A blog about open source, static analysis, and web dev.https://joshuakgoldberg.com/en-ushttps://joshuakgoldberg.com/blog/2022-in-review/https://joshuakgoldberg.com/blog/2022-in-review/Looking back at a pivotal year in my open source career.Sat, 07 Jan 2023 00:00:00 GMThttps://joshuakgoldberg.com/blog/2023-conferences-in-review/https://joshuakgoldberg.com/blog/2023-conferences-in-review/Recapping the fantastic in-person conferences I attended in 2023.Mon, 29 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://joshuakgoldberg.com/blog/2023-in-review/https://joshuakgoldberg.com/blog/2023-in-review/Looking back at my second year as a full-time independent open source maintainer.Wed, 31 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://joshuakgoldberg.com/blog/binary-arithmetic/https://joshuakgoldberg.com/blog/binary-arithmetic/Just for fun, what if we represented binary values purely within TypeScript's logical type system?Fri, 11 Oct 2019 00:00:00 GMThttps://joshuakgoldberg.com/blog/compassionate-onboardings/https://joshuakgoldberg.com/blog/compassionate-onboardings/How to use the energy of new employees to keep documentation up-to-date and useful.Thu, 11 Jun 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://joshuakgoldberg.com/blog/2024-in-review/https://joshuakgoldberg.com/blog/2024-in-review/Looking back at the accomplishments and goals from my third year as a full-time independent open source maintainer.Mon, 03 Feb 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://joshuakgoldberg.com/blog/2025-in-review/https://joshuakgoldberg.com/blog/2025-in-review/Looking back at the accomplishments and goals from my fourth and final year as a full-time independent open source maintainer.Sun, 08 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://joshuakgoldberg.com/blog/configuring-eslint-prettier-and-typescript-together/https://joshuakgoldberg.com/blog/configuring-eslint-prettier-and-typescript-together/How I recommend getting your formatter, linter, and type checker to play together nicely.Mon, 01 May 2023 00:00:00 GMThttps://joshuakgoldberg.com/blog/configuring-eslint-prettier-and-typescript-together-faqs/https://joshuakgoldberg.com/blog/configuring-eslint-prettier-and-typescript-together-faqs/How I recommend getting your formatter, linter, and type checker to play together nicely.Mon, 01 May 2023 00:00:00 GMThttps://joshuakgoldberg.com/blog/configuring-markdownlint-alongside-prettier/https://joshuakgoldberg.com/blog/configuring-markdownlint-alongside-prettier/Using the common markdown linter and disabling any rules that would intersect with dedicated formatters such as Prettier.Wed, 25 Jan 2023 00:00:00 GMThttps://joshuakgoldberg.com/blog/2024-finances-in-review/https://joshuakgoldberg.com/blog/2024-finances-in-review/Breaking down the income streams and totals from my third year as a full-time independent open source maintainer.Mon, 27 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://joshuakgoldberg.com/blog/contributing-to-a-create-typescript-app-repository/https://joshuakgoldberg.com/blog/contributing-to-a-create-typescript-app-repository/A thorough guide through contributing to create-typescript-app or any repository scaffolded using it.Fri, 20 Oct 2023 00:00:00 GMThttps://joshuakgoldberg.com/blog/contributing-to-a-create-typescript-app-repository-faqs/https://joshuakgoldberg.com/blog/contributing-to-a-create-typescript-app-repository-faqs/FAQs for contributing to my create-typescript-app project or any repository scaffolded using it.Fri, 20 Oct 2023 00:00:00 GMThttps://joshuakgoldberg.com/blog/definitelyformatted/https://joshuakgoldberg.com/blog/definitelyformatted/How we migrated the massive DefinitelyTyped repository from using a linter for formatting to the dprint formatter.Tue, 30 Apr 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://joshuakgoldberg.com/blog/dont-write-bad-code/https://joshuakgoldberg.com/blog/dont-write-bad-code/A mantra for constantly learning to keep myself writing at my best.Thu, 19 Aug 2021 00:00:00 GMThttps://joshuakgoldberg.com/blog/filter-out-types-from-js-only-import-suggestions/https://joshuakgoldberg.com/blog/filter-out-types-from-js-only-import-suggestions/Removing