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This Week in Effect

#128

Foldkit on the Cause & Effect podcast with Devin Jameson and Johannes Schickling. We rebuilt the Effect website!

#127

effect-smol merged into the main repo! Kit Langton's skills for Effect v4. Crosshatch, an Effect-native x402 Clients & Merchants, by Harry Solovay.

#126

An intro to Effect by Code and Stuff. Effect mentioned at the Next Token Show! v4 Beta: Schedule overhaul and a major Cron semantics fix.

#125

X Live Studio fully written in Effect! Birdclaw by Peter Steinberger, built with Effect. Effect AI, Cloudflare Workers with Effect & RPC, and Schema v4 crash course from Lucas Barake.

#124

Two upcoming Effect Miami ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ meetups! Stop agent slop with Effect, by Mattia Manzati, Effect Milan ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡น. v4 Beta: adaptive rate limiter, Schema performance, and more.

#123

Effectifying OpenCode with Kit Langton on Cause & Effect Podcast. Services & Layers in Production, talk by Leonardo Trapani from Datapizza. Effect Paris ๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ท meetup on June 25. HttpApi streaming support lands in v4 Beta.

#122

Intro to Effect Miami, by Ariel Azoulay. Effect Milan meetup hosted by Datapizza. v4 Beta: tree-shaking, Schema fixes & a key Entity reliability fix.

#121

Effect at OpenCode, by Dax (Effect Miami ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ). Effect v4 Beta: OTLP observability, Schema & HTTP updates.

#120

Effect Vienna ๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡น & Miami ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ meetups. 15M weekly downloads ๐Ÿš€. Effect v4 Beta updates recap.

#119

Dax speaking at Effect Miami ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ! Foldkit on Office Hours ๐Ÿ”ฅ. Crypto service, Stream.broadcastN, and more v4 Beta updates.

#118

Effect Milan ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡น meetup on June 11! Clankers โค๏ธ Effect! OpenCode migrates to Effect HttpApi. Schema ergonomics & DurableQueue in v4 Beta.

#117

Effect Miami ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ meetup! Vibe Engineering Effect Apps at the AI Engineer Europe. HttpApiTest & acquireDisposable in v4 Beta. sqlfu gets @effect/sql support.

#116

Alchemy v2 at Office Hours 27. Drizzle now natively supports Effect v4. GPT 5.5 Pro โค๏ธ Effect! AsyncResult & OpenAI reasoning in Effect v4 Beta.

#115

Effect Vienna Meetup on May 27! ๐ŸŽ‰ Building Clanka, an AI coding framework with Effect. New packages & APIs in Effect v4 Beta

#114

Effect just crossed 10m weekly downloads! ๐Ÿ”ฅ `effect-genserver` by Tim Smart. Effect v4 Beta: Schema refinements & IDB persistence. Intro to STM.

#113

`ServiceMap` renamed to `Context` in Effect v4 Beta. Vibe Engineering with Effect at AIE Europe, Office Hours 24 ๐Ÿ”ฅ, and new community projects.

#112

IndexedDB module & Schema overhaul in Effect v4 Beta. Office Hours 23 ๐Ÿ”ฅ, self-driving codebases with Effect, and Michael teasing what Tim's been cooking.

#111

Fiberplane & Supermemory using Effect. Office Hours 22 (PR roasting & ecosystem updates), Effect Berlin ๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ช meetup, and new community tools.

#110

Effect 3.20 security update & 3.21.0 are out. ๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ช Effect Berlin meetup on March 26! Plus Effect LSP for TSGo, Sentry adds official support for Effect v3, and more v4 Beta updates.

#109

T3Code adopts Effect, ThePrimeagen gives it a try, and Trellis AI is hiring an Effect engineer. Plus STM-focused Office Hours and more Effect v4 Beta updates.

#108

OpenCode officially adopts Effect! More Effect content by Ben Davis, V4 Beta updates, and other community projects.

#107

Effect v4 Beta updates and a dedicated Office Hours Q&A covering the latest changes, improvements, and community feedback.

#106

Effect v4 Beta release! ๐Ÿš€ Rewritten runtime. Smaller bundles. Unified package system.

#105

Effect-viz, an Effect runtime visualizer. Lalph AI Agent Orchestrator 3 and Office Hours 15 coding sessions.

