This is the history of @DefinitelyTyped: https://t.co/AY6s3bWnKP Thanks to @SeaRyanC & @drosenwasser of the @typescript team, @blakeembrey inventor of typings, @vvakame, @_stevefenton, @basarat, and of course @borisyankov for telling me their parts of the story❤️🌻

Npx and #Azure Artifacts: the secret CLI delivery mechanism from @johnny_reilly

I haven't stopped using Twitter, but I'm using it less. I'm using 🦋 more and you can find me here:

Introducing #Azure DevOps npm auth from @johnny_reilly https://t.co/VykHbthI6R #AzureDevOps

Introducing #Azure DevOps npm auth-lite from @johnny_reilly https://t.co/Zd6rsAe6fO #AzureDevOps

https://t.co/o4QJT0rxRa

Working on a CLI tool that both has a spinner and writes progress output with console.log statements. I *think* that essentially you can't easily have a spinner spinning and write output at the same time. Shame. And fiddly.

https://t.co/Kyn4X3Hpz1

It's a monochrome world before dawn

Magnificent skyline

Migrated my @docusaurus powered blog to use rspack powered Docusaurus Faster. Build now takes 3 minutes instead of 4 (I was already using SWC in my build so speed improvements not as extreme.) Very happy with ease of migration and results! https://t.co/mq5OlvUETv

Each morning the dawn gets further away

DevEx with npm would be so much better if it were possible to run a preinstall script without it using the project .npmrc file. As it is, you have to work around this shortcoming by having more complex `npm install` approaches https://t.co/5OlJPteJ6l

Whilst naming things is hard, happily renaming things is not. I awoke with the strong feeling that ado-npm-auth-lite would be better named azdo-npm-auth, and after only a little work, it now is!

Long before the dawn

New ado-npm-auth-lite feature: if the initial API based PAT acquisition fails, ado-npm-auth-lite falls back to using the Azure CLI with execa. Not sure why the API call sometimes fails, but I encountered it on a private project and the AZ CLI works fine 🤷 https://t.co/C9wbxbjefb

It's the annual "drain-off" when the river's level is dropped so that the banks can be repaired

This is why I like static typing; my happy place is a compiler giving me actionable feedback. "API says no" is very much not that. Meaningful and actionable errors FTW

Getting permissions set up right is always such a battleground. It's rare to find a API call failing and meaningfully telling you what is required to get to success. Which I somewhat understand, but it's also pretty rare to have clear documentation, just have to keep trying. Grrr

Introducing @AzureDevOps npm auth-lite: simplifying onboarding to Azure Artifact npm feeds for non Windows users. https://t.co/4HDGAAbubN

Arduous. That word describes the experience of consuming npm feeds on @AzureDevOps, when developing using Mac or Linux. My new project aims to simplify it. Take a look at Azure DevOps npm auth-lite https://t.co/aKl5vVlR2l I'm writing a post to introduce it; should be up soon.