Yoav Alon
yoavalon.bsky.social
Yoav Alon
@yoavalon.bsky.social
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Game 1, WON.
April 21, 2025 at 4:13 AM
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TypeScript team: rewrites compiler in Go.

Go community: what do you mean your new compiler takes more than a minute to compile? Unacceptable. Dishonorable even. We are so sorry for this sub par experience. Not how we do things around here.

Two days later: WIP 5x speedup.

HN: why pick Go anyway?
cmd/compile: slow escape analysis in large package in the typescript compiler · Issue #72815 · golang/go
Go version go version go1.24.1 linux/amd64 Output of go env in your module/workspace: AR='ar' CC='gcc' CGO_CFLAGS='-O2 -g' CGO_CPPFLAGS='' CGO_CXXFLAGS='-O2 -g' CGO_ENABLED='1' CGO_FFLAGS='-O2 -g' ...
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March 13, 2025 at 12:53 AM
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public service announcement:

if you change your username from bsky​.social (e.g. @amk.bsky.social) to a custom domain (e.g. @april.social), please be aware that your original username will be returned to the pool and someone else can claim it.
April 26, 2023 at 7:57 PM
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The Bluesky iOS app has exceeded my expectations. For a beta this feels like the true definition of an MVP. For the features it supports, I find them easy to discover, and use, so I gotta say y'all are killing it.

Well done Bluesky team.
April 24, 2023 at 4:06 PM
It's unbelievable how snappy the experience is, I didn't notice how slow Twitter was
April 23, 2023 at 11:11 PM