#633 — July 16, 2026 |
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Follow a Single HTTP Request Through Its ~200ms Life — From the creator of NodeBook, a thorough guide to Node's internals, comes a scroll-driven visualization following every step a single HTTP POST request takes from the user's click to Node's event loop and on to a database behind it. Ishtmeet Singh |
The Best Harness Wins, Not the Best Model. Learn Harness Engineering — Scott Moss (Netflix) teaches you to wrap an LLM in a production-grade harness. Learn durable execution, sandboxing, memory, and multi-agent orchestration. Master.dev sponsor |
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Fetch Needs Error Codes — James M Snell |
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Mat Marquis |
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Telegram Serverless: Run Telegram Bots on Telegram's Servers — Creating a bot for Telegram is easy (it has a great API) with libraries like node-telegram-bot-api, but it's starting to support running them on its own servers. Telegram |
💡 The serverless program is in beta, so not all users will have access to it yet. |
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📄 A Gentle Introduction to Git Worktrees – For when you need to check out multiple branches into separate directories simultaneously. Nicholas C. Zakas 📄 Playwright on GitHub Actions: A Setup That Actually Runs Fast – How to cut Playwright CI time by caching browser binaries, lifting the scaffold's one-worker cap, and more. Jakob Norlin 📄 6 Security Settings Every GitHub Maintainer Should Enable This Week Joseph Katsioloudes (GitHub) |
🛠 Code & Tools |
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LiteParse 2: Fast, Light PDF Document Parsing — A PDF parser built in Rust with bindings for Node (plus WASM, Rust, and Python) — it worked great in my testing. It includes OCR, handles layouts/is spatially aware, and is fast (a complex 140-page PDF took ~10 seconds). Here's how to get started from Node. LlamaIndex |
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One Postgres for Your API and Your Analytics — TimescaleDB extends Postgres so your app and analytics run in one database at scale. Get $1000 credit to start. Tiger Data (creators of TimescaleDB) sponsor |
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GitHub |
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🎬 Mediabunny: A Full Media Toolkit for JavaScript — It's been a year since we mentioned this library for reading/writing/converting media formats (MP4, MP3, and more). Since then, it's added Apple ProRes, HLS read/write, and a new Vanilagy |
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Tinbase: A Supabase-Compatible Backend in a Single Binary — Provides a local Supabase-like dev experience using a JS backend built atop PGlite and pg-mem. A sort of mini, local-only Postgres wrapped in the same APIs as Supabase, so Sanket Sahu |
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Andre Landgraf (Neon) |
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📢 Elsewhere in the ecosystem |
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