Austin Akers
@austinakers.com
29 | Father | Husband | Breakdancer | DX Engineer @harper.fast | Cellist | Muay Thai Fighter | Community First | Author | OSS Contributor | Always Learning
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We raised a $12.5M Series A round, led by Accel.
In this next stage, VoidZero is accelerating development on both our open-source projects and Vite+, the unified JavaScript toolchain.
This is only the beginning!
→ voidzero.dev/posts/announ...
In this next stage, VoidZero is accelerating development on both our open-source projects and Vite+, the unified JavaScript toolchain.
This is only the beginning!
→ voidzero.dev/posts/announ...
VoidZero Raises $12.5M Series A
VoidZero raised $12.5 million in Series A funding to accelerate product development.
voidzero.dev
October 30, 2025 at 8:05 AM
We raised a $12.5M Series A round, led by Accel.
In this next stage, VoidZero is accelerating development on both our open-source projects and Vite+, the unified JavaScript toolchain.
This is only the beginning!
→ voidzero.dev/posts/announ...
In this next stage, VoidZero is accelerating development on both our open-source projects and Vite+, the unified JavaScript toolchain.
This is only the beginning!
→ voidzero.dev/posts/announ...
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🎉 Congrats to Ethan Arrowood for winning the Leading by Example JavaScriptLandia Award from the @openjsf at #JSConf 2025!
Ethan’s impact spans the JS ecosystem — from @nodejs, Undici, and WinterCG to his leadership within OpenJS and contributions to Harper’s open-source efforts.
👉 buff.ly/YnbgF5o
Ethan’s impact spans the JS ecosystem — from @nodejs, Undici, and WinterCG to his leadership within OpenJS and contributions to Harper’s open-source efforts.
👉 buff.ly/YnbgF5o
October 16, 2025 at 7:11 PM
🎉 Congrats to Ethan Arrowood for winning the Leading by Example JavaScriptLandia Award from the @openjsf at #JSConf 2025!
Ethan’s impact spans the JS ecosystem — from @nodejs, Undici, and WinterCG to his leadership within OpenJS and contributions to Harper’s open-source efforts.
👉 buff.ly/YnbgF5o
Ethan’s impact spans the JS ecosystem — from @nodejs, Undici, and WinterCG to his leadership within OpenJS and contributions to Harper’s open-source efforts.
👉 buff.ly/YnbgF5o
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🚀 Harper Hack ’25 kicks off tomorrow!
Join us Oct 21 at 10 a.m. MT for the kickoff event 🎉
Compete in our 2-week virtual hackathon celebrating Harper’s open-source future — and win a trip to Tokyo (🎌 up to $5K value)!
👉 Sign up now: buff.ly/33cu3bW
Join us Oct 21 at 10 a.m. MT for the kickoff event 🎉
Compete in our 2-week virtual hackathon celebrating Harper’s open-source future — and win a trip to Tokyo (🎌 up to $5K value)!
👉 Sign up now: buff.ly/33cu3bW
Harper Hack '25
Experience an online hackathon that challenges you to code, design, and innovate using Harper with AI integrated. Push the limits of what applications can achieve, gain visibility for your work, and…
www.harper.fast
October 20, 2025 at 7:25 PM
🚀 Harper Hack ’25 kicks off tomorrow!
Join us Oct 21 at 10 a.m. MT for the kickoff event 🎉
Compete in our 2-week virtual hackathon celebrating Harper’s open-source future — and win a trip to Tokyo (🎌 up to $5K value)!
👉 Sign up now: buff.ly/33cu3bW
Join us Oct 21 at 10 a.m. MT for the kickoff event 🎉
Compete in our 2-week virtual hackathon celebrating Harper’s open-source future — and win a trip to Tokyo (🎌 up to $5K value)!
