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@Rainmaker1973 Let that sink in

Next time you wash your hands think... That's how these things are made.

Vandaag speelt regen de hoofdrol op de weerradar, maar zaterdag waren de insecten heer en meester! 🦟 Op warme, rustige lentedagen vullen ze de onderste luchtlagen massaal, en worden ze zichtbaar op de ongefilterde radarbeelden. Daarbij onthullen ze de atmosfeerstructuur! 🧵

@NewYorkNL Ik vond AirTrain > Jamaica station > LIRR trein > Manhattan ook best wel snel gaan. En is stuk goedkoper 😉

✈️ NIEUW RECORD (denk ik): JFK Terminal 4 → Manhattan in 40 minuten?! Echt waar. 40. Minuten. En jij kunt het ook doen! En nee, dit is geen gesponsorde content (helaas 🤣) Ik vroeg me af: hoe snel kan ik van BINNEN HET VLIEGTUIG → Manhattan komen? Challenge accepted: • ✈️Geland op JFK Terminal 4 (internationaal = 🛂+🛃) • De gratis MPC App gebruikt → binnen 6 minuten door de paspoortcontrole (ja, echt) • 🚗Auto stond klaar → direct naar het helikopterplatform • ☕️Even een gratis drankje + toiletstop (prioriteiten) Toen werd het leuk: 🚁10 min vlucht (Prijs: $145) over: • Brooklyn • Governors Island • Statue of Liberty 🗽 (moest even zwaaien) • Manhattan skyline 😮🔥 Resultaat: ⏱️40 minuten en 30 seconden na de landing → Midtown Manhattan @ Hudson Yards Dit moet wel een record zijn…, maar jij kunt dit ook doen! Zie het zelf, volledige video hieronder👇

De #natuurbrand op 't #Harde in een Copernicus Sentinel 2C satellietopname van 12:51 NL tijd. Combinatie van visuele kanalen en SWIR om de brand zichtbaar te maken.

Earthset. The Artemis II crew captured this view of an Earthset on April 6, 2026, as they flew around the Moon. The image is reminiscent of the iconic Earthrise image taken by astronaut Bill Anders 58 years earlier as the Apollo 8 crew flew around the Moon.

@AppuAppuzS @bunjavascript No

@bunjavascript There's a rumor that you guys are the reason for Claude code leak. Isn't that true?

In the next version of Bun Bun goes ad-supported!

@johnbijl In Ermelo heb je de partij “Progressief Ermelo”. Lekker verwarrend

Het is te hopen dat de naam gecheckt is bij de Kiesraad. In verschillende gemeenten zijn partijen met de naam Pro actief (Bunnik, Oisterwijk) en om in het partijenregister in geschreven te worden mag een naam van een partij niet verwarrend zijn. 1/3

@jarredsumner Is it also possible to generate PDF and markdown files from a webpage?

In the next version of Bun `Bun.WebView` programmatically controls a headless web browser in Bun

Side project drop: Copilot Expert Council (VS Code) It's Copilot custom agents, but with a twist: a coordinator agent that fans out the same prompt to 4 expert reviewers and synthesizes the final verdict Less noise, more signal 🧠 github.com/basst85/copilo… #vscode #BuildInPublic #GitHubCopilot

@NanoBanana Nice 👌🏻

In Nano Banana 2 you can generate images with new aspect ratios: 4:1, 1:4, 8:1 and 1:8. Try it with these prompts: 1. A 4:1 panoramic photo I took on my phone, showing the luscious jungle view from my cabin 2. A 4:1 panoramic photo I took on my phone, showing the view from my apartment, when the sunset looked perfect with rows of deep red cirrocumulus

@hasantoxr x.com/basst85/status…

🚨 Alibaba just quietly dropped a vector database that destroys Pinecone, Chroma, and Weaviate. It's called Zvec and it runs directly inside your application no server, no config, no infrastructure costs. No Docker. No cloud bills. No DevOps nightmare. Built on Proxima, Alibaba's battle-tested vector search engine powering their own production systems at scale. The numbers don't lie: → Searches billions of vectors in milliseconds → pip install zvec and you're searching in under 60 seconds → Dense + sparse vectors + hybrid search in a single call And it runs everywhere: → Notebooks → Servers → Edge devices → CLI tools 100% Opensource. Apache 2.0 license. This is the vector DB the RAG community has been waiting for production-grade performance without the production-grade headache. Link in the first comment 👇

