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06/22/2026
Babel 8.0, Vite 8.1, and TypeScript 7.0 RC


















#​791 — June 23, 2026

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JavaScript Weekly








Desktop Apps With deno desktop — Deno 2.9 (or the 'canary' build now) can turn JavaScript projects into self-contained apps on macOS, Windows, and Linux. Unlike Electron, you can opt to use the default OS WebView or a bundled Chromium backend, plus you get cross-compilation and automatic support for apps built on frameworks like Next.js and SvelteKit.


The Deno Project



📉 It's not in the post, but a --compress option gets packaged app sizes down a lot – from 65MB to 19MB in my test with a basic app.





Catch Runtime Bugs Before Your JS PR Merges — Some JavaScript bugs only show up after the app runs. Greptile reviews each PR with full repo context, runs the code in a sandbox, and returns screenshots, logs, and traces as proof of what broke. Use Greptile in GitHub, GitLab, or from your terminal.


Greptile sponsor






Babel 8.0 Released: The JavaScript Transpiler — It’s been eight years since Babel 7.0, and despite the rise of tools like SWC and Oxc, weekly downloads of the @babel packages have increased 380x since. v8.0 is a modernization release that goes ESM-only and targets ~ES2023 by default (vs ES5 before).


Babel Team






TypeScript 7.0 Release Candidate — A step closer for the Go-powered TypeScript compiler that promises ~10x faster build performance. (I've seen people on social media getting very excited by this.)


Daniel Rosenwasser (Microsoft)




IN BRIEF:






RELEASES:




  • ⭐ Vite 8.1 – Adds experimental support for 'bundled dev mode' which radically speeds up dev server startup and full reloads on large apps. Also adds WASM/ESM integration support.




  • ⭐ Astro 7.0 – The popular web framework gets faster build times, with .astro compilation and Markdown/MDX processing going through a Rust-powered pipeline. Advanced Routing also gives you full control over the request pipeline.




  • pnpm 11.7 and 11.8 – pnpm install gets a --dry-run option, --frozen-store adds support for read-only package stores, and more.




  • Node.js v26.3.1 (Current), v24.17.0 (LTS), and v22.23.0 (LTS)





📖  Articles and Videos





How an Underrated Refactor Saved 90% Memory Usage —
The tale of how TanStack Table v9 uses less memory than v8 on large tables, thanks to a simple idea: storing methods on shared prototypes instead of creating them for every object. Benchmarks included, plus a pattern other libraries can copy.


Kevin Van Cott (TanStack)






You Already Know Enough JavaScript to Ship a Real Mobile App — Build for iOS and Android from one codebase with React. Expo handles builds, the App Store, and updates.


Expo sponsor




📄 window.showDirectoryPicker Opens Up a Whole New World – Chrome 86+ added a way to let users open a local directory for use by webapps. Steve Harrison


📄 What are Git Worktrees, And Why Should I Use Them? – A decade-old git feature that's seen a boost in the AI agent era. Cassidy Williams (GitHub)


📄 TanStack Start: A Mental Model for Next.js Devs – Maps TanStack Start onto Next.js concepts with side-by-side code comparisons. Adarsha Acharya



🛠 Code & Tools








FullCalendar 7.0: A Full Sized JavaScript Calendar — A Google Calendar-style experience for your own apps. Works with React, Vue and Angular (v7.0 adds Angular 22 support), but can be used with plain JavaScript. Here’s a demo where you can play with the themes and styling approaches. MIT licensed with commercial extensions.


FullCalendar LLC






🤖 Eve: Like Next.js, But for Building Agents — A new framework from Vercel that provides Next.js-esque structure for building AI-powered agents using TypeScript and Markdown.


Vercel






Your Charts Endpoint Doesn't Need a Second Database — It's the query behind it, not the render. TimescaleDB extends Postgres for analytics. Get $1000 credit to start.