#104

Claude Code recommending Effect, again! Effect and the Near Inexpressible Majesty of Layers by Kit Langton. Lalph & Effect Office Hours coding sessions.

#103

Actor Model | Effect Cluster. Refactoring Twitch-Spotify Integration with Effect Cluster & Effect Office Hours coding sessions.

#102

13k ๐ŸŒŸ! I wish I learned Effect sooner, the secret to production-grade Typescript. RcMap | Effect in 5(ish). Hacking on Lalph & Effect Office Hours coding sessions.

#101

6k Discord members ๐ŸŽ‰. distilled-cloudflare by Alchemy. Cache Effect in 5(ish) by Lucas Barake. Effect Office Hours and ChEffect coding sessions.

#100

Effect Institute Official Launch. effect-sql-pg support by Drizzle. Effect Berlin Meetup 2. Effect Office Hours 11 and ChEffect 12.

#99

Happy New Year! ๐ŸŽ‰

#98

๐ŸŽ„ Xmas gift from the terminal.shop for the Effect community! effect-distributed-lock by Ethan Niser.

#97

Cause & Effect 7 with Adam Rankin, CTO at Warp. Effect Office Hours 10. justfuckinguseeffect.dev.

#96

Effect Institute by Kit Langton. The Case for Effect by Ryan Hunter. More Effect videos by Lucas Barake.

#95

Advent of Effect. SvelteKit and Effect with Dillon Mulroy. New ChEffect episodes.

#94

Effect Solutions and doctor-effect by Kit Langton. Office Hours and ChEffect 8 coding sessions.

#93

12k โญ๏ธ on GitHub! Maybe I Was Wrong About Effect by Ben Davis. Effect NYC Meetup hosted by Warp. Effect Office Hours 9.

#92

OpenRouter's co-founder, Louis Vichy, on the Cause & Effect podcast. Building AI applications with Effect & Netlify. Effect Office Hours 8.

#91

5 million npm downloads per week milestone! ๐Ÿš€ Effect 3.19 release. Vienna Meetup Dec 18. Effect Office Hours 7 & ChEffect coding session.

#90

Livestream with Teej DV & Kit Langton. Effect, the Good Parts, by Dillon Mulroy & Swyx. Effect + Next.js & Panel Discussion from Effect Milan Meetup. Effect Office Hours 6.

#89

Learning Effect with teej dv & Kit Langton. Error Handling & Effectful Programming in TypeScript w/ Effect by Mattia Manzati. Effect Office Hours 5 & Rebuilding Contentlayer with Effect coding sessions.

#88

Visual Effect is now open-source! Effect Milan Meetup ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡น. Effect Office Hours 4. Twitchโ€“Spotify Integration and Effect AI SDK Refactor coding sessions.

#87

effect-atom visualizer. AI SDK supporting Effect Schema. New Effect course by Lucas Barake. Effect Office Hours 3. ChEffect coding session.

#86

Effect 3.18 release. Effect Docs search powered by Mixedbread. Effect Office Hours 2. ChEffect & Twitch โ€“ Spotify Integration coding sessions.

#85

Chat persistence added to Effect AI SDK. Effect Office Hours Episode 1. Effect Milan Meetup on Oct 16th. ChEffect and Twitch โ€“ Spotify Integration development coding sessions.

#84

Cause & Effect episode with the CTO of Spiko! Effect AI SDK Release โœจ. Building a CLI Application coding session.

#83

Effect showcased at the official AWS Developers channel! Complex dependencies now more manageable with Effect Layers. Rewriting Effect's CLI code session.

#82

The difficulty of complexity by Ethan Niser. Demystifying Effect Scopes by Harry Solovay. Coding sessions, Rebuilding ContentLayer, Effect API provider integration for Google & ChEffect development.

#81

Effect Hamburg Meetup on Sept 5th. Dedicated support channels for companies using Effect. Twitch-Spotify Integration, Rebuilding ContentLayer & Building a GitHub Action coding sessions.

#80

11k โญ๏ธ on GitHub! Building ChEffect (Part 2) & API Provider Integration for Google (PART 3). Leap now supports Effect.

#79

Claude Code from scratch with Effect, by Kit Langton. Amazon Bedrock AI provider integration. Implementing a feature or Effect Workflows.

