Ben McCann

Investor (@c3ventures) and entrepreneur. SvelteKit maintainer.

Co-founded Connectifier - acquired by LinkedIn

[Ben McCann @BenjaminMcCann]

It has been so fulfilling to be able to back Living Carbon and see them reforest huge swaths of the country. They're on track to absorb roughly the equivalent of San Francisco's annual emissions!

[Maddie Hall @maddiehalla]

1/ @OctopusEnergy is backing Living Carbon with $500M to reforest degraded land and remove CO₂ across North America. This major project financing comes with an additional ~$13M investment in our carbon business.

Living Carbon is putting low quality land back to work. Our innovative reforestation turns low quality land into thriving forests faster to remove carbon or produce sustainable forest products.

Read more about it in today’s @WSJ (link in the comments) →

[Ben McCann @BenjaminMcCann]

@TweetsByAastha So cool! Did you use the 8GB card or the 16GB card?

[Living Carbon @living_carbon]

🌲 Excited to announce our agreement with @Microsoft for 1.4M tonnes of carbon removal through reforestation in Appalachia! We're transforming 25,000 acres of former mine lands into thriving forests, with community and ecosystem co-benefits! 🧵

[Simon H @dummdidumm_]

If you were missing the "I can just reassign a $: statement" capability of Svelte 4 in version 5 - it's back now!

[whatnicktweets @whatnicktweets]

Svelte 5 has an excellent migration guide from v4 to v5. It’s way too big to be a cursor rule though.

I ended up dumping into Google Gemini large context window and got a phenomenal cursor rule condensed out of it. Nearly no issues anymore.

I would recommend to anyone dealing with or offering upgrades

[Ben McCann @BenjaminMcCann]

If you're interested in more details join the discussion on that other site with the blue monarch logo.

[Ben McCann @BenjaminMcCann]

You think removing is-number to save 440 gb is something? I just had a PR merged to save 112 TB!

I hope for the sake of everyone's node_modules that we can all compete to get the highest number 😆

[Passle @passle_]

lol, removing is-number from this package saves 440gb weekly

https://t.co/92et4T71rb

[Ben McCann @BenjaminMcCann]

I also sent another PR to @izs that would save 96 TB of traffic to the npm registry.

[Ben McCann @BenjaminMcCann]

@Malix_Labs @Rich_Harris @davis7 Just merged a PR to add Deno as a package manager! It'll take a little while to get it released, but should be coming before too long 😃

[Ben McCann @BenjaminMcCann]

@Malix_Labs @Rich_Harris @davis7 File an issue with suggestions. I'm not familiar enough with Deno to know what needs to change, but happy to support it

[Ben McCann @BenjaminMcCann]

The State of JS 2024 survey is out!
https://t.co/to6BbGbYED

[Storybook @storybookjs]

@sveltejs v5 is out and Storybook 8.4 is ready:

✅ Runes support
✅ Write your stories in Svelte CSF
✅ Insane, next-level Svelte TypeScript support
✅ Zero-config setup from the Svelte CLI

If you’ve written stories for Svelte, you can see that Svelte CSF is a big improvement:

[Ben McCann @BenjaminMcCann]

@pcattori @astrodotbuild That sounds like https://t.co/gm59yW5Vms

[Ben McCann @BenjaminMcCann]

@juppdes @fixerug @vite_js If you choose the Lucia option it uses the Lucia auth guide - not the Lucia library.

[Ben McCann @BenjaminMcCann]

Introducing the new Svelte CLI!
https://t.co/XvjMteFdEc

We’re now offering the ability to setup CSS, formatting, linting, testing, DB querying, auth, i18n, and more. Just run `npx sv create` and follow the prompts.

[Ben McCann @BenjaminMcCann]

@xmlking @inlangHQ yes, community add-ons will be welcome soon! we couldn't get the APIs ready in time for launch, but are working on them now

[Ben McCann @BenjaminMcCann]

@juppdes @vite_js It uses the new guide. It doesn't use the library

[Ben McCann @BenjaminMcCann]

@DrReinhold @joshnuss Good question. I'm not sure of the right tradeoff here between including frequent next steps and minimizing the number of questions.

[Ben McCann @BenjaminMcCann]

@drdavidtang No, the new CLI replaces "npm create svelte" and "npx svelte-add". You will still use Vite everywhere it was used before

[Ben McCann @BenjaminMcCann]

Announced at Svelte Summit today:
- Svelte 5 released
- sv, the new Svelte CLI
- new https://t.co/Xj49aAyghW website to go live next week
- Svelte Hackathon with thousands in prizes

See https://t.co/Tq2rTyITGG and https://t.co/lejkJKnZqk for more details