Tiger Data (creators of TimescaleDB) sponsor






ForesightJS 4: Predictive User Intent Library for the Web — Predicts intent from pointer and keyboard cues to prefetch content before it's needed for a snappier user experience. v4.0 adds official React and Vue packages with a declarative <Foresight> component in v4.2.


ForesightJS, Inc.






Prop For That: What JS Knows, Now CSS Knows — Provides CSS with access to values you'd often need JS to provide (e.g. pointer position, time, a slider’s value). Add attributes to HTML and live values show up as custom properties, bridging the JS–CSS gap. The demo page is neat.


Adam Argyle






Kage: Shadow a Website for Offline Viewing — A tool to clone a site and serve it up for offline viewing. The difference vs "Save As" is it handles JS-rendered sites by saving the DOM using a headless browser. Repo.


Duc-Tam Nguyen






goja: An ECMAScript/JavaScript Engine in Pure Go — A mature JavaScript engine for adding scripting functionality to Go apps without CGo/V8.


Dmitry Panov






  • Anime.js 4.5 – The powerful animation engine adds adapters to support animating non-DOM objects like Three.js meshes or a canvas context.




  • Ink 7.1 – The popular TUI renderer adds suspendTerminal() for temporarily handing the terminal over to a child process (like an editor).




  • Nuxt UI 4.9 – The Vue UI library improves its calendar component, adds uniform focus styles, and adds useTour for driving guided tours.




  • Nx 23.0 – The monorepo tool's yearly major. Now nx migrate can hand migrations off to AI agents.




  • ☀️ SunCalc 2.0 – Calculate the position and phase of the Sun and Moon.









📰 Classifieds




Flaky tests slowing down dev? Meticulous gives engineers confidence to ship faster by autonomously testing every edge case of your web app.



🚀 Take your app from dev to production in one command. clerk deploy handles DNS and OAuth: clerk.com/changelog/2026-06-10-clerk-deploy



Handsontable: Production-ready data grid that feels like Excel. Rock-solid reliability, performance at scale. Try now.



🦊 Extract tables, text, forms, and images from any PDF as structured JSON. Foxit's API combines OCR, layout recognition, and AI parsing.






📢  Elsewhere in the ecosystem















06/15/2026
Flow vs TypeScript in 2026


















#​790 — June 16, 2026

Read on the Web




JavaScript Weekly








Flow for TypeScript Users in 2026 — Flow is Meta's mature typed dialect of JavaScript, and over the years its syntax has converged closely with TypeScript's. This post walks through where the two now differ: Flow's stricter defaults reject several crash-prone patterns TypeScript's strict mode accepts, and it adds features of its own, like exhaustive match expressions.


George Zahariev (Meta)






Free Claude Code Course from Anthropic + Master.Dev — Coding is changing fast, and the engineers who thrive will be the ones who direct AI instead of guessing at it. Lydia Hallie from Anthropic teaches exactly that in our Claude Code course, now free for everyone.


Master.dev sponsor






npm v12 to Stop Running Install Scripts by Default — The forthcoming npm v12 will no longer execute preinstall/install/postinstall scripts, unless you explicitly allow them. You can get ready now by using npm 11.16.0 which prints warnings about anything v12 would block.


GitHub






🤖 Code is Cheap(er) — The creator of htmx says that while code is increasingly easy to produce, understanding is still expensive, and “complexity remains our apex predator.”


Carson Gross




IN BRIEF:





RELEASES:




  • Playwright 1.61 – You can now register and test passkeys, as well as read/write to localStorage and sessionStorage via a new WebStorage API.




  • ESLint v10.5.0 – Five core rules now highlight smaller ranges of code to avoid shadowing other problems in editors.




  • 🤖 TanStack AI Beta – Framework and provider-agnostic AI toolkit.





