Once again, this is not an important question, nor does answering it tell you anything about any useful moral question

The Guardian@theguardian.com · 3w ago

Could AI be conscious?

Last day to pre-order @grimalkina.bsky.social's psychology of software teams. Based on the sneaks already think this will be a must have tome for software folk. www.routledge.com/The-Psycholo...

The Psychology of Software Teams

To build the future, we need new ways of supporting software teams. This book will give you a secret weapon: the psychology that creates resilience for developers, sustainable practices for software t...

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In @npmx.dev you can now view a package's changelogs currently only package's that use Github to host their releases or changelog.md are supported but support for others are planned

> In my experience, this argument missed another fundamental building block of learning software development - trial and error.

Adam McNeilly@adammc.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Screaming into the void some thoughts on AI coding. androidessence.com/leave-me-beh...

The @washingtonpost.com describes the deaths of an estimated 750,000 people to date as "messy"

He explains why here, if any of you are interested. It is exactly what trans people have been saying the entire time.

World Athletics’ mandatory genetic test for women athletes is misguided. I should know – I discovered the relevant gene in 1990

World Athletics says its genetic test for women ensures ‘the integrity of women’s sport’ – but science does not support this overly simplistic idea.

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its great seeing npmx as an output for a lot of the data and tools we have inside e18e visibility of these things goes a long way to helping the wider community improve their own projects very nice having a place to output this npmx 🤝 e18e💙

9romise@9romise.bsky.social · 6mo ago

@e18e.dev's module-replacements in VS Code 👀 Powered by `vscode-npmx` — get modern package alternatives right in your editor. Try it out: 👉 marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemNa... Would love to hear your thoughts!

Comedian @karpi.bsky.social explores the possibilities and pitfalls of generative AI. He suggests ways to collaborate with these systems and, through demonstrations of specific model failures, builds heuristics to help us get a feel for the current generation of models 🎟️ frontconference.com/tickets

@valentinapy.bsky.social examines the spectrum of language model openness, from fully open to closed systems, highlighting what distinguishes truly open models like Apertus or Olmo from open-weights-only alternatives, while addressing the ethical and legal dimensions. 🎟️ frontconference.com/tickets

Together with @suesmith.lol, we'll explore the developer skills of the future, and work out how we’ll enable people of all experience levels to grow, building strong career pathways that will persist through this wave of automation. 🎟️ frontconference.com/tickets

Front Conference Zurich is coming up soon! On Friday, February 27, an amazing group of speakers will explore how AI is reshaping the way we work, from creativity and product design to engineering and collaboration 🤩 Our lineup: frontconference.com/schedule 🎟️ Your ticket: frontconference.com/tickets

i know a lot of the javascript community thinks that people who complain about frontend complexity are just being cynical but it turns out that caking on layer upon layer of abstractions can have real-world consequences

React@react.dev · 8mo ago

Researchers have found two new vulnerabilities in React Server Components while attempting to exploit the patches last week. These are new issues, separate from the critical CVE last week. The patch for React2Shell remains effective for the Remote Code Execution exploit.

terrific post, to which i'll add a couple of related thoughts. first: a lot of developers, especially juniors, tend to assume that other people's code is better than theirs, and so using a dependency (rather than a snippet) makes their codebase better this is very much not the case

James@43081j.com · 11mo ago

some thoughts about the bloat introduced by edge-case first libraries

Actually, Frankenstein is a doctor success at the Venice film festival

Node excitement 😉 Congrats to @marcoippolito.dev on today's landmark Node 22.18 release. It is the first LTS release to ship unflagged TypeScript support 🎉 This means Node can run *.ts files. It pairs well with TypeScript's "erasableSyntaxOnly" flag 👍 Many folk contributed 🙏

Marco Ippolito@marcoippolito.dev · last yr.

Type stripping is enabled by default 🔥🔥🔥🔥 You can just run `node file.ts` without `--experimental-strip-types` flag. This is a huge milestone

This thread is incredible.

Jason ✨👾SaaStr.Ai✨ Lemkin (@jasonlk)

.@Replit goes rogue during a code freeze and shutdown and deletes our entire database

xcancel.com

Node.js can do more than you think. Next week, it’s time to explore its multi-threaded power. Together, at our @ZurichJS workshop. June 18, 2025, 18:30 @ ORBIZ Josef, Josefstrasse 214a, 8005 Zürich 🇨🇭 We'll cover:

I'm happy because this change means TypeScript defaults and Node defaults are converging 👍 Node does not support Import Elision which means it's important to enable "verbatimModuleSyntax" vMS means the developer knows if an import statement/binding will be deleted - all via the `type` keyword.

Rob Palmer@robpalmer.bsky.social · last yr.

TypeScript excitement 😉 Congrats to @searyanc.dev on landing big updates to the default tsconfig settings used by `tsc --init` 🎉 Defaults matter - and in TS 5.9 they embrace simplicity 💙 🔷 ESM (was CommonJS) 🔷 No down-leveling (was ES2016) 🔷 verbatimModuleSyntax: true github.com/microsoft/Ty...