Josh Ghoulberg 👻

I'm stepping back from open source (mostly). Most of my open source projects are now in security mode and/or with other maintainers. www.joshuakgoldberg.com/blog/steppin...

We have an open position for a senior engineer in the @storybook.js.org team again! 🏠 Fully remote 🤗 OSS work every single day 🛠️ Developer tooling and JS ecosystem 🌍 Europe ❌🎨 Not much UI work, mostly behind the scenes details like parsers, rendering, Node.js CLIs, web servers etc.

A few weeks ago, I shared the idea of analyzing contributors’ text for signs of automation. Now it's an app and a GitHub Action you can add to your anti-clanker Swiss Army knife. It's still an ongoing experiment, but it seems to capture the patterns in PR and issue descriptions reasonably well.

Never have I felt so validated. @danielroe.dev is a prophet.

It's not a matter of when TypeScript in Rust becomes used, it's a matter of how good it is and how stable its stewards are.

Vienna next month. 👀 HalfStack is a day of people showing what they’ve built, trying things that seemed like a good idea, meeting curious web people, and hanging around afterwards. Plus the JS Pub Quiz and karaoke. 🎤 📅 16 November 2026 📍 Ankersaal, Vienna 🎟️ halfstackconf.com/vienna/tickets

There is a certain poetry to cloudflare (an odd way of saying a meteor) killing deno (a dinosaur)

ECMAScript excitement 😉 Congrats to @ashley-c.bsky.social from TechAtBloomberg on advancing the Composites proposal to Stage 2 at @tc39.es today 🎉 Composites are objects that are compared by value instead of identity. They are an evolution of Record & Tuple proposal.

We have $100K to give away to open source maintainers! Let us know your suggestions and nominations.

At this rate, "port TypeScript to your favorite language" is going to become a standard code golf exercise & metric for LLMs.

Support the web community and make a team day of it 🙌 FFConf returns to Brighton on Friday 13 November: great web dev talks and plenty to come back buzzing about. 🎟️ 2026.ffconf.org 15% off with CITYJS Group rates: events@leftlogic.com @remysharp.com

"This is the textArea" - shoutout to every text area in my dentist's onboarding form. Glad to know what it is!

Corbin is an excellent engineer, wonderful open source maintainer, and an even better person. Highly recommend!

I am looking for my next career opportunity! I’m an engineering leader, consultant, author, and open-source maintainer. I've been VP of Eng, written books, get 20M weekly downloads on NPM, and more. Know of a role you think I'd be a good fit for? Book time on my cal or DM me: corbincrutchley.com

👀 Introduce pulls.review Categorize changes in Pull Requests into logical groups, with a summary. Helps you do reviews more efficiently by focusing on what matters. Everything runs in your browser. With opt-in GitHub userscript, GitHub Actions, or CLI for local git changes!

This was an *excellent* episode. The Oxlint folks really know what they're talking about, and it's lovely to hear about how much progress they've made on great fast+unified tooling. 👏 @overlookmotel.bsky.social @voidzero.dev & co.!

@typescript.fm podcast hosted me and my Oxc compadre Cameron talking type-aware linting, compilers, what VoidZero's acquisition means for Vite, and what the future of tooling might look like in the age of LLMs. A really fun conversation. typescript.fm/bonus83

🚀 I made a smol ~2kb syntax highlighter that uses the CSS `::highlight()` API. davatron5000.github.io/microlighter/

David Burns is Head of Developer Advocacy and Open Source at BrowserStack and a longtime leader in browser testing. He joins @joshuakgoldberg.com to discuss Selenium, WebDriver, open source, and the impact of AI on web dev. @automatedtester.co.uk softwareengineeringdaily.com/podcasts/the...

happy sloptober everyone!!

Happy spooky month, all!

