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John Reilly @johnnyreilly.com · Jan 1

I type script and I TypeScript

Ben Golub @bengolub.bsky.social · Dec 31

diagonalize

John Reilly @johnnyreilly.com · 2h

Stiff upper lips have bad side effects; you're unlikely to try to make things better. I'm doing all the things to try and get myself to a place. Gym, physio, a trainer, stretching and pilates are all now part of my life. Here's hoping it helps! 🤞

John Reilly @johnnyreilly.com · 4h

"If I Had More Time, I Would Have Written a Shorter Letter" - this is a memo that AI coding tools have yet to to take on board. knip.dev totally has though. I just used it to put an AI generated codebase through the deadwood colander and I'm very happy with the results!

Declutter your JavaScript & TypeScript projects

Project linter to find unused dependencies, exports and files

knip.dev

John Reilly @johnnyreilly.com · 1d

Health-wise this has been a rough year for me. I'm doing better, back wise, but it's a long road. One thing that has been helpful is keeping a daily health diary. Scoring how I'm doing day by day. Then I can go back (ha!) and see slow progress. Lifts the mood when you're short on hope. Recommended

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Have an awesome evening!

John Reilly @johnnyreilly.com · 2d

Very vivid dream in which @robpalmer.bsky.social and I were interviewing candidates for Bloomberg. Interview seemed to consist entirely of a discussion of Golang support for JSON parsing. I don't work for Bloomberg and I don't know Go really either. Dreams are weird

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John Reilly @johnnyreilly.com · 5d

I don't know what these are, but I have decided I like them

What looks like giant colourful chess pieces on a street near the South Bank in London

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John Reilly @johnnyreilly.com · 6d

I'm in! The JavaScript is optional as long as the gravy is on point

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John Reilly @johnnyreilly.com · 6d

You look very smart Kent! Enjoy the singing!

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John Reilly @johnnyreilly.com · 9d

These gigantic pencils have appeared over the last week on roads that lead to schools. I never would have come up with the idea, but these giant pencils bring me much joy ✏️

A giant pencil in the foreground and 2 giant pencils in the background

John Reilly @johnnyreilly.com · 10d

Red carpet being assembled at the BFI - maybe a film premiere?

A partially unrolled red carpet and lights outside the BFI

John Reilly @johnnyreilly.com · 10d

I've maintained ts-loader (webpack TypeScript loader) for nearly 10 years now. However Vite is my default choice for new projects, and my view is it probably should be everyone's default choice these days

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Rob Palmer @robpalmer.bsky.social · 10d

A history of Vite by Richard MacManus 📜

🔶 Origin: Fast unbundled dev via browser ESM
🔶 Vue-only ➡️ framework-agnostic
🔶 Replaces Create React App
🔶 Rollup/webpack/Turbopack comparisons explained
🔶 Now: AI picks Vite for React apps
🔶 Next: Scope expands with Vite+

thenewstack.io/how-vite-bec...

How Vite Became the Backbone of Modern Frontend Frameworks

We talk to Evan You about Vite's journey from a prototype inspired by ES Modules to the industry-standard build tool. Also: Vite+ and AI.

thenewstack.io

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John Reilly @johnnyreilly.com · 10d

Or.... You have a ready made warm clothes solution to ease the coolness of the winter months!

John Reilly @johnnyreilly.com · 10d

A beautiful dawn after a very vivid dream which featured the language designers of TypeScript, JavaScript, Python and C# all discussing the pace of language innovation. My subconscious is way deeper than I am

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John Reilly @johnnyreilly.com · 11d

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John Reilly @johnnyreilly.com · 12d

I remember when there used to be a dawn right about now

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John Reilly @johnnyreilly.com · 16d

As close to dawn as we'll see at that time of the morning for a while

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John Reilly @johnnyreilly.com · 17d

If you ever want to feel out of place, I heartily recommend a stroll through the City of London wearing trackie bottoms, as I did today, heading to a physio appointment. I was a lone sportswear wearer in a sea of suits, dresses and finance gilets

John Reilly @johnnyreilly.com · 17d

Do you go to the office on the South Bank Dale? I walk past what I think is an IBM office on my way from Waterloo - looks mighty impressive!

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