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evanwpmon Running TypeScript Natively in Node.js

It sounds like Bun and Deno might have been a huge success! Could have had the effect of lighting a fire under node to innovate

evanwpmon 23andMe files for bankruptcy to sell itself

Highly recommend that anyone interested in this company listens to the episode of the Freakonomics Radio podcast about 23andMe:

https://freakonomics.com/podcast/why-is-23andme-going-under-...

Seems like they struggled to turn a one-off purchase model into recurring revenue. At some point everyone in the world who cares enough about their DNA has already bought your product.

evanwpmon Rewriting essential Linux packages in Rust

I also really like:

https://github.com/eza-community/eza (modern ls replacement)

https://github.com/BurntSushi/erd (modern tree replacement)

https://github.com/sharkdp/bat (modern cat(1) replacement)

my .zshrc for every system now uses these as drop in replacements

evanwpmon A year of uv: pros, cons, and should you migrate

uv has been a complete game changer for me in Python, everyone who develops with me knows I won't shut up about it.

Astral is a great team, they built the ruff linter and are currently working on a static type checker called red-knot: https://x.com/charliermarsh/status/1884651482009477368