Deno 2.9 Released — A huge release for the runtime: deno desktop turns scripts and framework-based projects into native, self-contained desktop apps, quick migration from npm/pnpm/Yarn/Bun lockfiles, big test runner improvements, ~2x faster cold starts, and a target of Node.js 26 compatibility.

Bartek Iwańczuk

44 Recorded PostgreSQL Talks Are Now Available to Watch — Explore 44 talks about PostgreSQL-backed app development, Postgres performance & AI, Postgres 19, Azure HorizonDB and more. All sessions are available on YouTube. Learn directly from Postgres experts at your own pace. Check out the playlist.

Microsoft | AMD sponsor

Iterating Faster on VS Code with TypeScript 7 — How the VS Code team incrementally adopted the Go-based TypeScript 7 compiler (currently in RC) while it was still being built. Type-checking the source went from 36s to 5s, with npm run watch going from 80s to ~20s.

The VS Code Team (Microsoft)

Why Drizzle Couldn't Publish New Releases on npm for a Month — As well as explaining why the creators of the popular ORM ran into the problem, Evert shares some tips to see if you're at risk of the same problem, and how to avoid it entirely.

Evert Pot

The Shifting Line Between CSS States and JavaScript Events — A tour of the (more than you’d think) CSS pseudo-classes that can stand in for JS event listeners, plus a look at the experimental/future event-trigger syntax.

Daniel Schwarz

Real-Time Analytics on Your Operational Postgres Table — Polling just hides the lag. TimescaleDB's continuous aggregates keep data fresh on read. Get $1000 credit to start.

Tiger Data (Creators of TimescaleDB) sponsor

Blocking Install Scripts is Not a Silver Bullet — npm v12 won't run install scripts by default, but Ulises argues that only solves part of the supply chain security problem.

Ulises Gascon

Moving Linear from styled‑components to StyleX — A migration away from a runtime CSS-in-JS approach yielded ~30% faster renders when navigating between pages.

Kenneth Skovhus (Linear)

Nub: An All-in-One Toolkit That Augments Node.js — While Bun or Deno can replace Node, this project from Zod’s creator extends Node with nice-to-haves, like fuller TypeScript support, faster & more secure package installation, better .env handling, and a web-standard Worker.

Colin McDonnell et al.

Gea: A Compiler-First Reactive UI Framework — A UI framework that goes all in on "compile the framework away": no VDOM, JSX transformed into string templates, proxy-based stores, and 'surgical' DOM patching. The big win is tiny build sizes.

Armagan Amcalar

Stop Alt-Tabbing to the Dashboard When CI Breaks — Depot CI's new API and CLI let you query runs, pull logs, and diagnose failures without leaving your terminal.

Depot sponsor

<qr-code> 2.0: Web Component for Generating QR Codes — An easy way to display QR codes in the browser using pure JavaScript. A 13 year old solution that’s been modernized and is now ESM only. Live demo.

Eduard Castellano

spartan/ui 1.0: shadcn/ui-Style UI Primitives for Angular — If you’re an Angular developer who’s ever envied the copy and paste simplicity of shadcn/ui, this is for you.

Robin Goetz