👉 Sign up now: buff.ly/33cu3bW
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The real JSConf stack:
☑ JavaScript
☑ Friends
☑ Conference coffee
Harper’s proud to sponsor #JSConf2025—let’s code, connect, and caffeinate.📍 Chesapeake Bay, Oct 14–16
👉 buff.ly/tdLeNS3
#JavaScript
☑ JavaScript
☑ Friends
☑ Conference coffee
Harper’s proud to sponsor #JSConf2025—let’s code, connect, and caffeinate.📍 Chesapeake Bay, Oct 14–16
👉 buff.ly/tdLeNS3
#JavaScript
September 3, 2025 at 1:20 PM
The real JSConf stack:
☑ JavaScript
☑ Friends
☑ Conference coffee
Harper’s proud to sponsor #JSConf2025—let’s code, connect, and caffeinate.📍 Chesapeake Bay, Oct 14–16
👉 buff.ly/tdLeNS3
#JavaScript
☑ JavaScript
☑ Friends
☑ Conference coffee
Harper’s proud to sponsor #JSConf2025—let’s code, connect, and caffeinate.📍 Chesapeake Bay, Oct 14–16
👉 buff.ly/tdLeNS3
#JavaScript
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Happy World Photography day.
I’m Riley, a freelance photo/video maker and I love highlighting our shared public spaces both built and wild.
I’d love a follow, a comment, a purchase or an assignment.
Have a stellar day y’all. I’m glad you’re here.
I’m Riley, a freelance photo/video maker and I love highlighting our shared public spaces both built and wild.
I’d love a follow, a comment, a purchase or an assignment.
Have a stellar day y’all. I’m glad you’re here.
August 19, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Happy World Photography day.
I’m Riley, a freelance photo/video maker and I love highlighting our shared public spaces both built and wild.
I’d love a follow, a comment, a purchase or an assignment.
Have a stellar day y’all. I’m glad you’re here.
I’m Riley, a freelance photo/video maker and I love highlighting our shared public spaces both built and wild.
I’d love a follow, a comment, a purchase or an assignment.
Have a stellar day y’all. I’m glad you’re here.
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Stay safe by understanding what Tsunami threat levels mean. #BC Notification Zones A, B, C & D are under TSUNAMI ADVISORY. Strong currents are likely. Stay away from shore. More info:
www.emergencyinfobc.gov.bc.ca/event/tsunam...
www.emergencyinfobc.gov.bc.ca/event/tsunam...
July 30, 2025 at 3:37 AM
Stay safe by understanding what Tsunami threat levels mean. #BC Notification Zones A, B, C & D are under TSUNAMI ADVISORY. Strong currents are likely. Stay away from shore. More info:
www.emergencyinfobc.gov.bc.ca/event/tsunam...
www.emergencyinfobc.gov.bc.ca/event/tsunam...
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SVG filters provide a basic lighting system you can sync with a little JavaScript and use in your web apps 💡
... not as powerful as MacOS implementation but pretty cool
... not as powerful as MacOS implementation but pretty cool
July 8, 2025 at 8:46 PM
SVG filters provide a basic lighting system you can sync with a little JavaScript and use in your web apps 💡
... not as powerful as MacOS implementation but pretty cool
... not as powerful as MacOS implementation but pretty cool
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If you want to learn how a full stack app works behind the scenes - without frameworks or libraries - this course is for you. You'll build a Google Calendar clone using PHP, MySQL, JavaScript, HTML, and CSS.
www.freecodecamp.org/news/build-a...
www.freecodecamp.org/news/build-a...
July 9, 2025 at 12:01 AM
If you want to learn how a full stack app works behind the scenes - without frameworks or libraries - this course is for you. You'll build a Google Calendar clone using PHP, MySQL, JavaScript, HTML, and CSS.
www.freecodecamp.org/news/build-a...
www.freecodecamp.org/news/build-a...
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After a falling tree branch paralyzed him, Google software engineer Sasha Blair-Goldensohn began helping people with disabilities navigate their cities and neighborhoods.
Meet the Google engineer making Maps more accessible
After a falling tree branch paralyzed him, Google software engineer Sasha Blair-Goldensohn began helping people with disabilities navigate their cities and neighborhoods.
www.wbur.org
July 8, 2025 at 10:03 AM
After a falling tree branch paralyzed him, Google software engineer Sasha Blair-Goldensohn began helping people with disabilities navigate their cities and neighborhoods.
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There's a lesser-known a connection between Borland/Pascal and C#:
The creator of Turbo Pascal is the same person who created C# (and TypeScript): Anders Hejlsberg. And several Borland folks joined Microsoft with him.
From Scott Guthrie (the creator of ASP .NET) in The Pragmatic Engineer Podcast:
The creator of Turbo Pascal is the same person who created C# (and TypeScript): Anders Hejlsberg. And several Borland folks joined Microsoft with him.
