Node.js 22.18.0 is out and enables type stripping by default – that’s right, Node.js LTS can now run TypeScript files. Shout out to @marcoippolito.dev for championing that effort! Download links and full changelog available at nodejs.org/en/blog/rele...

work/life hack

👉 save your shower until the middle of the day when you have a knotty problem to think through

or take multiple showers a day 🤷

humanity has yet to invent a better problem-solving mechanism

Join us on August 13 for Localhost!

🦠 Peter Whidden will present Mote, an interactive ecosystem simulation with hundreds of thousands of organisms. His custom GPU physics engine models many simple behaviors at a massive scale, producing fascinating emergent phenomena.

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Thanks for having me!
Make sure to check Pinia Colada! pinia-colada.esm.dev
My slides: esm.is/2025-fronten...

Every second, the Sun ejects 1.5 million tons of material into space at hundreds of miles per second, but Earth's magnetic field protects it from the solar wind.

Credit: NASA Goddard

Did you know you can center both vertically and horizontally in CSS now, without Flexbox or Grid?

Throw this on your block level element, and it works:

align-content: center;
justify-items: center;

And my trick to remembering it's those properties? It's the ones I never use normally 😆

please don’t update your avatar photo when you join a new social network—I use those photos to remember people I know!