# js (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 640 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover js. Page: Feed: --- ## [Contributions: Aug 16–23, 2026](https://jasnell.me/contributions/2026-W34) _2026-08-23 · jasnell.me_ 8 merged, 8 in progress in workerd and node ## [The best JavaScript newsletters in 2026](https://daily.dev/blog/best-javascript-newsletters/) _2026-08-22 · Kevin Nguyen · daily.dev Blog_ Pick one broad weekly and one stack-focused newsletter to stay current in JavaScript; use a daily feed between issues. ## [Tips for Saving Game Data in Godot](https://eviltrout.com/blog/2026-08-21-tips-for-saving-game-data-in-godot/) _2026-08-21 · Blogs on Evil Trout Inc._ Saving game data is easy. Making your save code survive every kind of hardware failure is not. A lot of these issues will never show up during testing, but if your game reaches a wide audience with many different kinds of hard drives in different states of degradation, you will start to get bug reports about save games not working. I decided to write up my approach, learned over the course of… ## [The best company engineering blogs to follow in 2026](https://daily.dev/blog/best-company-engineering-blogs-to-follow/) _2026-08-21 · Daniela Torres · daily.dev Blog_ 15 company engineering blogs mapped to use cases—distributed systems, security, payments, data, ML, and dev tools for 2026. ## [The best system design resources in 2026 (from beginner to staff level)](https://daily.dev/blog/best-system-design-resources-beginner-to-staff-level/) _2026-08-21 · Carlos Mendoza · daily.dev Blog_ Pick one roadmap, one deep book, one interview resource, and one daily feed to level up system design from junior to staff. ## [Hypothesis testing, EWMA, and portable histograms in Node.js](https://jasnell.me/posts/histogram-stats-and-exchange) _2026-08-20 · jasnell.me_ The Node.js histogram API gets Welch's t-test, Mann-Whitney U, EWMA for streaming stats, SLO burn rate tracking, and a CBOR-based export/import format. ## [The best Discord servers for developers in 2026](https://daily.dev/blog/best-discord-servers-for-developers/) _2026-08-20 · Alex Carter · daily.dev Blog_ Choose a stack-specific server, a broad dev hub, and an AI/tooling community to get faster help, build skills, and ship code. ## [Making Node.js histograms more useful](https://jasnell.me/posts/histogram-analysis-apis) _2026-08-19 · jasnell.me_ The Node.js histogram API now has real statistical analysis. CDF, skewness, kurtosis, KS tests, coordinated omission correction, and snapshot diffing. ## [Pre-launch toolbar and the Powered by Netlify badge](https://www.netlify.com/changelog/2026-08-19-pre-launch-toolbar-and-powered-by-netlify-badge/) _2026-08-19 · Netlify Changelog_ Private projects on Netlify will now show a pre-launch toolbar so you can share your project for review and run audits using AI checks before you make your project public. Private projects and agent runs require a Credit pricing plan. If you're on a Legacy pricing plan, you will not have access to the pre-launch toolbar. Audits consume credits like any other agent run. For public projects, new… ## [Agent Runners can now ask clarifying questions](https://www.netlify.com/changelog/2026-08-19-agent-runners-clarifying-questions/) _2026-08-19 · Netlify Changelog_ Agent Runners can now ask you clarifying questions before they start building. When a few details could significantly improve the result, the agent pauses and asks instead of guessing. The clarifying questions UI in an Agent Runners session, asking: What should the tracker dashboard keep track of? How clarifying questions work Say you start with something broad, like “Build a tracker dashboard.”… ## [Ship software peacefully (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/xzQd4eY4csZe) _2026-08-18 · **Sponsored**_ Deploy apps from your repo with auto-config, instant previews, scaling, and monitoring. ## [The Seniority Trap: Hiring Experience Without Giving Authority](https://johnkavanagh.co.uk/articles/seniority-trap-hiring-experience-without-authority/) _2026-08-19 · John Kavanagh · Software Engineering and Technical Articles by John Kavanagh_ The seniority trap happens when organisations hire experienced engineers for judgement, then deny authority, access, decision rights, and influence. ## [Dolomitgrau: The Car That Cost Me a Million Euros](https://www.stefanimhoff.de/writing/dolomitgrau/) _2026-08-19 · Stefan Imhoff_ My first car was a brand-new Audi TT. It was beautiful, it was fast, and it quietly cost me more than a million euros. A story about compound interest, and about a country that never