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(2 minute read)Starlink plans to offer hourly, daily, and weekly passes for its satellite internet service. The company is recruiting 'hosts' to sell passes to interested consumers. Pricing details have yet to be released. Starlink will take care of payments, user access, and connectivity while the hosts focus on setting up their sites and earning from connections.
(2 minute read)Fervo Energy has started selling electricity from its Cape Station geothermal power plant. It is the first enhanced geothermal company to reach a key commercial milestone. The entire site has the potential to generate as much as 4 gigawatts of electricity. The first block at the site took 23 months to complete - Fervo aims to complete future blocks in as little as 18 months.
(6 minute read)NASA's Probe Explorers are a new line of observatories intended to do more science for less money. The project aims to seek a better balance between the smaller Explorer missions and multibillion-dollar flagships. NASA announced on Wednesday it was moving forward with the first of the Explorers, PRIMA (Probe far-Infrared Mission for Astrophysics). PRIMA will observe the universe in faint, far-infrared light in a range of wavelengths between 24 and 235 micrometers. NASA intends to launch the telescope in 2033.
(33 minute read)Pi Durable is an experimental package built specifically for long-running, durable, and malleable agents that can run anywhere. It can run anywhere, can be reached from different surfaces, supports infinitely long conversations, survives catastrophic internal and external failures, and lets multiple humans steer the same agents. It is a framework for building any agentic application, including coding agents.
(15 minute read)David Heinemeier Hansson, the creator of Ruby on Rails, recently announced that 37signals, a company known for its software craft, was done with writing code by hand. The maturation of AI tools has made it possible for the company to embrace a future where coding by hand is almost entirely absent. AI creates new business models and revenue streams and disrupts traditional software. Companies are now investing in innovation and are willing to pay top-of-market for software engineers who can help them build AI products or become AI-native.
(13 minute read)Asha Sharma, the 38-year-old chief executive of Microsoft's Xbox division, wants Xbox properties to entertain a billion people. This means opening untapped markets in Africa, Latin America, and South Asia by using cloud computing technology to run games on computers and smartphones. Another pillar of her strategy is to reinvest in Minecraft as a competitor to Roblox. Leaders at the company describe the future of its consoles as embodying that idea.
The tale of how a recent sprint (with Claude doing much of the work) cut Claude's time-to-typeable at the 75th percentile from 3.1s to 0.55s, from tracking layout shifts too small for CLS to flag, to a :root:has() selector costing 24ms per DOM change, and a jump caused by Chrome pre-rendering the page at the wrong height.
Notion, Dropbox and Wiz are now using a testing paradigm they can’t ship without. Built by former Palantir engineers, Meticulous creates an evolving suite of deterministic E2E UI tests, delivering exhaustive coverage with zero developer effort.
The single vp command can now manage your Node runtime (if you wish), package manager, dev server, linting, formatting, testing, builds and task running, configured from vite.config.ts. vp migrate can be used to bring existing Vite, Vitest, ESLint, tsup, and similar setups into Vite+.
SolidJS's creator argues that HTMX, React, LiveView, and friends differ mostly in how they split the same three jobs (navigation, content, and instant UI feedback) between client and server. He then shows how Solid 2.0 aims to cover the whole spectrum.
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In V8, objects created with { __proto__: null } or Object.create(null) start in a slower 'dictionary mode'. Matteo shows how creating a plain object and then setting its prototype to null preserves fast properties.
A practical tour of 12 Node built-ins that replace packages like axios, dotenv, nodemon and chalk. Each is explained with its stability level in Node 24 LTS and gotchas that might make you want to stick with your existing dependency anyway.
Instead of juggling a terminal for every agent, you get one window for every project. Hand work off: it splits it into parts, runs them in parallel, tests what comes back and merges what passes. Many models, one session: the right one for each call.
Built-in, promise-based util.debounce() and util.throttle() arrive, complete with AbortSignal support. There’s also util.markPromiseAsHandled() to help retire .catch(() => {}) hacks. Plus a little more besides.
A new token permission lets CI stage npm releases but not publish them, with a maintainer approving each staged version with 2FA. It offers a migration path ahead of npm's planned ending of direct publishing using bypass-2FA tokens in January 2027 if you can’t use trusted publishing yet.
A new way to run untrusted (or AI-generated) JavaScript in a locked-down worker with timeouts, memory caps, and access only to the host functions you choose. Node 26 only, and not a true sandbox.
🔒 — An OWASP-backed scanner that reads your lockfile, checks it against OSV and npm’s advisories, and gives you npm/pnpm/Yarn/Bun commands to use, including which parent package(s) to bump for transitive issues.
GitHub details how it spent three years purging styled-components and 'CSS-in-JS' from github․com in favor of CSS Modules. The result? Shipping more CSS, but GitHub reports 55% less time to server-side render a page.
The report worked in testing. In production, it scans months of rows and times out before it renders. That's not a frontend bug, it's the query behind it. TimescaleDB extends Postgres so that query returns fast at scale. Get $1000 credit to start.
Cloudflare's alternative to WordPress, first announced in April, has reached 1.0. Each site ships with an MCP server, meaning you can set an agent to work out of the box. To accompany the launch, plugins can now be submitted to its registry.
A neat bit of CSS lateral thinking to detect when two elements get too close or overlap, no JavaScript needed. It combines anchor positioning, style container queries, and scroll-driven animations, using an overflowing 'measure' element as the trigger.
Chrome 152 adds support for a Connection-Allowlist header to tell the browser which servers a page is allowed to talk to (and block everything else).
GitHub's desktop Copilot app is built on React (atop Tauri), but to show PRs with 2000+ files and a million changed lines, it renders its code rows outside React. A worthwhile read if you build UIs that need to stay fast at scale, and they're upfront about the mistakes they made along the way.
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Back in May, Tanner Linsley explained how he’d built a synchronous, React-compatible runtime. It’s now at v0.1 with React 19.3 API support, a drop-in Vite plugin, and a useful compatibility table.
Redux runs every mounted selector on every dispatch, which gets costly in huge apps. The new opt-in, signals-based useSignalSelector tracks which state each selector reads, so a dispatch only re-runs selectors whose data changed.
A browser-based JSX playground, wired up to your own component library, that renders every theme and viewport width side by side as you edit during dev/testing. Check out this live demo.
Takes the shadcn approach to PDF generation, with components for tables, headers, lists, and larger blocks for things like invoices and reports. Rendering is done with Takumi or Forme, both WASM-based engines that don't need a headless browser.
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