From Scott Guthrie (the creator of ASP .NET) in The Pragmatic Engineer Podcast:
June 8, 2025 at 8:49 AM
There's a lesser-known a connection between Borland/Pascal and C#:
The creator of Turbo Pascal is the same person who created C# (and TypeScript): Anders Hejlsberg. And several Borland folks joined Microsoft with him.
From Scott Guthrie (the creator of ASP .NET) in The Pragmatic Engineer Podcast:
The creator of Turbo Pascal is the same person who created C# (and TypeScript): Anders Hejlsberg. And several Borland folks joined Microsoft with him.
From Scott Guthrie (the creator of ASP .NET) in The Pragmatic Engineer Podcast:
Final birthday present came in today!! Time to turn this into a server and self-host some apps! 🙂
June 7, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Final birthday present came in today!! Time to turn this into a server and self-host some apps! 🙂
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Today we are excited to announce Rolldown-Vite: a technical preview of the version of @vite.dev entirely powered by the Rust stack we built over the past year (Oxc + @rolldown.rs)
voidzero.dev/posts/announ...
voidzero.dev/posts/announ...
Announcing Rolldown-Vite
We are building the next generation of JavaScript tooling
voidzero.dev
May 30, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Today we are excited to announce Rolldown-Vite: a technical preview of the version of @vite.dev entirely powered by the Rust stack we built over the past year (Oxc + @rolldown.rs)
voidzero.dev/posts/announ...
voidzero.dev/posts/announ...
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Rolldown-Vite is a drop-in replacement of the stable channel Vite, with greatly improved production build performance (3~16x in real world apps)
It will become the default Vite version in the near future when it stabilizes.
It will become the default Vite version in the near future when it stabilizes.
May 30, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Rolldown-Vite is a drop-in replacement of the stable channel Vite, with greatly improved production build performance (3~16x in real world apps)
It will become the default Vite version in the near future when it stabilizes.
It will become the default Vite version in the near future when it stabilizes.
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This is exciting! Time to try out Rolldown-Vite and share your feedback with us, while also gaining 3~16x production build time reductions.
If you have any questions around it, please let me know!
And as usual, more improvements are in the pipeline 🙌🏻
If you have any questions around it, please let me know!
And as usual, more improvements are in the pipeline 🙌🏻
Rolldown-Vite is a drop-in replacement of the stable channel Vite, with greatly improved production build performance (3~16x in real world apps)
It will become the default Vite version in the near future when it stabilizes.
It will become the default Vite version in the near future when it stabilizes.
May 30, 2025 at 3:35 PM
This is exciting! Time to try out Rolldown-Vite and share your feedback with us, while also gaining 3~16x production build time reductions.
If you have any questions around it, please let me know!
And as usual, more improvements are in the pipeline 🙌🏻
If you have any questions around it, please let me know!
And as usual, more improvements are in the pipeline 🙌🏻
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I don’t care about your sign, name your hotdog.
May 24, 2025 at 11:08 PM
I don’t care about your sign, name your hotdog.
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Buried in the tax bill: "no State or political subdivision thereof may enforce any law or regulation regulating artificial intelligence models, artificial intelligence systems, or automated decision systems during the 10-year period beginning on the date of the enactment of this Act."
May 22, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Buried in the tax bill: "no State or political subdivision thereof may enforce any law or regulation regulating artificial intelligence models, artificial intelligence systems, or automated decision systems during the 10-year period beginning on the date of the enactment of this Act."
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🎉 News for all @threejs.org & @typescriptlang.org lovers!
We released gltf-type-toolkit v1.0.0 ! 🚀
github.com/toddeTV/gltf...
Generate type-safe glTF representations & optimize 3D model loading - all build tool agnostic thanks to @unjs.io unplugin! So use it with @vite.dev, Rollup, @nuxt.com, etc.
We released gltf-type-toolkit v1.0.0 ! 🚀
github.com/toddeTV/gltf...
Generate type-safe glTF representations & optimize 3D model loading - all build tool agnostic thanks to @unjs.io unplugin! So use it with @vite.dev, Rollup, @nuxt.com, etc.
GitHub - toddeTV/gltf-type-toolkit: This plugin generates type-safe glTF file representations in TypeScript and optimizes the loading and bundling of models in web projects, while being bundler-agnost...
This plugin generates type-safe glTF file representations in TypeScript and optimizes the loading and bundling of models in web projects, while being bundler-agnostic (Vite, Rollup, Webpack, esbuil...
github.com
May 21, 2025 at 7:51 AM
🎉 News for all @threejs.org & @typescriptlang.org lovers!