📖  Articles and Videos





How TanStack Cut TypeScript Type-Checking Work by Up to 86% — TanStack Table v9 (now in beta) made its features modular, but the generic types behind that flexibility introduced noticeable editor lag in alpha. This deep-dive shows how the team used tsc diagnostics to cut type-checking work by 62–86%, with lessons for anyone authoring type-heavy libraries.


Kevin Van Cott (TanStack)






🛠️ React Libraries and Tools for 2026 — Every year, Robin updates this post covering his opinionated list of essential React ecosystem libraries.


Robin Wieruch






Your AI Writes Tests That Pass but Prove Nothing. Fix It — Wallaby CLI makes test generation 10x smarter with live coverage and runtime data, using 3x fewer tokens. One skill to install.


Wallaby Team sponsor






Changing the Kindle's Homepage by Editing Hermes Bytecode — The Kindle’s UI now runs on a Hermes-powered JavaScript stack. Here’s how you can edit the bytecode Hermes produces to change the Kindle UI’s behavior.


Nicholas Tarta






📈 Making numpy-ts as Fast as Native — How a TypeScript NumPy port went from 15x slower to matching native, by changing not whether to use WASM, but who owns the bytes.


Nico Dupont




📄 How Building an HTML-First Site Doubled Our Users Overnight – Out with the React, and in with the Astro. Alistair Davidson


📄 Building a Real Blog Easily in Astro – By real, Zell means something beyond demo-level, with excerpts, post update dates, etc. Zell Liew


📄 Streaming HTML with textStream() in Chrome Canary Ollie Williams



🛠 Code & Tools





eslint-plugin-unicorn 67.0: More Than 200 Powerful ESLint Rules — Sindre’s set of curated rules has grown a lot, with almost 100 added or updated in the past few weeks alone. Like enforcing better comments, limiting the depth of nested calls, preferring Temporal over Date, and preferring HTTPS over HTTP in URLs. These rules will seriously challenge (and improve!) your code.


Sindre Sorhus et al.






zod-compiler: Compile Zod Schemas into Zero-Overhead Validators — A build-time compiler that plugs into Vite, webpack, et al. and rewrites existing schemas into optimized, tree-shakeable validators. Claims 2–75x faster validation with no source changes and the full Zod API preserved.


Gajus Kuizinas






That Slow Analytics Endpoint? It's a Database Problem — Pipelines, sync lag, stale data. That's the cost of a split stack. TimescaleDB extends Postgres so your app stays fast.


Tiger Data (creators of TimescaleDB) sponsor






📊 billboard.js 4.0: A JavaScript Chart Library Based on D3 — At almost nine years old, billboard.js now has a new, opt-in canvas-based rendering mode (SVG remains the default), smaller bundles, and better performance on large datasets. There are hundreds of demos ranging from donut charts and funnel charts to overlapping bar charts and radar charts.


Jae Sung Park (NAVER)






PolyCSS: CSS 3D Engine for the DOM — Renders textured 3D polygon meshes entirely in the DOM using CSS matrix3d() transforms — no WebGL or <canvas> required. Works with vanilla JS, React, and Vue. There’s a gallery to explore and a live builder if you want to play around.


LayoutitStudio










  • Tabulator 6.5 (above) – Create interactive tables from any HTML table, JS array or JSON data.




  • 🕒 <relative-time> 5.2.0 – Web Component for formatting automatically-updating timestamps as localized strings or relative times.




  • Fable 5.2 – No, not the LLM you can't use, but an F# to JS/TS (and now Erlang too) compiler you can use. More info.




  • React Native 0.86 – Edge-to-edge support on Android 15+ and improvements to its DevTools.




  • Biome 2.5 – The fast code formatting and linting toolchain has now passed 500 lint rules.




  • get-value 4.1 – Use paths like a.b.c to get a nested value from an object.




  • axios v1.18.0 – Promise-based HTTP client for the browser and Node.




  • 📊 visx 4.0 – Airbnb's visualization primitives for React.










