Erik Onarheim

Diving Into the TS 6.0 Beta Announcement | Read Along | Ep 55B Follow along as we dive into the Announcing TypeScript 6.0 Beta blog post and cover all the breaking changes and deprecations you can expect! Recommended - Typed Rocks:…

Our first vodcast is out! 🤘 This was originally cut from the news episode this week but we dive into the Announcing TS 6.0 Beta blog post and go through each of the changes you can expect with our commentary.

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I just posted to my GameDevLibrary my new Behavior Tree builder tool, which utilizes my custom BT tree components for ExcaliburJS. These are great for creating NPC or enemy logic trees for your games.

github.com/jyoung4242/G...

#gamedev #indiedev @excaliburjs.com

bt-builder.vercel.app

Get hyped for Global Game JAM 2026 @2dcon.gg HQ!

@igdatc.bsky.social is organizing an in person event this weekend 🎉

Have you ever wanted to make a game? Let's make some games together! It's the best way to learn and improve!

Check this link for all the info igdatc.org/ggj

#gamedev #minneapolis

Everything is a route – one interface for servers, static sites, and assets | Mastro Blog Use the standards-based Request/Response-API not only for writing your server, but also for static site and asset generation.

How can a complete web framework be ~700 lines of TypeScript? For one, everything is a route in Mastro.

npmx

don't tell anyone

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News | Ep 53 | TypeScript.fm - The Friendly Show for TypeScript Developers | Episode 53 News for the week of January 19, 2025: Rolldown reaches 1.0 release candidate, and a PDF library we all deserve. From the community: a better npm admin experience, supertype safety, and modern package.json...

Today on the pod: Rolldown 1.0 RC, LibPDF for TS devs, import attributes in .d.ts files, Lodash security update, & supertype safety tips!

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I have so much fun with Excalibur!!!

Mine knows a lot about the video game industry 😅

Report on the current state of Web Game Development in 2025 is out! - Gamedev.js Results of the Gamedev.js Survey 2025 conducted last month were finally published - we’ve received a total of 445 filled surveys, which is a solid amount given the form was open for only 11 days in De...

#Gamedevjs #Survey 2025 #Report about the current state of #Web #Game #Development was published! 🎉

gamedevjs.com/survey/repor...

Direct link: gamedevjs.com/survey/2025/

You can download the PDF already.

#gamedev #indiedev #indiegames #results #games #engines #tools

CEOs Say AI Is Making Work More Efficient. Employees Tell a Different Story. How much time workers say the technology saves them on the job is vastly different from what executives report.

The disconnect between management and employee on AI usage is big. At the same time, CEOs are reporting they aren't seeing any revenue growth from AI.

🤷

www.wsj.com/lifestyle/wo...

Rolldown 1.0 RC is here 🎉

🔒 Stable API: No breaking changes planned before 1.0
⚡ 10-30x faster than Rollup while staying compatible
🧩 Multiple chunking algorithm improvements
📦 3,400+ commits since beta: 749 features, 682 fixes, 109 perf optimizations

I feel attacked

Astro is Skyward Bound, Stable require(esm), and Temporal Finally Ships | News | Ep 52 | TypeScript.fm - The Friendly Show for TypeScript Developers | Episode 52 News for the week of January 12, 2025: Astro finds a new home, Chrome ships Temporal API, and latest Node marks require(esm) as stable. From the community: type-safe UI, how TypeScript differs at dev-time...

Today on the pod: Astro joins Cloudflare, Chrome ships Temporal API, and Node.js stabilizes require(esm). Plus community highlights on type-safe UI patterns and Deno's impressive performance!

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Gamedev Meeting (January 2026) - Scott Lembcke (Transforms 101) YouTube video by IGDA Twin Cities

Scott Lembcke (mastodon.gamedev.place/@slembcke) is doing a talk tonight live for IGDATC! At @2dcon.gg HQ!

Transforms 101: Demystifying Matrices with Pictures!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnGZ...

#gamedev #math

Gamedev Meeting (January 2026) - Scott Lembcke (Transforms 101) YouTube video by IGDA Twin Cities

Game Dev Alert! Friend of mine Scott Lembcke (mastodon.gamedev.place/@slembcke) is doing a talk tonight live for IGDATC!

Transforms 101: Demystifying Matrices with Pictures!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnGZ...

#gamedev #math

Node.js — Tuesday, January 13, 2026 Security Releases Node.js® is a free, open-source, cross-platform JavaScript runtime environment that lets developers create servers, web apps, command line tools and scripts.

We appreciate your patience and understanding as we work to deliver a secure and reliable release.

Updates are now available for the 25.x, 24.x, 22.x, 20.x Node.js release lines to address:

- 3 high severity issues
- 4 medium severity issues
- 1 low severity issue

nodejs.org/en/blog/vuln...

