NotesWRITING · ONE SECTION PER SERIES
2 SERIES
1.1 Tech Watch
Trends, tools and insights, every week. Links grouped by theme, published on Substack.
- W31Tech Watch 2026w31
- LG monitor installs bloatware on Windows 11
- The Singleton Delusion
- Flint — Visualization Language
- W30Tech Watch 2026w30
- Rejected Emoji Proposals
- I stopped destructuring everything
- Announcing Stack Overflow for Agents - Stack Overflow
- W29Tech Watch 2026w29
- Are we in an AI Bubble?
- Leave a failing test before you go on vacation
- Designing Generative UI in an Agent-Native World
1.2 helpers4 blog
Release stories and design decisions behind helpers4.
- RUSThelpers4 Rust v0 — A General-Purpose Library, Starting From Scratch
helpers4 now has a Rust crate. It starts at version 0 on purpose: the quality is already there, but the third-party security audits are not, and a library whose goal is to be trusted in critical applications has to earn its 1.0. Here is what exists, what does not yet, and why you should wait for v1 before using it where it really matters.
- TYPESCRIPThelpers4 TypeScript v3 — From Complement to Contender
v3 ships a breaking cleanup (type predicates move to @helpers4/guard), but the real story is bigger: helpers4 has grown from 'the library you add alongside es-toolkit or radashi' into something that can stand on its own.
- TYPESCRIPTShipping helpers4 TypeScript v2 — 10 Years of Copy-Pasting the Same Utilities, Done.
After two years of solo development, 22 pre-releases, and more than a little bit of stubbornness, helpers4/typescript v2 is finally out. Here's the story behind it.