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Tom Sherman @tom.sherman.is · Jan 1

hello from the dawn of the unix epoch

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Tom Sherman @tom.sherman.is · 12h

Seen this? Looks like theyre working on it!

bsky.app/profile/dhol...

daniel 🫠 @dholms.xyz · 1d

some goals:
- this does the full lifecycle of backfilling for your app & then handling the firehose - including the cutover
- dynamically configurable to sync only certain DIDs/collections
- handles cursor management & offer other interfaces to sends events to your application (like webhooks)

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Tom Sherman @tom.sherman.is · 14h

Assume typelex doesn't have the concept of ambient or global types then?

Tom Sherman @tom.sherman.is · 23h

This issue might give you some more context (thank you @timothy.is for finding it and sharing it with me!)

Update configs format for use with defineConfig() · Issue #3956 · jsx-eslint/eslint-plugin-react

The format for flat configs in eslint-plugin-react is outside the norm for ESLint plugins. Currently: const react = require('eslint-plugin-react'); module.exports = [ react.configs.flat.recommended...

github.com

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Tom Sherman @tom.sherman.is · 1d

@haz.dev do you think Fragment refs can replace the descendants pattern in component libraries? (I've been out of the loop for a while, not sure if Ariakit even uses it still!)

Tom Sherman @tom.sherman.is · 1d

Oh that thing about #main makes total sense, I had a hunch something like that was involved

Tom Sherman @tom.sherman.is · 1d

It's just an alternative npm registry really (when using in node projects at least).

lpm is nodejs compatible but using it is a bit fiddly because jsr doesn't yet support adding a "bin" field to their package.jsons

Instructions here github.com/lexicon-communit…

Tom Sherman @tom.sherman.is · 1d

Code here github.com/lexicon-communit…

GitHub - lexicon-community/lpm

Contribute to lexicon-community/lpm development by creating an account on GitHub.

github.com

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Tom Sherman @tom.sherman.is · 1d

Btw if you haven't seen it @lpm/cli offers a solution for vendoring lexicon files from the network (which means it only works for resolvable lexicons, not rando ones in github. bug or feature? you tell me)

@lpm/cli - JSR

@lpm/cli on JSR: Lexicon package manager for atproto schemas.

jsr.io

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Tom Sherman @tom.sherman.is · 1d

@lpm/core does this and I believe there's an official implementation in the atproto repo now

@lpm/core - JSR

@lpm/core on JSR

jsr.io

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Tom Sherman @tom.sherman.is · 1d

Why are we annoyed that things we create and say in public commons are being used in ways that we don't like?

You want to opt out? Then log off

Tom Sherman @tom.sherman.is · 1d

And let me configure which records get sent to which clients. Bonus points for letting me declare a filter for more complex partitioning eg. app.bsky.feed.post records with image embeds go to this webhook client

Tom Sherman @tom.sherman.is · 1d

Also let me configure multiple webhook clients with different configurations so I can have eg. guaranteed ordered delivery for one client and fire and forget scattergun on anothe

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Tom Sherman @tom.sherman.is · 1d

@bnewbold.net some advice about unions pls 🙏

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Tom Sherman @tom.sherman.is · 1d

Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of posts hurtling down the highway.

Samuel @samuel.fm · 1d

you should drive all the posts to me in the AWS semitruck

Tom Sherman @tom.sherman.is · 1d

Should I be able to have a union at the top level of a def? ie. not an object property

It seems ok according to the spec but lex-cli raises an error.

Tom Sherman @tom.sherman.is · 1d

For webhooks, have customisable delivery and ordering guarantees per client

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Tom Sherman @tom.sherman.is · 1d

Make it scale down and let me run it as a sidecar next to my PDS for backups

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Tom Sherman @tom.sherman.is · 1d

This message (and solution) is probably something that is very obvious to many on this app

The Web is Going to Die

YouTube video by vlogbrothers

www.youtube.com

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Tom Sherman @tom.sherman.is · 1d

There are a lot of reasons why I hate the video/podcast format tho lol

Tom Sherman @tom.sherman.is · 1d

The interview podcast format only works when the host and guest are in the same room. Instant skip for me

I'm actually glad for the rise of the video/podcast medium, it's forced hosts to switch back to primarily physical interviews

Tom Sherman @tom.sherman.is · 1d

Ok, long day so far so maybe I'm not understanding but... RQ v5 supports both v18 and v19 right? What do you mean by "since we're not on v18"?

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Tom Sherman @tom.sherman.is · 1d

Ah so no React 19 requirement for v6?

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Tom Sherman @tom.sherman.is · 1d

Single dependency version policy in @nx.dev is proving to be a costly mistake for us

Many of the cons of independently managed versions have now been solved by pnpm catalogs so we're starting to move our relatively large monorepo to an independent version policy

Tom Sherman @tom.sherman.is · 1d

"minimum requirement React 19" 👀👀👀

Transition improvements dropping in V6 or a following minor?

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Tom Sherman @tom.sherman.is · 1d

Best I got

Tom Sherman @tom.sherman.is · Feb 1

The world if react native devs didn't have to have ruby installed on their machines