📰 Classifieds




📸 Add robust in-browser barcode scanning to your web apps using STRICH, a lean JS library. Free 30-day trial, try the demo app today!



Flaky tests slowing down dev? Meticulous gives engineers confidence to ship faster by autonomously testing every edge case of your web app.



🤖 Generate 50,000 invoices overnight. Foxit's DocGen API merges JSON data into branded PDFs at scale, with no PDFKit and no copy-paste.





📢  Elsewhere in the ecosystem















06/12/2026
How CCP-Linked Computer Hacker Stella Huh Delivers Scams Over Hacked Google Gemini AI

It is nice to see Google is moving on combatting scams delivered by AI. Many people might catch a stray message here or there which causes some damages, through the combination of requiring a quick response and mimicking official government websites with things like (fake) unpaid parking tickets, or other municipal fees. An extended family member had to get a new credit card issued a few months back after paying a fake parking ticket that looked like an official state government website. Scan the QR code in the text message, pay the fake parking ticket, and your credit card is on vacation. They paid the ticket using Apple Pay, and then a week later their credit card was off in Las Vegas having the time of its life - at least until the crazy array of fraudulent charges were blocked.


This is also a reason to never put debit cards in tools like Apple Pay or Google Pay. If those get clipped you are soaked and there is no redress whatsoever on that stuff.


Some of the personally targeted frauds and scams are much more hazardous than replacing a stolen credit card - especially when they weaponize the state against its citizenry. On June 4, 2024 criminal fraud Stella Huh paid a fake witness named Anabela Felgueira Ferreira to claim my wife was beating our daughter in Lisbon in a public square with thousands of other people. No other witnesses, just the fake one, and statements which changed like the wind - directly contradicting each other. In court the pile of shit fake witness retracted her extreme statement because she faced a 3-year prison sentence for making false statements.


Even my daughter said nothing happened. But domestic violence is an interesting crime to leverage because the person who was allegedly harmed saying it never happened can still lead to an arrest. And if the police officers have an IQ around 70 - Nuno Filipe Lourenço Ferreira certainly looks the part - they can then implement violence because they do not know any better.


Domestic violence is a neato crime for sadistic & malevolent psychopaths like Stella Huh to leverage in that just a raw (and fraudulent) claim can cause an operative nanny state official to over-react to where police officers become agents of violence against the accused. The claim against my wife was absolutely bogus, yet it cost over $100,000 in legal fees & flights & duplicate rents, had the junk case ongoing for years now, and the pile of shit violent jackass police officer lifted my wife off the ground by her cuffed arms, which in turn has caused her to shoulder to need reset 3 separate times.


My wife told me she wanted a Nintendo Switch 2 to play with our daughter last Christmas, so I surprised my wife and bought her one early for her birthday. The day before her birthday the Nintendo Switch 2 was delivered by Amazon.com early in the morning, and my wife was confused by the order by it being so early in the morning and there being the sort of standard red lithium battery warning on the package.


My wife queried Google Gemini about the package delivery and rather than it being Google Gemini it was computer hacker & ill-reputed criminal fraud Stella "Sung Ha" Huh (AKA Saskya Bedoya) operating a cross-site scripting spam JavaScript layover atop of Google Gemini. Stella Huh told my wife to phone in a bomb threat immediately. Thinking the suggestion was over the top my wife refused. Our daughter was still sleeping and I wasn't home, so it did not take much further prodding to scare my wife ... Stella Huh phoned a crank emergency call into my wife. That put my wife in a panicked state, so she was scared and called in a bomb threat.



Notice the "WAS THAT CALL REAL?" message atop this Google Gemini thread.


Bellevue police came by, had people exit their homes for hours, and then detonated the Nintendo Switch 2.


Most police officers are, to put it politely, absolutely ignorant & illiterate when it comes to any sort of advanced technology, including the malware delivered by malevolent & sadistic psychopaths like Stella Huh which operate them, so it is quite easy to destroy a family with just a handful of targeted attacks when the first line defenders are as dumb and overzealous, to where they actually operate as an extension of the crime team to further harm their victims.


