Alex Early
@aeflash.com
StaffEng Frontend at Reddit. Formerly NPM. Knows way too much about Javascript. Trying to make the Web suck less.
Also [email protected] 🦣
Also [email protected] 🦣
Last night I had a dream where I was sitting on a bench with a friend and we were shocking people with static electricity as they passed by. "We have such high potential" I said.
I guess now that I'm a father I've ascended to the plane where I can now make dad jokes in my sleep.
I guess now that I'm a father I've ascended to the plane where I can now make dad jokes in my sleep.
March 17, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Last night I had a dream where I was sitting on a bench with a friend and we were shocking people with static electricity as they passed by. "We have such high potential" I said.
I guess now that I'm a father I've ascended to the plane where I can now make dad jokes in my sleep.
I guess now that I'm a father I've ascended to the plane where I can now make dad jokes in my sleep.
The only HATE in my heart is HATEOAS
Hypermedia
As
The
Engine
Of
Application
State
Hypermedia
As
The
Engine
Of
Application
State
February 19, 2025 at 7:12 PM
The only HATE in my heart is HATEOAS
Hypermedia
As
The
Engine
Of
Application
State
Hypermedia
As
The
Engine
Of
Application
State
Neat little interview about Primer.js -- "Facebook's HTMX from 2010". I always wondered what happened to it after React starting taking over. htmx.org/essays/inter...
</> htmx ~ An interview with Makinde Adeagbo, Creator of Primer
In this interview with software engineer Makinde Adeagbo, he discusses his role in creating Primer, a hypermedia-oriented JavaScript library used at Facebook in the 2000s, and shares insights about bu...
htmx.org
January 29, 2025 at 11:54 PM
Neat little interview about Primer.js -- "Facebook's HTMX from 2010". I always wondered what happened to it after React starting taking over. htmx.org/essays/inter...
Still waiting for when AI models don't require 1,000s of GPUs to train and run, though...
January 27, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Still waiting for when AI models don't require 1,000s of GPUs to train and run, though...
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I was wrong about a previous statement around Jim Fan/NVIDIA - the numbers have been gone into in detail by Ben Thompson over at Stratechery - to be clear, DeepSeek V3 was absolutely not trained JUST on $5.5m or whatever, that was just the final training run.
stratechery.com/2025/deepsee...
stratechery.com/2025/deepsee...
DeepSeek FAQ
DeepSeek has completely upended people’s expectations for AI and competition with China. What is it, and why does it matter?
stratechery.com
January 27, 2025 at 5:35 PM
I was wrong about a previous statement around Jim Fan/NVIDIA - the numbers have been gone into in detail by Ben Thompson over at Stratechery - to be clear, DeepSeek V3 was absolutely not trained JUST on $5.5m or whatever, that was just the final training run.
stratechery.com/2025/deepsee...
stratechery.com/2025/deepsee...
This app could have been a website!
i don't want to hear your most boomer complaint. what's your most millennial complaint?
January 15, 2025 at 11:53 PM
This app could have been a website!
Reposted by Alex Early
I don't think anything makes you beyond redemption forever. Redemption is a gift given by others. It has less to do with the perpetrator and more to do with how much grace other people are able to give. And some people are capable of almost infinite grace.
18. When is someone beyond redemption?
January 13, 2025 at 5:50 PM
I don't think anything makes you beyond redemption forever. Redemption is a gift given by others. It has less to do with the perpetrator and more to do with how much grace other people are able to give. And some people are capable of almost infinite grace.
Recently I've been thinking about "induced demand" in relation to frontend software engineering. Frontend complexity has ballooned over the last decade+. Tools like NPM, TS, and React, rather than helping you tame complexity, instead "widen the highways" to let you write more-and-more complex apps.
January 13, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Recently I've been thinking about "induced demand" in relation to frontend software engineering. Frontend complexity has ballooned over the last decade+. Tools like NPM, TS, and React, rather than helping you tame complexity, instead "widen the highways" to let you write more-and-more complex apps.
Weirdest realization about being a new parent: you end up wiping someone else's ass way more than your own.
January 3, 2025 at 6:07 AM
Weirdest realization about being a new parent: you end up wiping someone else's ass way more than your own.
Currently reading: hypermedia.systems
January 1, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Currently reading: hypermedia.systems
Outer Wilds. What a masterfully crafted experience.
What was the most impactful ending you've experienced in a video game?
December 30, 2024 at 4:29 AM
Outer Wilds. What a masterfully crafted experience.
Reposted by Alex Early
Not that Google was ever good, but this cartoon is a good summary of now.
December 28, 2024 at 5:53 PM
Not that Google was ever good, but this cartoon is a good summary of now.
Every time I try to edit a character in the middle of an <input> string and the cursor jumps to the end I am reminded of how much React has poisoned the web.
December 20, 2024 at 8:39 PM
Every time I try to edit a character in the middle of an <input> string and the cursor jumps to the end I am reminded of how much React has poisoned the web.
browser tab hydra -- you close one tab and three more appear in its place
December 19, 2024 at 11:44 PM
browser tab hydra -- you close one tab and three more appear in its place
Reposted by Alex Early
A single index.html is a valid Vite app
December 18, 2024 at 3:55 AM
A single index.html is a valid Vite app
People have _way_ too strong of opinions about pizza.
December 16, 2024 at 7:27 PM
People have _way_ too strong of opinions about pizza.
Probably still will hang around Mastodon too, though. Different vibes, and not everyone will come over here.
December 16, 2024 at 4:56 AM
Probably still will hang around Mastodon too, though. Different vibes, and not everyone will come over here.
We'll, I'm here now! This place seems to be reaching critical mass!
December 16, 2024 at 4:55 AM
We'll, I'm here now! This place seems to be reaching critical mass!