teaches it. ## [How to track releases and changelogs without losing your mind](https://daily.dev/blog/how-to-track-releases-and-changelogs-without-losing-your-mind/) _2026-08-19 · Daniela Torres · daily.dev Blog_ Centralize GitHub releases, Dependabot/Renovate PRs, and changelogs into one inbox and run a 30–60 minute weekly triage for updates and security. ## [The best developer tool directories in 2026](https://daily.dev/blog/best-developer-tool-directories/) _2026-08-19 · Carlos Mendoza · daily.dev Blog_ Compare nine top directories to find, compare, and validate developer tools using discovery feeds, reviews, and GitHub activity. ## [Building App-like Experiences with Next.js 16.3](https://nextjs.org/blog/building-app-like-experiences-with-nextjs-16-3) _2026-08-18 · Next.js Blog_ Build app-like experiences with Instant Navigations, server-rendered data, optimistic updates, and live client state in Next.js 16.3. ## [GitHub Trending alternatives: how to spot rising repos early](https://daily.dev/blog/github-trending-alternatives-spot-rising-repos-early/) _2026-08-18 · Ivan Dimitrov · daily.dev Blog_ Use star velocity, repo activity, and early sources like Show HN and release feeds to find rising GitHub repos before Trending. ## [No Quorum, No Vote: How the Graph Actually Works](https://joshowens.dev/no-quorum-no-vote-how-the-graph-works/) _2026-08-18 · Josh Owens_ Patrick asked if my AI pipeline settles disagreements by vote. It doesn't: work moves through a graph, and every rejection gets routed to whichever stage actually owns the defect. ## [Stack Overflow alternatives in 2026: where developers actually ask questions now](https://daily.dev/blog/stack-overflow-alternatives-where-developers-ask-questions/) _2026-08-17 · Daniela Torres · daily.dev Blog_ How developers split Q&A in 2026: LLMs for speed, Discord for live help, GitHub Discussions for archives, Stack Overflow as archive. ## [GitHub awesome lists: the underrated way to discover developer tools](https://daily.dev/blog/github-awesome-lists-discover-developer-tools/) _2026-08-17 · Daniela Torres · daily.dev Blog_ Human-curated lists cut search noise — use curated indexes as a high-signal layer to find and vet developer tools. ## [Introducing Emoji Anywhere 😀](https://attacomsian.com/blog/emoji-anywhere/) _2026-08-16 · Atta Ur Rehman Shah_ A free Chrome extension that brings Slack-style :shortcode: emoji to every text field on the web, plus a searchable picker in the toolbar. ## [Play Both Sides Of The Lie (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/edaKAQqWuRTL) _2026-08-16 · **Sponsored**_ Two operatives, one manufactured war — uncover the Complete Truth after both campaigns. ## [TIL wcurl 💽](https://www.chrisdeluca.me/2026/08/15/til-wcurl.html) _2026-08-16 · Chris DeLuca · Subcurrent | Astoria Tech Meetup_ I recently learned about the wcurl command. It’s a wrapper around curl , focused on making downloading files simple without passing options. It has some heuristics to figure out what to do with the given URLs, and in my testing it’s pretty good. For simple file downloading, I think this will replace regular curl calls for me. ## [An E-Ink Homelab Dashboard on a Jailbroken Kindle](https://mxd.codes/articles/an-e-ink-homelab-dashboard-on-a-jailbroken-kindle) _2026-08-16 · Max Dietrich - Technical Product Owner GIS_ How I turned an old Kindle into an e-ink dashboard for my homelab, why the device renders nothing itself, and why I deleted half of what I first put on the screen. ## [Contributions: Aug 9–16, 2026](https://jasnell.me/contributions/2026-W33) _2026-08-16 · jasnell.me_ 4 merged, 3 in progress in node and workerd ## [The best Product Hunt alternatives for developers](https://daily.dev/blog/best-product-hunt-alternatives-for-developers/) _2026-08-16 · Daniela Torres · daily.dev Blog_ Compare launch channels that beat Product Hunt for developer tools—choose platforms for technical feedback, steady discovery, or search intent. ## [Project Commonplace](https://beathagenlocher.com/project-commonplace/) _2026-08-15 · Beat Hagenlocher_ ## [The Talent Bar Paradox in Engineering Hiring](https://johnkavanagh.co.uk/articles/talent-bar-paradox/) _2026-08-15 · John Kavanagh · Software Engineering and Technical Articles by John Kavanagh_ Companies talk about a high hiring bar, but weak offers, slow interviews, and vague criteria drive strong engineering candidates out long before a decision. ## [Add read-only permissions to your Rails API tokens](https://guillaumebriday.fr/add-read-only-permissions-to-your-rails-api-tokens?