u/gajus0

The times that I want to be learning language often coincide with when I cannot access Internet (traveling, remote locations, etc) It is hyper annoying therefore that HelloChinese only works online – otherwise, I like the app. I am at the point where I might just code something for personal use and make it available for others.

zod-compiler compiles Zod schemas into zero-overhead validation functions at build time. This makes Zod validation 2-74x faster.

https://github.com/gajus/zod-compiler

Besides making the Internet faster, zod-compiler kills the last serious objection to my most contrarian engineering take:

Every input/output of your application must be runtime validated.

Build-time safety is not a guarantee of runtime integrity – it's a ticking bomb. Databases are the clearest example: schema, version, and data drift independently of your codebase and running instances. Your types say one thing; production says another.

The same applies everywhere data crosses a boundary: HTTP requests (URLs, search params, payloads), responses, caches. Whenever data enters your application, runtime validation is what protects state integrity and security.

The only sensible objection has always been performance overhead. zod-compiler shrinks it to irrelevance.

This belief is why I spent the last decade building https://github.com/gajus/slonik – runtime validation is one of the highest-leverage tools we have: you move faster when you can trust your data.

TLDR if you try to publish any npm package that is 2, 3, or 4 letters long, you will run into this error:

> Package name too similar to existing packages zod,zx,docx,crc,dot,docz,coz,got,joi,co;

Was surprised to keep seeing the same project appear again and again on my feed. I saw a comment calling out the OP for the same thing, which led to searching their (hidden) post history, which reveals a long tail of the same project getting posted again and again, and somehow always receiving upvotes and positives comments.

https://www.reddit.com/r/coolgithubprojects/comments/1thobk4/comment/omp3p6n/

I am not even against authors sharing their projects. But manipulating votes, adding fake comments, hiding post history, deleting posts that didn't land well (get called out for AI slop), etc. and then doubling down when called out, all of this is just disingenuous behavior that erodes the community's trust.