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Software architect. Primarily Node/Angular/TypeScript. AI R&D since 2005.
Things I like: Static typing, genetic algorithms, Rick Steves, liberal democracy
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Software architect. Primarily Node/Angular/TypeScript. AI R&D since 2005.
Things I like: Static typing, genetic algorithms, Rick Steves, liberal democracy
📍Atlanta
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tripsnek
@tripsnek.com
· Sep 2
This weekend I released something I've wanted to open source for a while - a lightweight port of EMF (Eclipse Modeling Framework) for TypeScript. It lets you do model-driven dev in TypeScript, and even has its own VS Code extension (TMF Ecore Editor).
github.com/tripsnek/tmf
npm i @tripsnek/tmf
github.com/tripsnek/tmf
npm i @tripsnek/tmf
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If after we blow your boat up you still float, you are a witch, so we can kill you. If you drown you are not a witch.
December 4, 2025 at 2:39 AM
If after we blow your boat up you still float, you are a witch, so we can kill you. If you drown you are not a witch.
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12 former commissioners of the FDA came together to write a Perspectives piece for the New England Journal of Medicine; raising our concerns about recent changes to vaccine approval policy at the FDA and its implications for patients and public health.
December 3, 2025 at 10:28 PM
12 former commissioners of the FDA came together to write a Perspectives piece for the New England Journal of Medicine; raising our concerns about recent changes to vaccine approval policy at the FDA and its implications for patients and public health.
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SCOOP: Sources tell me Donald Trump's name was added to the exterior of the US Institute of Peace building ahead of Thursday's peace agreement signing between Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), which will be held inside the building. Confirming if it's been officially renamed.
December 3, 2025 at 7:31 PM
SCOOP: Sources tell me Donald Trump's name was added to the exterior of the US Institute of Peace building ahead of Thursday's peace agreement signing between Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), which will be held inside the building. Confirming if it's been officially renamed.
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I wrote this essay about pardons in a very different moment but it holds up imo www.lawfaremedia.org/article/dona...
December 3, 2025 at 6:20 PM
I wrote this essay about pardons in a very different moment but it holds up imo www.lawfaremedia.org/article/dona...
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News: Pentagon inspector general finds that the classified information Pete Hegseth shared in a Signal chat with @TheAtlantic could have put U.S. forces at risk. www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...
Hegseth Risked Endangering Troops With Signal Messages
An inspector general report finds that the defense secretary violated his department’s policies.
www.theatlantic.com
December 3, 2025 at 6:04 PM
News: Pentagon inspector general finds that the classified information Pete Hegseth shared in a Signal chat with @TheAtlantic could have put U.S. forces at risk. www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...
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Lol this fuckin fascist is sooooo uncomfortable and she is soooo stupid
Laura Loomer hits on Mike Mahoney while both of them agree all the stuff they say online are lies and trad-wives are cheaters. 😂
December 1, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Lol this fuckin fascist is sooooo uncomfortable and she is soooo stupid
The peak was the Jonathan Swan HBO interview, but it remains the case that the single most devastating technique for reporting on Trump is to simply pretend like you don't know who he is personally and treat it as interesting and novel when he says bizarre things.
December 1, 2025 at 2:39 AM
The peak was the Jonathan Swan HBO interview, but it remains the case that the single most devastating technique for reporting on Trump is to simply pretend like you don't know who he is personally and treat it as interesting and novel when he says bizarre things.
Would go a bit further and insist on retro-actively removing the masks. Names, faces, where they were deployed, on some kind of accessible public record.
It is vitally important that if this ever happens again, people understand that the masks they put on only temporarily conceal their faces.
It is vitally important that if this ever happens again, people understand that the masks they put on only temporarily conceal their faces.
Absolutely critical than when all these new ICE hires are terminated with no questions asked by the next admin that they not be re-hired wherever they came from. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
“We’re broken and we’re being poached by ICE,” one official with the prison workers union told ProPublica. “It’s unbelievable. People are leaving in droves.”
By @keribla.bsky.social
By @keribla.bsky.social
November 30, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Would go a bit further and insist on retro-actively removing the masks. Names, faces, where they were deployed, on some kind of accessible public record.
It is vitally important that if this ever happens again, people understand that the masks they put on only temporarily conceal their faces.
It is vitally important that if this ever happens again, people understand that the masks they put on only temporarily conceal their faces.
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Extraordinary WSJ reporting today that unveils the extent to which Trump, Witkoff, Kushner and US business executives are salivating over business deals with Russia while Putin’s forces kidnap Ukranian children and bomb civilians in their apartments.
🎁 www.wsj.com/world/russia...
🎁 www.wsj.com/world/russia...
November 29, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Extraordinary WSJ reporting today that unveils the extent to which Trump, Witkoff, Kushner and US business executives are salivating over business deals with Russia while Putin’s forces kidnap Ukranian children and bomb civilians in their apartments.
🎁 www.wsj.com/world/russia...
🎁 www.wsj.com/world/russia...