type-land entries from import completions that can't be used in value-only-land.Mon, 20 Nov 2023 00:00:00 GMThttps://joshuakgoldberg.com/blog/full-time-open-source/https://joshuakgoldberg.com/blog/full-time-open-source/I'm quitting my job to become a full time open source maintainerSat, 22 Jan 2022 00:00:00 GMThttps://joshuakgoldberg.com/blog/hello-world/https://joshuakgoldberg.com/blog/hello-world/Medium can eat it. I'm going open source with Gatsby!Fri, 13 Sep 2019 00:00:00 GMThttps://joshuakgoldberg.com/blog/hacking-typescript-async-await-awaiter-for-jquery-2-promises/https://joshuakgoldberg.com/blog/hacking-typescript-async-await-awaiter-for-jquery-2-promises/Manipulating the details of TypeScript's emitted code to wrestle jQuery 2's older asynchronous constructs to work with modern `async`/`await`.Sun, 02 Jul 2017 00:00:00 GMThttps://joshuakgoldberg.com/blog/how-i-apply-to-conferences/https://joshuakgoldberg.com/blog/how-i-apply-to-conferences/From a hundred conference applications and thirty speaking roles, this is my process for submitting talks.Thu, 17 Nov 2022 00:00:00 GMThttps://joshuakgoldberg.com/blog/how-lazily-instantiated-classes-reduced-my-game-engines-reset-times-by-half/https://joshuakgoldberg.com/blog/how-lazily-instantiated-classes-reduced-my-game-engines-reset-times-by-half/Using lazily instantiated, dynamic classes instead of hand-written functions to reduce unnecessary work during loads.Mon, 09 Oct 2017 00:00:00 GMThttps://joshuakgoldberg.com/blog/how-i-apply-to-conferences-faqs/https://joshuakgoldberg.com/blog/how-i-apply-to-conferences-faqs/Common questions and answers for my How I Apply To Conferences article.Thu, 17 Nov 2022 00:00:00 GMThttps://joshuakgoldberg.com/blog/how-to-show-requirejs-progress-with-nprogress/https://joshuakgoldberg.com/blog/how-to-show-requirejs-progress-with-nprogress/Using the popular NProgress library to visualize load progress on sites built on the AMD RequireJS loaderWed, 28 Dec 2016 00:00:00 GMThttps://joshuakgoldberg.com/blog/how-i-attend-a-conference/https://joshuakgoldberg.com/blog/how-i-attend-a-conference/From attending a few dozen conferences and co-organizing one of my own, this is how I make the most of in-person event.Tue, 01 Oct 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://joshuakgoldberg.com/blog/hybrid-linters-the-best-of-both-worlds/https://joshuakgoldberg.com/blog/hybrid-linters-the-best-of-both-worlds/Native speed for parsing and type checking is wonderful. I also want the huge benefits of writing lint rules in an ecosystem's primary language. Here's how I think we can have both.Thu, 20 Mar 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://joshuakgoldberg.com/blog/if-i-wrote-a-linter-part-2-developer-experience/https://joshuakgoldberg.com/blog/if-i-wrote-a-linter-part-2-developer-experience/This is how I would tailor the developer experience for a modern linter from scratch: focusing on end-to-end type safety, self-apparent configs, and native workspaces.Fri, 09 May 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://joshuakgoldberg.com/blog/in-defense-of-100-unit-test-coverage/https://joshuakgoldberg.com/blog/in-defense-of-100-unit-test-coverage/Or: How to suddenly anger everybody, everywhere!Thu, 15 Mar 2018 00:00:00 GMThttps://joshuakgoldberg.com/blog/if-i-wrote-a-linter-part-1-architecture/https://joshuakgoldberg.com/blog/if-i-wrote-a-linter-part-1-architecture/This is how I would architect a modern linter from scratch: focusing on built-in TypeScript support, a straightforward rule development experience, and deduplicating tooling.Sun, 04 May 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://joshuakgoldberg.com/blog/if-i-wrote-a-linter-part-3-ecosystem/https://joshuakgoldberg.com/blog/if-i-wrote-a-linter-part-3-ecosystem/This is how I would steer a new ecosystem around a modern linter from scratch: emphasizing shared terminology, a plugin registry, and one-way compatibility layers.Fri, 16 May 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://joshuakgoldberg.com/blog/if-i-wrote-a-linter-part-4-summary/https://joshuakgoldberg.com/blog/if-i-wrote-a-linter-part-4-summary/Summarizing the last three posts