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A number of times now, I've shared links with personal software engineering friends who I'm trying to convince to explore the AT Protocol. Rather than just sharing those links individually over and over again, I figured I'd just slap together a post so I

Last night, I was looking at Lobste.rs and saw that the top post was a blog post from LGUG2Z about MDM detection, using Rust. The post heavily implied that this could be used for ensuring butts-in-seats (hands-on-keyboards?) licenses are being followed -

Now that we've both gone over how to make Node.js implicitly and explicitly parse your code as ESM, we can get into some of the more meaty and interesting bits of ESM in Node.js. To me, one of the most interesting features is Conditional Exports . With co

A brief article on the usage of "type": "module" in package.json to have .js files parsed as ECMAScript Modules (ESM). Tagged with node, webdev, javascript, beginners.

Continuing the Node.js ESM content, I'd like to talk about the comparitively straightforward alternative to using .mjs to get your Node.js applications to run as ECMAScript Modules (ESM) rather than CommonJS: including "type": "module" in your package.jso

A while ago, Node.js introduced support for ECMAScript Modules (ESM). ESM is the standardized modules implementation that's been built-in to JavaScript. This differs rather significantly from CommonJS (CJS), which is the module system that Node.js has shi

A brief explainer on the usage of .mjs and .cjs in Node.js. Tagged with node, webdev, javascript, beginners.

Having been a part of the Node.js project since the io.js 1.0 announcement, one of the things I've grown extremely familiar with is how untouched Markdown documents that are supposed to provide a foundation can rot over time. More specifically, a project

With the recent release of npm@7 , we've gotten a few neat new features in npm. One of the ones that I imagine can go under the radar for most folks is the npm diff command. It's a relatively... advanced command that has immense potential utility. Preface

Today, npm has shipped automation tokens Previously, if you wanted to automatically publish an npm module from CI/CD you had a choice - have 2FA turned off and allow publishing via a token or have 2FA turned on and build a custom tool to allow you to inpu