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Software Engineering Splits in Three 🔗

A few weeks ago, I wrote about the human in the loop and why review is now the bottleneck in software development. Then I wrote about what this means [...]

Your Coding Agent Keeps Making the Same Mistakes. I Built a Fix 🔗

Hey Everyone! I've been thinking about something for a while: can coding agents stop making the same mistakes? You know the drill — you fix a bug, th [...]

My Personal Skills for AI-assisted Node.js Development 🔗

Hey Everyone! I've been working on something I want to share with you. As you know, I've started relying on AI assistants to do most of my coding, bu [...]

Yes, Learning to Code Is Still Valuable 🔗

Every few weeks, someone shares a bold opinion: "Don't bother learning to code, AI will do it all." I've seen this from VCs, influencers, and people w [...]

The Future of the Software Engineering Career 🔗

A few weeks ago, I wrote about the human in the loop and why review is now the bottleneck in software development. That post triggered a lot of conver [...]

Building GitHuman: An AI-Coded Tool for Reviewing AI Code 🔗

Like everyone else, I had to build something over the end-of-year break. I wanted to fix a burning problem I had: how could I review the code my agent [...]

The Human in the Loop 🔗

Mike Arnaldi wrote a thought-provoking piece titled "The Death of Software Development." I respect Mike a lot. Effect is brilliant work, and his analy [...]

Noop Functions vs Optional Chaining: A Performance Deep Dive 🔗

Hi Folks, This week I want to talk about something that might surprise you: the performance cost of optional chaining in JavaScript. A question came u [...]

From fast-redact to slow-redact 🔗

Today I'm announcing slow-redact, a new package that provides the same API as fast-redact but with a crucial difference: immutability guarantees. This [...]

Node.js: easy to learn, hard to master - perfect for AI 🔗

Many years ago, I got incredibly excited about a new technology for writing any application: Node.js. What made it special then (and now)? I firmly be [...]

You should not use URLPattern to route HTTP requests on the server 🔗

URLPattern is a Web Specification, which recently landed in Node.js thanks to the outstanding work of Yagiz Nizipli and Daniel Lemire in Ada v3. It wi [...]

Workskipping is a great technique. What happens when you can't skip it? 🔗

123 Hi Folks, This issue covers how adding a "fast path" to make some benchmark shine can confuse users and introduce "traps" that could be extremely [...]

What happens when a major npm library goes commercial? 🔗

Hi Folks, A few weeks have passed, and I've been so busy catching up with my backlog. As this issue goes out, I'd be back at inbox zero. I'm glad I ha [...]

Node.js v22, AI-Warp, A deep dive on setImmediate, and many other Adventures in Nodeland 🔗

Hi Folks, I have been silent for long, and I've lost the habit of writing my thoughts in this newsletter. The weekly frequency that once was my target [...]

Borp: a new runner for node:test with TS support 🔗

Hi Folks, This release features something I've been working on and off for the last few months, mostly adding feature as I needed them: a companion fo [...]

3x Faster Stream processing 🔗

Hi Folks, This newsletter comes back to a theme I love: Node.js streams. I expect more contents about the fundamentals in the future, as I'm scavengin [...]

Which HTTP client for Node.js? Should Node.js stop bundling npm? 🔗

Hi Folks, Here is a short & sweet newsletter to show you the analysis I did on the performance of the HTTP clients of Node.js, as well as the burning [...]

22 billions of npm downloads in 2023 and other Adventures in Nodeland 🔗

Happy new year folks! This is our first edition of 2024, and I expect to deliver one of this to you every month or so. This edition includes a full ce [...]

From 5k to 65k monthly downloads in 3 months, and other Adventures in Nodeland 🔗

Hello Everybody, I'm stoked by the impressive download growth we are seeing in Platformatic. Last month, our Open Source tool was downloaded over 60k [...]

You are not updating Node.js 🔗

Hi Folks, I'm sorry that almost a month as passed from the latest edition of Adventures in Nodeland. The last few weeks have been incredibly busy as I [...]

What is Open Source BTW? 🔗

Hi folks, It's been a couple of weeks since the last email, and this is packed with updates. It includes two talks that I published on YouTube, links [...]

Should ESM be the default? 🔗

Hi Folks, Last week was a big week for me and the team at Platformatic– we finally launched v1.0.0, and I could not be more excited to share it all wi [...]

How would you measure the Risk of a pull request? 🔗

Hi Folks, As I'm writing this, I have been working hard for the Platformatic v1.0.0 launch on Tuesday, the 26th of September (tomorrow as you are read [...]

My thoughts on Bun and other Adventures 🔗

Hi Folks! As I write this, I'm on a plane to London, where I will spend the entire week working with my co-founder, Luca Maraschi. Since I last wrote, [...]

The dangers of logging and other adventures Nodeland 🔗

111 Hi Folks! The last few weeks have been incredibly busy. In this edition I include a brief explanation of Logging - the process of creating log lin [...]

My explanation of Fastify Technical Principles, improved TypeScript support in Platformatic, and many other Adventures in Nodeland 🔗

Hi Folks, Adventures in Nodeland has officially become a biweekly newsletter! You'll receive news from the Fastify ecosystem every two weeks - with so [...]

Releasing modules on stage at JSNation, What I learned using Postman Collections, Pairing ChatGPT with Platformatic, and other Adventures in Nodeland 🔗

Hi Folks, A lot happened in the last few weeks! This edition of Adventures in Nodeland includes three talks I delivered in the latest spring 2023 seas [...]

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