@43081j.com - James

24 Jul 2026 14:00 +0000

always be human

24 Jul 2026 13:55 +0000

whole bunch of new rules & fixes in the @e18e.dev ESLint plugin! 🚀 big thanks to @webpro.nl for this one 💙 if you don't use this already - give it a go! it'll help you modernise your code & get some perf gains https://github.com/e18e/eslint-plugin/releases/tag/0.6.0

23 Jul 2026 10:12 +0000

good timeline. this is magic-string, 140M dls/week. a week ago i asked if it could go ESM only - @sxzz.dev dropped a PR <1 day later 🎉 later, I removed sourcemaps and did 2 big CPU perf speed ups 🚀 love seeing a high impact package like this shrink and speed up

22 Jul 2026 12:48 +0000

helping revive a repo and do bunch of modernisation 👀

21 Jul 2026 19:01 +0000

something i've been hacking away at lately it converts GitHub workflows to @tangled.org pipelines and vice versa. it doesn't support a huge amount of things yet but i'm still improving it. it can convert basic JS CI workflows today https://github.com/43081j/tangleflow

21 Jul 2026 17:17 +0000

so many trips to book.... Zurich, Barcelona, Toronto, and possibly Vancouver. (only the Zurich one is tech related though! 😅)

21 Jul 2026 14:44 +0000

path-key - 256M downloads/week On non-windows it returns PATH. On windows, it searches your process.env for "PATH" case insensitive. I wonder who these people are with a PAth or a patH 👀

21 Jul 2026 10:31 +0000

FYI we have an @e18e.dev MCP server! you can use it remotely, or you can install it locally as a stdio server. this lets your agent check your codebase for redundant dependencies, polyfills, etc. https://mcp.e18e.dev/

19 Jul 2026 20:32 +0000

finally got around to creating an account on @tangled.org 🎉 now hacking away at some ideas 👀 https://tangled.org/43081j.com

19 Jul 2026 16:37 +0000

they are rough results but another tanstack query improvement seems to make another hot path 2x faster locally. has been fun digging through the tanstack code this week!

19 Jul 2026 13:23 +0000

We got a few new individual sponsors recently in @e18e.dev - thank you to those of you who are supporting us 🙏 Getting sponsorships for a community is much harder than for a popular web app or dev tool. Every little helps. If you'd like to help us improve perf for all of us, check out our OC 🩵 https://opencollective.com/e18e

18 Jul 2026 19:10 +0000

Good to be back home! Lots to focus on now, things to make faster, things to build, things to debate 😅

18 Jul 2026 14:21 +0000

this is the difference between lint-staged 17.x and 16.x big dependency clean up and a bunch of simplification happened internally too. very nice work by @iiroj.eurosky.social 🎉

18 Jul 2026 08:01 +0000

Last day in Berlin! Thanks to all who hung out with me, and to local first conf for being a great event 🩵 Lots of ideas flowing now 😀

17 Jul 2026 23:52 +0000

Tanstack team doing good stuff today. Migrating table to esm only! 🎉 79% decrease in install size in the beta version 🥹

17 Jul 2026 16:37 +0000

Working on a small change to tanstack query I hope I can get merged that'll make a hot path 28x faster 👀

17 Jul 2026 11:23 +0000

very thankful to have been added to the Prettier org today! 🎉

16 Jul 2026 16:34 +0000

Spending the day in a beer garden listening to acid techno of course 😂

16 Jul 2026 07:55 +0000

Had fun showing this to a bunch of people this week 😄 https://43081j.com/npm-xkcd/?q=eslint

16 Jul 2026 06:35 +0000

Has been a fun week of events here in Berlin 🎉 Now got a couple of days to wind down before I leave (and catch up on GitHub 😅)

15 Jul 2026 15:42 +0000

new @npmx.dev timeline chart 👀 this shows the segmented view of how much the install size changed between versions, split by package (deps + self). big thanks to @graphieros.npmx.social pairing with me on this one! https://npmx.dev/package-timeline/vite/v/8.1.4

14 Jul 2026 16:34 +0000

Had a great time at @localfirstconf.com 🎉

11 Jul 2026 14:34 +0000

It took almost as long to get through Berlin security as it did to fly here from the UK 😅 Brexit passport control is the best

11 Jul 2026 08:22 +0000

Heading to Berlin today!

08 Jul 2026 22:11 +0000

npm v12 🎉 - allowScripts defaults to false, scripts have to be approved - git dependencies are disallowed - remote URL dependencies are disallowed (e.g. http) big wins! https://github.blog/changelog/2026-07-08-npm-install-time-security-and-gat-bypass2fa-deprecation/