Reid Burke

NASA astronaut and Artemis II Commander Reid Wiseman took this picture of Earth from the Orion spacecraft’s window on April 2, 2026, after completing the translunar injection burn.

This is your reminder to make sure you’re using npm min-release-age, pnpm minimumReleaseAge, or yarn npmMinimalAgeGate to protect your projects.

You should also check to ensure your projects are not already compromised.

Joe Desimone:

Any system that ran npm install (or equivalent) resolving [email protected] or [email protected] after 2026-03-31T00:21:58Z may have executed the stage-2 payload. 

See also the Stage 2 macOS trojan analysis for more detail and IoCs.

Now let's talk attribution. @DefSecSentinel quickly pointed to DPRK 🇰🇵. Remarkable similarities to WAVESHAPER / UNC1069 https://t.co/d4FXH4mQXl pic.twitter.com/wkzfiAZVeP

— Joe Desimone (@dez_) March 31, 2026

Fatherhood is the end of philosophy. you can read every book ever written about meaning and purpose and discipline, but the moment a small human looks at you and believes you, everything you thought you knew burns down. because now you have to do it, not think it, not debate it,…

— 🕊️ (@lichthauch) March 25, 2026

Plato: Never married, no children.
Socrates: Married with three sons, but notoriously uninvolved as a father.
Thomas Aquinas: Celibate friar, no children.
Thomas Hobbes: Never married, no children.
René Descartes: Had one daughter (died young), minimal involvement.
Baruch…

— Topher Kinsella (@KinsellaTopher) March 25, 2026

Cheng Lou introduces a library providing text height without DOM calculation in the hot path, manual line routing, and width-tight multiline UI:

Pure JavaScript/TypeScript library for multiline text measurement & layout. Fast, accurate & supports all the languages you didn’t even know about. Allows rendering to DOM, Canvas, SVG and soon, server-side.

Pretext side-steps the need for DOM measurements (e.g. getBoundingClientRect, offsetHeight), which trigger layout reflow, one of the most expensive operations in the browser. It implements its own text measurement logic, using the browsers’ own font engine as ground truth (very AI-friendly iteration method).

Check out the demos.

My dear front-end developers (and anyone who’s interested in the future of interfaces):

I have crawled through depths of hell to bring you, for the foreseeable years, one of the more important foundational pieces of UI engineering (if not in implementation then certainly at… pic.twitter.com/BKnwCDIp75

— Cheng Lou (@_chenglou) March 28, 2026

Curious how gzip works? This post by Ian Erik Varatalu explains it step by step.

gzip wraps around huffman coded input, the huffman coded input wraps around lz77 back-references, and the back-references wrap around the actual bytes.