Adrien Baron
@abaron.net
Software Engineer and Theatre fan living in London
Currently building @theatreninja.com, a new theatre ticket platform for Londoners
Maker of @clashofstats.com and http://tiny-frontend.github.io
Working at @nagomy.security
Currently building @theatreninja.com, a new theatre ticket platform for Londoners
Maker of @clashofstats.com and http://tiny-frontend.github.io
Working at @nagomy.security
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Every year I do Movember. I’m continuing my to raise money for Prostate Cancer UK. I’ve also set a goal to run 100 miles for the month. I just hit 25 miles this morning, and I’m already regretting my decision 😆
I’d really appreciate anyone who can support my fundraiser: movember.com/m/Conner?mc=60
I’d really appreciate anyone who can support my fundraiser: movember.com/m/Conner?mc=60
November 8, 2025 at 7:58 AM
Every year I do Movember. I’m continuing my to raise money for Prostate Cancer UK. I’ve also set a goal to run 100 miles for the month. I just hit 25 miles this morning, and I’m already regretting my decision 😆
I’d really appreciate anyone who can support my fundraiser: movember.com/m/Conner?mc=60
I’d really appreciate anyone who can support my fundraiser: movember.com/m/Conner?mc=60
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For theatre lovers in London, I’ve just released the @theatreninja.com ticketing app!
Other apps make you check availability for a show one date at a time, Theatre Ninja let you see all dates at once on one seat map!
iOS: apps.apple.com/gb/app/theat...
Android: play.google.com/store/apps/d...
Other apps make you check availability for a show one date at a time, Theatre Ninja let you see all dates at once on one seat map!
iOS: apps.apple.com/gb/app/theat...
Android: play.google.com/store/apps/d...
Theatre Ninja: Theatre Tickets
Stop wasting time searching multiple dates for theatre tickets. Theatre Ninja shows you all available seats for any show on one single map, letting you instantly compare prices and find the best valu...
apps.apple.com
October 31, 2025 at 5:46 PM
For theatre lovers in London, I’ve just released the @theatreninja.com ticketing app!
Other apps make you check availability for a show one date at a time, Theatre Ninja let you see all dates at once on one seat map!
iOS: apps.apple.com/gb/app/theat...
Android: play.google.com/store/apps/d...
Other apps make you check availability for a show one date at a time, Theatre Ninja let you see all dates at once on one seat map!
iOS: apps.apple.com/gb/app/theat...
Android: play.google.com/store/apps/d...
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HEY HEY, the Design Tokens Specification is stable! This is absolutely phenomenal news for the design system community and the technology industry in general. www.w3.org/community/de...
Design Tokens specification reaches first stable version | Design Tokens Community Group
www.w3.org
October 29, 2025 at 2:25 PM
HEY HEY, the Design Tokens Specification is stable! This is absolutely phenomenal news for the design system community and the technology industry in general. www.w3.org/community/de...
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I joined Cloudflare to build this. It’s still very early, and there’s lots still missing, but I hope the vision is clear.
It launched! Get traces for your app with zero code changes. No libraries, no SDK, no config. Traces show up in your dash or you can export them to your favorite o11y vendor over OTLP
blog.cloudflare.com/workers-trac...
blog.cloudflare.com/workers-trac...
Announcing Workers automatic tracing -- now in open beta
Cloudflare Workers' support for automatic tracing is now in open beta! Export traces to any OpenTelemetry-compatible provider for deeper application observability -- no code changes required
blog.cloudflare.com
October 28, 2025 at 1:24 PM
I joined Cloudflare to build this. It’s still very early, and there’s lots still missing, but I hope the vision is clear.
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if you see this post, your actions are:
- if you have a spare buck, give it to Wikipedia, then repost this
- if you don't have a spare buck, just repost
your action is mandatory for the world's best source of information to survive
- if you have a spare buck, give it to Wikipedia, then repost this
- if you don't have a spare buck, just repost
your action is mandatory for the world's best source of information to survive
I’ve never donated to Wikipedia before but I set up a small monthly donation as a fuck you to the world’s richest psychopath.