Cory Doctorow is a science fiction author, journalist, and technology activist. He joins @joshuakgoldberg.com to discuss the dynamics between AI, work, and power. @doctorow.pluralistic.net softwareengineeringdaily.com/podcasts/cor...

renewing the bolt open source fund for 2026. $1,700/month in new sponsorships, $11,333/month total. @bolt.new and webcontainers are built on other people's open source. here's who we fund. bolt.new/blog/bolt-op...

🙌 SEVEN (and a half) YEARS after issue filing, we have a 'no-unsafe-enun-assignments' rule in @typescript-eslint.io! It detects accidentally using a literal instead of an enum value. Which I've seen lots of bugs from over those years! github.com/typescript-e... -> typescript-eslint@8.71.0 ✨

Excited to announce that: **We now have a single combined docs site for all the Redux libraries!** so, all of our docs for Redux core + usage, Redux Toolkit, React Redux, and Reselect now live together in: redux.js.org hopefully this makes it easier to navigate our docs!

Maintainers spend countless hours keeping the open source projects we all rely on secure. Too often, that work is unpaid. Socket is proud to join @openjsf.org's new Security Stewardship Program to help fund the researchers and maintainers protecting Node.js. socket.dev/blog/openjs-...

Sent my first Rust PR in open source, shoutout Claude lol github.com/oxc-project/...

Today we're launching ai-policy.dev! A collaboration of me, @danielroe.dev and @matteogabriele.npmx.social - this provides a few human curated AI contribution policies you can choose from. Our hope is that this will help you better define your stance and what kind of contributions you accept 🙏

Managing in the age of AI "will only work if you talk to humans more than you talk to Claude" @skamille.themanagerswrath.com skamille.medium.com/the-managers...

VCPSDDD - Venture Capital Pitch Slide Driven Design and Development

Wrote something about formatters. A biased vision of how formatters should be implemented in 2026 ematipico.xyz/blog/the-bes...

Today is Igalia's 25th birthday! 🎂 www.igalia.com/2026/09/21/T...

Happy birthday @igalia.com! 🎂

don't be nice.

@paulrobalino.bsky.social @samreich.bsky.social You know what to do!

Vitest 5 is here! 🎉 - Big performance improvements (vm pools up to 53% faster, ~18% boost across the board including Browser Mode) - New builtin Trace View in Browser Mode - Nested projects support - New benchmarking API - New `vi.when` API - Better defaults - And a lot of bug fixes!

I love talking to Daniel whenever possible - and especially about the future of TypeScript!

Daniel Rosenwasser is the Principal Product Manager of @typescriptlang.org at @microsoft.com. He joins @joshuakgoldberg.com to discuss TypeScript 7, the new API and IPC boundary, AI’s impact on type checking, and more. @danr.bsky.social softwareengineeringdaily.com/podcasts/typ...

If you’re not stalking TypeScript PRs, you might be surprised how much you can do with the API in nightlies (and even in 7.0 stable), so here’s a tiny demo that I think hits some of the highlights. 🧵

✂️ Knip v6.32.3 is out Some 🔥 fixes by no less than 8 new contributors 🧡 Still in awe how the downloads keep ramping up (2.5M/day!) — hopefully means both hoomans and agents cleaning up after 'emselves... 🧹 Watch this space, moar is coming! Changelogs: github.com/webpro-nl/kn... Knip: knip.dev

Hackathon project: I used AI to mine the last ~2k pull request reviews I did on @typescript-eslint.io for common trends, then encoded them as repo skills. Fighting fire with fire, babyy!! 🔥 github.com/typescript-e...

📢 I've decided to remove the `experimental_prefetchInRender` flag and the associated `promise` returned from `useQuery`. There are too many "gotchas" with this approach. This currently puts use(promise) off the table, sorry. We'll have to think some more how to make this possible...

"Be human." - @43081j.com ♥️

i've written up some thoughts about AI in the open source world, and more importantly, why humanity is important. its a bit wordy and doomy but this is an important topic right now. there is still a lot of good in the OSS world at least ❤️

Am I neglecting my open source projects? Is this still being maintained?? New on the blog: https://www.zachleat.com/web/is-this-still-being-maintained/