Categories: 
google
Stella Huh
06/08/2026
VoidZero → Cloudflare, and Angular 22 lands


















#​789 — June 9, 2026

Read on the Web




JavaScript Weekly








VoidZero is Joining Cloudflare — One of the year’s big moves in JS tooling, as told by Evan himself. The company he founded to build Vite, Vitest, Rolldown, Oxc, etc. is joining Cloudflare. He’s candid about why (monetization is hard). Good news: all projects stay MIT-licensed, and Evan and co remain in charge.


Evan You



💰 In the Vite team's post, they reveal Cloudflare is starting a $1 million fund to support Vite ecosystem maintainers and contributors.





Come for Great PostgreSQL Talks – Virtual and Free — Attend talks about PostgreSQL-backed app development at POSETTE: An Event for Postgres 2026 (16-18 June). Join live and chat directly with PostgreSQL speakers, other developers and users. There is also swag waiting for you. Register for updates.


Microsoft | AMD sponsor






Announcing Angular v22 — Google’s batteries-included framework graduates three big features to stable/production-ready: Signal Forms, Angular Aria, and asynchronous reactivity. The router also adds experimental support for the native browser Navigation API.


The Angular Team




IN BRIEF:





RELEASES:




📖  Articles and Videos





Modern Engineering Values — “I cannot believe that I used to write code by hand!” The creator of Jest and Fate says that as agents write more software, the engineering values that matter shift, with ownership, taste, and strict-but-fast feedback loops at the fore.


Christoph Nakazawa






'I Wish Deno Would Keep Doing What It Does Best' — A Deno fan argues that chasing Node.js/npm compatibility is costing the runtime its edge as a zero-config, web-standards, all-in-one-binary experience.


Hong Minhee






How Is Your App Performing in Production? — Ship a release this morning. By tonight you can know if the app got faster, slower, or worse for any specific cohort of users.


Expo sponsor






What Bun Can Tell Us About AI and Open Source — An analyst looks at Bun, whose code is increasingly AI-produced rather than human-written, as a bellwether for whether AI-authored core infrastructure is sustainable.


Stephen O'Grady (RedMonk)




📺 All 17 TanStack Projects in One App – TanStack is now a huge suite of libraries, and if anyone can pull them all into one app, Jack can! Jack Herrington


📄 Everything You Need to Know About Source Maps Neciu Dan


📄 How TypeScript Infers Type Variables Nicolas Laurent



🛠 Code & Tools








Geometric.js: A Library for Doing Geometry — Created by someone who works on graphics for the NYT, this elegant library lets you work with polygons, bounding boxes, reflection, interpolation, rotation, and the like (examples). Does one polygon intersect with another? There’s a function for that.


Harry Stevens (The New York Times)






Ship Real-Time Features Without a Second Database — TimescaleDB extends Postgres for live analytics on event data. No pipeline, no extra infrastructure. $1000 credit.


Tiger Data (creators of TimescaleDB) sponsor






Micromodal.js: A Tiny Library for Accessible Modal Dialogs — No-dependency library for WAI-ARIA guideline-compliant modal dialogs. Offers extra polish versus <dialog>, with hooks, scroll-locking, in/out transitions, and click backdrop to dismiss.


Ghosh and Singh






📝 PDFSlick 4.0: View and Interact with PDFs in JS Apps — A PDF viewer for React, Solid, Svelte & vanilla JS apps that goes from simple PDF viewing up to working with multiple, large documents with annotations. Demo.


Vancho Stojkov






babel-plugin-zod-hoist: Hoist Zod Schema Definitions to the Top of the File — From the creator of Slonik comes a way to make Zod validation significantly faster.