ATL is teeming with these and the idea they are bogarting the sidewalk is silly. *Extremely* deferential, yet to experience the mildest inconvenience.
Also: architecting cities to be fully navigable by boxes w no ground clearance has amazing positive externalities for walkability and accessibility.
Also: architecting cities to be fully navigable by boxes w no ground clearance has amazing positive externalities for walkability and accessibility.
I’m sorry but if “delivering food” isn’t the kind of job that robots are allowed to take then what is the point of even inventing robots
Just as you thought food delivery companies couldn't inflict any more misery on society:
Instead of using lowly-paid gig economy contractors to deliver groceries, they're replacing humans with robots, who, in turn, force humans off the pavement into road traffic.
Instead of using lowly-paid gig economy contractors to deliver groceries, they're replacing humans with robots, who, in turn, force humans off the pavement into road traffic.
November 29, 2025 at 12:33 PM
ATL is teeming with these and the idea they are bogarting the sidewalk is silly. *Extremely* deferential, yet to experience the mildest inconvenience.
Also: architecting cities to be fully navigable by boxes w no ground clearance has amazing positive externalities for walkability and accessibility.
Also: architecting cities to be fully navigable by boxes w no ground clearance has amazing positive externalities for walkability and accessibility.
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Harvard Law School’s Jack Goldsmith:
“In short, if the Post’s facts are correct, it appears that Special Operations Forces committed murder when the ‘two men were blown apart in the water, as the Post put it.’”
open.substack.com/pub/executiv...
“In short, if the Post’s facts are correct, it appears that Special Operations Forces committed murder when the ‘two men were blown apart in the water, as the Post put it.’”
open.substack.com/pub/executiv...
November 29, 2025 at 4:25 AM
Harvard Law School’s Jack Goldsmith:
“In short, if the Post’s facts are correct, it appears that Special Operations Forces committed murder when the ‘two men were blown apart in the water, as the Post put it.’”
open.substack.com/pub/executiv...
“In short, if the Post’s facts are correct, it appears that Special Operations Forces committed murder when the ‘two men were blown apart in the water, as the Post put it.’”
open.substack.com/pub/executiv...
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You're not seeing the defense and international conflict experts disagreeing because if the facts are true, it's one of the most basic things in the law of armed conflict: You cannot kill people who are "hors de combat," taken out of the game by injury or attack. This is Geneva 101 stuff.
I follower a few defense experts.
Seeing them all straight-up declare this a war crime without any him-and-hawing is uhm
Disconcerting.
Pete Hegseth must resign, as does Stephen Miller. Donald Trump should be subpoenaed before Congress to answer for HIS policy.
Seeing them all straight-up declare this a war crime without any him-and-hawing is uhm
Disconcerting.
Pete Hegseth must resign, as does Stephen Miller. Donald Trump should be subpoenaed before Congress to answer for HIS policy.
November 29, 2025 at 2:01 AM
You're not seeing the defense and international conflict experts disagreeing because if the facts are true, it's one of the most basic things in the law of armed conflict: You cannot kill people who are "hors de combat," taken out of the game by injury or attack. This is Geneva 101 stuff.
This was always the most absurd implication of the immunity decision: the pardon power is enumerated in the constitution, and therefore in the most protected "bucket" of executive orders.
SCOTUS has to write themselves out of this absurd conclusion, or we have no choice but to remove those judges.
SCOTUS has to write themselves out of this absurd conclusion, or we have no choice but to remove those judges.
i think that we should charge even people who have been pardoned, because there is no conceivable way the founders intended the pardon power to permit the executive to order people to commit crimes and then pardon them for them
November 28, 2025 at 11:26 PM
This was always the most absurd implication of the immunity decision: the pardon power is enumerated in the constitution, and therefore in the most protected "bucket" of executive orders.
SCOTUS has to write themselves out of this absurd conclusion, or we have no choice but to remove those judges.
SCOTUS has to write themselves out of this absurd conclusion, or we have no choice but to remove those judges.
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I second the motion to adopt this term.
Hagueseth
Exclusive: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave an order to “kill everybody” in the first strike on suspected drug boats in the Caribbean. After two men survived, the mission commander ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions, according to two sources.
November 28, 2025 at 7:56 PM
I second the motion to adopt this term.
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Dear foreign nationals in war-torn countries, terrorism hot-spots, and amidst our enemies:
If you help the United States, we’ll fuck you over and abandon you. Not the individual servicepeople or intelligence officers — they’ll fight for you. I mean the depraved, soulless leadership of the nation.
If you help the United States, we’ll fuck you over and abandon you. Not the individual servicepeople or intelligence officers — they’ll fight for you. I mean the depraved, soulless leadership of the nation.
So now they’re going to be doing individualized re-review of tens of thousands of Afghan evacuees’ cases on TOP of the re-review of 200,000+ refugees who entered under Biden?
