TypeScript Coffee

7 New JavaScript Features (And 2 I'm Still Waiting For)

Remember how I promised you (or rather myself) two weeks ago that from now on I'd only write light,... Read More

I Built a Tool to Visualize DSA. Let’s Learn Together! (DSA View View 👀👀)

Hoi hoi! I’m @nyaomaru, a frontend engineer currently fighting the intense European heatwave by... Read More

🐘 TypeScript for PHP? YES, that's possible! And it's not what you think...

It is time to bring opposites together, to stir up these stagnant waters, and to restore an industry... Read More

TypeScript Tips That Actually Matter in Real Projects (including the satisfies operator)

Most TypeScript tutorials teach you the language. This article teaches you how to use it. There's a... Read More

TanStack Query style caching, the Angular-native way

Angular has signals now - and as of 19.2, even a signal-based way to fetch: httpResource, built on... Read More

Conduit: The Gateway I Built to Forget About

I've been trying to keep my publishing schedule to one article a week, but this one felt too special... Read More

Clear the Lineup — doesNotEqual was always true for single-select survey answers in Formbricks

This is a submission for DEV's Summer Bug Smash: Clear the Lineup. Project... Read More

I Built a Zero-Dependency Env Validator with Full TypeScript Inference - Here's Why

Every Node.js project I've ever worked on has the same invisible vulnerability. Somewhere in the... Read More

You're rethrowing errors and losing context. `Error.cause` fixes that.

Error handling has a quiet problem. You catch an error deep in a call stack, wrap it in something... Read More

I Rewrote a OneNote MCP Server in TypeScript — Here's What I Learned About Microsoft Graph Auth

If you use Claude, Cursor, or any MCP-compatible AI assistant, you've probably noticed how useful it... Read More

It started with a birthday present — why I built an open-source QR code generator

Last year, all I wanted was a QR code for a birthday present. Scan the code, get the surprise. Thirty... Read More

Browser strategy game backend: no tick loop

Old Light is a browser strategy game: a whole galaxy you play in a tab, with star systems to claim,... Read More

I Built a Coin Ledger That Guilts Customers Into Coming Back 🧇

A few months ago I sat down to add "loyalty points" to Glazed, my waffle kiosk brand. Simple, right?... Read More

Every Alarm Is a Crime Scene: Meet Poirot, the Read-Only Incident Detective

What if the thing that gets paged at 2am wasn't a person, but a detective that investigates the... Read More

I was tired of studying security tools from static cheatsheets, so I built ShellStack

I was tired of studying security tools from static cheatsheets, so I built ShellStack When... Read More

Backend/Domain foundation

Today I continued my TypeScript learning project after a short break. Instead of jumping into React... Read More

From Transcript to Typed Action Items: Three Parallel Agents in TypeScript

Most meeting summarizers cram summary, action items, and sentiment into one LLM prompt. Here's a cleaner TypeScript shape: three specialist agents run in parallel, two return typed Zod output, and an aggregator merges them into one report. Read More

The Button That Sent People to a Blank Form

Every service page on my portfolio ends with the same call to action: a big Start Project button.... Read More

I Built a Sync Engine for a 0-Dep Client-Side Database, Here's What I Learned

What it took to add offline sync to a zero-dependency browser database: change tracking, conflict resolution, transport design, and the mistakes I made along the way. Read More

Four signals I built into an OSS decision score instead of fabricating reviews

AlternativeTo has UGC reviews. My OSS directory launched two months ago with none. Here's the objective-data scoring approach I used instead. Read More

I Like Enums. My Teammate Preferred Literals. TypeScript Let Us Have Both.

I recently reviewed a contribution to a shared React module where one developer used const objects... Read More

I reviewed a NestJS fintech backend where the numbers never quite matched, this is the fix

I was asked to look at a fintech backend where something small but persistent kept happening. Every... Read More

How to Validate Environment Variables Without a Library (And Why You Should Anyway)

I'll show you a complete env validation setup in 50 lines of TypeScript, then explain when and why you'd reach for a library instead. Read More

Project Docs over SSH for AI Agents

An experiment in exposing project docs and agent work notes as a shell-native filesystem over SSH, with early MultiHop-RAG benchmark results. Read More