycast extensions.
tinycast.dev
✂️ Knip v6.40.0 is out Another fine community release by 11 contributors! 🧡 Lots of tuning on plugins like vite, playwright, rsbuild. New plugins: jasmine, osls. Changelogs: github.com/webpro-nl/kn... Knip: knip.dev
I am looking for my next career opportunity! I’m an engineering leader, consultant, author, and open-source maintainer. I've been VP of Eng, written books, get 20M weekly downloads on NPM, and more. Know of a role you think I'd be a good fit for? Book time on my cal or DM me: corbincrutchley.com
Corbin Crutchley
I’m an engineering leader, consultant, author, and open-source maintainer in Sacramento, California.
corbincrutchley.com
✂️ Knip v6.39.0 is out Another 100% community release. Love to see the commitment to squeeze out all the false positives one by one. We're now peaking at >3M downloads a day. Who would've thought! Let's keep knipping... 🟥 🟥 🟥 🟥 Changelogs: github.com/webpro-nl/kn... Knip: knip.dev
Vite+ 1.0 is here 🚀 A single `vp` CLI for managing your Node.js runtime, package manager, and frontend toolchain. Built on top of Vite, Vitest, Rolldown, Oxc, and tsdown. All with a single config. Free and open source under the MIT license. Start with `vp create` or migrate with `vp migrate`.
Announcing Vite+ 1.0
Vite+ 1.0 is here. One CLI manages your runtime, package manager, and frontend toolchain.
voidzero.dev
Remember a few projects on my TL about their different stances and viewpoints towards AI-powered contributions. Please share yours cq comprehensive ones! Interested in reading & opinions.
10 months in at www.summation.com. Working on our AI Analyst, but you know I always bet on great DX & tooling. So it's dang cool we're building AX, in the open. It's like pair programming with a group of models in a shared session. Supports Claude, Codex, Grok, OpenCode & Pi. Try it out! useax.dev
Remember a few projects on my TL about their different stances and viewpoints towards AI-powered contributions. Please share yours cq comprehensive ones! Interested in reading & opinions.
✂️ Knip v6.38.0 is out Gotta say, Knip's getting ridiculously precise. And it looks like we all want the same ✂️ 🧡 The mental model and overall design still hold up. Yes, we're using AI. And yes, it has helped _improve_ quality and performance. Changelogs: github.com/webpro-nl/kn... Knip: knip.dev
I am losing roughly $800 a month by working on MSW full-time while it's one of the most used projects in the ecosystem. Please, if MSW provides you any value, consider becoming a sponsor. I mean it when I say every contribution counts. Thank you ❤️ github.com/sponsors/mswjs
Sponsor @mswjs on GitHub Sponsors
Mock Service Worker is an API mocking library for browser and Node.js.
github.com
✂️ Knip v6.37.0 is out → New ignoreGlobalBinaries option (useful w/ mise and such env's) → Improved binaries handling → Set jsx:true for Jiti config loader Still in awe of all the help we keep receiving. >300 contributors & counting. Y'all 🪨! 🫶 Changelogs: github.com/webpro-nl/kn... Knip: knip.dev
✂️ Knip v6.36.0 is out → New plugins: @varlock.dev & textlint → Better contention detection for CLI + Extensions: ambiguous, shadowed and converged exports (by @gioboa.bsky.social!) → ...moar! Made by 🔟 contributors 🧡 → Contention: knip.dev/reference/in... → Changelogs: github.com/webpro-nl/kn...
maybe in this era of hyper-capitalism, where new technology is making us even more rushed and dividing our attention constantly, having patience itself is a radical thing
introducing knip.dev at work today and casually deleting ~5,000 LoC
@ansi-tools/parser v1.1.0 is out Parse ANSI escape sequences, better + faster. → Package + docs: npmx.dev/package/@ans... → Playground: ansi.tools
ANSI Escape Codes
View and inspect ANSI escape sequences in the browser. See a visual rendering and a detailed breakdown of all control codes.
ansi.tools
✂️ Knip v6.35.0 is out Big One! → New mise plugin → Configure preprocessors from knip.json → Override editor severity settings → ..so much more.. MASSIVE props to @gioboa.bsky.social entering the scene, doing no less than 8 substantial PRs 🥹 Changelogs: github.com/webpro-nl/kn... Knip: knip.dev
As if listening to @bernardokastrup.bsky.social the philosopher isn't enough of a treat, TIL he's deeply invested in European AI hardware and I'm absolutely here for it:
Bernardo Kastrup (Euclyd) on European AI Sovereignty | AI Meet-Up XL 2026
YouTube video by AI Innovation Center
youtube.com
🐚→🌳 unbash v4.0.11 is out lots of tricky syntax fixes (see next comment for demo). performance is still 😎 tfw folks actually start using your lib... 😊 for instance, unbash is used in the Pi community unbash: github.com/webpro-nl/un... changelogs: github.com/webpro-nl/un...
🆕 pnpm-exclude-newer Update package.json ranges to the latest versions permitted by your age policy (minimumReleaseAge, minimumReleaseAgeExclude) including transitive dependencies. $ pnpm dlx @webpro/pnpm-exclude-newer → github.com/webpro/pnpm-... Using this for a while now, little QoL bumper
Introduce yourself with 10 acts you've seen live: Joe Bonamassa The National Boxer Rebellion Gary Clark Jr Editors White Lies Bruce Springsteen Bear's Den Dixon Âme
Introduce yourself with 10 acts you've seen live: AC/DC Bjørk Die Ärzte Fehlfarben Iron Maiden Motörhead Pearl Jam Sheryl Crow Van Halen ZZ Top and many more from my "festival years" (mainly Roskilde in the 90s).
✂️ Knip v6.33.0 is out → The main feat is probably support for package manifest resolution under Yarn PnP. → A good number of feats & fixes around webpack, vite, vitest and TS content mappers also made their way in. All contributors, you 🪨! 🧡 Changelogs: github.com/webpro-nl/kn... Knip: knip.dev
❌🛢️ unbarrelify v1.1.4 is out Fully automated cleanup: unbarrelify rewrites consumers to import directly from source, then deletes the barrel files. Why? Read more at github.com/webpro-nl/un... Trust me, you don't want to do this by hand and your agent will screw up and bill you nonetheless. 👇
I don't know who needs to hear this, but the @npmx.dev dependencies list is simply 🧑🍳's 💋 Example: npmx.dev/package/knip
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✂️ Knip v6.32.3 is out Some 🔥 fixes by no less than 8 new contributors 🧡 Still in awe how the downloads keep ramping up (2.5M/day!) — hopefully means both hoomans and agents cleaning up after 'emselves... 🧹 Watch this space, moar is coming! Changelogs: github.com/webpro-nl/kn... Knip: knip.dev
i've written up some thoughts about AI in the open source world, and more importantly, why humanity is important. its a bit wordy and doomy but this is an important topic right now. there is still a lot of good in the OSS world at least ❤️
Humanity in Open Source
Thoughts on how the open source world is changing in the AI era, not always for the better.
43081j.com