Adrian Fâciu

We already have flying cars. They're called helicopters. They're really expensive and there are good reasons you have to have a pilot license and work with air traffic control to fly them. Putting jets on a sedan is not going to result in a better vehicle or transportation experience in any way.

“Tokenmaxxing as a business strategy was like heating your convenience store by lighting the cash in the register on fire.” - Ben Affleck ~~ He’s showing more rational business sense than half the CEOs in tech.

Enterprise software companies had a short-lived run where they competed on usability and product-led growth which seems to be over. Now every SaaS app seems to be converging on the same UX monstrosity, complete with AI features of dubious value.

new version of the @e18e.dev ESLint plugin 🚀 This works with both ESLint and oxlint to detect code which can be modernised or made more performant. Combine it with knip for good times!

We have been working on the OWASP MCP Security Taxonomy - an open, vendor-neutral framework designed to create a common language for MCP security risks, weaknesses, attack patterns, controls, detections, and test cases: github.com/OWASP/MCP-Ta... Go check it out and give feedback

Get more out of GPT-6 Astra by revisiting your skills, AGENTS.md, and task prompts. Make skill triggers specific, load guidance when it's relevant, and define what done looks like. https://developers.openai.com/blog/rethinking-skills-and-prompts-for-gpt-6-astra

📢 I'm officially looking for a new job. You hiring? Full time, remote from Spain, paid via EOR, IC, TypeScript, no crypto, support for 3-4 conference speaking gigs/year. Share plz. 🙏 DMs open.

Frontend Managers: code you send over the wire that your team is not comfortable patching and/or forking manages your team, not the other way around. You cannot "save money" through dependence, only blot balance sheet black holes of unknown gravitational pull.

Stacked PRs now on GitHub 🥞 docs.github.com/en/pull-requ...

AI is creating an obsessive workaholic mentality in tech due to two related dynamics 1. Getting stuff done with tools like Claude Code creates a dopamine hit of feeling productive. It’s like TikTok but for work. 2. AI is “the next big thing” and everyone feels FOMO. Combined it leads to overwork

🔥 Hot Repo！ 🔥 (100+ new stars) 📦 withastro / flue ⭐ 5,337 (+164) 🗒 TypeScript The sandbox agent framework.

I need a t-shirt that says "I was confidently wrong before LLMs".

Mermaid diagrams are now built directly into VS Code. 🎉 No extra extension required. 🙌

this is actually a very good article

Writing is and will remain a relevant skill for our careers

VoidZero, the team behind Vite, Vitest, Rolldown, Oxc, and Vite+, is joining Cloudflare. Vite stays open source, vendor-agnostic, and built for everyone. https://cfl.re/4dR0LYA

Interesting read on how Cloudflare built a multi model code reviewer

Missed tim.js last night? Recordings are up 🎥 Beyond the UI: Web Applications in the Age of Agents Adrian Faciu at tim.js #107 What if web apps became toolkits that agents can use on behalf of users? Watch here 👉 youtu.be/5ykc-ATs6lg?...

Missed tim.js last night? Recordings are up 🎥 AI made me better. Faster. Exhausted. Anca Spatariu at tim.js #107 A fun, honest look at the strange new life of a dev in the AI era: prompt spirals, tool fatigue, heavier reviews, and staying human in the loop. Watch here 👉 youtu.be/-UepPM9WC_Q?...

Codex anywhere and everywhere, all the time. Now your Mac doesn’t have to be unlocked for Codex to use your computer. From your phone, Codex can securely use apps on your Mac, even when the screen is off and locked. https://developers.openai.com/codex/app/computer-use#locked-use

🛠️ Ultimately, WebMCP is about making a more secure agent pathway instead of scraping DOM and a11y trees. I made a small site to demo how it works, how agents use it, what the spec looks like, and some important links. It's interactive! You can use the extension to actuate the page:

Heartbreaking. And a wake-up call. It is no longer about being difficult to find a way to sustain yourself through your work online. It is no longer sustainable to keep a website up now. Axel has done so much for the web and all of us. Buy one of his books if you can. We've learned so much from him.

See you all there 🚀

tanstack.com/blog/npm-sup... Just published our postmortem

84 TanStack npm package artifacts were compromised in the ongoing Mini Shai-Hulud supply chain attack, adding suspected CI credential-stealing malware. Socket flagged every malicious version within six minutes of publication. Details: socket.dev/blog/tanstac...

