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Bun
September 1, 2025 at 7:08 AM
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Introducing @preact/signals-utils and @preact/signals-react-utils - a collection of helpers that make working with signals easier! These utilities help you write cleaner, more declarative code while maintaining optimal performance.
May 27, 2025 at 8:13 AM
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Another pic for the poker deck, this one will be split up into 4 quadrants

#pixelart #art #space
March 21, 2025 at 6:07 AM
Hey
November 25, 2024 at 4:35 AM
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Calla lilies💜

#pixelart
November 20, 2024 at 6:29 PM
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Reposting some design work from X to Bluesky (sorry if you’ve seen it before!)

This is one of our most heavily used components, coming with the new Daybridge iOS design language shipping in V1 - really happy with how it turned out!

#design #ux #ui
November 14, 2024 at 9:45 PM
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my new son
November 17, 2024 at 3:54 AM
gpui is so cool and when it matures i think we'll see people learning rust just to use gpui
November 14, 2024 at 4:56 AM
software engineering is when expect the unexpected packet
November 11, 2024 at 5:17 PM
November 10, 2024 at 8:14 PM
DON'T TRY TO INSTALL WIDEVINE INSIDE AN ARM64/v8 DOCKER IMAGE
November 10, 2024 at 8:12 PM
November 8, 2024 at 1:35 AM
deadmau5 - Jaded in 2 days. we are back
November 6, 2024 at 6:32 PM
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I woke up this morning and reminded myself to live with intentionality.
November 6, 2024 at 4:11 PM
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we're still figuring out what atproto is
November 1, 2024 at 4:00 PM
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when you like a post, you create an "app.bsky.feed.like" (a type) record in *your* repository. that like is *your* data.

that like references an "app.bsky.feed.post" record of whoever wrote the post you liked. that post lives in *their* repository. that post is *their* data.
November 1, 2024 at 12:05 AM
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October 31, 2024 at 11:42 PM
🐦
October 31, 2024 at 2:29 PM
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generative AI has democratized access to poor taste
October 8, 2024 at 1:54 PM
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You've solved the halting problem but it's O(∞)
January 17, 2024 at 3:53 AM
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Information density is seriously under appreciated, usually because aesthetically/superficially it does tend to appear uglier.

Gmail screwed this up, so does the newer Reddit UIs, and so do most apps really.

Hard to be the person arguing for the “uglier” option.

(Not my screenshot)
May 15, 2023 at 2:48 PM
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(one of them is me)
May 1, 2023 at 4:40 PM
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*rambles*
May 1, 2023 at 3:21 PM
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POSTING ON BLUESKY:
eating toast for breakfast 🍞🔥

POSTING ON TWITTER:
I'm going to eat toast for breakfast but this does not mean that I do not appreciate other breakfast foods & I don't mean to imply that other meals are lesser. I simply enjoy toast in the mornings but it's also okay if- (1/16)
April 29, 2023 at 2:17 PM