Contributions: Aug 9–16, 2026
4 merged, 3 in progress in node and workerd
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A blog about code and whatever else I might be thinking about.
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Contributions: Aug 2–9, 2026
2 merged, 7 in progress in node and workerd
Contributions: Jul 26 – Aug 2, 2026
1 merged, 1 in progress in node
Contributions: Jul 19–26, 2026
1 in progress in node
HTTP Server API: A Draft Specification
A draft specification for a server-side HTTP API built on Fetch Standard types — ServerContext, tunnels, WebSocket, WebTransport, priority, error codes, and lifecycle management.
Contributions: Jul 12–19, 2026
2 in progress in node
Fetch Needs Error Codes
HTTP/2 and HTTP/3 have rich, typed error signaling that the Fetch API completely discards. The TC39 error code proposal could fix that.
Contributions: Jul 5–12, 2026
1 in progress in node
Fetch Is Not Enough
The Fetch API gave JavaScript runtimes a shared vocabulary for HTTP. But HTTP has capabilities that Fetch can't express, and every runtime has diverged trying to work around the gaps.
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What If npm Ran on AT Protocol?
A thought experiment about what a package registry would look like if built on atproto.
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Contributions: Jun 14–21, 2026
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Contributions: Jun 7–14, 2026
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Contributions: May 31 – Jun 7, 2026
1 in progress in node
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Show Your Work
The AI industry has a transparency problem...
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Contributions: May 24–31, 2026
2 in progress in node
Contributions: May 17–24, 2026
1 in progress in node
Experimental DTLS Support in Node.js
An experimental implementation of the DTLS protocol is coming to Node.js, bringing TLS-equivalent security to datagram-based communication over UDP.
Contributions: May 10–17, 2026
5 in progress in node and workerd
Contributions: May 3–10, 2026
5 in progress in node and workerd
OpenSource is still art
Software engineering has always been more craft than science. AI doesn't change that.
Teaching libuv's UDP Stack New Tricks
Extending libuv's uv_udp_t with ECN, PMTUD, pktinfo, and GSO/GRO support for QUIC and beyond.
QUIC and HTTP/3 Come To Node.js (finally)
A functional implementation of the QUIC and HTTP/3 protocols has finally landed in Node.js.
QUIC Endpoints, Sessions, and the QUIC Connection Lifecycle
This is Part 2 in a series on the new `node:quic` module in Node.js