ECMAScript excitement 😉

🚨🚨🚨 IT'S ABOUT TIME! 🚨🚨🚨

Congrats to @manishearth.bsky.social on shipping the Temporal API in Chrome 144 stable today 🎉

developer.chrome.com/blog/new-in-...

Temporal is the replacement for the Date API.

Node.js — Tuesday, January 13, 2026 Security Releases Node.js® is a free, open-source, cross-platform JavaScript runtime environment that lets developers create servers, web apps, command line tools and scripts.

PSA: Update your Node installations immediately. We will discuss this more on today's episode which will drop later today.

nodejs.org/en/blog/vuln...

The most-nominated Games for the 2026 IGF Awards.

Baby Steps, Blippo+, and Titanium Court received the most nominations.

The winners will be revealed on March 11, 2026 at the IGF Awards Ceremony at @officialgdc.bsky.social.

We'll be there in person to cheer on all the nominees—but you can watch at home on twitch.tv/GDC

GopherCon 2025: Porting the TypeScript Compiler to Go for a 10x Speedup V2 - Jake Bailey YouTube video by Gopher Academy

My GopherCon talk was just posted!

🥳 TypeSlayer is out! celebrate by posting what your type graph looks like! it legit has an actual leaderboard now: so bonus points if you win lol 🏆🏆

run: `npx typeslayer`

source: github.com/dimitropoulo...

Event-driven gameplay, reflecting, and Hexstorm Check out issue #626 of Gamedev.js Weekly — the free, weekly newsletter about web game development.

Issue #626 of Gamedev.js Weekly newsletter about event-driven gameplay, reflecting, and Hexstorm is out - go check it!

gamedevjsweekly.com/626

#HTML5 #JavaScript #gamedevjs #gamedev #weekly #newsletter #excaliburjs

What Flint Does Differently [Experimental] A fast, friendly linter. ❤️‍🔥

📮 What Flint Does Differently

Flint is an experimental linter. It intentionally revisits many of the core design decisions from other popular web linters.

Please enjoy this medium dive how Flint's intentionally deviating from other linters and trying new things. ❤️‍🔥

www.flint.fyi/blog/what-fl...

This one was fun to do!!!

#indiedev #gamedev

Event-Driven Gameplay in ExcaliburJS | Excalibur.js A Primer on Excalibur Event Emitters

Happy New Year!

As a present 🎁 learn how to use STRONGLY TYPED events in game dev from @mookie4242.bsky.social

excaliburjs.com/blog/Event%2...

#gamedev #typescript

GitHub - bellard/mquickjs: Public repository of the Micro QuickJS Javascript Engine Public repository of the Micro QuickJS Javascript Engine - bellard/mquickjs

Micro QuickJS is a new JavaScript engine by the famous Fabrice Bellard 🎉

📖 Written in C
🗜️ Uses 100 kB ROM
⚠️ Supports a subset of JS close to ES5
🐏 Runs programs in as little as 10 kB of RAM
🔥 Speed is comparable to the full QuickJS engine

github.com/bellard/mqui...

Excalibur Playground Excalibur is a friendly TypeScript game engine for the web!

🎄🎮 Excalibur.js v0.32.0 is here! This release is all about DX and perf

✨ Highlights:
Debug improvements via browser extension
Major perf boosts for tilemaps, offscreen entities
Physics bodies now sleep for better perf
Simpler easing functions

Try it in our playground: excaliburjs.com/playground

Gamedev.js Survey 2025 is open! - Gamedev.js The fifth year of collecting YOUR feedback through Gamedev.js Survey, which shape the current state of Web Game Development report, is on - this time the form is open between December 8th and 19th. Th...

Last day to fill out the survey gamedevjs.com/survey/gamed...

Please take a chance to do it!

#gamedev #javascript #typescript

Gamedev.js Survey 2025 is open! - Gamedev.js The fifth year of collecting YOUR feedback through Gamedev.js Survey, which shape the current state of Web Game Development report, is on - this time the form is open between December 8th and 19th. Th...

We've just passed 400 submitted surveys, and today is the LAST DAY to send your answers to Gamedev.js Survey 2025!

gamedevjs.com/survey/gamed...

#gamedev #gamedevjs #JavaScript #HTML5 #indiedev #indiegames #report #form #OpenSource #survey

Deno 2.6 Adds dx and TSGo, Temporal API in Chrome 144 Beta, and JSDoc *is* TypeScript | News | Ep 48 | TypeScript.fm - The Friendly Show for TypeScript Developers | Episode 48 News for the week of December 8 2025: Deno 2.6 is packed with some cool features, Node 24 LTS ships stable type stripping, more React CVEs, and some new browser updates. From the community: JSDoc love,...

Today on the pod, we cover Deno 2.6's dx command, Node 24 LTS stable type stripping, Chrome 144 Beta's Temporal API, and JSDoc *is* TypeScript!

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