Josh Goldberg 💖

Fine let's call this one .ai-but-the-hype-cycle-kind

Oh nice, that too!

I kind of wish .config/ had taken off...

but actually can we please

petition to create an .ai directory

Poster for SquiggleConf 2025, September 18-19 Boston Electron's Internal Tooling: Open Source at Scale Shelley Voh, core eng @electron; collaborator on Node.js

🌟 Speaker Spotlight: Shelley Vohr

@codebyte.re is a long-time core engineer on Electron. Come learn from her on all the fantastic tooling the project utilizes: not just which tools to use, but how to determine what to automate and when.

Speakers, sessions, and more: squiggleconf.com

you are looking into the mouth of hell, yelling "please, more"

I want to get better at giving succinct answers in podcasts. I have this persistent habit of giving deep winding dives into the nuances of every question because I'm worried about not giving a "good enough" answer. But those are harder to listen to, and the podcast harder to steer for the hosts. 😕

YouTube video by Nordcraft Pixels with Purpose S01E07: Rules help control the fun! with Josh Goldberg

OMG you can hear Jerry (my cat) at 15:05! 😻

It was so lovely getting chat with you two, thanks for having me on!

YouTube video by Nordcraft Pixels with Purpose S01E07: Rules help control the fun! with Josh Goldberg

New episode of @nordcraft.com's podcast #pixelswithpurpose out! ✨

This time my lovely colleagues @whitep4nth3r.com and @andreasmoller.dk are chatting with @joshuakgoldberg.com about good practices for working in larger teams and how rules and standards help you focus on what is important ✌️

It was so much fun hanging out with you for an hour @mhartington.io! And we covered a lot of great stuff. ☺️

YouTube video by LogRocket TypeScript is SO SLOW... Or Is It? | Mike Hartington | PodRocket

Oh hey! My @logrocket.bsky.social podcast episode came out! This was a fun one to record, plus I got to hang out with @joshuakgoldberg.com for an hour!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGwe...

Honestly with the way AI is going it wouldn't surprise me if we got a kind of voice-to-code on-demand thingy you could trigger from any smart device by 2030...

not on my watch

"Somehow X returned" meme from Star Wars. Caption: "SOMEHOW / IT COMPILED"

this is really cool!

and wow it would make a great meetup talk ✨

@tej.as I wish to one day be you too

x.com/TejasKumar_/... hehe

Selfie of me in Daniel's room with many funko pops on the wall. I'm holding up a realistic Grogu toy.

I am @danieljcafonso.bsky.social now.

Poster for SquiggleConf 2025, September 18-19 Boston A World Class Local Dev Loop with Aspire Maddy Montaquila, product lead for Aspire

🌟 Speaker Spotlight: Maddy Montaquila

@maddymontaquila.net works on Aspire, a new dev-first toolkit for simpler local development in multi-service apps. If you've ever wanted your frontend, services, auth, and tooling spun up automatically, this one's for you!

See schedule & more: squiggleconf.com

Announcing TypeScript 5.9 RC - TypeScript Today we are excited to announce the Release Candidate (RC) of TypeScript 5.9! To get started using the Release Candidate, you can get it through npm with the following command: npm install -D typescr...

TypeScript excitement 😉

TS 5.9 RC is out 🎉

🔶 `import defer` by @nicr.dev
🔶 module: "node20" for require(ESM)
🔷 --init has modern defaults (no downleveling)
🔷 Docs: Inline summaries for DOM APIs
🔷 IDE: Expandable hovers to drill into Quick Infos
🔷 Perf: Faster type instantiation & file existence

Celebrating 20 years of MDN | MDN Blog MDN turns 20! Let's look at how we started, how MDN became the most trusted resource for web developers, the impact it's had on the open web, and yes, there's cake, too.

MDN is 20 years old! 🥳

🙏 A huge thank you to...
The devs who read and trust MDN
The contributors who improve it
Everyone working on the web platform who shares our mission.

Here's how we celebrated with the web.dev team! 🧁
developer.mozilla.org/en-US/blog/...

It wasn't beehiving

Hahaha I love that! A game of how much AI compute you can waste - oh...

emoji-blast 🎆 Blasts emoji like fireworks all up in your HTML page. 🎆

I finally got around to updating my emoji-blast site to have og: description and image meta tags. Behold, a social media preview image! 🎆

www.emojiblast.dev

fight fire with fire!

Yeah! I wish it was easy to set up automatic blocklists based on really clear "this is AI slop" criteria