Ari Palo

Meta Plans to Add Facial Recognition Technology to Its Smart Glasses

They are exactly who they seemed to be:

nytimes.com/2026/02/13/techn…

Seven Billion Reasons for Facebook to Abandon its Face Recognition Plans Meta’s analysis that it can avoid scrutiny by releasing a privacy invasive product during a time of political crisis is craven and morally bankrupt. It is also dead wrong.

Meta thinks now is a great time to launch facial recognition surveillance tech in their creepy glasses because EFF will be too distracted by fascism to notice.

We noticed.

www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...

Biome v2.3—Let's bring the ecosystem closer

Oh fantastic news! @biomejs.dev now has full support for @astro.build 😍

biomejs.dev/blog/biome-v...

Open Social — overreacted The protocol is the API.

i wrote about atproto and why it matters

On a 3h bus journey:

Some a-hole blasting music out loud from his phone speakers.

And you can’t say it’s ”just young people”, this one for example is some middle-aged MF.

This behaviour is nothing new, but the lack of respect & consideration for other people these days makes me angry as hell 🤬

Codecs | Zod Bidirectional transformations with encode and decode

instead of providing first-party APIs for commonly-needed codecs, Zod is taking a page from shadcn

fully-tested versions of 16 commonly-needed codecs are available on the new Codecs page. you're encouraged to copy/paste/customize them as needed 👍
zod.dev/codecs

Introducing Zod 4.1 and its flagship feature: codecs.

z.codec() is a new API for defining *bi-directional transformations* in Zod

Trying to log into the AWS certification portal… including login, it takes like 17 redirects 😅

new Date("wtf") How well do you know JavaScript's Date class?

First jsdate.wtf then e-mail.wtf and now this. It just gets worse and worse. Unfollow.

Russian data centre in Helsinki sparks concerns over legal loopholes Finnish cybersecurity authorities say they did not know a Russian data centre was being established in the capital.

An absurd loophole 🤬

Russkies shouldn’t be able to set up any companies in Finland – while they are attacking a sovereign nation in Europe – much less a data center and an internet exchange point.

yle.fi/a/74-20177090

Speeding up the JavaScript ecosystem - Semver During the installation process, package managers run a bunch of semver comparisons. The semver library used in npm, yarn and pnpm can be made around 33x faster.

The semver library used in npm, yarn and pnpm could be made 33x faster.

Ran into that while wondering why running `npm install` takes so long on the Preact repo.

marvinh.dev/blog/speedin...

I hate these sticky menubars that are "floating in the middle of the page" (like seen on AWS pages).

a person pressing a button on a screen that says communications on it Alt: a person pressing a button on a screen that says communications on it using LCARS

Got #iOS26 on my iPad Pro…and it feels like a skeuomorphic step backwards. It’s early days, but it feels like Windows Vista on an iPad. I tend to be optimistic, but this is not the direction that I thought design was going this late into the 21st-century. WE WANT LCARS

I really wish Disposables were inherited through closures. But that's not the case. You have to dispose of them manually if you wrap them in a function.

This will be solved with disposable stacks though.

Meet Containerization - WWDC25 - Videos - Apple Developer Meet Containerization, an open source project written in Swift to create and run Linux containers on your Mac. Learn how Containerization...

Meet Containerization - WWDC25 - Videos - Apple Developer #SuggestedRead #devopsish developer.apple.com/...

If anything, smaller things like menubar handling multiple items (without shady 3rd party software) would've been things for Apple to solve.

exploring new macOS Tahoe YouTube video by Bog

Brb, vomitting because of of macOS Tahoe www.youtube.com/watch?v=OvnM... 🤮

For the love of god: Nobody asked for UI redesign for the sake of UI design. MacOS UI has been clear & (mostly) intuitive for years.

Take a shot every time you hear “liquid glass” and you won’t make it past the first 20 minutes. #WWDC25

Apple taking a direct shot at Raycast with Spotlight updates? I’m here for it, but I wish they’d just buy Raycast and integrate it directly into macOS. #WWDC25

No deploy to production just before Vappu YouTube video by Alma Developers

Annual reminder: youtu.be/2cxSP90gj8c

Hyvää Vappua! 🥳

i'm trying out a new OSS funding experiment—a "featured" sponsor slot at the top of the Zod README

✓ features are week-to-week (~140k impressions)
✓ simple auction-based pricing (per-week or standing bids accepted)
✓ artwork subject to approval

DM/email me if your company is interested! 🤙

UK government demands access to Apple users' encrypted data The Home Office served the notice to the tech giant under the Investigatory Powers Act.

Me on bbc talking about why backdoor into encrypted services is a terrible idea imo

UK demands access to Apple users' encrypted data www.bbc.com/news/article...

Standard Schema is a specification (a TypeScript interface in fact) not a library.

It was designed collaboratively by myself (creator of Zod 👋), @fabianhiller.com (creator of Valibot), and @ssalbdivad.dev (creator of ArkType).

It’s the final form of something I tweeted nearly two years ago.

Standard Schema A common interface for TypeScript validation libraries

BIG DAY 😇

Introducing Standard Schema! It’s a specification for a standard interface to be implemented by TypeScript schema libraries. The goal is to make it easier for frameworks and tools to accept user-defined schemas, without writing separate adapters for different libraries.
standardschema.dev

Deepfake videos are getting shockingly good | TechCrunch A new AI system from ByteDance, OmniHuman-1, generates shockingly convincing deepfake videos.

Well, humanity had a good run... techcrunch.com/2025/02/04/d...

Vite 6.1 is out! The 7.5K commits to main release ⚡

Somebody please come get your boy. #LinkedinLunatics

Move on to ESM-only Let's move on to ESM-only

New blog post! Let's move to ESM! 😈

👀
antfu.me/posts/move-o...

That /start is the stupidest thing ever.