@aakashgupta x.com/basst85/status…

This tweet frames Zvec as a Pinecone killer. That framing obscures what Alibaba actually built. Zvec is an embedded, in-process library. No server. No network calls. No daemon. You import it like you import pandas. Pinecone and Weaviate will never see this in their competitive dashboards because it targets a completely different layer of the stack. The technical lineage matters here. Proxima has been running production vector search inside Alibaba for years. Taobao product search, Alipay face payments, Youku video recommendations, Alimama advertising. Billions of queries across systems where latency failures cost real revenue. What Alibaba’s Tongyi Lab did is strip that engine down, wrap it in a Python API, and release it as a library anyone can pip install. The benchmarks back it up. On VectorDBBench with the Cohere 10M dataset, Zvec hits 8,000+ QPS at comparable recall. That’s more than 2x ZillizCloud, the previous #1, with faster index build times. An embedded library matching or beating managed cloud services on raw throughput. This follows the SQLite playbook. SQLite opened an entirely new category of database usage by embedding directly inside applications. Software that would never have run a client-server database suddenly had access to SQL. Zvec is making the same bet for vector search: local RAG pipelines, desktop AI assistants, CLI tools, edge devices, anywhere spinning up a Pinecone cluster would be absurd. And that tells you where AI inference is heading. Every agent framework, every local assistant, every on-device RAG system needs vector search. The vast majority of those workloads run fine on an in-process library with 64 MB streaming writes and configurable memory limits. Pinecone raised $138M and just repositioned as a “knowledge platform.” Weaviate raised $50M. Their customers have SLAs, compliance requirements, and enterprise procurement cycles. Zvec is going after the 90% of developers who were overprovisioning infrastructure for workloads that fit inside a single process. The companies that should actually be nervous are Chroma and FAISS, the current defaults for lightweight local vector search, because Zvec just showed up with Alibaba-scale engineering in a pip-installable package.

Just shipped: --a11y flag for react-triage ♿ Scans your @reactjs/@nextjs project for accessibility/WCAG violations in milliseconds: • Missing alt text • Invalid ARIA roles & props • onClick without keyboard events • Unlabelled form controls • Empty headings & anchors bunx react-triage --a11y #DX #BuildInPublic #DevTools

🚀Just shipped a new --fail-on policy flag in react-triage. You can now fail CI on a specific severity level. For example: --fail-on=critical --fail-on=performance bunx -y react-triage . --fail-on=critical ⚛️ #reactjs #nextjs #DX #OpenSource

Added a new feature in react-triage: Check for unused dependencies/devDependencies 🗑️ Try it out now: bunx -y react-triage@latest #DX #BuildInPublic #DevTools

💯 What is your React/Next.js project Health score? I created a new tool called react-triage. It scans your code for security, performance, and best practices (including Vercel's best practices) and grades your repo. 🤖 You can also add it as a skill to your AI agent to let it analyze and fix your repo autonomously Don't let tech debt pile up. Check your project score now: github.com/basst85/react-…

@freekmurze Nice 👍🏻 thanks! x.com/basst85/status…

🧑‍💻 Working on a new package that I'll immediately use on a couple of my own codebases. github.com/spatie/laravel… All feedback welcome. Hope to tag 1.0 soon and then I'll talk a some more about it.

@freekmurze Via skills.sh ?

Yesterday, I took some time to write a skill to help me create new packages. Have it in my dotfiles now: github.com/freekmurze/dot… What would be the best way to distribute this?

@menescakir @freekmurze @UbicloudHQ Nice. Where to download this pack?

@freekmurze We have an entire army of them @UbicloudHQ

At Spatie, we have the best Slack emojis 😄