JB Hutch
@jbhutch.bsky.social
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Basically, less "well, I think some parents have some good points about trans students" and more "shut the fuck up about children's genitals, you creep."
The most important lesson for Democrats from Mamdani's victory is this: abandon the decades-old practice of triangulating to win the center. Instead, grow the base with a positive, joyful vision for what government can do when it gives up on being shackled to a Republican base.
November 5, 2025 at 3:09 AM
Basically, less "well, I think some parents have some good points about trans students" and more "shut the fuck up about children's genitals, you creep."
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🌲 I made a Bluesky Starter Pack of devs in Maine! We're a small community, and growing. Click that follow button, and let's get a conversation going!
go.bsky.app/6WrdHtm
go.bsky.app/6WrdHtm
November 2, 2025 at 8:34 PM
🌲 I made a Bluesky Starter Pack of devs in Maine! We're a small community, and growing. Click that follow button, and let's get a conversation going!
go.bsky.app/6WrdHtm
go.bsky.app/6WrdHtm
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Harvard Law Library has created a brilliant website for their Data.gov archive—there's a static S3-style data store, and the front-end is a DuckDB-Wasm in-browser database using HTTP range requests to retrieve the needed data. In short, there's...no website? Kind of?
Rethinking Data Discovery for Libraries and Digital Humanities | Library Innovation Lab
Woman using a Macey vertical filing cabinet (detail, 1903). Source: Wikimedia Commons.
lil.law.harvard.edu
October 31, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Harvard Law Library has created a brilliant website for their Data.gov archive—there's a static S3-style data store, and the front-end is a DuckDB-Wasm in-browser database using HTTP range requests to retrieve the needed data. In short, there's...no website? Kind of?
Some exciting things coming soon! 🇺🇸
October 17, 2025 at 1:38 AM
Some exciting things coming soon! 🇺🇸
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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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We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.
October 1, 2025 at 2:38 PM
We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.
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There is always an argument against shipping. Be the person always arguing to ship.
September 30, 2025 at 4:48 PM
There is always an argument against shipping. Be the person always arguing to ship.
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It’s going to break your heart how many people you know, love, and respect will turn out to be cowards. Prepare yourself as best you can. You are not alone, but you are your own center. Be a strong center.
September 18, 2025 at 2:50 PM
It’s going to break your heart how many people you know, love, and respect will turn out to be cowards. Prepare yourself as best you can. You are not alone, but you are your own center. Be a strong center.
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We all have a choice.
The Internet is ours.
The Internet is ours.
We all have a choice
Taking action and Doing The Right Thing is often difficult, always exhausting, but it is what we must do, together.
whitep4nth3r.com
September 30, 2025 at 8:10 AM
We all have a choice.
The Internet is ours.
The Internet is ours.
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I'm trying to build a "Maine software engineer" Bluesky starter pack! If you you're a software engineer in Maine, send me a message.
September 29, 2025 at 4:06 PM
I'm trying to build a "Maine software engineer" Bluesky starter pack! If you you're a software engineer in Maine, send me a message.
I think I have to call it here... I tried to justify that I'm using resources without handing over my credit card, but I can't, in good conscience, continue to support this organization in any way.
Quite frankly, on top of it all, I find the bootlicking utterly pathetic
Quite frankly, on top of it all, I find the bootlicking utterly pathetic
September 29, 2025 at 6:46 PM
I think I have to call it here... I tried to justify that I'm using resources without handing over my credit card, but I can't, in good conscience, continue to support this organization in any way.
Quite frankly, on top of it all, I find the bootlicking utterly pathetic
Quite frankly, on top of it all, I find the bootlicking utterly pathetic
If "punch a Nazi" feels like a threat to you personally, maybe it's time for some soul searching.
How come the anti-woke, free speech purists are the first ones to cry when they get called out?
Somehow they're both toughest and loudest, whiny victims 🎻
How come the anti-woke, free speech purists are the first ones to cry when they get called out?
Somehow they're both toughest and loudest, whiny victims 🎻
September 25, 2025 at 10:45 PM
If "punch a Nazi" feels like a threat to you personally, maybe it's time for some soul searching.