We released gltf-type-toolkit v1.0.0 ! 🚀
github.com/toddeTV/gltf...
Generate type-safe glTF representations & optimize 3D model loading - all build tool agnostic thanks to @unjs.io unplugin! So use it with @vite.dev, Rollup, @nuxt.com, etc.
We released gltf-type-toolkit v1.0.0 ! 🚀
github.com/toddeTV/gltf...
Generate type-safe glTF representations & optimize 3D model loading - all build tool agnostic thanks to @unjs.io unplugin! So use it with @vite.dev, Rollup, @nuxt.com, etc.
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Do you know why this won't focus the input and how to fix it? Learn about that with more practical examples in my latest article on Epic React: epicreact.dev/mastering-fo...
![Suppose you want to focus the input as soon as it appears. You might try this:
function MyComponent() {
const inputRef = useRef<HTMLInputElement>(null)
const [show, setShow] = useState(false)
return (
<div>
<button
onClick={() => {
setShow(true)
inputRef.current?.focus() // This probably won't work!
}}
>
Show
</button>
{show ? <input ref={inputRef} /> : null}
</div>
)
}](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:xzefkiajzjmmyp6zq6ftczg3/bafkreid7su2fcpwndeyd6bpivs2zoh4umlxshwb6cm2hhqiy2zvmgicfui@jpeg)
May 20, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Do you know why this won't focus the input and how to fix it? Learn about that with more practical examples in my latest article on Epic React: epicreact.dev/mastering-fo...
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[Switch 2]
Here's a look inside the official Switch 2 carrying case. It has room for the console with the Joy-Con 2 attached, six cartridges, and two Joy-Con 2 straps.
(Also, Switch 2 cartridges seem to be the same size as Switch 1 cartridges, to no one's surprise.)
Here's a look inside the official Switch 2 carrying case. It has room for the console with the Joy-Con 2 attached, six cartridges, and two Joy-Con 2 straps.
(Also, Switch 2 cartridges seem to be the same size as Switch 1 cartridges, to no one's surprise.)
May 19, 2025 at 3:14 PM
[Switch 2]
Here's a look inside the official Switch 2 carrying case. It has room for the console with the Joy-Con 2 attached, six cartridges, and two Joy-Con 2 straps.
(Also, Switch 2 cartridges seem to be the same size as Switch 1 cartridges, to no one's surprise.)
Here's a look inside the official Switch 2 carrying case. It has room for the console with the Joy-Con 2 attached, six cartridges, and two Joy-Con 2 straps.
(Also, Switch 2 cartridges seem to be the same size as Switch 1 cartridges, to no one's surprise.)
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When Grace Clements walked across the stage at her university’s commencement ceremony this week, she leaped onto the school president and gave him a giant bear hug — bringing him straight to the ground.
Jim Clements, the president of Clemson University, is Grace Clements’s father. wapo.st/4d9Md42
Jim Clements, the president of Clemson University, is Grace Clements’s father. wapo.st/4d9Md42
May 10, 2025 at 4:31 PM
When Grace Clements walked across the stage at her university’s commencement ceremony this week, she leaped onto the school president and gave him a giant bear hug — bringing him straight to the ground.
Jim Clements, the president of Clemson University, is Grace Clements’s father. wapo.st/4d9Md42
Jim Clements, the president of Clemson University, is Grace Clements’s father. wapo.st/4d9Md42
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⚛️📝 New on Overreacted: RSC for Astro Developers
RSC for Astro Developers — overreacted
Islands, but make it fractal.
overreacted.io
May 6, 2025 at 3:36 AM
⚛️📝 New on Overreacted: RSC for Astro Developers
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The secret to using the internet safely is: Don’t click on anything.
May 7, 2025 at 2:54 AM
The secret to using the internet safely is: Don’t click on anything.
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Here we go! @kateconger.com was verified - not by Bluesky but by the NYTimes, one of the "trusted verifiers"
Gonna keep saying it: a healthy digital society should distribute power!
Gonna keep saying it: a healthy digital society should distribute power!
April 21, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Here we go! @kateconger.com was verified - not by Bluesky but by the NYTimes, one of the "trusted verifiers"
Gonna keep saying it: a healthy digital society should distribute power!
Gonna keep saying it: a healthy digital society should distribute power!