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Thomas Watson

@watson.bsky.social

Computer programmer, Node.js Core member, open source hacker and Node.js dev at Datadog, formerly Elastic + Opbeat (acq)

196 Followers  |  40 Following  |  7 Posts  |  Joined: 25.04.2023  |  1.5493

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What's going on with the `next` package and npm servers today?

All day our CI randomly gets these errors. But for some reason only for `next`. Any other npm package works fine. Re-run it a few times and the error goes away 🤔

status.npmjs.org is all green, but that page has never been reliable 🤷

08.01.2025 11:54 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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I would love to see the visitor stats for bluesky.com these days

08.01.2025 11:50 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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I was using Copilot today to write a bash script and I had an array of host names. It suggested this code - even added a nice copyright. Seems to come from this Node.js book: www.scribd.com/document/685...

18.11.2024 22:43 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Originally class was just synthetic sugar for what could be achieved with classic prototypical inheritance. But you’re right, as time has moved on the classes the feature set split

17.11.2024 21:58 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

_rawDebug FTW 😂 I often find myself using that especially at times where I get weird sync/async behavior and can’t correlate the output in a multi threaded environment… I haven’t verified but it feels that sometimes console.log goes through extra async layers… maybe in the os

17.11.2024 21:53 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

The link to the issue in the release notes is incorrect. Would love to read more about if there’s limits to these groups (eg there has to be more then x with same props to form a group, or max number of properties in an object and so on). Does anyone have more information?

17.11.2024 21:50 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
Heap snapshot in Chrome Devtools with all objects in one row

Heap snapshot in Chrome Devtools with all objects in one row

Heap snapshot in Chrome Devtools with all objects in separate rows

Heap snapshot in Chrome Devtools with all objects in separate rows

This is a huge improvement to heap inspection inside Chrome DevTools 👍

Seth Brenith at Microsoft gave many anonymous object literals top-level names (using their properties) to stop them getting unhelpfully categorized under "Object".

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developer.chrome.com/blog/new-in-...

17.11.2024 21:02 — 👍 55    🔁 6    💬 6    📌 1

On my way home from NodeConf and the Node.js Collaboration Summit in Dublin. Great to see so many old and new friends! 😊 And wow, I finally posted on this app 🦋

09.11.2024 10:28 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

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