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=feed/) _2026-08-15 · Guillaume Briday's articles_ Slog app, my time tracking SaaS, exposes a public REST API following the JSONAPI specification. Authentication is straightforward: the user generates a personal API token from their profile, and sends it as a Bearer token. Simple, but until recently… ## [Python and Pip venvs for Externally Managed Environments](https://jonathanmh.com/p/python-and-pip-venvs-for-externally-managed-environments) _2026-08-15 · Jonathan M. Hethey · JonathanMH_ ## [Free tools to track new frameworks and libraries before everyone else](https://daily.dev/blog/free-tools-track-new-frameworks-and-libraries-before-everyone-else/) _2026-08-15 · Ivan Dimitrov · daily.dev Blog_ Seven free tools - trending lists, curated picks, registries, download trends, surveys and tag feeds - spot frameworks and libraries early. ## [How we afford to merge N PRs per month](https://reaper.is/writing/20260815-nPRs-per-month.html) _2026-08-15 · reaper_ How we afford to merge N PRs per month There was a post by the founder of Bruno about our OSS stats in the past year. They are impressive but also not super high since I've seen smaller teams like Nuxt churn out more than this. LinkedIn A Few Fun Stats From The Last 12 Months Of Anoop M D There's 1 small reason for this: the test suite. Bruno as a project has a few parallel suites when it comes to… ## [Dissecting Series A Rounds (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/iOQHXrYM6r25) _2026-08-14 · **Sponsored**_ Two real Series A cases: timelines, investor sequencing, and common founder mistakes. ## [Node.js Interactive 2026: A Recap](https://nodejs.org/en/blog/events/nodejs-interactive-2026) _2026-08-14 · Node.js Blog_ ## [How to follow AI research without reading every paper](https://daily.dev/blog/follow-ai-research-without-reading-every-paper/) _2026-08-14 · Daniela Torres · daily.dev Blog_ Follow 1-3 AI topics with summaries, keynotes, and engineering writeups using a daily/weekly/monthly routine to stay current. ## [The 2026 developer tech stack: what to learn, use, and skip](https://daily.dev/blog/developer-tech-stack-learn-use-skip/) _2026-08-14 · Daniela Torres · daily.dev Blog_ 2026 defaults: TypeScript, Python, Go; React+Next and PostgreSQL; simple infra with Docker, GitHub Actions, and cautious AI tools. ## [The skills that didn't go anywhere](https://ryangjchandler.co.uk/posts/the-skills-that-didnt-go-anywhere) _2026-08-14 · Ryan Chandler · Ryan Chandler_ A while back I wrote about AI anxiety , and I ended it with a line I still believe: your value isn't in writing every line of code, it's in knowing which lines should exist at all. It's the kind of thing that's easy to agree with but much harder to actually feel on a Tuesday afternoon, when you've spent the day describing problems and reading diffs and you're not sure you've built anything. So… ## [Your health check is writing a million log lines a month](https://backend.cafe/million-log-lines-a-month) _2026-08-13 · Manuel Spigolon · Backend Cafe_ A few days ago I reviewed a Fastify pull request that added a new route option, requestLogLevel. The motivation was one every backend developer recognizes: your orchestrator calls /health every 5 seco ## [Ape PI: A digression](https://www.chrisdeluca.me/2026/08/13/ape-pi-a-digression.html) _2026-08-13 · Chris DeLuca · Subcurrent | Astoria Tech Meetup_ I was muttering the abbreviation API (a, pee, eye) under my breath, and shifted over one phonetic stop to “ ape pee eye”. The puerile interpretation is right up front, which did make me giggle, but it also made me question if there was anything that actually existed with that sound. I searched Kagi for “Ape PI”, and the first result was the ancient Egyptian ruler Apepi . I didn’t find a… ## [Coordinating Optimistic Updates in Next.js](https://aurorascharff.no/posts/coordinating-optimistic-updates-in-nextjs/) _2026-08-13 · Aurora Scharff_ Learn how I combine useActionState and useOptimistic to keep rapid mutations responsive and ordered in Huddle and Flow. ## [Google Gemini 3.7 Flash now available in AI Gateway and Agent Runners](https://www.netlify.com/changelog/gemini-3-7-flash-ai-gateway-agent-runners/) _2026-08-13 · Netlify Changelog_ Google’s Gemini 3.7 Flash model is now available through Netlify’s AI Gateway and Agent Runners with zero configuration required. Use the Google GenAI SDK directly in your Netlify Functions without managing API keys or authentication. The AI Gateway handles everything automatically. Here’s an example using the Gemini 3.7 Flash model: import { GoogleGenAI } from '@google/genai'; export default… ## [Growing Cities](https://www.visualcinnamon.com/art/epfl-growing-cities/) _2026-08-13 · An Award-winning Data Visualization Designer on Visual Cinnamon_ In collaboration with the EPFL Laboratory of Urban and Environmental Systems , I transformed their scientific research on global urban growth into an aesthetic data artwork. By visualizing how cities like Shanghai and Beijing have evolved over two decades , I created an A0-sized piece that brings their findings to a wider audience in a beautiful, art-oriented way. The team aimed to move beyond… ## [What is the Model Context Protocol (MCP)? A plain-English guide for developers](https://daily.dev/blog/model-context-protocol-mcp-plain-english-guide-developers/) _2026-08-13 · Ivan Dimitrov · daily.dev Blog_ Plain-English developer guide to MCP: how a host-client-server model plus tools, resources, and prompts standardize AI integrations. ## [A Crash Course on Concurrency: Build a Tiny Scheduler from Scratch](https://pmbanugo.me/blog/crash-course-on-programming-concurrent-systems/) _2026-08-12 · Peter Mbanugo - Consultant, Trainers, and Programmer_ Build a tiny concurrency runtime from scratch and discover how schedulers, task switching, yielding, coroutine state, and event loops work under the hood ## [Manage your team invitations from your Netlify dashboard](https://www.netlify.com/changelog/2026-08-12-accept-team-invites-in-app/) _2026-08-12 · Netlify Changelog_ Invitations to join an existing team now show up within your Netlify dashboard, where you can accept or decline them directly without checking your email inbox. Previously, the invitation email was the only way in. If it got buried, filtered, or sent to an address you no longer check, then getting collaboration started with your teammate took a lot longer than it needed to. Now, when you sign in… ## [Pay for Netlify with Apple Pay and Google Pay](https://www.netlify.com/changelog/2026-08-12-apple-pay-google-pay/) _2026-08-12 · Netlify Changelog_ You can now pay for Netlify with Apple Pay or Google Pay, in addition to paying by credit card. Both options show up as you’d expect at checkout, so you can confirm a payment with the device you already have in hand instead of tracking down a card. It’s a small change, but it removes a genuine bit of friction—especially when you’re upgrading in the middle of shipping something and don’t want to… ## [Simplified single sign-on (SSO) process](https://www.netlify.com/changelog/2026-08-12-sso-sign-in-with-email/) _2026-08-12 · Netlify Changelog_ If your team uses SSO (single sign-on) with an identity provider, you can now sign in with just your email address without using your team ID. Netlify recognizes your domain and sends you straight to your identity provider. Previously, SSO required you to know your Team ID. That meant every new hire had to know and enter a Team ID, and anyone who forgot or didn’t know it was stuck at the login… ## [The Web is Becoming Machine‑Readable First](https://johnkavanagh.co.uk/articles/web-becoming-machine-readable-first/) _2026-08-12 · John Kavanagh · Software Engineering and Technical Articles by John Kavanagh_ Machine-readable websites need more than schema. They need stable pages, clean entities, useful metadata, feeds, APIs and content that survives extraction. ## [How to do marketing as a vibe coder](https://daily.dev/blog/marketing-for-vibe-coders/) _2026-08-12 · Ivan Dimitrov · daily.dev Blog_ Make AI-assisted work easy to judge: pick one niche, lead with outcomes, and show short demos, prompt logs, and cost-proof. ## [How to keep track of new AI model releases (without refreshing X all day)](https://daily.dev/blog/track-new-ai-model-releases-without-refreshing-x/) _2026-08-12 · Ivan Dimitrov · daily.dev Blog_ Track model launches, deprecations, pricing, and aliases with official notes, trackers, alerts, and a 15-minute weekly review. ## [The best sources for AI news in 2026](https://daily.dev/blog/best-ai-news-sources/) _2026-08-12 · Ivan Dimitrov · daily.dev Blog_ Curated list of 14 top AI news sources and a simple 1-1-1 reading stack—daily scan, weekly analysis, and primary research feeds for busy readers. ## [You don't choose the cards](https://edvins.io/you-dont-choose-the-cards) _2026-08-12 · Edvins Antonovs_ Perfect circumstances are fiction. You cannot choose the hand you are dealt, but you are responsible for how you play it. ## [Better Claude Code with Paddock on Your Laptop](https://edspencer.net/2026/8/11/paddock-on-your-laptop) _2026-08-11 · Ed Spencer's Blog_ Paddock now runs on your own machine with one command, opens on the Claude Code history you already have, and tells you exactly which parts of your ~/.claude it is and isn't touching.