Ryan Dahl

Bluesky! I forgot about this site. It's a sad truth that network effects are powerful forces.

because you can do things like this

thoughts?

tempted to troll bluesky by making optimistic posts about AI

Help Us Raise $200k to Free the JavaScript from Oracle | Deno Our legal battle over Oracle's claim on the word "JavaScript" is entering the discovery phase. Here's how you can help.

We’re in the discovery phase to #FreeJavaScript from Oracle: depositions, surveys, evidence, expert testimony. Costly, but vital to protect "JavaScript" for all.

Help us put forward the strongest case possible👇

deno.com/blog/javascr...

Well it's run by me ultimately : ) we don't have a formal non-profit foundation for JSR, yet, but we do have a board charter and some well known board members. We'd like to put it into OpenJS or other foundation for safe keeping

sorry what is the critique of JSR? this is exactly the problem we're trying to solve. and it's absolutely not to late to fix...

I'm in "Awe" . The sheer momentum and scale of this (have you seen the data centers they're building? the amounts invested?).

Throughout history new technology has meant better lives for people - even if there were mishaps along the way

It's scary but also amazing and unstoppable

I don't want to minimize the risks - you're right, AI can and will be misused. We should expect some disasters.

But intelligence is measured in real-world breakthroughs - and ML/AI has been delivering those regularly for over a decade since they started using GPUs.

It's the moving goal post - being able to play chess is not intelligent, being able to classify images is not intelligence, passing the Turing test isn't intelligent. What is intelligence?

Anthropomorphizing is entirely warranted at this point.

oof - we're coming at this from different angles :)

I'm quite certain the rest of our lives (if not the rest of life on earth) will be defined by this tech tinyclouds.org/underestimat...

Can’t one just be in awe of the progress, the technology, its consequences?

Fresh 2.0 Graduates to Beta, Adds Vite Support | Deno Fresh 2.0 beta introduces optional Vite integration - with hot reloading, faster boot times, seamless React aliasing, and the full Vite plugin ecosystem

Fresh 2 has graduated to beta releases - essentially release candidates before a stable release.

Fresh can now act as a Vite plugin, opening the door to HMR, faster boot times, and Cloudflare deployments.

deno.com/blog/fresh-a...

JavaScript™ We need your help to continue our fight over Oracle's claim to the JavaScript trademark. Here's where we are now and what you can do to help.

We're launching a GoFundMe to cover legal fees to #FreeJavaScript trademark from Oracle.

We need to raise $200k to make full use of the discovery phase in the trademark cancelation petition. This is a critical step in protecting the JavaScript name for the whole community.

👉 javascript.tm

A good portion of the Deno engineering team are stuck in an elevator in an empty building in Rotterdam

hilarious that @philhawksworth.dev has such a perfect voice that people think he's AI

We want it to be easier to manage connections to cloud services like AWS and GCP

...so we've added Cloud Connections to Deno Deploy.

deno.com/deploy

New implementation of deno bundle

I wrote an update on our JavaScript™ cancellation effort
deno.com/blog/deno-v-...

#FreeJavaScript

yes - I'll write an update soon!

The upcoming Deno Deploy upgrade (now in Early Access) has the control over environment variables and secrets you've been asking for.

Opt in to try it out now.

With more features landing each week, it's worth watching the change log

docs.deno.com/deploy/early...

Wait, hold up! @tinyclouds.org , the creator of @nodejs.org ‬
and @deno.land , the #rustlang-based JS/TS runtime, is coming to #EuroRust25 🎉 Welcome aboard, Ryan! 🦀

Interstellar travel may be forever impossible for humanity. But AI might go.

We’re building the first intelligent entities that didn’t evolve - and most people are too distracted to notice.

New blog post: We’re Still Underestimating What AI Really Means

tinyclouds.org/underestimat...

check out this sneak peak !

The Deno mascot is sitting in a red hammock with a laptop. The hammock is connected to two small palm trees on a yellow sand beach. The sky is blue, with a few white clouds. The sun is shining brightly.

It's nearly summer in @deno.land

Deno 2.3: Improved deno compile, local npm packages, and more Deno 2.3 adds new features for deno compile and deno fmt, support for using local npm packages, several performance improvements, and more. Here are the biggest highlights.

Deno 2.3 is here:
🌱 deno compile with FFI & Node native add-ons
📦 Local npm packages
⭐ deno fmt CSS/HTML/SQL in tagged templates
🔭 OTel event recording & tracing in distributed services
and more —

deno.com/blog/v2.3

Release v2.2.9 · denoland/deno Deno v2.2.9 / 2025.04.11 deno upgrade deno compile fixes Two fixes make the deno compile tool more robust. First, a bug causing a panic when a node_modules directory was included during compilatio...

🚀 Deno v2.2.9 is released!

🦕 Improves Node compat: fs.FileHandle.createReadStream, Buffer.copyBytesFrom, spawnSync.input
🦕 fixes windows icons for deno compile
🦕supports backticks in deno task
🦕 Faster npm installs

release notes here:

github.com/denoland/den...

Rusty Denosaur
Acrylic on Canvas
2025

My bro asked me to paint his two favorite computer program mascots, Deno of @deno.land 🦕 and Ferris the Crab of @rust-lang.org 🦀
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#art #acrylic #painting

gist.github.com/ry/fdff72722...

Wrote a little Sunday update on the ongoing JavaScript trademark fight