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Matteo Collina @nodeland.dev · 3d

🚀 BIG NEWS: We just shipped @platformatic/python - run Python ASGI apps INSIDE your Node.js process!

This changes everything for AI/ML + Node.js apps 🧵

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Launching @platformatic/python: Bring Python ASGI to Your Node.js Applications

Today we are excited to ship @platformatic/python, a new capability for Watt, the Application Server for Node.js, that lets you run Python ASGI applications alongside your existing Node.js workloads.…

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James Snell @jasnell.me · 7d

Doesn't need to be a TypeArray, but it should work with ArrayBuffer in much the same way.

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James Snell @jasnell.me · 7d

I've been considering it!

James Snell @jasnell.me · 7d

That would be the dream.

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James Snell @jasnell.me · 7d

I once again find myself wishing JavaScript had a native BitField that was ArrayBuffer backed. e.g.

const bf = new BitField(10); backed by a two byte ArrayBuffer.
bf[0] = true
bf[1] = false
// Etc

bf.buffer; // the underlying ArrayBuffer

Really just a special form of TypedArray...

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Bluesky @bsky.app · 8d

Bluesky runs on open protocols with open source code. Today we’re taking an additional step and making a patent non-aggression pledge to ensure that everyone can build confidently on our work.

Learn more and read the pledge in our blog post: bsky.social/about/blog/1...

Bluesky's Patent Non-Aggression Pledge - Bluesky

Bluesky develops open protocols. We're taking a short and simple patent non-aggression pledge to ensure that everybody feels confident building on them.

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James Snell @jasnell.me · 8d

They aren't heroes if they won't defend the Constitution and the people against what he and his white supremacist cronies are trying to do.

Mike Sington @mikesington.bsky.social · 10d

Draft dodger and convicted felon addresses room full of American heroes.

James Snell @jasnell.me · 10d

Oh we don't have any problem getting them inside. They love being soaking wet from the pool and jumping onto our couch over and over.

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Bryan English @bengl.dev · 10d

A propos of nothing, it's a completely reasonable thing to not use a company's products, services, and OSS, when their CEO openly supports (and takes selfies with) a world leader who the UN says is currently committing genocide.

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James Snell @jasnell.me · 10d

It took a couple years for her to build up confidence, but our German shepherd now just casually drops her ball into the water at one side of the pool, runs around the other side, jumps in and swims out to get it. Just entertaining herself. It's not even 8am here yet and she's already at it again.

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James Snell @jasnell.me · 11d

ICE isn't law enforcement. They are state sponsored terrorists.

Steve Marmel @marmel.bsky.social · 11d

ICE attempted
and failed to disappear a food delivery guy.
It needed to be scored.

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James Snell @jasnell.me · 12d

It's a good thing lol. There aren't 60k *open* PRs and issues ;-)

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James Snell @jasnell.me · 12d

Sometime in the past couple of days nodejs/node crossed the 60,000 issues/PRs mark.

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James Snell @jasnell.me · 13d

It's great to see things shifting back to the principles we were promoting through the mid 2000s while working on RSS, Atom, Activity Streams, and ironically OpenSocial. Those efforts ended up being short circuited by Twitter and Facebook competing to own the walled gardens. We've come full circle.

dan @danabra.mov · 14d

i wrote about atproto and why it matters

Open Social — overreacted

The protocol is the API.

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TC39 @tc39.es · 13d

ECMAScript Excitement 🎉

This week, at its 110th meeting, TC39 advanced these proposals:

3️⃣ Non-extensible applies to Private
2️⃣.7️⃣ Import Bytes
2️⃣.7️⃣ Iterator Chunking
2️⃣ Native Promise Predicate
1️⃣ Array.prototype.pushAll
1️⃣ Native Promise Adoption

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 15d

WOW. The lead plaintiff is a Latino man who's been here legally for 24 years. He was grabbed off the street by plainclothes federal agents who didn't even ASK about his status.

He was detained overnight and only released once a supervisor realized he had been illegally arrested.

PARTIES3. Plaintiff José Escobar Molina is a 47-year-old man who has lived in D.C. for 25 years. He has maintained valid Temporary Protected Status (“TPS”) for El Salvador since 2001. On August 21, 2025, Mr. Escobar Molina was walking from his apartment building in Northwest D.C.to his work truck, about to start his workday, when two cars pulled up next to him. As he was about to get into his truck, plain-clothed and unidentified federal agents exited the cars and—without conducting any inquiry—seized Mr. Escobar Molina, grabbing him by the arms and legs and immediately handcuffing him. The agents arrested him without a warrant and without asking for his name, his identification, or anything about his immigration status. The agents also did not ask him where he lives, whom he lives with, how long he has lived here, or anything else about his ties to the community prior to arresting him. After ICE detained Mr. Escobar Molina overnight at its processing center in Chantilly, Virginia, the next day an ICE supervisor finally realized that he had valid TPS, which statutorily prohibits ICE from detaining him, and released him. Due tohis Latino ethnicity, Mr. Escobar Molina fears being arrested and detained again while going about his daily life in D.C.

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James Snell @jasnell.me · 15d

Don't forget it'll also make your dogs gay and and something something also about a broken escalator.

Nate's Myth @natesmith.dev · 15d

so. let me get this straight. if I have autism when I take Tylenol, my kids will get pregnant?

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Cloudflare @cloudflare.social · 15d

Over the next year Cloudflare will make nearly every feature we offer available to any customer who wants to buy and use it. https://cfl.re/42bn1WR #BirthdayWeek

Every Cloudflare feature, available to everyone

No contract necessary. We believe that if you want to use something we offer, you should just be able to buy it.

cfl.re

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Eric Champnella @echamp.bsky.social · 15d

The new Tylenol ad just dropped. Sound up!

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James Snell @jasnell.me · 15d

Safe in the sandbox... blog.cloudflare.com/safe-in-the-...

Safe in the sandbox: security hardening for Cloudflare Workers

Cloudflare Workers are constantly being updated to be as secure and efficient as possible. We are further hardening Workers by making use of the latest software and hardware features. We use defense-i...

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James Snell @jasnell.me · 15d

A year of improving Node.js compatibility in Cloudflare Workers blog.cloudflare.com/nodejs-worke...

A year of improving Node.js compatibility in Cloudflare Workers

Over the year we have greatly expanded Node.js compatibility. There are hundreds of new Node.js APIs now available that make it easier to run existing Node.js code on our platform. This has been a maj...

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James Snell @jasnell.me · 15d

Promise.isPromise(val) essentially.

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Rob Palmer @robpalmer.bsky.social · 15d

ECMAScript excitement 😉

This week TC39 advanced these proposals 🎉

3️⃣ Non-extensible applies to Private
2️⃣.7️⃣ Import Bytes
2️⃣.7️⃣ Iterator Chunking
2️⃣ Native Promise Predicate
1️⃣ Array.prototype.pushAll
1️⃣ Native Promise Adoption

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James Snell @jasnell.me · 17d

You responded positively to user feedback.

Extremely inappropriate.

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Cloudflare @cloudflare.social · 18d

We're expanding Cloudflare for Startups to include non-profits, civil society, and public interest orgs. Eligible organizations can now receive up to $250,000 in Cloudflare credits. https://cfl.re/4ngumNi #BirthdayWeek

Free access to Cloudflare developer services for non-profit and civil society organizations

We are excited to announce that non-profit, civil society, and public interest organizations are now eligible to join Cloudflare for Startups.

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