OK it's going to happen. Fifth time's the charm. Time to start blogging, for real this time.
Rijk van Zanten
@rijk.nyc
🐰 building @directus.io 🎓 teaching at parsons 🎸 playing bass in heavenly faded 📍 brooklyn, ny
Terrible news, especially for their workers. Just a deeply disappointing ending for such a promising company. I hate this.
Techmeme@techmeme.com · 2d agoBending Spoons agrees to acquire Airtable in an all-cash deal valuing the US software company at $1.285B, set to close by 2026-end, its first post-IPO deal (Reuters) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
I wish there was such a thing as an ad blocker for within native apps.. pictured: Apple's App Store showing Facebook as the first result for the exact search "Bluesky"
Ozlo just launched the sequel to my most love/hate gadget of the last couple years: Sleepbuds. When they work, they're a game changer. Sleeping with white noise and having alarms just for me is amazing. However..
I've admittedly spent an unhealthy amount on social media recently, and have to admit that X (fka Twitter) is wickedly more addictive than Bluesky. The constant barrage of (weird) hot takes and combativeness is pure nicotine. (Which don't get me wrong, is a bad thing)
Had a little /goal Codex experiment running over the weekend and am.. a bit underwhelmed. I gave it a relatively simple rename refactoring project, but it didn't get anywhere close to completion without blowing through my limits multiple times (on the Pro plan no less)
This year @directus.io has gotten 6× as many security reports as we did over the whole of 2025. This spike started in February, which is when Opus 4.6 launched (surprised? no) AI is great for improving security research, but the value has to be quality over quantity of reports.
AI is straining vulnerability disclosure for maintainers. | Directus
Security reports to Directus jumped 6x in 2026, but only 5% were valid vulnerabilities.
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Sleeper Mac app that I've been loving recently: Mole. Utility for cleanup, software uninstall, etc
Watched the "Rust inspired TS" talk by @rijk.nyc I haven't looked at #Rust yet but I do use these patterns in #TS and #CSharp (for some years), so I can confirm that they are really helpful. youtu.be/WDCVGaF4IGo
Rijk van Zanten - Rust-Inspired Typescript
YouTube video by Devworld Conference
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Another conf keynote in the books. Come say hi if you're in ATL! ( 📷 by Chris D on X x.com/saltnburnem/...)
Making my terminal behave like regular text editing (eg use ⌥+delete to delete a whole word, ⇧+arrow to select etc) has been such a tiny but meaningful productivity unlock 👀
Recently, I've been experimenting with a "rolling wave engineering" setup in codex. Instead of speccing out the whole project up front, I only spec out the broad strokes of the project, and then only go into detail one slice at a time.
Tough watch, but a must listen. It's so telling how he switches from "our" and "grammerly" to "them" and the "product team" when the questions get tough.. you're the boss, you're responsible, that's the deal youtu.be/Y5eC5wdQPZs
Confronting the CEO of the AI company that impersonated me | Decoder
Our guest today is Shishir Mehrotra, the CEO of Superhuman, the company formerly known as Grammarly, which is still its flagship product. Back in August, Gra...
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Dear Spotlight, if I type "1Pass" I'd like to open 1Password, not the calculator to learn that 1Pa equals 0.0003 inHg. Thanks
The Singularity is upon us: Apple's AI summarized a text message that read "I'm still down to clown if you are" to.... "clown event still possible."
We need a term for repackaging existing models as your own. Dropshipping but for AI: Slopshipping?
Google keeps reinforcing that the decision to switch to Kagi was the right one www.theverge.com/tech/896490...
Google Search is now using AI to replace headlines
Let us know if you see more.
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AI agents flooding PRs should be opt-in, not something users struggle to disable.
This is great news! Very glad to have a built in reliable way to deal with time
Jason Williams@jason-williams.co.uk · 5mo agoTemporal is now Stage 4 at TC39 🎂🎂🎂 Thanks to all the other champions of JavaScript's new date-time API. It has been a wild ride over many years! I wrote a blog post explaining how we got here 📜 bloomberg.github.io/js-blog/post...
![Code example showing the usage of Temporal.ZoneddateTime
```js
// London DST starts: 2026-03-29 01:00 -> 02:00
const zdt = Temporal.ZonedDateTime.from(
"2026-03-29T00:30:00+00:00[Europe/London]",
);
console.log(zdt.toString());
// → "2026-03-29T00:30:00+00:00[Europe/London]"
const plus1h = zdt.add({ hours: 1 });
console.log(plus1h.toString());
// "2026-03-29T02:30:00+01:00[Europe/London]" (01:30 doesn't exist)
```](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:r5emt2gkdrkb2yc6y7xndxpe/bafkreicgonzisednk3qegophndqf6fnslwtvbd7gshsgtv6fpi3arh2dsi)
Strange side-effect of Wispr flow / superwhisper: not entirely sure if the other person on this pair-work video call is trying to talk to me on mute or dictating to the machine :')
500 people decided to build something together. Every commit. Every fix. Every feature. None of them were asked. They just showed up from every corner of the world and made Directus better. Thank you to every single contributor. You're the reason this exists. 💜
I've been trying Wispr Flow for a few weeks and learned something strange about myself: while it's undoubtedly faster than typing, I found myself going back to typing most of the time A) so it remains in my actual tone of voice, and B) because I hate murmuring to myself.
Three weeks ago we started a little channel to share each others social media posts and a friendly competition to increase engagement. Today, we more-than-doubled the number of unique visitors to our website. Coincidence? I think not.
The npmx folks are running a masterclass on community building.
patak@patak.cat · 6mo agoone of the most radical actions the @npmx.dev community took was talking with every single human being who joined our chat server. more than 500 people were welcomed, encouraged to join our open conversations, ask for guidance, share their own ideas, and jump into action when they see opportunities
Nothing like an early evening of Rust programming to soothe the soul
It seems to be a toss up in quality between codex-5.3 and opus-4.6, but for this little GUI-guy Codex is undeniably better than Claude's “native” app.
Have you thought about changing to a sustaining engineering model focused on stability, security, reliability, and support yet? www.heroku.com/blog/an-upd...
An Update on Heroku
Today, Heroku is transitioning to a sustaining engineering model focused on stability, security, reliability, and support. Heroku remains an actively supported, production-ready platform, with an emphasis on maintaining quality and operational excellence rather than introducing new features. We know changes like this can raise questions, and we want to be clear about what this means for customers. There is no change for customers using Heroku today. Customers who pay via credit card in the Heroku dashboard—both existing and new—can continue to use Heroku with no changes to pricing, billing, service, or day-to-day usage. Core platform functionality, including applications, pipelines, teams, …
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Nothing like the relaxing sounds of a jackhammer drilling away right outside my window to allow me to focus on watching Claude do my work for me
Excited! Weirdly never been to Atlanta, what should I go see / do when I'm there?
Vueconf@vueconf.us · 6mo ago🤖 AI agents are becoming users of our apps—so how do we keep them safe and useful? At #VueConfUS, @rijk.nyc shows how to guide agentic AI inside complex UIs using Vue composables, Pinia, and strict guardrails. 🔗 vueconf.us/session?sess... 🎟️ Secure tickets- vueconf.us #Vuejs #Frontend #AgenticAI
