Introducing kro: Kube Resource Orchestrator

November 13, 2024 By Mark Otto 0

Today, we’re excited to release Kube Resource Orchestrator (kro), a new experimental open source project that simplifies and empowers the use of custom APIs and resources with Kubernetes. With kro, you can define complex, multi-resource API extensions for reuse in any Kubernetes cluster. Defining new…

Taking Next.js 15 apps smoothly to production

November 13, 2024 By Mark Otto 0

Framer Motion is Now Motion — Framer Motion has been a long-standing, powerful, and hugely popular library for animating things in React apps, but it’s now called Motion and has become an “independent open source project for the community”, separate from Framer as a company. Matt…

Node v23.2 released

November 12, 2024 By Mark Otto 0

💡 Erick Wendel ▶️ recorded this helpful 18-minute video showing off Node’s new TypeScript-specific functionality and even caught up with Node.js TSC member Marco Ippolito who’s leading the type-stripping initiative. Introducing the vlt Package Manager — Made up of an incredibly experienced team, including npm’s creator Isaac…

JSConf is back

November 7, 2024 By Mark Otto Off

💡 He also took a similar look at the pipeline operator |>, but this feature is still only in draft as a proposal. 🇺🇸 JSConf is Back; Here’s the Details — Two months ago, the OpenJS Foundation announced that the popular JSConf brand was joining the foundation…

Custom ERP vs Off-the-Shelf: Why Customization Wins

November 6, 2024 By Mark Otto Off

If you are thinking about an ERP, the first question you have: make or buy?  Should we choose custom or go with an off-the-shelf solution? Being stuck in this intricate decision-making process is simple.  All businesses are different, even if they sell the same products…

Building GNOME apps with React

November 6, 2024 By Mark Otto 0

⚡ MikroORM‘s docs site build time went from 6m40s to 2m30s in dev and from 12m to 4m30s in production. Flex Your Product Muscle with Product for Engineers — Product for Engineers is PostHog’s newsletter helping engineers improve their product skills. Subscribe to get curated advice…

Running WebAssembly apps inside Node.js

November 5, 2024 By Mark Otto 0

Why Code Security Matters – Even in Hardened Environments — A nicely diagrammed deep dive (and it really is deep) into a technique that allows malicious parties to turn a file write vulnerability in a Node app into a remote code execution exploit even when…