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Jesse Palmer
@jesselpalmer.bsky.social
Sr. Eng Manager ‪@ SurveyMonkey building foundational tools that power data-driven decisions | Growth · Experimentation · Analytics | Author ‪@ Manning Publications

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The State of JavaScript survey is open. Curious to see where Bun lands, especially after Anthropic acquired it.
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State of JavaScript
stateofjs.com
December 23, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Ran some benchmarks on @bunjavascript vs Node.js. Bun won all 6 categories. The standout: my test suite went from 1.19s → 57ms just by switching from Jest to Bun's test runner. 20x faster! Using Bun for side projects going forward.
December 23, 2025 at 12:09 AM
I've been experimenting with Graphite. The concept of a platform built around AI-driven code reviews is intriguing. The stacking PRs feature has a lot of potential. I've just started scratching the surface, but I am curious to hear if anyone has been using it substantially.
December 21, 2025 at 9:03 PM
🚀 node-email-verifier just hit:
• 75K weekly downloads
• 2.9M this year

v4.0.0 is out:
✅ MX record verification
✅ 600+ disposable domain detection
✅ Built-in caching (7.7x faster)
✅ Full TypeScript support
⚠️ Node 20+ required

Check it out: github.com/jesselpalmer...
GitHub - jesselpalmer/node-email-verifier: A Node.js email validation library with MX record checks, disposable email detection, and built-in caching.
A Node.js email validation library with MX record checks, disposable email detection, and built-in caching. - jesselpalmer/node-email-verifier
github.com
December 1, 2025 at 6:04 AM
I just gave Cursor a strong go for the first time in a while, and I am impressed. The fact that you can see the todos and multiple agents is quite nice. I've preferred using command-line coding agents for the most part, but this may change my mind.
October 10, 2025 at 3:35 AM
One interesting thing I'm noticing is that Codex seems to check in a lot, and Claude Code likes to take the ball and run with it. Both are good for different situations.
October 5, 2025 at 10:16 PM
I got the Hacktoberfest 2025: Level 0 Registered badge from Hacktoberfest! www.holopin.io/hacktoberfes...
I got the Hacktoberfest 2025: Level 0 Registered badge from Hacktoberfest!
@jesselpalmer has earned the Hacktoberfest 2025: Level 0 Registered badge from Hacktoberfest.
www.holopin.io
October 4, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Happy Hacktoberfest, all!
Hacktoberfest 2025
Hacktoberfest: a month-long celebration of open-source projects, their maintainers, and the entire community of contributors.
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October 2, 2025 at 2:44 AM
So many Claude updates today. It feels like Christmas came a couple of months early. Well done, Anthropic!
September 30, 2025 at 12:18 AM
I must say, I’m impressed by the creative ways AI agents bypass quality gates: removing code, commenting it out, adding 'ignore' comments, scripting around checks, putting 'skip' in tests, and even bypassing gates via command-line arguments.
September 28, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Gemini for prompts and Claude Code for development is blissful 😌
August 24, 2025 at 5:17 PM
If anything that I've learned from starting new applications with AI is that setting up engineering best practices, particularly testing and linting, from the get-go, is ideal. It's painful to go back and fix all the tech debt that occurs from rapidly trying to ship.
August 17, 2025 at 6:15 PM
🚀 Just released node-email-verifier v3.0 + v3.1 now at 44,000+ weekly downloads 💥

✅ Full TypeScript
✅ 79 tests for validation
✅ 600+ disposable email providers blocked
✅ Rich validation output
✅ Node 18 → 24 supported

github.com/jesselpalmer...
GitHub - jesselpalmer/node-email-verifier: A Node.js module for verifying email addresses
A Node.js module for verifying email addresses. Contribute to jesselpalmer/node-email-verifier development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
June 15, 2025 at 5:46 PM
I'm getting the feeling that a lot of software engineering in the future will be gathering requirements, talking to stakeholders, doing high-level design, and then babysitting AI agents.
May 24, 2025 at 8:04 PM
The members of the seeding committee must be very pleased with their work this year.
March 30, 2025 at 11:36 PM
If you're an iTerm2 user like me and prefer new tabs to open in the same directory, here's how to change your settings.
March 17, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Sadly there maybe some truth to this. I play games for maybe 5-10 minutes a day max and that’s on my phone. My PS and Xbox are over in the corner collecting dust.

www.ign.com/articles/is-...
Is the Console War Finally Over? - IGN
The battle between PlayStation and Xbox has waged for years, but a messy and unexpected conclusion to the console war may already have happened.
www.ign.com
March 10, 2025 at 6:01 AM
January 30, 2025 at 6:21 AM
Hello world 👋
January 11, 2025 at 3:37 AM