November 27, 2025 at 5:42 AM
Dear foreign nationals in war-torn countries, terrorism hot-spots, and amidst our enemies:
If you help the United States, we’ll fuck you over and abandon you. Not the individual servicepeople or intelligence officers — they’ll fight for you. I mean the depraved, soulless leadership of the nation.
If you help the United States, we’ll fuck you over and abandon you. Not the individual servicepeople or intelligence officers — they’ll fight for you. I mean the depraved, soulless leadership of the nation.
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This is the type of hater energy that will fuel us in the years ahead.
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 1:42 PM
This is the type of hater energy that will fuel us in the years ahead.
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After Trump called for them to be executed, the FBI is now said to be investigating six members of Congress for reminding military service members that they should not obey illegal orders. It is not at all clear what law they supposedly violated @gregjaffe.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/u...
Democrats Say F.B.I. Is Investigating Them Over Illegal Orders Video
www.nytimes.com
November 26, 2025 at 3:46 AM
After Trump called for them to be executed, the FBI is now said to be investigating six members of Congress for reminding military service members that they should not obey illegal orders. It is not at all clear what law they supposedly violated @gregjaffe.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/u...
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I just ctrl+f'd and... "Soros" appears in this dissent 17 times
The TX redistricting dissent from Judge Jerry Smith is in. It's....a lot. He calls out the "pernicious judicial misbehavior" of Judge Brown (a Trump appointed judge) who wrote yesterday's opinion.
www.democracydocket.com/wp-content/u...
www.democracydocket.com/wp-content/u...
November 19, 2025 at 9:03 PM
I just ctrl+f'd and... "Soros" appears in this dissent 17 times
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Vaccines based on mRNA can be tailored to target a cancer patient’s unique tumor mutations. But crumbling support for cancer and mRNA vaccine research has endangered this promising therapy
Personalized Cancer Vaccines Are Almost Here—But Federal Funding Cuts Could Derail Them
Vaccines based on mRNA can be tailored to target a cancer patient’s unique tumor mutations. But crumbling support for cancer and mRNA vaccine research has endangered this promising therapy
www.scientificamerican.com
November 18, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Vaccines based on mRNA can be tailored to target a cancer patient’s unique tumor mutations. But crumbling support for cancer and mRNA vaccine research has endangered this promising therapy
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“I just had to ask: If there’s no worm, does the early bird go hungry? Meanwhile, across town, Samantha was dealing with a different sort of worm of her own.”
November 17, 2025 at 2:47 PM
“I just had to ask: If there’s no worm, does the early bird go hungry? Meanwhile, across town, Samantha was dealing with a different sort of worm of her own.”
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But they also said that Trump is facing far, far more public opposition today than the government ever saw during the McCarthy era. American civil society is weaker than many had hoped, but it's also stronger than it once was. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
November 10, 2025 at 4:03 PM
But they also said that Trump is facing far, far more public opposition today than the government ever saw during the McCarthy era. American civil society is weaker than many had hoped, but it's also stronger than it once was. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
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Of the historians, lawyers, and scholars I spoke to while writing this, many said the same thing: What's happening now is worth than McCarthyism. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
November 10, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Of the historians, lawyers, and scholars I spoke to while writing this, many said the same thing: What's happening now is worth than McCarthyism. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
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Over the last 10 months, the federal government has cracked down on political expression with a persistence and viciousness reminiscent of some of the darkest periods of U.S. history. Welcome to the Third Red Scare.
The First Amendment Won’t Go Quietly
Welcome to the third Red Scare.
www.theatlantic.com
November 10, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Over the last 10 months, the federal government has cracked down on political expression with a persistence and viciousness reminiscent of some of the darkest periods of U.S. history. Welcome to the Third Red Scare.
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No, this is the problem. The minute Democrats made the fight about ACA subsidies there were only two acceptable ends - with getting ACA subsidies or the GOP nuking the filibuster.
"Democrats give up" is the exact wrong message. It needs to be either "Democrats win" or "Republicans cheated".
"Democrats give up" is the exact wrong message. It needs to be either "Democrats win" or "Republicans cheated".
It's funny because when Democrats initially decided to make this shutdown fight about ACA subsidies, the consensus here seemed to be that this was too easy for Republicans because it prevented stove-touching. Now it seems we may just let them put their entire face on the stove.
If this is the case—IF—the Repubs must have cut deals with individual Senators.
But then wouldn’t it need to get through the House again?
This would be a bad deal for the country, but man would it be a (completely self-inflicted) political disaster for the Republicans
But then wouldn’t it need to get through the House again?
This would be a bad deal for the country, but man would it be a (completely self-inflicted) political disaster for the Republicans
November 9, 2025 at 9:35 PM
No, this is the problem. The minute Democrats made the fight about ACA subsidies there were only two acceptable ends - with getting ACA subsidies or the GOP nuking the filibuster.
"Democrats give up" is the exact wrong message. It needs to be either "Democrats win" or "Republicans cheated".
"Democrats give up" is the exact wrong message. It needs to be either "Democrats win" or "Republicans cheated".