Creator of @geteslint and @bredboxapp. Author. Coach. Real estate investor. GitHub Star. Blog at @humanwhocodes. @nzakas@fosstodon.org bsky: @humanwhocodes.com
Boston, MA
Joined November 2008
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I'm excited to share my first new book (or e-book) in over five years! Understanding JavaScript Promises explains not just how promises work but also how to use them in the real world.
And the best part? It's free. Grab yours now.
bit.ly/promises-ebook
Just learned my monthly health insurance premium will jump to over $1400/month in 2027. That’s an increase of $400/month over three years for less coverage and higher deductibles each year.
We need to do something about healthcare costs in this country. It’s ridiculous.
I perpetually have over 500 GitHub notifications in my inbox and have yet to figure out how to escape.
With highly profitable companies using AI to clean room reimplement existing projects, it’s more important than ever to support independent nonprofit open source projects like ESLint. We’ve been doing the work for 13 years.
eslint.org/donate
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Do you prefer the Kindle reading experience? Send your saved Bredbox articles directly to your Kindle.
blog.bredbox.app/blog/2026-1…
Is there such a thing as a customer service line that isn’t experiencing higher than normal call volume?
Nicholas C. Zakas retweeted
The Bredbox CLI gives you and your agents direct access to your personal library. Now available with the Pro plan.
blog.bredbox.app/blog/2026-1…
It was quite an experience creating this video.
ChatGPT wrote the script and directed the video.
Claude Opus 5.5 created the animation and took all the screenshots.
ElevenLabs created the voice and sound effects.
Bredbox is out of beta! With apps for iOS and Android, a browser extension, and a fast web app, you can take your personal reading library with you wherever you go.
youtu.be/njbZsizH3HM?is=4zZ_…
Got frustrated that Claude couldn't control the hinge on the iPhone Duo simulator and eventually found this skill:
npx skills add artemnovichkov/hinge --skill hinge
It's a great time to try Bredbox.
Bredbox for iPad is now available! 🎉
Take your library with you to the living room, the kitchen, the plane...anywhere you go, Bredbox can go with you.
blog.bredbox.app/blog/2026-1…
AI may make you more productive but, at least in my experience, it still takes a lot of work to end up with a high-quality finished product.
Man, ChatGPT is so buggy. Sometimes it can write to project memory, sometimes it can't. Sometimes it can write to project sources, sometimes it can't. Sometimes image generation follows project instructions, sometimes it doesn't, and ChatGPT itself can't tell me why. 🤬
Thanks Alex. 🙏
Gratefulness Experiment post 5/42
Nicholas C. Zakas (@slicknet) created ESLint and still works on it more than a decade later. npm counts about 161 million downloads a week. If your editor underlined a bug before you shipped it today, that was likely ESLint. Thank you, Nicholas.
tfw you have an idea for an app and not only did someone already make it but it has basically the same name you had in mind. 🤬
Why does Claude Code feel the need to randomly point out that I’ve not connected my Gmail account? It has nothing to do with what I’m working on.
Today's LLMs are really good at producing code that works. They brute force a lot of the work, so it still needs someone to oversee the process and make sure prototype-level code isn't pushed to production.
Really enjoying my Framework 13 Pro. It feels solid and high end. The display is really nice and the touchscreen works great. My only complaint is that tapping on the screen makes it bounce a bit. That means you can’t really use it with one hand, you have to hold the screen and then tap it. I’m hoping that something that they’ll work on in the future.
Otherwise, great machine so far.
@FrameworkPuter