How come the anti-woke, free speech purists are the first ones to cry when they get called out?
Somehow they're both toughest and loudest, whiny victims 🎻
How come the anti-woke, free speech purists are the first ones to cry when they get called out?
Somehow they're both toughest and loudest, whiny victims 🎻
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"We will build it ourselves so we won't have any dependencies" I've seen that costly mistake way too often.
Building it yourself maybe doesn't add to the dependencies array but it's a dependency nonetheless! And no-one but your team to rely on for maintenance and expertise.
Building it yourself maybe doesn't add to the dependencies array but it's a dependency nonetheless! And no-one but your team to rely on for maintenance and expertise.
Can't believe what I'm reading. Accidentally DDoS yourself because you fetch in useEffect in 2025 is so avoidable 😂
blog.cloudflare.com/deep-dive-in...
blog.cloudflare.com/deep-dive-in...
September 23, 2025 at 1:34 PM
"We will build it ourselves so we won't have any dependencies" I've seen that costly mistake way too often.
Building it yourself maybe doesn't add to the dependencies array but it's a dependency nonetheless! And no-one but your team to rely on for maintenance and expertise.
Building it yourself maybe doesn't add to the dependencies array but it's a dependency nonetheless! And no-one but your team to rely on for maintenance and expertise.
Personally I've moved on to using @tanstack.com and @astro.build
I find the support of these tools, in the situations they're used, by the maintainers sickening.
Folks like @natemoo.re and the Astro community are inspiring and empathetic. Having basic human decency shouldnt be hard to come by...
I find the support of these tools, in the situations they're used, by the maintainers sickening.
Folks like @natemoo.re and the Astro community are inspiring and empathetic. Having basic human decency shouldnt be hard to come by...
I recall thinking about this some yrs ago. Imagine:
🔸 you authored a (great) web product like a framework or run a CDN and you find out an org you're not supportive of has a web team that uses it. What's your next move? It appears that NextJS, Tailwind and more are used by the 🇺🇸 admin...
🔸 you authored a (great) web product like a framework or run a CDN and you find out an org you're not supportive of has a web team that uses it. What's your next move? It appears that NextJS, Tailwind and more are used by the 🇺🇸 admin...
September 21, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Personally I've moved on to using @tanstack.com and @astro.build
I find the support of these tools, in the situations they're used, by the maintainers sickening.
Folks like @natemoo.re and the Astro community are inspiring and empathetic. Having basic human decency shouldnt be hard to come by...
I find the support of these tools, in the situations they're used, by the maintainers sickening.
Folks like @natemoo.re and the Astro community are inspiring and empathetic. Having basic human decency shouldnt be hard to come by...
Are there any examples from gov.uk demonstrating something like API documentation or otherwise geared toward a technical audience?
Looking for examples of things like code snippets, API responses, stepped instructions, etc...
Looking for examples of things like code snippets, API responses, stepped instructions, etc...
August 13, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Are there any examples from gov.uk demonstrating something like API documentation or otherwise geared toward a technical audience?
Looking for examples of things like code snippets, API responses, stepped instructions, etc...
Looking for examples of things like code snippets, API responses, stepped instructions, etc...
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If you cannot make meaningful progress in six months—delivering results to end users—then you're just wasting money. If you can't break a huge project up into smaller pieces that will be put into production as you go, then you're almost certainly going to fail. It's that simple.
June 6, 2025 at 2:52 PM
If you cannot make meaningful progress in six months—delivering results to end users—then you're just wasting money. If you can't break a huge project up into smaller pieces that will be put into production as you go, then you're almost certainly going to fail. It's that simple.
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IRS’s Direct File wasn't open source while it was being developed. But somebody just made it public!
GitHub - IRS-Public/direct-file: Direct File
Direct File. Contribute to IRS-Public/direct-file development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
May 30, 2025 at 12:29 AM
IRS’s Direct File wasn't open source while it was being developed. But somebody just made it public!
Built my first from-scratch Zag.js component today 🎉
Feels good! I'm very bullish on Zag. Some exciting things to come!
Feels good! I'm very bullish on Zag. Some exciting things to come!
