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5 quick tips for giving better presentations

I have been speaking publicly at developer conferences for over a decade and in that time I’ve seen plenty of other people giving talks. Everyone gives talks differently, and if you are a speaker or thinking about getting into it, I encourage you to work on developing your unique style as well as your content.

Things you need to do for npm trusted publishing to work

After the recent supply chain attacks on the npm ecosystem, notaby the Shai-Hulud 2.0 worm, GitHub took a number of actions to shore up the security of publishing packages to hopefully avoid further attacks. One of the outcomes was that long-lived npm tokens were revoked in favour of short-lived tokens or using trusted publishing.

How wrong can a JavaScript Date calculation go?

The Date object in JavaScript is frequently one that causes trouble. So much so, it is set to be replaced by Temporal soon. This is the story of an issue that I faced that will be much easier to handle once Temporal is more widespread.