Elon Musk takes aim at Wikipedia
Musk has denounced Wikipedia as "Wokepedia" on X and urged people not to donate to the platform.
www.newsweek.com
December 26, 2024 at 12:03 PM
if you see this post, your actions are:
- if you have a spare buck, give it to Wikipedia, then repost this
- if you don't have a spare buck, just repost
your action is mandatory for the world's best source of information to survive
- if you have a spare buck, give it to Wikipedia, then repost this
- if you don't have a spare buck, just repost
your action is mandatory for the world's best source of information to survive
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How does our brain excel at complex object recognition, yet get fooled by simple illusory contours? What unifying principle governs all Gestalt laws of perceptual organization?
We may have an answer: integration of learned priors through feedback. New paper with @kenmiller.bsky.social! 🧵
We may have an answer: integration of learned priors through feedback. New paper with @kenmiller.bsky.social! 🧵
October 24, 2025 at 2:00 PM
How does our brain excel at complex object recognition, yet get fooled by simple illusory contours? What unifying principle governs all Gestalt laws of perceptual organization?
We may have an answer: integration of learned priors through feedback. New paper with @kenmiller.bsky.social! 🧵
We may have an answer: integration of learned priors through feedback. New paper with @kenmiller.bsky.social! 🧵
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Vitest 4 is out!
- Browser Mode is Stable
- Visual Regression Testing
- Improved Debugging
- Pool Stabilization
- New APIs
- Bug Fixes
Stay updated with our blog post:
vitest.dev/blog/vitest-4
- Browser Mode is Stable
- Visual Regression Testing
- Improved Debugging
- Pool Stabilization
- New APIs
- Bug Fixes
Stay updated with our blog post:
vitest.dev/blog/vitest-4
Announcing Vitest 4.0
Vitest 4.0 Release Announcement
vitest.dev
October 22, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Vitest 4 is out!
- Browser Mode is Stable
- Visual Regression Testing
- Improved Debugging
- Pool Stabilization
- New APIs
- Bug Fixes
Stay updated with our blog post:
vitest.dev/blog/vitest-4
- Browser Mode is Stable
- Visual Regression Testing
- Improved Debugging
- Pool Stabilization
- New APIs
- Bug Fixes
Stay updated with our blog post:
vitest.dev/blog/vitest-4
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i wrote about how to fix any bug
How to Fix Any Bug — overreacted
The joys of vibecoding.
overreacted.io
October 21, 2025 at 12:35 AM
i wrote about how to fix any bug
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![1
Nurse:
It’s become a real problem in this area
2
Nurse:
We’ve seen the whole community lost to addiction
3
Show a building sign posted:
Westminster ‘X’ Addiction Clinic
With various Westminster people or looking at their phones outside it
Nurse:
Ministers, Spads, Researchers…
4
Nurse:
Most mornings we’ll get a call about someone acting strangely
[Nurse on phone taking a call]
Ok - we’ll be right over
5
Nurse:
We just have a gentle chat
[Nurses approach a minister –Robert Jenrick? - standing in the Palace of Westminster
Minister:
I understand your concerns…
6
Nurse:
Are you OK love?
Minister:
Yes I’m just hearing legitimate concerns from real voters
7
Nurse:
That’s a robot, a Nazi and a poorly-disguised Russian
[Show that the people he is talking to are precisely these characters]
Nurse 2:
Give us your phone, love
8
Nurse:
At the clinic we put them in a Grass-Touching Pod, with a real voter to talk to
[We see them back at the clinic, holding the minister's head and pushing him into a glass isolation booth with a grass floor. And it is a baffled looking woman, on a chair, ready to talk to him.]
9
Minister:
YOU MUST BE WORRIED ABOUT THE COMING CIVIL WAR
[woman looks baffled]
10
woman:
I just want a bus service
Minister:
LOOK AT MY FLAG
[produces a St George's flag]
[ends]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4m3we4apbjayclzcnhwe3pfp/bafkreicahofq6s4xow7vowj7dx6odw6ejdwr4kwcmzta7qwi4hg2nvywji@jpeg)
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Guys new scamming method on bluesky. Please share this around. Dont fall for this stuff
Block, move on.
Block, move on.
October 18, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Guys new scamming method on bluesky. Please share this around. Dont fall for this stuff
Block, move on.
Block, move on.
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Very excited to be able to talk about something I've been working on for a while now - we're working with Commonwealth Fusion Systems, IMO the leading fusion startup in the world, to take our work on AI and tokamaks and make it work at the frontier of fusion energy. deepmind.google/discover/blo...