#78

New Cause & Effect episode with Dillon Mulroy. `effect-rx` renamed to `effect-atom`. ChEffect โ€“ a local-first app with Effect & LiveStore, Effect on the front-end, and more content and technical updates.

#77

Effect featured on the devtools-fm podcast, more debugging improvements including Span Stack & Current Fibers, plus content updates on the Effect API Provider Integration for Google, the Effect Warehouse App, and more.

#76

Effect 3.17 is here! Key highlights - Effect RPC + TanStack Query setup by Michael Fester, Effect HTTP API with Next.js by Ethan Niser, live sessions on building a GitHub Action, local-first apps, Effect CLI, and more!

#75

New Visual Effect demos, more livestreams and app-building tutorials from the Effect team and community, library improvements, and a podcast with Michael Arnaldi on building reliable systems with Effect.

#74

Visual Effect by Kit Langton โ‡๏ธ. Effect Workflows & Effect-native MCP Server live coding. Technical updates in Effect.

#73

Effect hit 10K stars on GitHub ๐ŸŒŸ. Matt Pocockโ€™s video on why Effect captured his heart. Technical updates in Effect.

#72

Voice AI Orchestration Layer with Effect & TypeScript. Effect trending on GitHub ๐Ÿ“ˆ๐Ÿš€. Schema v4 sneak peeks. Technical updates in Effect.

#71

How DXOS uses Effect to transform AI and How Expand.ai turns the Internet into a Database with Effect from Effect Days 2025. Technical updates in Effect.

#70

LSP 0.20.1 and Effect-mcp releases. Effective Pragmatism and Next-gen DevTools for Effect from Effect Days 2025. Technical updates in Effect.

#69

Check out durable workflows in TypeScript with Effect and the latest Effect's LSP 0.18 release. Simplifying Forms with Effect & Incremental Adoption of Effect Workshop from Effect Days 2025.

#68

MasterClass' AI Voice Chat built with Effect. Effect for AWS Lambda. Effect 3.16 release.

#67

Effect Days 2025 talks, Structured Concurrency & Effect on the Frontend. Effect Paris Meetup 5 recap. Technical updates in Effect

#66

Effect Cluster by Tim Smart. Effect 3.15 release.

#65

Building LLM Systems with Effect at Markprompt by Elliot Dauber. Testing with Effect by Edouard Penin. Technical Updates in Effect.

#64

Production-grade app architecture (Effect Days 2025 Workshop Part 1). Building an Effect tracer using performance track by Mattia Manzati.

#63

Rebuilding Redis for great Effect (Effect Days 2025). Mattia Manzati joins the Effectful Team. Technical updates in Effect.

#62

Effect for Domains at Vercel (Effect Days 2025). The Death of tRPC? Effect's HttpApi Library - by Lucas Barake

#61

Building Effect 4.0 - Effect Days talk. Effect added to the ๐• codebase. Technical updates.

#60

Building Effect-ive Agents & Opening Remarks from Effect Days 2025. Developing AI Applications with Effect by Maxwell Brown. Technical updates.

#59

Effect Days 2025 recap. Effect 3.14 Release.

#58

Johannes Schickling MC at Effect Days. Technical updates in Effect.

#57

Michael Arnaldi speaking at Effect Days. Cause & Effect Episode 2 Release. Technical updates in Effect.

#56

Dmytro Maretskyi speaking at Effect Days. Technical updates in Effect.

#55

Mattia Manzati & Elliot Dauber speaking at Effect Days. Reimagining Contentlayer with Effect Part 14. Technical updates in Effect.

#54

Tim Suchanek & David Golightly speaking at Effect Days. Effect 3.13 has been released!

#53

Edouard Penin speaking at the Effect Days. Evryg Effect Days sponsor announcement. Technical updates in Effect.

#52

Antoine Coulon and Victor Korzunin speaking at the Effect Days. "Re-building Contentlayer with Effect (Part 12)" by Maxwell Brown and Tim Smart. Technical updates in Effect.

#51

Attila Veฤerek and Tim Smart speaking at the Effect Days. Effect Paris Meetup 4. "Re-building Contentlayer with Effect (Part 11)" by Maxwell Brown and Tim Smart. Technical updates in Effect.

