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What If Your AI Agent Never Had to Leave the Browser? (Demo 🚀)

I haven't written anything lately because, honestly, I just didn't have the headspace for it. There... Read More

How Do We Extract the “Why” from a PR into a CHANGELOG with Jev? 🤔

Hoi hoi! 👋 I'm @nyaomaru, a frontend engineer currently building an AI-assisted CHANGELOG generator... Read More

TypeScript Compiler API: Preserving Child Node Narrowing in Reusable Type Guards 🔧

Hoi hoi! 👋 I'm @nyaomaru, a frontend engineer exploring new possibilities with Jev 😸 (I'm also... Read More

Why Your TypeScript Code Still Crashes in Production

A practical visual guide to the TypeScript mental model. Discover why types vanish at runtime, how structural typing works, and how to write clean, type-safe code that never crashes in production. Read More

How Do You Validate `unknown` in TypeScript Without a Schema Library? 🛡️

Hoi hoi! 👋 I'm @nyaomaru, a frontend engineer who is obsessed with gamba. 😸🦐 Recently, I was... Read More

Your Type Guard Can Silently Drift from Your TypeScript Type 🔧

Hoi hoi! 👋 I'm @nyaomaru, a frontend engineer just back from a short vacation on Texel, a small... Read More

Migrating a Real TypeScript OSS Library from tsup to tsdown 🔧

The config migration was small. Preserving the package contract was the interesting part. Hoi hoi!... Read More

Zone.js Hijacked Your Browser for 8 Years. Here's What Replaced It.

A visual deep dive into how Angular tore out global browser monkey-patching and rebuilt its reactivity engine from scratch using Signals and Zoneless change detection. Read More

"we should go out this weekend": I built a Discord member that holds the clock until we're outside

This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 1: Touch Grass TL;DR.... Read More

Claude Code mods: Brickfall, a brick breaker that's loud without getting in the way

After the Minesweeper and Doom, the third game in the arcade is a brick breaker after Arkanoid. The... Read More

Translation Is Not Agreement: Build a Clarification Handshake for Multilingual Chat

Machine translation can make a group message readable without making its intent certain. Build a reproducible TypeScript clarification workflow for Tencent RTC Social Messaging with author-only answers, revision checks, explicit notification failures, and verification tests. Read More

AsyncLocalStorage vs Request-Scoped Providers: The DI Trap That Taxes Latency

Here's a logger. It's a dozen lines and it looks completely harmless: request-logger.ts import {... Read More

I missed Go's `if err != nil`, so I built errval for TypeScript

I write mostly TypeScript and some Go. When I switch back from Go, I miss explicit error returns. A... Read More

I Killed My Electron App Twice to Test Crash Recovery

"We have crash recovery" is an easy thing to claim. I wanted to know what happens if the process... Read More

TypeScript 7 Is Up to 10x Faster. Should You Upgrade Now?

Benchmark TypeScript 7 safely, compare real project results, and find compatibility problems before changing your main branch. Read More

🪪 Avatar RS: Very Efficient Avatar Components for WASM Frameworks

Bien le bonjour 👋! Every WASM app eventually needs an avatar. Profile pictures, user cards,... Read More

How to Build a Task Management App with React & TypeScript

Hey everyone, it's Sadee! If you've ever wanted to build a cool task board where you can move... Read More

NestJS Guards: CanActivate, ExecutionContext & Reflector

A complete guide to NestJS guards: how CanActivate, ExecutionContext, and the Reflector decide who reaches your route handler, with a cheat sheet. Read More

How I finally understood the Single Responsibility Principle

The Intro Welcome to the first stop of a five-part road trip through SOLID. Five letters,... Read More

How I finally undestood what loosely coupled modules are

Photo by Glen Carrie on Unsplash The Intro Here goes another one of those "it... Read More

A browser arcade in plain TypeScript: 8 classic games, 35 kB, no framework

Play it: https://minjia-hu.github.io/retro-arcade/ Source:... Read More

What Protobuf descriptors don't tell you: building a generic mock generator

I built a library that generates mock data for any Protobuf message without per-message code. The schema walk was the easy part — here are the four things that actually bit me. Read More

I added a type-checked pipeline operator to TypeScript — including TSX

A proof-of-concept TypeScript compiler with a pipeline operator. I searching testers and... Read More

MedusaJS Dropped the Foreign Keys Between Its Modules: The defineLink Gamble

MedusaJS 2.0 did something that would get a junior engineer's pull request rejected on sight: it... Read More