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rich harris
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my life is derp and i do derp shit
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rich harris @rich-harris.dev · 1h
resisted the urge to sign off 'now do smith street'
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rich harris @rich-harris.dev · 1d
I live right by Court Street and the bike lane has made a huge difference — the street is so much calmer and safer. It's going to be a thing of beauty when it's finished

Took Doug's suggestion and emailed the community board. Took two minutes. If you live in Brooklyn consider doing the same!
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Doug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social · 1d
If you like this change to the street, please let Brooklyn CB6 know by emailing [email protected]

I'm on the board and we're already getting some cranky emails. The folks who are using this and benefit from it don't know they have to stand up for good things, so help us stand up for good things.
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rich harris @rich-harris.dev · 2d
Ah ok maybe we're in the clear then
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rich harris @rich-harris.dev · 2d
oof I'm pretty sure that includes Svelte
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Svelte @svelte.dev · 4d
lil' treat for all you weekend builders: Svelte now has an official MCP server, courtesy of resident bot wranglers @paolo.ricciuti.me and @khromov.se 🤖

it gives your LLM access to docs and compiler-driven diagnostics — give it a spin and let us know how you get on!

svelte.dev/docs/mcp/ove...
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Overview • Svelte documentation
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rich harris @rich-harris.dev · 4d
yeah. we're definitely going to chew on this and see if there's a workable solution that doesn't amount to 'trust that rich isn't having a bad day'. i do think there could be an opportunity for github to add something like a two-person rule. if it works for nuclear missile launches...
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rich harris @rich-harris.dev · 4d
thank you!
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rich harris @rich-harris.dev · 4d
thank you so much! we have an Open Collective that funds a lot of essential maintenance, and every contribution makes a difference:

opencollective.com/svelte
Svelte - Open Collective
Web development for the rest of us
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rich harris @rich-harris.dev · 4d
True, as one of the 6 'owners' of the sveltejs org I guess I have the power to arbitrarily add/remove other owners (and so do the other 5). If you know of a way to make certain actions require approval from multiple owners, let me know... otherwise will add to the 'to research' pile
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rich harris @rich-harris.dev · 4d
luckily, no-one has that power!
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Simon Le Marchant @marchantweb.com · 5d
Realizing I never posted this to Bluesky 🫢

✨ Introducing Shaders

A first-of-it's-kind component library for jaw-dropping effects and frontend magic, shipping soon for @vuejs.org, @react.dev & @svelte.dev.
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rich harris @rich-harris.dev · 5d
what sort of things did you run into — anything that the framework itself could have smoothed over? (eternal battle between 'just expose the underlying platform so people can build whatever' and 'provide abstractions so people don't have to think about the underlying platform')
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Ben McCann @benmccann.com · 5d
svelte.dev/packages is now live!

It's a convenient and easily discoverable place to find a sampling of high quality packages in the ecosystem. We hope it will give confidence in the Svelte ecosystem to newcomers and help them get started more easily.
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Packages for your Svelte and SvelteKit apps
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rich harris @rich-harris.dev · 6d
love this www.youtube.com/watch?v=xz8L...
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Robin Berjon @robin.berjon.com · 15d
The internet's in a bad place. We're not winning. How can we turn things around? We need money.

What parts of the internet 1) are still under democratic control and 2) are in a position to produce significant revenue? It's mostly down to Wikipedia.

But there's more… 🧵
How Wikipedia Can Save the Internet With Advertising | TechPolicy.Press
Robin Berjon explores how principled advertising on Wikipedia could fund a democratic digital future.
www.techpolicy.press
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daniel roooooohh 👻 @danielroe.dev · 7d
a screenshot of a Bluesky modal window: Discard draft? Are you sure you'd like to discard this draft?
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rich harris @rich-harris.dev · 7d
oh no :(
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rich harris @rich-harris.dev · 9d
i'm a front-end developer, i work on the front end

(in the first case it's a compound adjective, but not the second)
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rich harris @rich-harris.dev · 11d
for sure — fully behind that
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rich harris @rich-harris.dev · 11d
the things that _actually_ improve people's lives — investing in education, science, infrastructure, healthcare, renewable energy, the arts, freedom of movement, etc — are all left-coded projects advanced by sensible people without angry rhetoric. the centrists keep getting in the way though!
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rich harris @rich-harris.dev · 11d
the only angry rhetoric i hear comes from the other side — the side that talks about 'our women' and so on. the side whose policies, to the extent they have any, tend to consist of gutting public services to reduce the tax burden on people with farage-level wealth
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rich harris @rich-harris.dev · 11d
'my parents failed to change the world for the better, so i've decided not to try' is not a particularly inspiring story tbh
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rich harris @rich-harris.dev · 11d
i hope so too. my fear is that in an industry where people a) are prone to hero-worship and b) generally resent being asked to think about politics at all (this has been my impression at least, and a striking one having come from outside tech), a lot of people just stick their fingers in their ears
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rich harris @rich-harris.dev · 11d
for sure, SV has always been politically immature and generally quite ignorant about how the world works. kind of adorable, in the way that libertarians are. but this feels new — there's nothing libertarian about restricting people's movement, for example
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rich harris @rich-harris.dev · 11d
i dunno, looking at the people lining up to support DHH — who presumably aren't totally ignorant of what he says — makes me think the overton window has moved pretty far among silicon valley elites and their wannabes. the most generous explanation is a combination of nihilism and aloofness
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