Google DeepMind is bringing AI to the next generation of fusion energy
We’re announcing our research partnership with Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS) to bring clean, safe, limitless fusion energy closer to reality with our advanced AI systems. This partnership...
deepmind.google
October 16, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Very excited to be able to talk about something I've been working on for a while now - we're working with Commonwealth Fusion Systems, IMO the leading fusion startup in the world, to take our work on AI and tokamaks and make it work at the frontier of fusion energy. deepmind.google/discover/blo...
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I have a theory www.theverge.com/policy/79849...
American politics has devolved into shitposting and aura farming
The Frog is owning the president.
www.theverge.com
October 11, 2025 at 5:32 PM
I have a theory www.theverge.com/policy/79849...
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I posted this last night cause I kind of wanted to bury it. I got cold feet about putting it out there.
embedding-space.github.io/sparse-netwo...
The subject is WHY neural networks work, and I think the answer I offer is kind of interesting. Maybe even a little correct, possibly.
embedding-space.github.io/sparse-netwo...
The subject is WHY neural networks work, and I think the answer I offer is kind of interesting. Maybe even a little correct, possibly.
October 8, 2025 at 1:57 PM
I posted this last night cause I kind of wanted to bury it. I got cold feet about putting it out there.
embedding-space.github.io/sparse-netwo...
The subject is WHY neural networks work, and I think the answer I offer is kind of interesting. Maybe even a little correct, possibly.
embedding-space.github.io/sparse-netwo...
The subject is WHY neural networks work, and I think the answer I offer is kind of interesting. Maybe even a little correct, possibly.
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It wasn't asylum seekers who increased anyone's rent or energy bills, the rich did that.
October 4, 2025 at 8:34 PM
It wasn't asylum seekers who increased anyone's rent or energy bills, the rich did that.
That’s such a cool idea!
I've released my first Go application!
It's a (very basic) terminal video editor that uses ffmpeg and whisper to let you selectively choose which lines from a video you want to keep.
You can also preview each line with a pop-up video player!
It's called tsplice:
It's a (very basic) terminal video editor that uses ffmpeg and whisper to let you selectively choose which lines from a video you want to keep.
You can also preview each line with a pop-up video player!
It's called tsplice:
October 5, 2025 at 7:14 AM
That’s such a cool idea!
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show this to anyone else you know who also assumed DHH was just a normal conservative dude rather than a raging white supremacist lunatic
DHH Is Way Worse Than I Thought | jakelazaroff.com
DHH's politics are not normal. Maybe they used to be, I don't know, but as of right now the dude is_way outside of what most people would consider moral or acceptable.
jakelazaroff.com
October 2, 2025 at 12:57 PM
show this to anyone else you know who also assumed DHH was just a normal conservative dude rather than a raging white supremacist lunatic
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By the way, this is shockingly better than Discover. You should use it
Welcome to the ✨For You✨ feed!
It finds people who liked the same posts as you, and shows you what else they've liked recently.
📌 Pin to add it to your top bar
❤️ Like the feed and repost to spread the goodness
It finds people who liked the same posts as you, and shows you what else they've liked recently.
📌 Pin to add it to your top bar
❤️ Like the feed and repost to spread the goodness
October 2, 2025 at 12:16 PM
By the way, this is shockingly better than Discover. You should use it
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I'm so excited to tell you all about the speakers for @londonwebstandards.org #SotB2026. I'm just not allowed to say anything yet.
Early-bird tickets available until 31 October
2026.stateofthebrowser.com/tickets/
Please share
Early-bird tickets available until 31 October
2026.stateofthebrowser.com/tickets/
Please share
Tickets | State of the Browser
More information and buying options for tickets.
2026.stateofthebrowser.com
September 29, 2025 at 9:08 AM
I'm so excited to tell you all about the speakers for @londonwebstandards.org #SotB2026. I'm just not allowed to say anything yet.
Early-bird tickets available until 31 October
2026.stateofthebrowser.com/tickets/
Please share
Early-bird tickets available until 31 October
2026.stateofthebrowser.com/tickets/
Please share
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We’re going up at a rate of 700 signatures an hour currently. In the time it took me to boil the kettle it went up by 50. Keep the message in minds folks. Fair coverage is what we want so we hear from ALL parties not just the narrative of one. Sign and pass on petition.parliament.uk/petitions/71...
