T. Eric Cabrel

I tweet on software engineering | blog about building backend web applications with Node.js

[boris @boristane]

it's friday shipday

you have code review bots, but none of them know about the production impact of your PR

until today

https://t.co/on6yrIlqhC

[sanixdk @sanixdarker]

While working on a huge project, i tried all the solutions I found to reduce my AI token cost, found nothing as simple as my needs were, so i reframed the problem and built something I was surprised doesn't exist yet and reduced my token cost by 48%.
https://t.co/Q9WPS1k1vG

[sanixdk @sanixdarker]

Don't let people fool you.
Don't let AI influencers scam you.

AI can accelerate development, but it doesn't replace engineering, architecture, testing, or iteration.

Good software still takes time.
Quality takes time.

[shadcn @shadcn]

Introducing shadcn/typeset.

You know how you render markdown and get back plain, unstyled HTML? Headings, paragraphs, lists, tables. So you style the elements one by one: font sizes, line heights, spacing.

You do it for your blog. Then you do it again for docs. Then again for the chat. Every time, you're fighting the same thing: sizing and spacing.

To fix this, we created typeset.css: one file that styles everything inside a typeset container. It lives in your project, so you can change it directly when you need to.

And we made it work beautifully with streaming markdown.

[boris @boristane]

codex 🤝 https://t.co/on6yrIlqhC

I shipped this today, the ability for your coding agent to access both the entire polylane api surface and also all the tools I handcrafted to interact with all your clouds and observability tools simultaneously

best part is, it's codemode

[TypeScript @typescript]

📣 The moment is here. 📣

TypeScript 7 is officially released! 7️⃣

https://t.co/D7Mbq7vWpy

[ONE PUNCH MAN 👊🏾 @Leesan30Lee]

Launching blocks: copy-paste UI sections you actually own.
Not a component you import and pray — real source, one command, built from primitives you own too (ibirdui). No lock-in, MIT.
Accessible, animated, with previews that truly reflow. Demo 👇

[T. Eric Cabrel @tericcabrel]

@boristane The example is great for understanding. I wonder what it would look like for a database migration or a breaking change to an event's schema; where a rollback is not enough. It would be new era if Polylane can handle these cases 🔥
I can’t wait to see it 🚀

[boris @boristane]

I'm betting my company on proactive agents

agents that sift through 100x more data than anyone, decide what's the most critical thing to work on, and just do it

I wrote down my thoughts

https://t.co/5WkVlwtKwR

[sanixdk @sanixdarker]

man...
So much time and effort... nights, days, weekends... spent on a project that started as a joke... Now it's going to be the biggest project of my entire life, where I have used everything I learned these years about software engineering https://t.co/PV7eubIvaG is going live... soon

Was it worth it ? I don't know, what I am sure is, it will be BIG.

[Rasengan @rasenganjs]

Something cool is happening into the @rasenganjs ecosystem 🔥

Rasengan Server, coming soon ✨

[Iheanyi Ekechukwu @kwuchu]

Long post incoming, but I'm desperate at this point and need the internet's help. (For the TLDR, check the replies for links and action items)

So my little sister Chizo has been fighting leukemia for the past 2.5 years. She's been in remission twice, once after a bone marrow transplant from our brother and then again after a CAR-T treatment after another relapse last year. She is now in her third bout of the fight, as the leukemia has returned yet again in December of last year.

She's spent the majority of this year in the hospital and they tried an alternative CAR-T treatment, which did not work this time. Afterwards, the doctors gave her two options: manage her pain and spend time with her family and loved ones until it's time to pass on, or to take a In order to address this third bout, they tried an alternative CAR-T treatment that did not work this time. The doctors gave her two options:

1) Manage her pain and spend the rest of her time here with her family and loved ones
2) Take a life-threatening chemotherapy treatment that can lead to heart/liver failure based on the intensity of it to bridge her to her next treatment, whether it's another CAR-T treatment or a bone marrow transplant if they find a donor.

She's a fighter, so she chose the chemotherapy treatment and is still fighting to this day. So I'm here to ask for y'alls help as she continues this fight.

