Web Dev Cody

Oh hey that’s me!

If you want to build amazing software, you start by building a few terrible versions first.

If you are a coder, comment below so I can follow you.

I just reposted 20 things related to typescript and liked a ton of typescript posts, yet my feed is still littered with political bs and furry images.

One thing that's challenging about the AI space is that there's a fuckload of punditry around.

I don't want to be a pundit. I don't want to make hot takes. I don't know the future.

I just want to teach you useful skills to get you paid.

Evalite has a Discord!

A place to come to discuss building AI-powered apps with TypeScript, and turning LLM garbage into gold.

Come say hi:

www.mattpocock.com/ai-discord

Looking for a transcription app for Windows that I can activate with a hotkey, and it'll send my words to wherever my cursor is.

This obviously exists, but what's the best one?

Yo, this @mattpocock.com TS generics course if free till the 19th and its a banger. Dont miss out 😮https://www.totaltypescript.com/workshops/typescript-generics

TypeScript Generics Workshop Master TypeScript's generics with exercises from basics to advanced, including conditional types and currying.

Here's an end-of-year treat for you.

I'm making my most popular paid workshop free to access until December 19th.

It's the deepest dive into TypeScript generics you could imagine.

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There's literally no tech I'm more bullish on than Vitest. Even TypeScript.

If you're using some other test runner, you're making your job harder for no reason.

module: unflag --experimental-strip-types by marco-ippolito · Pull Request #56350 · nodejs/node It's time to enable it by default to catch some more bugs, currently there are no open issues. I think it's a semver minor change. Fixes: nodejs/typescript#17 @nodejs/tsc for visibility

github.com/nodejs/node/...

There's a PR to make TypeScript work in Node by default.

Happy freaking Christmas.

2025 plan:

- Make Evalite the de facto first choice for TypeScript evals
- Release AI Hero
- Keep Total TypeScript up to date

LFG

Building effective agents A post for developers with advice and workflows for building effective AI agents

This is an absolute goldmine.

www.anthropic.com/research/bui...

Node.js Now Supports TypeScript By Default TypeScript is coming to Node 23. Let's break down what that means.

Node.js now supports TypeScript.

Here's everything you need to know:

www.totaltypescript.com/typescript-i...

Two updates to the Node/TS announcement:

- Node 22 WILL be getting TypeScript support by default.
- Type-only namespaces (which I actually have started using and quite like) will be supported by default.

www.totaltypescript.com/typescript-i...

Here's 2024's best resource on prompt engineering AI Engineering for Curious Professional Developers

The Prompt Report is the single best thing you can read if you want to improve your prompt engineering.

www.aihero.dev/the-prompt-r...

I have spent many years in search of product market fit

Done something a bit cheeky on my latest package.

If folks use it with an out-of-date tsconfig.json (that doesn't support entrypoints like my-package/a or my-package/b), I direct them to a .d.ts file like this:

It still works at runtime, but on the type level it'll warn them.

Anyone got a decent guide anywhere for transcribing audio with Vercel's AI SDK?

Planning to put together a MASSIVE open source examples directory of "cool shit you can do with AI and TypeScript".

What would you like to see?

I’ll try liking a bunch of posts that talk about typescript I guess, ty

What’s the trick to stop perverted drawings of cartoon characters from showing up on my feed?

Like… what block words can I use? This platform might actually be worse than X.

Who disables zoom on a website? That’s sick

You should be learning typescript

I don’t even use this app but I’m up to 300 followers