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Chris Thoburn

@runspired.com

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📍Oakland, CA, North Mexico Husband |🦮parent | ⛰️Trail Runner | OSS Software Engineer working on @emberjs.com and @warp-drive.io 👨🏼‍💻Senior Staff Engineer at AuditBoard, Ex @linkedin.com IsleOfCode

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Chris Thoburn @runspired.com · 6h

But this move by TimCooked has me thinking there are no more Apple devices in my future.

“Hi we would like you to ignore the modern holocaust” has a way of immediately destroying any shred of loyalty.

migrantinsider.com/p/scoop-appl...

SCOOP: Apple Quietly Made ICE Agents a Protected Class

Internal emails show tech giant used anti-hate-speech rules meant for minorities to block an app documenting immigration enforcement.

migrantinsider.com

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Chris Thoburn @runspired.com · 6h

I’ve been an Apple user since the Apple II

I’ve never owned anything but an Apple computer.

I’ve never owed a smartphone other than an iPhone. I manage 9 lines.

CarPlay, AppleTV, HomePod, Airbase (in the past), iPods - so many. iPads - a few. AppleWatch - just one.

Stoked waiting for VisionPro 2

Chris Thoburn @runspired.com · 1d

Expect borrowing and theft to occur

Chris Thoburn @runspired.com · 1d

Feels like react is shipping features to cover for where it makes simple things hard, but in the process has landed on nice ideas that transcend just fixing the constraints.

Chris Thoburn @runspired.com · 1d

Won’t lie - a little feature envy in react on this round.

Not in the “oh React is the rizz” sense - reactive frameworks could all implement this easier and do it nicer, they just haven’t bothered to care because the rough edges around this stuff are far more rare to encounter.

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Chris Thoburn @runspired.com · 1d

React has been trying to fight signals vocally since the spec work began because it’s a threat to meta.

Recently though there’s been a bunch of invalid comparisons of useEffectEvent and untracked

Chris Thoburn @runspired.com · 2d

So iOS has both grown to 50gb and misreports app storage usage by 50gb and suddenly 128gb of storage is woefully short

Chris Thoburn @runspired.com · 2d

Nah that’s literally the baseline/average/neutral good. Cheaper, cleaner, closer, better service, easier booking, stable expectations, rewards … yada yada

Chris Thoburn @runspired.com · 2d

On a serious note the full police report reads like a depressed alcoholic screaming for help. Hope after whatever jail time comes from this Sanchez gets some mental help too.

Chris Thoburn @runspired.com · 2d

Mark Sanchez clearly never recovered (from) the butt fumble.

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Chris Thoburn @runspired.com · 2d

But I’m also reminded of this line from the documentary of our distant past before Earth was cut off.

a man and a woman are standing next to each other with the words so this is how liberty dies

Alt: Padme Amidala just after palatine has reorganized the republic into an empire: “so this is how liberty dies, with thunderous applause”

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Chris Thoburn @runspired.com · 2d

Fwiw I’m probably part of the problem here cause I like to intersperse sports, tech and humor just so we aren’t so depressed from the state of the world all the effing time

Micah @rincewind.run · 2d

this timeline is so surreal

collapse of the republic!

football!

bluesky moderation meltdown!

collapse of the republic some more!

more football!

the republic: still collapsing!

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horsejs.com @horsejs.com · 3d

Ember is the most vanilla

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Nils Gilman @nilsgilman.bsky.social · 7d

An East African at the conference I am attending made a really striking point: that he recognizes the problems U.S. democracy is having because they are typical of a recently democratized country — and after all, the U.S. only became a proper democracy in the mid-1960s.

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Chris Thoburn @runspired.com · 3d

Bowling alleys still exist?!

Chris Thoburn @runspired.com · 3d

The concept of the 10” pizza is honestly absurd. Just start at 12” please, thanks.

Chris Thoburn @runspired.com · 4d

tsdoc is generally nicer

Chris Thoburn @runspired.com · 4d

I love Strava. But I’m pretty sure myself and most other runners I know would jump ship if Garmin pulled the plug. I don’t love Garmin, but I trust Garmin. And I don’t trust Strava.

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Chris Thoburn @runspired.com · 4d

All of prettier’s ternary formatting is abysmal, I just always disable prettier for them

Chris Thoburn @runspired.com · 5d

Have the official lyrics been checked cause trawling was a thing where I grew up with similar meaning

Chris Thoburn @runspired.com · 5d

I'm still refusing to believe its headlamp season

Chris Thoburn @runspired.com · 5d

So vscode extensions marketplace seems to be having a widespread issue with tons of extensions being marked as no longer available. Their status page says "all is well" 😅

Chris Thoburn @runspired.com · 5d

Ultimately if you do try to play the cat-and-mouse game, you end up relegated to obscurity its so hard for any of your users to find and use you. Which is the goal, they don't need to block the service ... they just need to make it so incredibly hard to use that almost no one uses it.

Chris Thoburn @runspired.com · 5d

"Use the web" is too naive a take. The US has a history of taking down websites, its quite easy for them too.

They do it at the hosting level, the DNS level, the IP level even all the time. You can host on a friendly service out of the country and rotate IPs and still be blocked quite easily.

NullVoxPopuli @nullvoxpopuli.com · 5d

Websites can't be taken down on a whim.

CDN/Host becomes malicious? change your host.

DNS Provider becomes malicious? change providers.

No matter what company bends to fascism, you can still have your website work with a little shuffling.

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Chris Thoburn @runspired.com · 5d

We’ve liked Thuma and Article the best! Thuma unfortunately doesn’t work well for our height. Article has a few options we like and will probably customize on our end to get to what we want.