#50

Sandro Maglione speaking at the Effect Days. "Re-building Contentlayer with Effect (Part 10)" by Maxwell Brown and Tim Smart. Technical updates in Effect.

#49

Inato sponsoring Effect Days 2025. Technical updates in Effect. "Re-building Contentlayer with Effect (Part 8)" by Maxwell Brown and Tim Smart.

#48

Technical updates in Effect. "Autonomous Software โ€“ Building Agentic Workflows with Effect" talk by Maxwell Brown.

#47

Effect 3.12 Release. Happy Holidays from the Effect Team

#46

Maxwell Brown speaking at Effect Days 2025. "Building an Effect Warehouse App (Part 5)" by Mattia Manzati. Technical updates in Effect.

#45

Jรฉrรฉmie Dayan speaking at Effect Days 2025. "My journey as a developer. Exploring TypeScript & Effect" โ€“ talk by Dillon Mulroy. Reimagining ContentLayer with Effect (Part 8) by Maxwell Brown & Tim Smart. Technical updates in Effect.

#44

Effect 3.11 Release. Sebastian Lorenz speaking at Effect Days 2025. "Learning Effect" talk by Elliot Dauber, Effect Meetup SF.

#43

Cause & Effect Podcast Launch. New Effect Job Opportunities. Technical updates in Effect.

#42

Ethan Niser joins Effect Days 2025 as a speaker. Technical updates, and more from the Effect ecosystem.

#41

New Effect Playground feature launch. Technical updates in Effect. 'Second revision of HTTP API' by Tim Smart

#40

New Effect Playground feature launch. Technical updates in Effect. 'Second revision of HTTP API' by Tim Smart

#39

Effect Website 2.0. Technical updates in Effect.

#38

Effect 3.10 release. Effect Meetup San Francisco recap.

#37

Effect Paris Meetup on Nov 5th. Dillon Mulroy speaking at the San Francisco Effect Meetup on Oct 21st. Technical updates in Effect.

#36

Effect Days 2025 announcement. Effect Paris Meetup \#3. 'Effect Cluster - Design Sync Session' part 7. 'Reimagining ContentLayer with Effect' part 7.

#35

Effect Days 2025 announcement. Effect Paris Meetup \#3. 'Effect Cluster - Design Sync Session' part 7. 'Reimagining ContentLayer with Effect' part 7.

#34

Effect technical updates. Effect Meetup San Francisco speakers announcement. 'Reimagining ContentLayer with Effect - Part 6 by Tim Smart.

#33

Effect 3.8 release. VSCode extension update. Effect Cluster Development - Re-Thinking the Entity Manager by Maxwell Brown.

#32

Effect technical updates. Create Effect App Release. Effect Meetup San Francisco on Oct 21. 'Effect Cluster - Design Sync Session ep. 6'.

#31

Effect technical updates 'Effect Cluster - Design Sync Session ep. 5' by Michael Arnaldi and Maxwell Brown.

#30

Effect 3.7 release. 'Reimagining ContentLayer With Effect' by Maxwell Brown and Tim Smart ep.4

#29

Effect technical updates. 'From React to Effect' by Michael Arnaldi. Effect Cluster - Design Sync Session (Part 2). Articles from community members about Effect RPC and Effect Schema.

#28

Effect technical updates. 'The Problem With Error Handling in Typescript', video by Ethan Niser. Effect beginners course launch by Sandro Maglione.

#27

Technical Updates in Effect. 'Effect Best Practises' by Ethan Niser. 'Reimagining Contentlayer' ep.3 & 'Effect Cluster' ep.1 video releases.

#26

Effect 3.6 and Effect Playground releases.'Reimagining Contentlayer' ep. 3 by Maxwell Brown and Tim Smart. 'Effect Cluster' ep.1 by Michael Arnaldi, Maxwell Brown and Mattia Manzati.

#25

Effect Schema 0.69 release.'What is Concurrency?' by Ethan Niser. 'Reimagining Contentlayer' ep. 2 by Michael Arnaldi and Maxwell Brown.

#24

Technical Updates in Effect. Reimagining Contentlayer by Michael Arnaldi and Maxwell Brown.

#23

Straight from our Event in Vienna! This Week in Effect is a weekly blog post that makes a summary of what happened in the Effect Community and Ecosystem to help you keep track of all the news, features and changes!

