Hi Folks, last week I battled COVID (and won!), made a few OSS releases, read a few articles and finished off a few projects… before going on a long awaited l, two weeks long, road trip with the family on the Cote d’Azure in France.
We are excited to announce the first RC release of the fourth major version of Fastify! This release contains various improvements of the developer experience and very few breaking changes. We now…
Last week I shipped msgpack5 v6! Not a big change but an update upgrade BufferList! This module is quite an old one - however it’s an healthy project with very little maintenance needs:
As part of the Redwood v1 launch last week, Tom Preston-Werner (the VC behind Redwood) announced a startup fund for startup that use Redwood. Did you know that Redwood uses Fastify underneath?
Today I’m pleased to announce the Redwood Startup Fund: a $1M fund that will invest $25k–$50k in startups that use RedwoodJS as a primary component in their stack.
The JavaScript ecosystem was extremely successful in fixing the software reusability problem. However the solution that took over the world introduced another problem: supply chain attacks. The following article describe a possible solution… however I’m left wonder why companies and people are not willing to invest time and money in making these system a reality?
Another week, another npm supply chain attack. Yikes! People on hacker news are wringing their hands about what should be done. The problem seems dire.
As you all know, I’m a huge fan of automated tests and a practitioner of Test-Driven Development. However writing useful tests is hard. Here is the full list of all the anti-patterns:
I wrote some time ago about anti-patterns in OOP. Now it’s time to write about unit testing anti-patterns—because they also exist, and there are many. I will try to include every example I know in this list.
I write about my journey as a core contributor of Node.js, as an author and a maintainer of many modules - including Fastify and Pino. In addition, I speak at conferences, and I will add links to all my talks in case you missed one.
