Josh Goldberg

@joshuakgoldberg.com

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Open source dev, and @ Sentry 👨‍💻 Bingo, create-typescript-app, ESLint, Flint, Mocha, OctoGuide, typescript-eslint... 👪 Boston TS Club & SquiggleConf ✍ Learning TypeScript (O'Reilly) 🌟 Microsoft MVP 💌 TC39 Invited Expert https://joshuakgoldberg.com

Nine messages from Linear (APP) in Slack that "Josh Goldberg changed status to Done for LOGS-144 [Epic] Add ability to pin logs"

Screenshot of a Home Assistant Automation creator with title "lol poop" and error message "Message malformed: must contain at least one of below, above."

https://www.npmjs.com/package/mocha, with all but one of the readme images 404ing with alt text

Old school looking month-days date picker on a cat signup form with 'May 2026' chosen

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Hi JoshuaKGoldberg,

We're writing to let you know that between September 2025 and January 2026, webhook secrets for webhooks you are responsible for were inadvertently included in an HTTP header on webhook deliveries. This means that any system receiving webhook payloads during this window could have logged the webhook secret from the request headers. Webhook deliveries are encrypted in transit via TLS, so the header containing the secret was only accessible to the receiving endpoint in a base64-encoded format. We have no evidence to suggest your secrets were intercepted. This issue was fixed on January 26, 2026. Please read on for more information.

Simpsons meme of lady crying: "Won't somebody please think of the (JavaScript normies)"

Promotional poster: Aspire Conf "TypeScript and Aspire" talk.

Type Safety for Your Dev Experience

March 23, 13:30 PDT | 20:30 GMT

Josh Goldberg
Senior Frontend Developer
Sentry

Slack message from Josh Goldberg 💖: could I get a quick stamp on this small change? should be a quick and easy review pls 🙏 #110263

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Typing ":heart_o" in GitHub text, seeing ❤️‍🔥 heart_on_fire as the suggested emoji

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Many npm tabs open, with some -including the visible one- showing the Cloudflare recaptcha.

GitHub "Your sponsors" dashboard filtering to $5,000 one time (1 sponsor). It's aws, Dec 18 2025.

Selfie of me in front of a NodeTLV 2025 schedule placard, showing "Tooling Like It's 2025 / Josh Goldberg" as the first talk

Me acting scared+shocked with my hands out in front of an 8-foot-tall decorative skeleton, its hand above my shoulder

Yellow/gold 3d-printed trophy behind a laptop with many stickers, in front of a plastic pumpkin and jack-o-lantern bucket. The trophy has a jack-o-lantern wearing a witch hat as its center.

Screenshot of the merged JoshuaKGoldberg/prettier-plugin-curly#835, "feat: completely rewrite plugin to export a wrapped printers.estree" by fisker.

Me standing seriously with my hands clasped in a purple telletubby costume, in front of a life-size skeleton.

Screenshot of GitHub issue comments. I wrote "😩." in one. OctoGuide via github-actions responded to it saying it violates octo.guide's comment-meaningless rule.

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Copilot sessions listings: a 12m 45s initial implementation, then 5 reviews: 6m 4s, 1m 46s, 4m 17s, 20m 39s, 1m 34s

Pink Halloween-themed poster: Why is TypeScript Like This? - Josh Goldberg, Open Source Maintainer he/him @joshuakgoldberg.com. MagnoliaConf - October 21-23, 2025 - Jackson, MS

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Google AI Overview search result for "term for obviously ai written text that means nothing".

The primary term for AI-generated text that is obviously meaningless is AI hallucination. A more recent and broader term that can include text, images, and other media is AI slop.
AI hallucination
This is the technical term used in the field of artificial intelligence to describe when a model generates output that is inaccurate, nonsensical, or factually incorrect.

Popular meme of low polygon count boxer. First part with him ready to box: ok ima fight (TYPED LINTING). Second part of him sitting drinking water: damn (TYPED LINTING) got hands

Screenshot of the linked TC39 types as comments website in dark mode

"Somehow X returned" meme from Star Wars. Caption: "SOMEHOW / IT COMPILED"

Selfie of me in Daniel's room with many funko pops on the wall. I'm holding up a realistic Grogu toy.

