The Many, Many, Many JavaScript Runtimes of the Last Decade — A meaty article (which took a year to put together) covering the myriad of JavaScript runtimes and engines both past and present, from obvious picks like Node.js to cloud platforms and lesser known ‘honorable mentions’. This is a great summary to round out your JS ecosystem knowledge.

Whatever, Jamie

Running LLMs in prod? Prompt logs ≠ monitoring — Trace full request lifecycle, track cost/latency/retries, monitor drift & RAG relevance. If you can’t answer “what changed & what did it cost?”, you’re flying blind. Read the blog to learn more.

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The Node Developer's Guide to Unix Domain Sockets — The TLDR: “Unix domain sockets deliver ~50% lower latency than TCP loopback for Node.js IPC.”

Pavel Romanov

AudioTee.js: macOS System Audio Capture for Node.js — Wrapping around an (included) Swift-powered binary, this captures Mac system audio output and emits it as PCM encoded chunks at regular intervals. GitHub repo.

Nick Payne

Transformers.js 3.7: Machine Learning and Models for the Web — Brings the ability to run powerful pretrained models in the browser via ONNX, but you can do server-side inference with Node.js too. v3.7 adds Voxtral (speech transcription and audio understanding), LFM2 and ModernBERT support.

Hugging Face

Find & Fix Async Bugs Fast in Node.js with AppSignal — AppSignal helps Node.js devs fix bugs and performance issues fast. Easy to set up, a joy to use. Start your free trial today.

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match-sorter 8.1: Deterministic Best-Match Array Sorting — If you have an array of items you want to filter and sort deterministically, match-sorter provides a specified, predictable algorithm. Play with a live demo here.

Kent C. Dodds