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max drake
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research / eng @tldraw.com, my website is maxdrake.md I sometimes write there
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I feel like US fka Berkeley graphics got really annoying at some point in the last year. American dynamism is a curse
June 24, 2025 at 10:27 AM
bluesky’s default text setting being medium instead of small is probably destroying their retention lol
June 19, 2025 at 4:26 PM
I might actually do my best work in premiere (sorry figma and vscode)
April 15, 2025 at 5:38 PM
things you love to see after a migration (the first one I’ve ever ran btw!)
March 10, 2025 at 11:56 PM
I fucked up my tailwind config super badly so I gave up on styling but! I added a suggestion form to the very incomplete reading list on my website, made with @val.town and their built in email library to email me whatever you all suggest
March 7, 2025 at 12:46 AM
implemented infinite scroll for something yesterday help help help
requesting paginated data:
"wow so convenient"
implementing complex pagination:
"what if users simply always had enough memory to load the entire requested dataset"
data was not meant to be paginated
March 6, 2025 at 12:14 AM
had this literal exact thought yesterday when I saw the Elon reply to the stupid conspiratorial “why isn’t the plane flying straight” post
American politics has just fully absorbed qanon at this point it’s so fucked lol
People sometimes ask me “whatever happened to QAnon?”

As my friend and co-host Julian explains for this recent piece for Jacobin, QAnon didn’t go away. It was just absorbed into the bloodstream of American political culture.
jacobin.com/2025/02/qano...
QAnon Hasn’t Disappeared. It’s in America’s Bloodstream.
The QAnon conspiracy theory that Donald Trump was fighting a satanic pedophile cabal may have faded from national discourse, but its ideology, networks, and practices have become integrated into Ameri...
jacobin.com
February 26, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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listening to bags by clairo instead of updating the product roadmap
February 24, 2025 at 10:54 AM
listening to bags by clairo instead of updating the product roadmap
February 24, 2025 at 10:54 AM
til minification breaks .constructor.name
another day beset on all sides by the evils of web dev
February 18, 2025 at 11:42 AM
was kind of hoping the nitroplast was going to be a bigger deal
February 17, 2025 at 11:16 PM
iphone mini fan club chat is feeling philosophical over the apple event
February 14, 2025 at 2:08 PM
I think to stay sane in this field you need to unironically believe this a little bit
February 13, 2025 at 1:30 PM
to be clear this is that that little guy looked like last week
February 4, 2025 at 1:09 PM
this beautiful image represents a test migration of Fermat tools with no transpilation errors 😎
February 4, 2025 at 12:20 PM
held out so long but I might finally have to switch over here the other site is getting so bad lol
February 3, 2025 at 12:46 PM
I can say boycott chroma vector db here without getting canceled right
February 3, 2025 at 12:17 PM
metaphysicsGDPRcore
January 29, 2025 at 3:18 PM
28 days until I’m free
January 14, 2025 at 5:12 PM
real no code editors have never been tried
January 14, 2025 at 10:47 AM
so handsome
January 8, 2025 at 3:05 AM
I think the main thing I’ll say (on main lol) about the assassination and about the american healthcare system is that the purpose of a system is what it does
December 10, 2024 at 11:04 PM
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does everybody know about my favorite website, the embroidery tips page that forgot to close its <h3> tags
Embroidery Trouble Shooting Page
Embroidery Trouble Shooting Answers to all your questions about Embroidery problems
web.archive.org
October 25, 2024 at 3:39 PM
setting up my python environment
November 24, 2024 at 11:44 AM