Gajus Kuizinas










📰 Classifieds




Flaky tests slowing down dev? Meticulous gives engineers confidence to ship faster by autonomously testing every edge case of your web app.



🏢 Clerk now shows your top orgs by member count — ranked, visualized, with per-tenant detail links. Know how your B2B accounts are growing.



📄 Skip the HTML-to-PDF headaches. Foxit's DocGen API turns Word templates and JSON into clean, formatted PDFs in one API call.



Build and deploy durable AI agents in TypeScript, without managing your own infrastructure. Ship your first agent with Trigger.dev.





📢  Elsewhere in the ecosystem








  • Oxide Computer Company's Mitos ASCII Tool (above) converts images into ASCII text illustrations and animations, by way of a built-in livecoding environment (built upon the fantastic play.core).




  • 🔁 replacements.fyi, from the e18e team, is a handy way to find replacements for npm packages of your choice, whether that's a simpler package, a code snippet that does the same thing, or a native API.




  • ⚡ Add Obs.js to a page and it adds classes to <html> to customize the UX based on how much performance is available (e.g. bandwidth, CPU, latency). Harry Roberts explains further.




  • 🕹️ Raymond Camden set out to see if Chrome's built-in AI could play Zork 1, the classic text adventure game.












06/05/2026
Sadistic & Malevolent Psychopath Stella Huh Abuses Kids

Last year I found out that in January 2023 Stella Huh had pushed my daughter so hard that my daughter was hiding in the closet when my wife Giovanna returned from her jog to the San Francisco Four Seasons hotel. Our daughter was so scared that she did not tell her mom what happened until about a month later. I only found out about the incident last year.



The backstory is a bit crazy, but Stella Huh was the person who recruited Christopher Angus to defraud Aaron Wall's family out of millions of dollars. The stolen money from 2016 was parked in Bitcoin, which has went up over 100-fold since, meaning the fortune which was stolen now amounts to hundreds of millions of dollars.



Stella Huh is the silent partner in the Timothy Barton ponzi scheme, and is sitting on tens of thousands of Bitcoin in her self-described shadow ledgers which she stated were missed by the SEC's Barton Receivership.


The receivership was established on October 18, 2022. Stella Huh has claimed to have used Saskya Bedoya as one of her aliases to distance herself from her racketeering crimes. She even went so far as trying to claim she was a creditor rather than a criminal engaged directly in the frauds. Talk about a reality inversion!



On December 17, 2022 I noticed Stella Huh's crime partner Christopher Angus shared an image on Facebook. That meant Chris was done with his first prison sentence, so I reminded him he has another upcoming sentencing in the United States.



Right after Christopher Angus received that comment on Facebook Stella messaged Giovanna claiming Stella got sick from inhaling fumes on a cruise by herself, and she wanted to meet Aja in person soon. They met in the San Francisco Four Seasons hotel January 2 & 3 of 2023.


During breakfast Aja and Giovanna sat for over an hour while Stella went upstairs to the room for over an hour to put malware on Giovanna's electronic devices. When Giovanna later left for a quick jog she came back to find Aja hiding in the closet. Stella Huh pushed our daughter off the couch hard because she know Aja is the rightful owner of the Bitcoin wealth Stella Huh is sitting on.


Our daughter stated Stella should not be allowed to do that because she could break kids necks.


On March 4, 2026 Stella Huh sent Giovanna a death threat targeting our daughter right as my wife's plane was taking off so that my wife could not call it in. When my wife had to sign a document from Cougar Ridge Elementary the Docusign email was deleted by computer hacker Stella Huh 3 separate times before my wife actually got to one of the Docusign documents on time before Stella could delete it again. Around that time, on brand as ever, the psychopath sent my wife the following comment:



Stella Huh's psychopathy is basically unlimited. Last year when my daughter was playing Roblox Stella was another in game character and told her "you have no dad."