August 31, 2025 at 8:58 AM
We’re going up at a rate of 700 signatures an hour currently. In the time it took me to boil the kettle it went up by 50. Keep the message in minds folks. Fair coverage is what we want so we hear from ALL parties not just the narrative of one. Sign and pass on petition.parliament.uk/petitions/71...
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DO NOT COMPLAIN ABOUT #FARAGE ALWAYS BEING ON TV IF YOU HAVEN'T SIGNED THIS PETTION !!!
1,940 signatures needed!
RT and thank you for your attention to this matter! 😰
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/71...
1,940 signatures needed!
RT and thank you for your attention to this matter! 😰
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/71...
Petition: Ensure plurality of political coverage across UK broadcast media at all times
We want to ensure that a plurality of views from all political parties in Westminster are represented and the nations parliaments are heard all year round, not just election times. The rules for coverage during elections should apply at all times.
petition.parliament.uk
August 30, 2025 at 8:42 AM
DO NOT COMPLAIN ABOUT #FARAGE ALWAYS BEING ON TV IF YOU HAVEN'T SIGNED THIS PETTION !!!
1,940 signatures needed!
RT and thank you for your attention to this matter! 😰
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/71...
1,940 signatures needed!
RT and thank you for your attention to this matter! 😰
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/71...
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What happens when you run React Server Components on a custom Rust runtime instead of Node.js?
4x faster rendering, 10k+ req/sec, sub-50ms P99 latency.
Same JSX, same component patterns. Zero Rust knowledge needed.
The runtime does the heavy lifting, you write the React.
4x faster rendering, 10k+ req/sec, sub-50ms P99 latency.
Same JSX, same component patterns. Zero Rust knowledge needed.
The runtime does the heavy lifting, you write the React.
How I Built a Full-Stack React Framework 4x Faster Than Next.js With 4x More Throughput - Ryan Skinner
Introducing the next-generation React framework with Rust-powered runtime, React Server Components, and ridiculously-fast development experience delivering 4x faster performance than Next.js.
ryanskinner.com
August 18, 2025 at 8:01 PM
What happens when you run React Server Components on a custom Rust runtime instead of Node.js?
4x faster rendering, 10k+ req/sec, sub-50ms P99 latency.
Same JSX, same component patterns. Zero Rust knowledge needed.
The runtime does the heavy lifting, you write the React.
4x faster rendering, 10k+ req/sec, sub-50ms P99 latency.
Same JSX, same component patterns. Zero Rust knowledge needed.
The runtime does the heavy lifting, you write the React.
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The semver library used in npm, yarn and pnpm could be made 33x faster.
Ran into that while wondering why running `npm install` takes so long on the Preact repo.
marvinh.dev/blog/speedin...
Ran into that while wondering why running `npm install` takes so long on the Preact repo.
marvinh.dev/blog/speedin...
Speeding up the JavaScript ecosystem - Semver
During the installation process, package managers run a bunch of semver comparisons. The semver library used in npm, yarn and pnpm can be made around 33x faster.
marvinh.dev
August 10, 2025 at 8:34 AM
The semver library used in npm, yarn and pnpm could be made 33x faster.
Ran into that while wondering why running `npm install` takes so long on the Preact repo.
marvinh.dev/blog/speedin...
Ran into that while wondering why running `npm install` takes so long on the Preact repo.
marvinh.dev/blog/speedin...
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“We already have a phrase for code that nobody understands: legacy code.”
Vibe code is legacy code
Updates and articles from the Val Town team
blog.val.town
July 31, 2025 at 11:12 PM
“We already have a phrase for code that nobody understands: legacy code.”
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To celebrate 'This Way Up - When Maps Go Wrong' coming out, join me and TV's @markcooperjones TOMORROW at 8pm for our first ever Reddit AMA. Ask us anything you like!
reddit.com/r/MapMenBook
reddit.com/r/MapMenBook
July 23, 2025 at 10:05 AM
To celebrate 'This Way Up - When Maps Go Wrong' coming out, join me and TV's @markcooperjones TOMORROW at 8pm for our first ever Reddit AMA. Ask us anything you like!
reddit.com/r/MapMenBook
reddit.com/r/MapMenBook