I'll be a keynote speaker at Craft Conference on 4 June, in Budapest, Hungary. It's one of my favorite conferences, and the speaker lineup simply stellar. @kentbeck.com and many others will be there. If you'll be there: catch you at the event! Details + tickets: craft-conf.com/2026

🚀Rolldown 1.0 is here!🚀 Rust-based high-performance JavaScript bundler. 🏎️ Runs at native speed that’s up 30x faster than Rollup 🤝 Compatible with existing Rollup & Vite plugins ⚡The underlying bunder for Vite After 2 years, Rolldown is officially stable and has 20+M weekly downloads.

One or more person or persons may or may not have spoken, and in a voice funneled through a person whose professional success explicitly hinges on demand for this feature, cried out: “eight.” That’s web standards, baby! wil.to/posts/google...

We are working on bulk suppressions support in oxlint! Next release will have CLI support and we are working on LSP support now.

Just realised I miss the time when I was reading code and could figure out which of my colleagues wrote it. We each have our own style and quirks. Now all code is the same, no personality, all AI 😅

I was getting really annoyed with TipTap + Prosemirror, so I decided to give Slate a try. ...Man, where has this library been my whole life 🥹 This bulleted list demo took me weeks to get half-working in TipTap. In slate, it took a couple hours (with Codex's help).

AI makes code cheap to write. Verifying it is now the hard, expensive, human part — and the "prompt and review" model risks burning out the very engineers we need to catch what AI gets wrong. My latest for @leaddev.com leaddev.com/ai/shipping-...

I just asked Claude why it started giving inflated time estimates and it screamed “I learned it from you” and won’t come out of its room

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Being the individual people run to in a fire may feel great short-term, but the negative effects can pile up. leaddev.com/culture/put-...

The robots give you the impression that you have to think less. Incorrect. It’s more. Don’t confuse velocity with quality.

📣 tim.js #106 is happening tomorrow (Apr 29th) and this is your reminder to grab your spot! 🎤 Migrating to Native TypeScript Execution (Horia Radu) 🎤 Moving Pictures, Fixed Standards: The Evolution of the <video> Tag (Robert Todea) 📍 See you at Cowork Timisoara - The Office luma.com/9zkqx4el

✂️ Knip v6.6.0 is out A few neat feats and another 8 dependencies removed. Along with v6.5.0 introducing tinyglobby, this tidy graph wouldn't have happened without the @e18e.dev community ❤️ Changelog: github.com/webpro-nl/kn... Knip: knip.dev

TypeScript 7.0 Beta is here! Built on a new native and parallelized foundation, it's already being used on multi-million line codebases. Read up more here and try it on your projects today! devblogs.microsoft.com/typescript/a...

Here's how the engineers at GitHub made it happen. ⬇

Speed Tax www.mahdiyusuf.com/the-speed-tax/

I generated this nearly 10 years ago in 2017 and it feels even more relevant now lol

If you are these three things: - Founded in the last 2 years - Raised less than $5M in venture capital - New to paying for Sentry Then you can apply for Sentry for Startups and get $5000 in credits for free 👀 sentry.io/for/startups...

The Obsidian team is growing from three engineers to four engineers. Competitive SF salary. Fully remote, live anywhere. Apply below.

OpenAI released a plugin that allows you to use Codex to review code generated by Claude Code. I assume this is some snarky way of implying you need OpenAI’s coding agent to review the bad code generated by Anthropic’s. Pettiness abounds.

🚨 Active supply chain attack on axios@1.14.1. The latest version pulls in plain-crypto-js@4.2.1 -- a brand-new package that didn't exist before today. We're still investigating. If you use axios, pin your version and audit your lockfile. socket.dev/blog/axios-n...

✂️ Knip v6 is out It's finally here, and your favorite slop fighter is already speedier than expected! Can't wait to see y'all tidying up bigger codebases, faster 🚀 Blogpost + release notes: knip.dev/blog/knip-v6 Knip: knip.dev

Node.js is moving to one major release per year starting with Node 27! 🚀 ✅ Simpler: Every release becomes LTS. ✅ Predictable: Version numbers now align with the year. ✅ New: A 6-month Alpha channel for early testing. https://bit.ly/4rnosLg

You know when you're asking for advice or whatever from people and then they reply with "I asked ChatGPT and here's what it said" That's less than helpful! It's like horrendously wasteful on every single axis and also spectacularly literally thoughtless!