When my wife uses AI apps they often contain a spoofed result set rather than the regular ChatGPT or Google Gemini, where Stella's snide (hate to use this word!) personality shines through. Last November Stella offered to give back some of the stolen Bitcoins in a really sleazy contract where it was obviously fake from the start. Lawyer to lawyer communications, but no lawyers named. Guess the Bitcoin wallet addresses and quantity of coins in each wallet she is in possession of - under penalty of perjury. Give blanket immunity to criminal fraud Stella Huh while claiming she is a business partner - for zero upside even as she crimes you and tries to destroy your family.


Then for the dismount Stella's junk ne'er-do-well contract dismounts with a reminder that she is intentionally trying to destroy your child's life.



Criminal fraud Stella Huh remains at large and privately bragged about receiving a large windfall from the Hunton Andrews Kurth ABS which packaged many Ledn Bitcoin loans the day after Stella sent the ballistic protection death threat against a child she previously assaulted.


Stella Huh is expected to participate in the Timothy Barton criminal case on November 2, 2026 as a co-defendant.


Categories: 
Stella Huh
06/03/2026
A Friendly Facebook Comment for Criminal Frauds Stella Huh & Christopher Angus

On October 18, 2022 a federal court established the Barton Receivership.


On December 17, 2022 I noticed Christopher Angus in my Facebook feed posting a picture comparing the differences between literal and actual meanings of colloquial English phrases. From that post I realized Christopher Angus had completed his UK prison sentence and did not yet have his US prison sentencing sorted out yet.


I politely commented: "Did your rate of learning accelerate or slow down after you went to prison for being a psychopath money embezzling fraud? I turned you into the FBI as well while you were serving that first prison sentence in the UK. A friend of mine who used to work with them ensured that the report was well polished, so you have another vacation coming here shortly. Though this one will be closer to (or perhaps a bit longer than) the 10 years you mentioned you deserved. International wire fraud is perhaps a great crime in the UK where the legal system is an absolute fucking joke & they say GDPR protects the financial records of a self-confessed criminal fraud, but it is not so great a crime against a US citizen. Interesting fact ... each wire was a separate count of wire fraud. Am looking forward to your deportation and your next sentencing, friend. Stay thirsty!"


Chris was quick to delete the comment & block me, but I saved the original comment & Facebook still shows the date.




Sometimes attempts to hide evidence creates new evidence and new crimes.



Some new crimes extend the statute of limitations on prior crimes which are part of the same campaign.


Some digital trails last a lifetime!


Stella Huh was rather persistent and aggressive with contacting my wife Giovanna wanting to meet our daughter Aja after Christopher received that message. And they met at the San Francisco Four Seasons Hotel on January 2nd and 3rd - a topic for another, more detailed post. We won't be hiding that information in the closet, Stella!


Jury trial on the criminal Timothy Barton case is set for 11/2/2026 09:00 AM before Judge Ed Kinkeade.


Haoqiang Fu and Mark Adams were both smart enough to sign plea deals.


Stephen Wall and Saskya Bedoya were added alongside Timothy Lynch Barton on December 12, 2023 via the first superseding indictment.


Evidence that impacts the broader criminal fraud case can be delivered securely to the federal prosecutors by a white-collar criminal defense attorney as an intermediary to minimize personal legal liability. Others who were directly involved in the crimes & know how lengthy sentences can be may submit proffer agreements for more lenient sentencing.



Stella Huh and Christopher Angus are thinking they can run the clock and won't appear in the second superseding indictment - maybe. They do not know what paper trails I have seen, what digital trails have been left behind, nor who will give the prosecutors what is needed to present the second superseding indictment to a grand jury, which will give the shy criminals much-deserved exposure they have already earned.



Hopes and dreams, Chris!


Categories: 
Christopher Angus
Stella Huh
06/01/2026
How to vet an npm package in 2026


















#​788 — June 2, 2026

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JavaScript Weekly








Hocuspocus 4: Add Real-Time Collaboration to Any App — A plug-and-play real-time collaboration backend based on Yjs so you can quickly and safely wire up multi-user collaborative experiences into a JavaScript app. It runs on Node, Bun, Deno, or Cloudflare Workers. GitHub repo.