GitHub reply closing a PR from JoshuaKGoldberg, 17 minutes ago:
@(blurred name) this seems 99% likely to be a low quality API slop PR. Please post back if we're horribly misunderstanding (in which case our deepest apologies!). But:

* The PR description is very clearly AI-authored text
* The PR template checklist is not filled out
* You re-requested review with many CI failures
* The code ... doesn't seem to tackle the actual issue?

Additionally, the other PRs you've sent recently to assorted other projects have similar characteristics.

We don't appreciate being a test bed for early stage AI slop contributions. Certainly not in this undisclosed manner. We are an active open source project with extremely limited maintenance budget and many, many users. This takes our time away from more important tasks. Please reconsider the impact of your actions.

Commits history view showing "Automated commit by Keepalive Workflow to keep the repository active" on Apr 9, 2025, Feb 18, 2025, Dec 30, 2024, Nov 10, 2024, Sep 21, 2024

Launching node bin/index.js in the Flint repository with --interactive. Screenshot of 3 lint reports across 2 files in this PR from running with --presenter detailed. Each file wraps its reports on the left and bottom with a thin gray line. Reports have syntax highlighting above squigglies, along with a blue suggestion, yellow detail text, and green link to docs. One file's reports at a time are shown, moving between files.

The same screenshot as before, but with report details moved up to just after syntax highlighted code instead of after the suggestion

Screenshot of 3 lint reports across 2 files in the linked PR from running with --presenter detailed. Each file wraps its reports on the left and bottom with a thin gray line. Reports have syntax highlighting above squigglies, along with a blue suggestion, yellow detail text, and green link to docs.

Screenshot of the new typescript-eslint homepage from the linked preview deploy. "Powerful static analysis for JavaScript and TypeScript"

Meet this year's amazing speakers
SquiggleConf 2025
September 18-19 Boston

Anthony Fu

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TJ DeVries

Maddy Montaquila

Oliver Medhurst

Dominic Nguyen

Oliver Dunk

Mattia Manzati

Giacomo Cavalieri

Amy Dutton

David Sherret

Jessica Garson

Alexander Lichter

Nicolò Ribaudo

Michelle Bakels

Pete Gonzalez

Dylan Goings

Fatima Sarah Khalid

Nick Nisi

Documents: Consent for Use of Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Form requested on May 30, 2025
Hi Josh,

I’ve shared the Consent for Use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) form through the patient portal. Thank you so much for taking the time to complete this ahead of your appointment — it really helps us support you better.

"Roll safe" meme: You don't have to worry about breaking changes if you never hit 1.0

Slide screenshot. Title: "🌶️ Hot Take 🌶️". Body: "Only my way is correct. Everybody else is wrong." Credit: "@ JoshuaKGoldberg .com"

Me smiling with my arms wide on stage at JSHeroes

Me in sunglasses bolding a black and white cat in a parking lot

Cute black and white cat baring neck laying on pavement

Smiling selfie of me, Daniel, and his brother David in front of a Joshua's Shawarma

Two '[npm Support] Confirmation - Request Received' emails from 11:27am. The first is #3418635, the second is #3418636.

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"Add alt text" view in GitHub for a gif of Arbiter in Halo 3 saying "Were it so easy" to Lord hood. Its alt text is:

a man in a white hat stands next to a robot that says " were it so easy "

Photo of my desk and monitor watching Daniel Roe on Twitch, with a cat in his lap. A black cat with a 'Jerry' name tag is leaning up and into me on top of my keyboard.

Long vertical list of X DM message requests. They're all some variant of spam, such as "Hotel Mobile Part-time Job", and within the last few days.

Screenshot of a GitHub pull request: "feat: add big new flashy thing not yet discussed". The PR checklist has three unchecked tasks and the overview "fixes issue, I'm sure the triaging will mark it as accepted"

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1. JoshuaKGoldberg: +1

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conversation continuation: "lol that's like 6 a side, 12 total - I need 4 a side, 8 total"
response: same image but with 7-8 tentacles a side

ChatGPT conversation continuation: "that has six tentacles (three on each side) so it's a squid, not an octopus. make roughly the same thing but with eight tentacles (four on each side)".
response: the same image but with 6 a side, 12 total