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@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 😄

@unwind_ai_ Implemented in my new project x.com/basst85/status…

China's Alibaba just opensourced the SQLite of vector databases. zvec runs as a library inside your app and is built for on-device RAG no external server. no pinecone. no qdrant instance. 100% opensource.

Update: local-memory-mcp now uses the new Zvec vector database instead of SQLite + sqlite-vec. Why: • embedded, in-process vector DB • fast KNN + metadata filters • still 100% local + MCP stdio • Ollama embeddings (embeddinggemma) unchanged Repo: github.com/basst85/local-… #MCP #AI #VectorDB #Zvec #BuildingInPublic

Does your coding agents forget decisions between sessions? And are you re-explaining the same things to Cursor/Claude/VS Code, like code style, “gotchas”, decisions…? 🧠I built a local-first MCP memory sidecar: • semantic search • store / find / supersede / delete memories • per-project scoping • runs 100% locally Code: github.com/basst85/local-… #MCP #DevTools #ClaudeCode #VScode

@jarredsumner It’s not open very long, but I think it’s a nice enhancement: github.com/oven-sh/bun/is…

if you have a bun GitHub issue open for awhile with a clear reproduction, reply with a link below & I will have Claude try to fix it today

@freekmurze Then you don’t need services like this markdown.new

@freekmurze Maybe also an idea for a Laravel package: html-to-markdown? But it looks like Browsershot does not yet have support for Markdown export. x.com/cloudflare/sta…

🚀 Another new Spatie package has dropped: spatie/laravel-screenshot 📸 Take screenshots of web pages with a clean, fluent API. URLs or raw HTML, with beautiful defaults out of the box. Save as .png --> it will create a PNG, as .jpg --> it will create a JPEG #laravel #php

New blog post: From Vectors to Answers: Building a Local RAG Agent 🤖 Everything you need to know about Local RAG: 🔹 Storing data as vectors 🔹 Querying your local store 🔹 Generating answers with an LLM Read the full walkthrough: bastiaan.dev/blog/from-vect… #ai #SQLite @bunjavascript @ollama