of ideas for a new linter, along with next steps for its Flint prototype.Tue, 10 Jun 2025 10:02:00 GMThttps://joshuakgoldberg.com/blog/investigating-internet-explorer-exclusive-bugs-in-javascript/https://joshuakgoldberg.com/blog/investigating-internet-explorer-exclusive-bugs-in-javascript/IE users are users too!Fri, 12 Oct 2018 00:00:00 GMThttps://joshuakgoldberg.com/blog/my-plans-for-2024/https://joshuakgoldberg.com/blog/my-plans-for-2024/How I'm going to make my 2024 beautiful.Thu, 15 Feb 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://joshuakgoldberg.com/blog/my-plans-for-2023/https://joshuakgoldberg.com/blog/my-plans-for-2023/How I'm going to make 2023 awesome.Thu, 23 Mar 2023 00:00:00 GMThttps://joshuakgoldberg.com/blog/jest-babel-to-swc/https://joshuakgoldberg.com/blog/jest-babel-to-swc/Speeding up and simplifying the transpiler configuration for a Jest project with Speedy Web Compiler (SWC).Mon, 21 Feb 2022 00:00:00 GMThttps://joshuakgoldberg.com/blog/nature-individuality-empowerment/https://joshuakgoldberg.com/blog/nature-individuality-empowerment/Applying learnings about how humans perceive forces of nature to how we understand code and organizations.Tue, 18 Jan 2022 00:00:00 GMThttps://joshuakgoldberg.com/blog/my-plans-for-2025/https://joshuakgoldberg.com/blog/my-plans-for-2025/How I'm going to make my 2025 impactful.Mon, 10 Feb 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://joshuakgoldberg.com/blog/please-stop-sending-me-nested-dependency-security-reports/https://joshuakgoldberg.com/blog/please-stop-sending-me-nested-dependency-security-reports/Security is important. Overusing report mechanisms for non-actionable noise is counterproductive.Mon, 04 Mar 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://joshuakgoldberg.com/blog/no-unattainable-intelligence/https://joshuakgoldberg.com/blog/no-unattainable-intelligence/In trying to make ourselves relatable, we reinforce the negative perception of intelligence gaps.Wed, 28 Sep 2022 00:00:00 GMThttps://joshuakgoldberg.com/blog/open-source-pull-request-timing/https://joshuakgoldberg.com/blog/open-source-pull-request-timing/Maintenance and development costs run both ways. Open source contributors and maintainers alike have to balance their finite energy and time resources within many constraints.Mon, 07 Mar 2022 00:00:00 GMThttps://joshuakgoldberg.com/blog/rust-based-javascript-linters-fast-but-no-typed-linting-right-now/https://joshuakgoldberg.com/blog/rust-based-javascript-linters-fast-but-no-typed-linting-right-now/Explaining why the speed gains from Rust linters aren't comparable to the full feature set of typescript-eslint.Wed, 10 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://joshuakgoldberg.com/blog/seven-reasons-why-conversational-ai-is-dangerous/https://joshuakgoldberg.com/blog/seven-reasons-why-conversational-ai-is-dangerous/While AI systems such as OpenAI and ChatGPT can be helpful in certain situations, there are also significant risks associated with their use.Sat, 01 Apr 2023 00:00:00 GMThttps://joshuakgoldberg.com/blog/six-months-of-full-time-open-source/https://joshuakgoldberg.com/blog/six-months-of-full-time-open-source/What it's like to quit your job and try to work on open source tooling full time.Wed, 07 Sep 2022 00:00:00 GMThttps://joshuakgoldberg.com/blog/so-youve-got-a-gap-in-code-coverage/https://joshuakgoldberg.com/blog/so-youve-got-a-gap-in-code-coverage/This is my standard explainer for pull request reviews where changed lines aren't covered by unit tests.Wed, 05 Mar 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://joshuakgoldberg.com/blog/speeding-up-centered-part-2-hidden-embedded-images/https://joshuakgoldberg.com/blog/speeding-up-centered-part-2-hidden-embedded-images/Finding and removing giant unused assets hidden in marketing page to speed up that page's performance.Mon, 07 Aug 2023 10:00:00 GMThttps://joshuakgoldberg.com/blog/speeding-up-centered-part-3-barrel-exports/https://joshuakgoldberg.com/blog/speeding-up-centered-part-3-barrel-exports/Automating changes to module imports to overcome the build system not correctly tree shaking barrel exports.Mon, 07 Aug 2023 10:01:00 