#22

Technical updates in Effect. 'Effect, The Missing TypeScript Standard Library' by Tomรกลก Horรกฤek.

#21

Technical updates in Effect. 'Effect, The Origin Story' by Michael Arnaldi. Community events updates.

#20

Effect 3.4 & Schema 0.68.0 release. 'Discriminated Unions in TypeScript, Effect, and ArkType' by David Blass. Michael Arnaldi joining the London Node.js group

#19

Technical updates in Effect. "The Most Exciting Use of Technology" award. 'Effect CLI - A love letter to developers tired of settling for less' by Maxwell Brown.

#18

Effect 3.3 release. 'Building type-safe REST APIs powered by @effect/schema' by Anna DevMiner.

#17

Technical updates in Effect. 'Next level type safety with Effect' by Aleksandra Sikora. 'Effect Cluster Integration with Effect RPC' Ep.2 by Mattia Manzati.

#16

Effect 3.2 release. 'Durable Workflows with Effect Cluster' by Mattia Manzati. New Effect Paris Meetup date announcement. Effect nomination for Javascript Open Source Award.

#15

Technical updates in Effect. 'Effective State Machines for Complex Logic' by David Khourshid. 'Integrating Effect with Remix' Ep.1 by Michael Arnaldi

#14

Technical updates in Effect. 'Building AI Agents' by Tim Suchanek. 'Building Skott, A Journey of Effect-Driven Development.', by Antoine Coulon.

#13

Technical updates in Effect. Effect 3.1 release. "AI-Native User Experiences. The Effect Opportunity." talk by Guillermo Rauch. Effect Advanced workshop by Maxwell Brown.

#12

Technical updates in Effect. "Why Effect is more important than ZIO" talk by John De Goes. Effect workshop by Ethan Niser.

#11

Effect 3.0 announcement and community reactions. Technical updates in Effect.

#10

Technical updates in Effect, effect/schema talk by Jess Martin, a new video about Effect by Lucas Barake, and Effect Paris Meetup update.

#9

Technical updates in Effect, "Effect's Latest and Greatest" talk by Tim Smart & Upcoming Event.

#8

Technical updates in Effect, first conference talk release, how to sign for 'Effect' in sign language, and an upcoming event.

#7

Key technology releases like Schema 0.64, more insights from the recent Effect Days conference in Vienna, and new exciting content from our community.

#6

Technical updates and the exciting announcement of the first-ever Effect Paris meetup in April!

#5

This Week in Effect is a weekly blog post that makes a summary of what happened in the Effect Community and Ecosystem to help you keep track of all the news, features and changes!

#4

Straight from our Event in Vienna! This Week in Effect is a weekly blog post that makes a summary of what happened in the Effect Community and Ecosystem to help you keep track of all the news, features and changes!

#3

This Week in Effect is a weekly blog post that makes a summary of what happened in the Effect Community and Ecosystem to help you keep track of all the news, features and changes!

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This Week in Effect is a weekly blog post that makes a summary of what happened in the Effect Community and Ecosystem to help you keep track of all the news, features and changes!

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This Week in Effect is a weekly blog post that makes a summary of what happened in the Effect Community and Ecosystem to help you keep track of all the news, features and changes!

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A recap of everything that landed in the Effect v4 beta in June 2026, adaptive rate limiting, Schema performance improvements, OpenTelemetry enhancements, SQL additions, and more.

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Effect 3.20 Security Update

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Effect 2025 - Year in Review

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Effect 3.19 (Release)

New Effect release featuring @effect/cluster improvements, HashRing module, Effect.fn improvements, and more!

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How Mixedbread Transformed Our Search

A post highlighting how Mixedbread transformed the search experience on the Effect documentation website.

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Effect 3.18 (Release)

New Effect release featuring the Graph module, Context.ReadonlyTag, and more!

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Effect 3.17 (Release)

New Effect release featuring Layer.mock, Effect.ensureErrorType, and more!

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TS+ Post-Mortem

A retrospective look at our attempt to create a TypeScript fork optimized for Effect developer experience, examining what we learned and why we ultimately moved in a different direction

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Effect 3.16 (Release)

New Effect release featuring the new ExecutionPlan module, Effect.Service & LayerMap improvements, and more!

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