Tiptap






Still Writing Tests Manually? Meticulous AI Is Here — Notion, Dropbox, Wiz and LaunchDarkly now use a testing paradigm they can’t work without. Built by former Palantir engineers, Meticulous automatically creates an evolving suite of E2E UI tests, delivering exhaustive coverage with no developer effort.


Meticulous sponsor






How to Evaluate an npm Package: 2026 Edition — A practical checklist for vetting packages beyond star counts, covering provenance attestation, install scripts, CI quality, and maintainer responsiveness. Learn to spot the red flags before you npm install.


Gabor Koos




IN BRIEF:





RELEASES:




📖  Articles and Videos





🤖 Using AI to Write Better Code More Slowly — A prolific JavaScript developer says LLMs aren’t just for pumping out bad code quickly, they can indeed help you write higher quality code more slowly.


Nolan Lawson






TypeScript Tips Everyone Should Know — A concise set of tips for safer and cleaner code, as well as a reminder that while TypeScript can improve correctness, it doesn't guarantee good architecture or eliminate runtime bugs.


Matt Smith






Your Partition Scheme Made Sense. Then the Data Got Big — TimescaleDB extends Postgres so analytics queries stay fast at scale. No pipeline, no second database. $1000 credit.


Tiger Data (creators of TimescaleDB) sponsor






Intentionally Blocking Rendering with JavaScript — "Sometimes an inline render-blocking script is a small price to pay for avoiding aggressive layout shifts."


Jay Freestone






Why Does tsgo Use So Much Memory? —
A look into the Go-powered TypeScript 7 compiler and why it can chew through gigabytes on a large project.


Zack Radisic




📄 CSS vs. JavaScript for Web Animations – Underlying performance differences and guidance on when to pick which approach. Josh W. Comeau


📄 Your Recursion is Lying to You – ES2015 specified tail call optimization, but most engines in 2026 don’t support it. Gabor Koos


📄 How We Cut Build Times by Two-Thirds by Deleting Our CMS – The story of Sentry's Gatsby to Astro migration. Eli Lennox (Sentry)


📄 Creating a VS Code Agent Hook to Respond to File Changes Nicholas C. Zakas



🛠 Code & Tools








📊 Plotly 3.6: The Declarative Graphing Library — A long-standing library, also widely used in the Python and R ecosystems, that offers over 50 visualization types, from basic charts and graphs to maps, plots, and heatmaps.


Plotly, Inc.






Expo UI Is Stable. Real SwiftUI and Compose from JS — One import. SwiftUI on iOS, Jetpack Compose on Android. Plus native drop-in replacements for 7 community packages.


Expo sponsor






Component Party: A Rosetta Stone of UI Libraries — A side-by-side code snippet comparison of frameworks including React, Vue, Svelte, Angular, Ember, and more obscure options. Recent updates have extended Angular and Svelte coverage, plus added Ripple and Ember Polaris to the mix.


Mathieu Schimmerling






🎉 tsParticles 4: A Particle Engine for Web Effects — If you want a confetti cannon, fireworks, ribbons, fireflies, snow, or similar effects on your pages, this is for you. Supports all major frameworks and vanilla JS. You can see some live demos here.


Matteo Bruni










📰 Classifieds




🚀 Handsontable's 342K-line JS→TS migration is ready — best-in-class docs so you can build faster, with confidence.



⚡ Add production-ready auth to Next.js in minutes. Run clerk init, configure from the terminal, skip the dashboard: clerk.com/cli.



🤖 A fleet of coding agents that ship real PRs. SWE-AF orchestrates Claude Code, Codex & Gemini into reviewed, production-grade pull requests - not demos.





📢  Elsewhere in the ecosystem