GMThttps://joshuakgoldberg.com/blog/speeding-up-centered-part-4-unused-code-bloat/https://joshuakgoldberg.com/blog/speeding-up-centered-part-4-unused-code-bloat/Using Knip to automatically detect unused files and dependencies in the Centered repository.Mon, 21 Aug 2023 10:01:00 GMThttps://joshuakgoldberg.com/blog/speeding-up-centered-part-1-81-iframe-embeds/https://joshuakgoldberg.com/blog/speeding-up-centered-part-1-81-iframe-embeds/Improving a page's performance by over-eager loading most of its embedded content.Wed, 19 Jul 2023 00:00:00 GMThttps://joshuakgoldberg.com/blog/speeding-up-centered-part-5-emoji-processing/https://joshuakgoldberg.com/blog/speeding-up-centered-part-5-emoji-processing/Finding and eliminating thousands of calls to recreate a giant regular expression in a popular open source emoji plugin.Wed, 20 Sep 2023 10:00:00 GMThttps://joshuakgoldberg.com/blog/2025-finances-in-review/https://joshuakgoldberg.com/blog/2025-finances-in-review/Breaking down the income streams and totals from my fourth and final year as a full-time independent open source maintainer.Thu, 12 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://joshuakgoldberg.com/blog/split-out-unrelated-changes/https://joshuakgoldberg.com/blog/split-out-unrelated-changes/This is a general explainer for pull request reviews where I think unrelated changes should be split into a separate PR.Mon, 13 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://joshuakgoldberg.com/blog/standards-compliant-rickrolling/https://joshuakgoldberg.com/blog/standards-compliant-rickrolling/How to create an effective rickroll site with the Vimeo Player SDK despite modern web browser autoplay restrictions.Fri, 01 Apr 2022 00:00:00 GMThttps://joshuakgoldberg.com/blog/the-cost-of-a-lint-rule/https://joshuakgoldberg.com/blog/the-cost-of-a-lint-rule/Explaining why deep work can be so difficult in open source.Wed, 17 Apr 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://joshuakgoldberg.com/blog/try-catch-as-little-as-possible/https://joshuakgoldberg.com/blog/try-catch-as-little-as-possible/This is a general explainer for pull request reviews where a try...catch statement is used more than I think it needs to be.Wed, 27 Nov 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://joshuakgoldberg.com/blog/tslint-maintenance/https://joshuakgoldberg.com/blog/tslint-maintenance/Maintaining TSLint was a wonderful mixed bag of shenanigans. Let's talk about it.Tue, 19 Nov 2019 00:00:00 GMThttps://joshuakgoldberg.com/blog/the-blurry-line-between-formatting-and-style/https://joshuakgoldberg.com/blog/the-blurry-line-between-formatting-and-style/Why separating responsibilities between your formatter and linter isn't always clear-cut.Mon, 19 Jun 2023 00:00:00 GMThttps://joshuakgoldberg.com/blog/tslint-to-eslint-config/https://joshuakgoldberg.com/blog/tslint-to-eslint-config/Now that TSLint is being deprecated, let's look at how tslint-to-eslint-config converts your TSLint configuration to ESLint.Tue, 19 Nov 2019 00:00:00 GMThttps://joshuakgoldberg.com/blog/tslint-to-eslint-history/https://joshuakgoldberg.com/blog/tslint-to-eslint-history/Now that TSLint is being deprecated, let's look at the history of JavaScript and TypeScript linting.Tue, 19 Nov 2019 00:00:00 GMThttps://joshuakgoldberg.com/blog/tuple-types-indexed-by-type-parameter/https://joshuakgoldberg.com/blog/tuple-types-indexed-by-type-parameter/Fixing a slight bug in how TypeScript resolves type elements of tuple types indexed by type parameters.Thu, 30 Mar 2023 00:00:00 GMThttps://joshuakgoldberg.com/blog/type-parameters-missing-function-codefix/https://joshuakgoldberg.com/blog/type-parameters-missing-function-codefix/Corrects the missing function codefix to add type parameters when the function needs to be generic.Tue, 09 Aug 2022 00:00:00 GMThttps://joshuakgoldberg.com/blog/team-construction-pitfalls/https://joshuakgoldberg.com/blog/team-construction-pitfalls/How misbalanced or poorly positioned teams restrict their developers in both the short and long term.Sat, 23 Jan 2021 00:00:00 GMThttps://joshuakgoldberg.com/blog/typescript-contribution-diary-code-before-super/https://joshuakgoldberg.com/blog/typescript-contribution-diary-code-before-super/Allowing