Remote Desktop Connection (RDP) becomes extremely slow after installing “Intel Smart Connect Technology” update

#​752 — September 12, 2025 Read on the Web If you have any interest in music and being able to render music or generate music with JavaScript, be sure to check out the very end of this issue where we’ve dedicated an entire section to the topic 🙂__Your editor, Peter Cooper JavaScript Weekly How to Keep

#​592 — September 9, 2025 Read on the Web A Major Supply Chain Attack Hits the npm Ecosystem — In July, Socket warned us about a phishing campaign targeting npm package publishers. Sadly, a prolific package author (among others, like DuckDB, who explain how the attack worked on them) fell victim to the scam, resulting

#​751 — September 5, 2025 Read on the Web JavaScript Weekly Mediabunny: A Complete Media Toolkit for JavaScript — Supporting both browsers and Node.js, this library lets you read, write and convert popular media file formats (e.g. MP4, MP3, and more) without needing to lean on dependencies like FFmpeg. You can make thumbnails, extract metadata,

#​750 — August 29, 2025 Read on the Web JavaScript Weekly An Illustrated Guide to Big O and Time Complexity — A fantastic JavaScript-oriented, interactive, visual essay about Big O notation and its role in describing algorithmic complexity. This is a beautiful bit of work, even if you’re already wise to O(log n) and O(n^2).

#​591 — August 26, 2025 Read on the Web How We Migrated Our Rush.js Monorepo to Node Type Stripping — Since v23.6 (and in LTS since v22.18.0), Node has supported running (most) TypeScript code by stripping the types out first. The Calm team was excited about the potential for improving productivity and DX, and set

#​749 — August 22, 2025 Read on the Web ☀️ We’re back after a week off, though I’m starting to think we should have taken two weeks off as it’s been quite quiet in JavaScript-land this August! Nevertheless, we still have a full issue for you today, so let’s get on to it.. 😉__Peter Cooper, your