[docka @docka_dev]

Common, you already know that you can deploy apps, databases and manage your servers with docka, but do you know you can import a full project just with a docker-compose ?

The import feature has a module for import a full project and live deploy it in a split of a seconds,
you can check logs, add alerts, and have your full app running live.

FOR FREE !
The import feature is available on the distributed version of the project.

you don't believe me ? Let's watch a DEMO :

[docka @docka_dev]

Hello !!!

We are frequently asked how we guarantee that all sensitive customer data remains encrypted at rest, effectively mitigating any risk of data exfiltration.

The underlying answer is far more intricate than commonly perceived; however, our Terms of Service (ToS) meticulously detail the end-to-end encryption lifecycle and the architectural controls applied across both the data and control planes.

From envelope encryption utilizing AES-256 and securely managed Key Management Service (KMS) rotations, to strictly enforced IAM policies and immutable audit trails, the document thoroughly explains how we maintain a robust zero-trust security posture, ensuring client data confidentiality throughout the entire storage stack.

More details: https://t.co/pvCED0mHPw

[Gergely Orosz @GergelyOrosz]

Why is the creator of OpenCode pretty skeptical about AI productivity gains, and the hype around AI? A very conversation @thdxr (and lots of truth bombs:)

Timestamps:

00:00 Intro
07:03 Dax’s path into tech
09:04 Early startup experience
13:16 Getting involved with open source
16:13 OpenCode
23:17 Anthropic banning OpenCode
30:34 From terminal to GUI
32:34 OpenCode’s business model
36:33 Why inference is profitable
39:11 GPU bottlenecks
40:54 AI hype
45:50 AI spending
48:47 Dax’s memo
55:41 Dax’s skepticism of predictions
58:58 Engineering culture at OpenCode
1:02:38 How building works at OpenCode
1:05:36 Taste and quality
1:11:32 Dax’s work setup
1:12:35 The role of engineers and EMs
1:15:50 Advice for engineers
1:18:12 Book recommendation

Brought to you by:

• @AntithesisHQ – verify your system’s correctness without human review or traditional integration tests – and avoid bugs or outages https://t.co/AKYm4cbVCU

• @WorkOS – everything you need to make your app enterprise ready https://t.co/aiAee0oF5h

• @turbopuffer – a vector and full-text search engine built on object storage. It’s fast, cheap, and extremely scalable https://t.co/w9y67Gs8ab

Three interesting thoughts from Dax:

1. No AI-native coding agent company is “winning” by being better with AI.

Dax says that none of OpenCode’s competitors are crushing them, and that nobody is using AI so well that others cannot compete.

2. Most software engineers profit from AI as time gained, not increased output — unless you change incentives!

Dax says the natural way for software engineers to “cash out” their AI tooling gains is with time savings, by doing the same work as before, but faster. Until compensation and motivation structures change, most teams should expect output to stay flat while engineers go home earlier. There’s nothing wrong with this, but AI vendors sell a different outcome to CFOs: increased output.

3. AI code generation mutes the “guilt” of doing the wrong thing, but this builds up tech debt.

Pre-AI, writing a hack felt bad, the second time it felt really bad, and by the third time you’d often just refactor in order to fix up the code. Now, the agent hides the hack, which skews devs’ judgment and results in less tech debt being cleaned up.

[Seb ⚛️ ThisWeekInReact.com @sebastienlorber]

npm user?
➡️ One small change to stay safe, FREE

Add these aliases
➡️ pkg installs forbid using known malware

I run this:
- locally, to stay safe
- in my CI to detect compromised transitive dependencies early for my lib consumers

[Samuel Umoren @saameeey]

https://t.co/IRiAiovvJe

[Sergey Nazarov @sergeynazarovx]

We used to go to a special website, ask strangers for help with programming, and get humiliated in return

[Dipanda Aser @iamdipanda]

Shipped v0.1 of muleta this week open-source dashboard for BullMQ.
Polishing the demo this weekend. real launch tuesday. if you run BullMQ @bullmqhq in prod, my DMs are open and i'd love to know what existing dashboard doesn't do for you.

https://t.co/iwlpZVf84Y
@muleta_dev