derived classes with properties to include code before `super()` call that doesn't touch `this`. A grand pull request three years in the making -- with cake!Mon, 07 Mar 2022 00:00:00 GMThttps://joshuakgoldberg.com/blog/typescript-contribution-diary-pretty-error-counts/https://joshuakgoldberg.com/blog/typescript-contribution-diary-pretty-error-counts/How I helped add an 'errors summary' to TypeScript's command-line --pretty --watch mode.Fri, 06 Apr 2018 00:00:00 GMThttps://joshuakgoldberg.com/blog/type-system-game-engines/https://joshuakgoldberg.com/blog/type-system-game-engines/Just for fun, what if we crafted a board game purely within TypeScript's logical type system?Mon, 05 Oct 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://joshuakgoldberg.com/blog/typescript-contribution-diary-code-before-super-technical-overview/https://joshuakgoldberg.com/blog/typescript-contribution-diary-code-before-super-technical-overview/More technical descriptions around allowing derived classes with properties to include code before `super()` call that doesn't touch `this`.Mon, 07 Mar 2022 00:00:00 GMThttps://joshuakgoldberg.com/blog/typescript-contribution-diary-invalid-name-errors/https://joshuakgoldberg.com/blog/typescript-contribution-diary-invalid-name-errors/Improving the first error message emitted for invalid variable identifiers.Tue, 15 Sep 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://joshuakgoldberg.com/blog/typescript-contribution-diary-enum-commas/https://joshuakgoldberg.com/blog/typescript-contribution-diary-enum-commas/A quick syntax parsing improvement for incorrectly formatted enums.Mon, 21 Oct 2019 00:00:00 GMThttps://joshuakgoldberg.com/blog/typescript-contribution-diary-errors-for-identifiers-after-numeric-literals/https://joshuakgoldberg.com/blog/typescript-contribution-diary-errors-for-identifiers-after-numeric-literals/How I made TypeScript's parsing of name characters after numbers conform to the ECMAScript specification just a bit more strictly.Fri, 07 Dec 2018 00:00:00 GMThttps://joshuakgoldberg.com/blog/typescript-contribution-diary-empty-dom-interfaces/https://joshuakgoldberg.com/blog/typescript-contribution-diary-empty-dom-interfaces/Glorious hardcoding of a better error message if someone forgets to include the 'dom' lib option.Tue, 22 Jun 2021 00:00:00 GMThttps://joshuakgoldberg.com/blog/typescript-contribution-diary-trailing-type-parameters/https://joshuakgoldberg.com/blog/typescript-contribution-diary-trailing-type-parameters/How I contributed a change to TypeScript that allowed trailing commas in type parameter/argument lists.Sat, 17 Feb 2018 00:00:00 GMThttps://joshuakgoldberg.com/blog/use-effect-pet-peeve/https://joshuakgoldberg.com/blog/use-effect-pet-peeve/Explaining why using useEffect to initialize values is dangerous.Wed, 08 Sep 2021 00:00:00 GMThttps://joshuakgoldberg.com/blog/typescript-contribution-diary-ts-expect-error/https://joshuakgoldberg.com/blog/typescript-contribution-diary-ts-expect-error/Adding a new comment directive to the TypeScript compiler.Sun, 12 Jul 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://joshuakgoldberg.com/blog/why-im-migrating-from-x-to-bluesky/https://joshuakgoldberg.com/blog/why-im-migrating-from-x-to-bluesky/Twitter has been a core part of my web development career for over a decade. But Twitter's been replaced by the vastly inferior X. Here's why I'm finally ready to commit to Bluesky.Mon, 18 Nov 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://joshuakgoldberg.com/blog/you-probably-dont-need-eslint-config-prettier-or-eslint-plugin-prettier/https://joshuakgoldberg.com/blog/you-probably-dont-need-eslint-config-prettier-or-eslint-plugin-prettier/Explaining two popular Prettier integrations for ESLint, and why I avoid both of them.Tue, 23 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://joshuakgoldberg.com/blog/why-typed-linting-needs-typescript-today/https://joshuakgoldberg.com/blog/why-typed-linting-needs-typescript-today/Typed linting is powerful but requires a full type checker to function well. Today, that means TypeScript. This is why we haven't found a suitable replacement yet.Mon, 23 Sep 2024 00:00:00 GMT