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Titian Cernicova-Dragomir @titiancernicova.bsky.social · 6h

And one more 😁

Titian Cernicova-Dragomir @titiancernicova.bsky.social · 6h

Unfortunately the runtimes are written in native languages so js developers are unable to fix them. Kind of proving the point.

Titian Cernicova-Dragomir @titiancernicova.bsky.social · 6h

Fixing this might be a better use of our time that rewriting everything in another language that will make the people who are most impacted by these tools unable to contribute to fixing them.

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Titian Cernicova-Dragomir @titiancernicova.bsky.social · 6h

The real issue is ultimately that modern Javascript engines seem to have given up on performance optimizations, and especially don't care about optimizations for cli tools.

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Titian Cernicova-Dragomir @titiancernicova.bsky.social · 6h

The issue is this will cause a two tier developer ecosystem. And while you will be able to write some tooling customization, you still will not really be able to contribute to the core of the tools

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Titian Cernicova-Dragomir @titiancernicova.bsky.social · 6h

Writing JS plug-ins for rust based tools is solving a very big issue: people will soon be much less able to contribute to their own tooling since they won't have rust experience.

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Rob Palmer @robpalmer.bsky.social · 8h

Glad to see TypeScript's Isolated Declarations feature already mentioned in three talks this morning at @viteconf.org 👍

It's one of the reasons tsdown and Oxc can generate Type Declarations so quickly ⚡

The main ID developer @titiancernicova.bsky.social is here if you wish to meet him.

Titian Cernicova-Dragomir @titiancernicova.bsky.social · 10h

Always happy to see something you worked on out in the wild! Love to see isolated declarations being used 😊. #viteconf.amsterdam

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Titian Cernicova-Dragomir @titiancernicova.bsky.social · 9h

Another mention of isolated declarations. Guess it's the hot new typescript option 😅

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Titian Cernicova-Dragomir @titiancernicova.bsky.social · 10h

Always happy to see something you worked on out in the wild! Love to see isolated declarations being used 😊. #viteconf.amsterdam

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Titian Cernicova-Dragomir @titiancernicova.bsky.social · 11h

#viteconf.amsterdam excitement!

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Titian Cernicova-Dragomir @titiancernicova.bsky.social · Sep 5

We're not the right shade.

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Gary Marcus @garymarcus.bsky.social · Aug 11

“The essential read” on GPT-5 and Sam Altman’s first major blunder.

Well over 100,000 people have read it.

Check it out!

Jose Afonso Furtado @jafurtado.bsky.social · Aug 10

GPT-5: Overdue, overhyped and underwhelming. And that’s not the worst of it, by Gary Marcus @garymarcus.bsky.social / Marcus on AI - Substack garymarcus.substack.com/p/gpt-5-over...

GPT-5: Overdue, overhyped and underwhelming. And that’s not the worst of it.

A new release botched … and a breaking research new paper that spells trouble

garymarcus.substack.com

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SquiggleConf @squiggleconf.com · Jul 31

🧩 @titiancernicova.bsky.social works at Bloomberg on TypeScript tooling and has contributed quite a few banner features to TypeScript. Check out his SquiggleConf 2024 talk on contributing Isolated Declarations, which makes TypeScript scale nicely for giant codebases.

youtu.be/FJgzwgYXLRo

Developing Isolated Declarations | Titian Cernicova-Dragomir

YouTube video by SquiggleConf

youtu.be

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Ashley Claymore @ ViteConf @ashley-c.bsky.social · Jul 8

Expandable hovers 😍
Know these have been in the works for a while and I'm so excited to try them out.

devblogs.microsoft.com/typescript/a...

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Wes Bos @wesbos.com · May 29

This is so random! and muuuuch needed

A new Random namespace with 22 methods for working with randomness in JavaScript.

proposal just hit Stage 1

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Titian Cernicova-Dragomir @titiancernicova.bsky.social · May 29

www.typescriptlang.org/tsconfig/#no...

TSConfig Reference - Docs on every TSConfig option

From allowJs to useDefineForClassFields the TSConfig reference includes information about all of the active compiler flags setting up a TypeScript project.

www.typescriptlang.org

Titian Cernicova-Dragomir @titiancernicova.bsky.social · May 29

There is a TypeScript setting. No error truncation. It helps reduce them, but they will still appear for very big types.

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Alex Russell @infrequently.org · May 8

Lots of folks fell for the "DOM is slow" marketing of certain frameworks, but DOM isn't slow. *Uncontrolled style read-back* is. But what if that wasn't a thing? Looking for feedback on a new proposal to control layout thrashing here:

github.com/MicrosoftEdge/MS…

MSEdgeExplainers/EventPhases/explainer.md at main · MicrosoftEdge/MSEdgeExplainers

Home for explainer documents originated by the Microsoft Edge team - MicrosoftEdge/MSEdgeExplainers

github.com

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Eric Budd @ericmbudd.com · Apr 4

summarizing the week of economics with my favorite comic of all time which happens to be constantly relevant

"These smug pilots have lost touch with regular passengers like us. Who thinks I should fly the plane?"

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Titian Cernicova-Dragomir @titiancernicova.bsky.social · Apr 5

Same. I've always had a thing against cringe entertainment. And that just sounded like something I would cringe at because it was so over the top and so ridiculous at the time. Now? I'm sure it would feel like a random news show. We live in idiocracy times 😔

James Snell @jasnell.me · Apr 4

So, I've never actually seen Idiocracy. From what I've heard tho, it's a pretty amazingly accurate documentary about the current administration.

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Titian Cernicova-Dragomir @titiancernicova.bsky.social · Apr 2

I agree a bit of selfishness is good. You need to put on your own oxygen mask before you help others. But what's happening today feels like some have put on their oxygen mask and are now collecting all the oxygen masks form everyone around and putting them in the shape of a helmet around their head.

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Jake Bailey @jakebailey.dev · Mar 31

Krebs: here's a detailed post on how our 1st Amendment rights are being attacked: krebsonsecurity.com/2025/03/how-...

First commenter: omg wow you "got political" i guess it's time for me to leave, i can't believe i read your book and met you in person, who knew it would "come to this"

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How Each Pillar of the 1st Amendment is Under Attack

In an address to Congress this month, President Trump claimed he had "brought free speech back to America." But barely two months into his second term, the president has waged an unprecedented attack ...

krebsonsecurity.com

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Ash Parrish @adashtra.bsky.social · Mar 29

The cruelty may not necessarily be the point, but the self interest certainly is. And, well

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Eric Budd @ericmbudd.com · Mar 29

I wish more people would say what DEI actually does:

Walter Chaw @mangiotto.bsky.social · Mar 29

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Titian Cernicova-Dragomir @titiancernicova.bsky.social · Mar 17

This country is planted thick with laws, from coast to coast, Man's laws, not God's! And if you cut them down, and you're just the man to do it, do you really think you could stand upright in the winds that would blow then? Yes, I'd give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety's sake!"

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