pnpm/pnpm: pnpm 12.2.1
Patch Changes Restored the pnpm executable target without a file extension so pnpm 12.1 and earlier can upgrade to newer pnpm 12 releases on POSIX systems. Platinum Sponsors Gold Sponsors
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electron/electron: electron v45.0.0-alpha.3
Note: This is an alpha release. Please file new issues for any bugs you find in it. This release is published to npm under the alpha tag and can be installed via npm install electron@alpha, or npm install…
pnpm/pnpm: pnpm 12.2
Minor Changes Catalogs can now resolve workspace dependencies through the workspace: protocol. Patch Changes Fixed pnpm audit --fix failing with ERR_PNPM_INVALID_FIX_OPTION when used without a value, including when…
4 JavaScript Things I Learned Recently
While learning JavaScript, I came across a few things that I had seen before but didn't fully understand: ternary, switch, break, and continue. After trying them with small examples, they started making more sense.…
Fixing npm Global Command Not Found on Windows
Fixing npm Global Command Not Found on Windows I recently hit a wall while configuring my development environment on Windows. It's one of those subtle issues that can waste an afternoon if you don't know what to look…
JS - Loops
What is loop? JavaScript loops are control structures that are used for executing a block of code repeatedly as long as the specified condition evaluates true. Various types of loops 1.for loop The most common loop,…
Server-Side Request Forgery (CWE-918): From Auto-Detected Finding to Live Exploit to an Honest Tooling Gap — Fully Offline
A full walkthrough of finding, proving, and reporting a real SSRF bug with a deterministic rule engine, a live form-based exploit, an attempted (and explained) automated probe, and a fully offline local LLM — no cloud…
Micro-Frontends: Webpack Module Federation in React 🧩
The Frontend Monolith Nightmare As engineering organizations grow, the backend is almost always split into microservices so that different teams can work independently. However, the frontend is frequently left behind as…
Mesh vs SFU vs MCU: Choosing WebRTC Architecture That Scales
Building a WebRTC application is deceptively easy. You can open a camera, create a peer connection, exchange SDP, send ICE candidates, and get two browsers talking in surprisingly little code. The difficult part starts…
Why Its an unknown Capsey takes England gloves for first time Matters for Sports Data Engineers
Why Its an unknown Capsey takes England gloves for first time Matters for Sports Data Engineers TL;DR: Alice Capsey has kept wicket in a senior fixture once: an England intra-squad match at Millfield School in April. On…
How I Built a Real-Time Football Stats Tracker: Messi retires from Argentina duty with nothing left to give
How I Built a Real-Time Football Stats Tracker: Messi retires from Argentina duty with nothing left to give TL;DR: Verified against ESPN, FIFA, NPR/CNN and Yahoo reporting — the story is real (announced Monday 31 August…
JWT Authentication in Node.js: A Complete Security Guide with Express
We’ve all experienced it: logging into a web application, closing the browser tab, and returning hours later to find ourselves still authenticated. That seamlessness is often powered by JSON Web Tokens (JWTs) working…
Choosing an Unreleased API Over the One Already There
express-openapi is Wesley Todd's library, not mine. It generates an OpenAPI document from an Express app by reading the routes the app actually registered, which beats maintaining a spec by hand and hoping it still…
Don't trust "processed locally" — check it yourself in three steps
Last term I had a batch of coursework images with faces in them, and we'd agreed they weren't leaving the group. Everything I needed to do to them — compress, convert — pointed at some online tool whose landing page…
Your GIF didn't band because you compressed it too hard
A colleague sent me a gradient banner and said my compression tool had wrecked it. I pushed the quality slider to maximum and re-ran it. The banding was still there. That's when I realised we'd both been looking at the…