Nicholas C. Zakas

Creator of @eslint. Author, programmer, speaker, coach.

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2024-08-09 21:47:42

eslint.config.ts anyone?
https://eslint.org/blog/2024/08/eslint-v9.9.0-released/

2024-07-31 13:55:24

robots.txt is essentially an electronic version of putting “do not copy” on a key. Maybe people abide by it, maybe they don’t, and there’s nothing illegal about ignoring it completely. 🤷‍♂️

2024-07-29 22:22:24

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@npub1wfj…2ewz from 2007? 🤣 Can’t say I’ve thought about it since then.

2024-07-29 17:38:41

Working on Markdown linting is interesting because Markdown doesn't really have the concept of invalid syntax.
There's recognized syntax, which gets transformed, but then anything that isn't recognized is just treated as text.
So to find potential errors, you have to reparse parts of the text.

2024-07-23 17:04:53

Anyone else surprised that CrowdStrike didn’t do staggered rollouts?

2024-07-12 20:37:00

Cannot say enough good things about the job @npub1jfc…w6jl has done with the ESLint Config Inspector. Just used it to debug an issue I was having in ESLint's own config file. If you haven't tried it yet, it's worth going out of your way to do so.
https://eslint.org/blog/2024/04/eslint-config-inspector/

2024-07-09 22:36:01

YouTube’s willingness to utterly destroy the user experience by hammering us with frequent and long ads is impressive. The ads were tolerable prior to this year. We’re talking Yahoo levels of apathy towards the user.

2024-04-15 21:46:35

Periodically we get weird PRs to ESLint that don't seem to make any sense. I've always assumed they were some kind of penetration test to see how easy it was to land code. This type of stuff happens all the time in OSS and it's not talked about enough.
https://openjsf.org/blog/openssf-openjs-alert-social-engineering-takeovers

2024-02-12 21:38:58

TIL "with context" allows Eleventy macros to access global data:
https://github.com/11ty/eleventy/issues/434#issuecomment-469028924

2024-01-30 00:06:00

Going forward, fsx will now be known as humanfs.
https://github.com/humanwhocodes/humanfs/pull/56

2024-01-16 00:06:54

Just landed EMFILE/ENFILE retry in the Node.js impl of fsx:
https://github.com/humanwhocodes/fsx/pull/19
cc @npub1xed…yg9w

2024-01-10 22:47:58

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@npub1xed…yg9w it doesn't...I've mostly focused on my own use cases to get started, but feel free to open an issue and tell me more.

2024-01-10 22:19:16

Introducing fsx: A modern filesystem API for JavaScript
https://humanwhocodes.com/blog/2024/01/fsx-modern-filesystem-api-javascript
My new little project is ready to share! ❤️

2024-01-10 17:21:24

What are the skills, qualities, and experience you’re looking for in a staff-level front end engineer in 2024?

2024-01-03 02:09:27

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@npub1xed…yg9w that is 100% the way I handle feature requests. But mostly people act like I should think it’s a good idea by default. A lot of “I don’t see what it would hurt to implement this.” 🤦‍♂️

2024-01-02 19:23:29

Managing the scope of an open source project is an ongoing battle. No matter how well-defined you think your scope is, people will challenge you to expand it constantly. Sometimes it will make sense, most times it won’t. Saying “no” is a super power that will save the project.

2023-11-20 18:06:44

Rewriting JavaScript tooling in Rust makes sense if your main concern is speed and you don’t want or need many contributions from outside your team.
Most JavaScript devs don’t know Rust, so your users are far less likely to contribute code.

2023-11-16 21:58:29

ESLint is coming up on v9.0.0. If your company uses ESLint, *please* take the time to talk to someone about sponsoring our work.
If your company ever sponsors conferences, meetups, etc., then there is probably budget for this.
We are very transparent about where the money goes. Last year (2022), we spent $140,000 to maintain the project.
https://eslint.org/blog/2023/01/eslint-2022-year-review/
That's the salary of one senior engineer in the US across the whole project.
I am willing to hop on a call to discuss. Ping me.

2023-07-13 22:02:25

Spend time with nontechnical people while they use tech. You’ll learn a lot.

2023-06-26 17:29:23

Repeat after me: Blocking paste on a form textbox is not a security feature.

2023-05-30 18:45:43

When GitHub shutoff PayPal for GitHub Sponsors, I lost over 80% of my monthly sponsorships and they never recovered. As an independent software developer, this really stings.
I could use your help bouncing back:
https://github.com/sponsors/nzakas
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2023-04-14 00:41:19

Moving to a different state requires a lot of coordination. It’s easy to forget how much of your life is highly location-dependent, from state-issued driver licenses, to insurance rates, to credit card address verification, to health insurance.