May 28, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Built my first from-scratch Zag.js component today 🎉
Feels good! I'm very bullish on Zag. Some exciting things to come!
Feels good! I'm very bullish on Zag. Some exciting things to come!
Not sure I agree that this is the dunk people think it is. Working with fed govt, implementing Drupal was an absolute lowlight of my career.
Content in Git has a lot of practical benefits: markdown is easily made accessible, git is auditable, requires authentication, branches for content approvals
Content in Git has a lot of practical benefits: markdown is easily made accessible, git is auditable, requires authentication, branches for content approvals
If you wanted to destroy something, having all the content live in the code would be a good way to do it
www.wired.com/story/doge-d...
www.wired.com/story/doge-d...
April 6, 2025 at 1:59 AM
Not sure I agree that this is the dunk people think it is. Working with fed govt, implementing Drupal was an absolute lowlight of my career.
Content in Git has a lot of practical benefits: markdown is easily made accessible, git is auditable, requires authentication, branches for content approvals
Content in Git has a lot of practical benefits: markdown is easily made accessible, git is auditable, requires authentication, branches for content approvals
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"You’re burned out because you’ve been relevant, valuable, over-functioning for too long—inside systems that reward your ability to endure dysfunction and call it leadership."
Holy shit. I haven't read a sentence that hit me that hard in a little while.
Holy shit. I haven't read a sentence that hit me that hard in a little while.
April 2, 2025 at 5:29 PM
"You’re burned out because you’ve been relevant, valuable, over-functioning for too long—inside systems that reward your ability to endure dysfunction and call it leadership."
Holy shit. I haven't read a sentence that hit me that hard in a little while.
Holy shit. I haven't read a sentence that hit me that hard in a little while.
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Tomorrow is our monthly Maine JS Meetup! Join us for an evening of brief, informative lightning talks at Portland Webworks. #javascript
www.meetup.com/mainejs/even...
www.meetup.com/mainejs/even...
JavaScript Lightning Talks!, Tue, Mar 11, 2025, 6:00 PM | Meetup
⚡️ Join us for JavaScript Lightning Talks! ⚡️
Are you looking to deepen your understanding of JavaScript in a relaxed environment? Look no further! We invite you to our up
www.meetup.com
March 10, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Tomorrow is our monthly Maine JS Meetup! Join us for an evening of brief, informative lightning talks at Portland Webworks. #javascript
www.meetup.com/mainejs/even...
www.meetup.com/mainejs/even...
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🍺 Tomorrow is our monthly Maine JS Meetup! Join us in Portland, Maine, for an evening of networking and lively technical discussion by the fire at Novare Res.
www.meetup.com/mainejs/even...
www.meetup.com/mainejs/even...
Social at Novare Res!, Tue, Feb 11, 2025, 6:00 PM | Meetup
Join us at Novare Res in Portland for an evening of networking, socializing, and JavaScript!
⏰ Timeline
6:00 - 8:00 PM: Refreshments / networking
8:00 PM: Depart (or not;
www.meetup.com
February 10, 2025 at 2:57 PM
🍺 Tomorrow is our monthly Maine JS Meetup! Join us in Portland, Maine, for an evening of networking and lively technical discussion by the fire at Novare Res.
www.meetup.com/mainejs/even...
www.meetup.com/mainejs/even...
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It’s a misconception that eagerly satisfying user requests is best for users.
Users are experts on problems they face, but they are not product designers.
To best serve them, you need to dig deeper, and figure out what their *actual* goals are, then design a good solution for those.
Users are experts on problems they face, but they are not product designers.
To best serve them, you need to dig deeper, and figure out what their *actual* goals are, then design a good solution for those.
February 5, 2025 at 4:01 PM
It’s a misconception that eagerly satisfying user requests is best for users.
Users are experts on problems they face, but they are not product designers.
To best serve them, you need to dig deeper, and figure out what their *actual* goals are, then design a good solution for those.
Users are experts on problems they face, but they are not product designers.
To best serve them, you need to dig deeper, and figure out what their *actual* goals are, then design a good solution for those.
And with that, my transition to BlueSky is complete
January 21, 2025 at 2:25 AM
And with that, my transition to BlueSky is complete