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fullstack dev in mostly typescript react. learning Svelte and Clojure atm. opinions are my own. internet abode: byhow.me
I think I’m ready to stop being religious about tech stacks and pick up the @elixir-lang.org PETAL stack now, which seems like it is actually solving a problem rather than flashing cool gadgets
November 10, 2025 at 5:56 AM
The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born; now is the time of monsters.
October 13, 2025 at 7:23 AM
experimenting web components with @lit.dev and alpine.js for an Macintosh retro image dithering tool: dithering.optimistic.wiki

#buildinpublic
September 15, 2025 at 5:37 AM
what a tough year for science, facts and logic
www.hhs.gov
August 6, 2025 at 5:53 AM
a16z is a media agency for VCs and american dynamism
August 2, 2025 at 7:53 PM
prompt eng frameworks (e.g. tasks list, planner, memory, etc) or any other blueprint work is prolly not going away
July 28, 2025 at 8:49 AM
self host literally all your software
July 27, 2025 at 8:55 PM
and it is so easy to learn and also mess up typescript, so almost certainly you need some custom modules to structure and enhance your dev workflow, (effect, biome, vite, etc) and don’t start on that “just switch to x language” talk; for any Fullstack app, the js avoidance strategy just don’t work
July 20, 2025 at 8:31 AM
in defense of rapidly growing and changing typescript packages and use it in composition rather than meta-frameworks (like RoR or Phoenix), the demand for more complicated features are evolving exponentially thus it requires more flexible and robust methodologies to adapt to it
July 20, 2025 at 7:31 AM
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Five things to remember about war:
June 22, 2025 at 4:28 AM
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I am coming at this not just as a code-writing system-designing person(that is my bread and butter yes), but also as a writer, a translator, an interpreter, an artist, a musician, a psychology and sociology double major, and a climate change advocate.

nombiezinja.com/word-things/...
Building a Healthy Relationship with AI - A Cross-Disciplinary Perspective — Things
AI is here to stay. Tech is basically doing an all out assault on the arts and humanities. Tech is cannibalizing itself. Systems are crashing. I am coming at this not just as a code-writing system-d...
nombiezinja.com
June 18, 2025 at 8:49 PM
JavaScript avoidance strategies just don’t work, and I think unless you are actively inventing Hotwire/Liveview HTML over the wire techniques, all the backend languages differ in semantics and performance so might as well just stick to end to end TypeScript in that case.
June 16, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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"If your decentralised protocol is missing features, the market will add them with centralisation." — @goat.navy

*This*:
- is why why the web was captured;
- is why email became concentrated;
- is why ActivityPub, as defined today, isn't capture-resistant.
June 13, 2025 at 1:38 PM
your growth journey is not a brand
June 11, 2025 at 12:14 AM
decisions are easy when your values are clear
June 10, 2025 at 5:33 AM
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Form control UI used to match browser UI (see how the input matches between the URL bar and search bar) #CSSDay
June 6, 2025 at 10:01 AM
not a big fan of consulting firms reports that just reduce people to numbers, that just another penny on a fortune 500 stock narrative. but also i recognize the work to try to make sense of the world and deduce the current and forecast the future. props to Mary Meeker: www.bondcap.com/reports/tai
BOND | BOND
BOND is a global technology investment firm that supports visionary founders throughout their entire life cycle of innovation & growth.
www.bondcap.com
June 3, 2025 at 3:52 AM
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my takeaway from this feature is that in a functioning political system there would be televised congressional hearings over the fact that one of the most influential people in the white house is a total maniac www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Curtis Yarvin’s Plot Against America
The reactionary blogger’s call for a monarch to rule the country once seemed like a joke. Now the right is ready to bend the knee.
www.newyorker.com
June 2, 2025 at 5:36 PM
The Pain Working with React
Nothing really works like you think it does
byhow.me
June 2, 2025 at 4:20 AM
Know what’s real. Less, less less…
May 25, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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Biocosmism total victory
May 23, 2025 at 12:32 AM
This is super cool, great read for someone who’s not familiar with the Rust community driven effort over the past (and very impressive!) 10 years. Now I see it being a super holistically designed infrastructure rather than just a system engineering focused toolset
10 Years of Stable Rust: An Infrastructure Story - The Rust Foundation
A note from the Rust Foundation: Today, May 15, 2025, marks 10 years since the first stable release of Rust. To commemorate this milestone, we are excited to share the following guest blog contributed...
rustfoundation.org
May 19, 2025 at 11:01 PM
i know it seems dumb that we inject so much 3rd party bundlers/utils/validation/effect libraries just so a JavaScript app works, but it’s important too cuz we can’t rewrite everything with a more feature complete language like Rust can we
May 15, 2025 at 1:02 AM
programming and engineering are different in the lines of whether things break down quickly
May 14, 2025 at 7:04 AM