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Yavashark: I've Built A JS Engine Every Day For 950 Days Straight
Announcing Yavashark, a small embeddable and easily extendable JavaScript engine written in Rust that its sole author has worked on every day since March 17, 2024 (4,200+ commits). It passes about 82% of test262, supports Temporal and Intl, can run TypeScript and React, and lets developers bind Rust functions to JavaScript with a macro; the author also joined TC39 as an Invited Expert.
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David Pertiller describes having Claude Code build a 15-second promo video for his fuel-price app Petroly as a JavaScript renderer instead of using a video editor: every frame comes from a frame(t) function that reuses the app's design, so the video can be diffed, translated, rendered frame by frame and even covered by unit tests on its timing.
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Node.js — Wednesday, October 21, 2026 Security Releases
The Node.js project ships security releases for the 26.x, 24.x and 22.x lines, updating c-ares, OpenSSL and the CA certificate store (removing the compromised eMudhra intermediate CA), with details of fixed issues and download links.
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Vite+ changed how I build applications with AI agents
Jan Michálek reports on three weeks using Vite+ across four projects with AI coding agents: bringing dev server, builds, Vitest, Oxlint, Oxfmt and tsdown under one vp command gave the agent, the developer and CI a single workflow, plus what he measured, where vp migrate needs review and when not to switch.
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Do web components have a future if nobody is writing them?
Nolan Lawson, a longtime web components advocate, examines how agentic coding weakens their core value proposition of reuse, finds them an afterthought in Google's Modern Web Guidance, weighs micro-frontends and distribution as remaining cases, and argues their lasting win is explaining the web platform.
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Parser CombinatorsBetter than regex!
A hands-on TypeScript introduction to parser combinators: starting from a partial parser type, chaining parsers with sequencing and mapping, and building up a hand-rolled combinator library that parses real ping output into structured data, as a cleaner middle ground between regex and tree-sitter.
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yet another way to invoke functions without parentheses
A short JavaScript security write-up showing a new way to invoke arbitrary functions without parentheses: overwrite Error.prepareStackTrace with the Function constructor, control the generated code through prototype properties, then trigger it with a valueOf coercion, producing a parenthesis-free alert payload.
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Handwired: turn your regular JavaScript code into a neural net
Cheng Lou's Handwired transforms ordinary JavaScript control flow into exact, fully differentiable neural nets that run in the browser without a GPU—including demos like a mini desktop, trainable gallery, and parallel JSON search.
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Ryan Dahl announced last week that the Deno team is joining Cloudflare. The Deno runtime winds down over the next year, JSR keeps running on Cloudflare's infrastructure, & the team's new job, per Cloudflare's post, is merging Deno's celld into workerd. The announcement came two years to the day after Deno 2 shipped. Bun joined Anthropic ten months ago. The tempting conclusion is that the alternative-runtime experiment is over & Node has won by default. In reality, the ecosystem has gotten the benefits Deno was pushing, just not from Deno itself.
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Paul Anthony Webb reacts to Deno's team moving to Cloudflare and winding down runtime development within a year, the second VC-backed tool he depends on to be handed to the community. He announces Ende, his own Deno fork that drops Node compatibility and extras like Deploy, KV and Jupyter, aiming for a December soft launch.
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Migrating a banking app from AngularJS to Web Components
Marius Vatasoiu recounts the six-plus-year migration of ING Bank Romania's feature-rich banking app from AngularJS to Web Components with Lit, done incrementally without impacting clients, and the lessons learned about architecture, routing and working through framework abstractions.
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Kiesel Devlog #15: Release 0.4.0
Linus Groh releases Kiesel 0.4.0, his JavaScript engine written in Zig, after updating to Zig 0.17: new Kiesel.args and Kiesel.env APIs, more iterator helpers, a SerenityOS port, and inline caches for property access that give 20-30% microbenchmark speedups, with a faster parser planned for 0.5.0.
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Friendship ended with Deno, now Node is my best friend
David Bushell explains why he is moving back from Deno to Node after a month on a SvelteKit project: modern Node APIs and TypeScript support, using FNM and PNPM with release-age delays to dodge npm malware, and frustrations with Deno and JSR including broken shell integration, rate limits, and concurrency bugs.
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Thirty years in, Maroun Baydoun reflects on JavaScript’s midlife moment: an ecosystem eyeing younger, leaner languages, and what that restlessness means for the web’s default programming language.
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LLM Attention VisualizationA visualization of the attention mechanism in LLMs.
Isham Faizal built a browser-based tool that shows which past tokens a language model draws on when generating each new token. The implementation uses a custom generation loop with Transformers.js and a modified ONNX model to expose internal attention values, combined with pre-generated prompts to avoid multi-hundred-megabyte download waits.
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React Now Rusted All The Way Out
Master.dev describes switching a 1,036-file React Router codebase from the Babel-based React Compiler to the new Rust-native version available via oxc, achieving a 17.6x speedup in the compiler phase and a 2.4x overall build improvement. The post also covers how to migrate using both the official Vite plugin and an alternative for React Router framework mode.
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Luke Haas derives music theory from first principles — starting from the physics of sound and working up through frequencies, harmonics, the twelve-tone scale, intervals, chords, and progressions — entirely through code examples. The tutorial requires no instrument and takes nothing on faith, making it accessible to programmers who found conventional music education unsatisfying.
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A Mere Mortal's Introduction to JIT Vulnerabilities in JavaScript Engines
Josiah Pierce demystifies JavaScript engine JIT bugs for mere mortals: how speculative optimization creates exploitable gaps, with a grounded intro to engine architecture and vulnerability patterns.
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