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notwoods.bsky.social
Tiger Oakes
@notwoods.bsky.social
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Web dev from Hawaii who makes weird art and tech projects.

he/him, IMO implied
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Building holograms
Hologram pyramid with a woman dressed as a cowboy shown in a projection. The projection is blue with horizontal lines.
October 10, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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Fun times CGI-ing fingers back in that were just out of frame
June 17, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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My DIY project the last couple weeks has been building a giant 4’x6’ frame for a wood world map.

I got hardboard wood sheets and moulding and cut, painted, and mounted all by hand :)
February 26, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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After losing my scissors too many times I’ve created my best invention yet
Scissors with an AirTag duct-taped on
February 8, 2025 at 1:51 AM
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I took my birding camera to the #Severance Grand Central popup and took some desk photos
Lumon brand cup sitting in front of a group photo of MDR staff Retro computer with programs on screen used by MDR in the Severance TV show Caricature of a MDR staff member as an astronaut Glass statue with 3D art of the face of Mark S.
January 16, 2025 at 12:47 AM
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Finding the murderer @nearestnabors.com during our @halfstackconf.bsky.social talk!

Full talk with @thebetterdaphne.bsky.social’s shenanigans: www.wearedevelopers.com/en/videos/12...
December 29, 2024 at 3:21 AM
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Flat cap buds
Tiger & Daphne Oakes dressed as 1920s detectives with flat caps and pointing at the camera
December 16, 2024 at 6:32 AM
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We’ve landed in Tokyo for JSConf JP, the last stop on our conference tour!
Landscape in Japan, with a small park and tree in front of a midrise building
November 21, 2024 at 8:15 AM
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Put a GPT on it!

(with @thebetterdaphne.bsky.social and @nearestnabors.com)
Tiger and Daphne with felt GPT stars in their eyes
November 11, 2024 at 5:08 PM
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We're flying off to London this week to give a talk and solve a murder mystery at HalfStack London 2024!

Come join us in Shoreditch on Nov 13, 10% discount code below:
ti.to/halfstack/ha...
Tiger & Daphne Oakes dressed as detectives and pointing at the camera Title slide: "How to automate your Murder Mystery: Build immersive games in your home!"
November 4, 2024 at 7:41 AM
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thumbor-es is now on both NPM and JSR! It's a modern API to generate #Thumbor URLs, for image manipulation using an open source tool.

www.npmjs.com/package/thum...
November 3, 2024 at 5:47 PM
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#NodeJS users, it it fairly clear what this server code does?

My main concern is that I’m using fetch classes in this slide instead of something like express or http.IncomingMessage.
async function onRequest(request: Request): Response {const signalon = await magnetRelay.read() 1;switch (request.method) {case 'GET':return Response.json(signalOn);case 'POST':await magnetRelay.write(signalon ? 0 : 1);return Response.json(!signalon);}}
October 19, 2024 at 11:36 PM
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Daphne captioned this as “surprised face with pants”
Graphic of an power outlet wall plate with a power brick plugged into the bottom outlet
October 18, 2024 at 2:48 AM
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Lots of moving around for weddings, conferences, and honeymoon!
Year of Travel 2024: 13 countries in 12 months! December 2023: Germany, Spain. January: Portugal, England, France. March: Taiwan, Korea, Hong Kong. April: California, British Columbia. May: Mexico. June: Netherlands. August: Alaska. September: California, New York. November: UK, New York, Japan. December: British Columbia, …more?
October 9, 2024 at 4:05 AM
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This week I'm learning how to create a VSCode language plugin for the `_headers` file in Netlify/Cloudflare Pages. Hoping to publish it soon!

github.com/NotWoods/vsc...
Sample _headers file in Visual Studio Code with HTTP headers under different paths. One header is showing an IntelliSense popover on hover with a MDN description for the header.
October 1, 2024 at 7:11 AM
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Thanks #AstroJS for including my notion-astro-loader package in the Astro 5.0 beta release notes! 🤩
Code sample for writing an Astro collection using the Notion API loader. // src/content/config.ts import { defineCollection } from "astro:content"; import { notionLoader } from "notion-astro-loader"; const database = defineCollection({ // Automatically fetch content from Notion in one line // using the 'notion-astro-loader' npm package! loader: notionLoader({ /* ... */ }) // optionally, define a schema for the content or let the loader infer it // schema: z.object({ /* ... */ }) }); export const collections = { database, }
September 17, 2024 at 10:35 PM
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Did you know rimraf is built-in to Node.js? I wrote a tiny CLI wrapper for it but you can also just use `node -e`. It's 1/10th the size of rimraf!

npx crossrm ./path

www.npmjs.com/package/cros...
#!/usr/bin/env node // @ts-check import { parseArgs } from "node:util"; import { rm } from "node:fs/promises"; const options = /** @satisfies {import('node:util').ParseArgsConfig['options']} */ ({ force: { type: "boolean", short: "f", default: true }, recursive: { type: "boolean", short: "r", default: true }, }); const args = parseArgs({ options, allowPositionals: true, allowNegative: true, }); await Promise.all(args.positionals.map((path) => rm(path, args.values)));
August 18, 2024 at 5:49 AM
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In Amsterdam last week I ended up playing TWO escape rooms and they were both the best I’ve seen in my life!

Europe rooms just hit different with way more intricate mechanisms, like running through a parking lot and stairs unwinding from the wall.
Group of 5 holding brass pins in library room with stained glass Group of 4 holding black pins in hallway
June 17, 2024 at 7:14 PM
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Is it a bicycle or corn?
Rental bike with the name “It’s Corn”
June 12, 2024 at 9:47 AM
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Got married last week! Forever thankful for my wife and having Daphne in my life 💍💘
Wedding ceremony photo of Tiger Oakes & Daphne Oakes, in Hawaii
November 23, 2023 at 8:33 PM
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Some shots from our stage adaptation of Doctor Who. I’ve been helping with lighting for the show. 4 more shows in Seattle today & next week!
Pitch black except for a flashlight held by a woman, creating a silhouette of her head. The wall in front of her has “Sally Sparrow, Duck!” crudely painted under torn wallpaper. 4 weeping angel statue actors surrounding a TARDIS created by a hanging curtain in a phone box shape
October 28, 2023 at 11:41 PM
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I’m currently working on hosting a murder mystery party and went overboard on props!

Here’s a steamer trunk locked with an electromagnet, which can only be opened by typing a code into a KaiOS banana phone. The interface is a web server running on a Raspberry Pi.
KaiOS banana phone with 9-pad keyboard. On the screen is the text “Trunk is locked” with a code being typed in underneath. Grabbing and trying to open locked steamer trunk Open steamer trunk. An electromagnetic is mounted near the front on the inside. A Raspberry Pi circuit board is visible inside the trunk.
October 5, 2023 at 6:33 AM
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This giant wad of dust fell out of my computer case after cleaning 😱
Ball of dust and hair next to a quarter coin. Diameter is roughly the same.
October 4, 2023 at 11:53 PM
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Last week I went to a tea festival in Seattle, and learned about “tea soda” from one of the workshops there
Pink soda in a small glass cup Mason jar with earl gray tea and leaves in front of a pot and strainer
October 3, 2023 at 7:55 PM
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RIP, time to open up my PC case
Windows Memory Diagnositics Tool screenshot. Hardware problems were detected. To identify and repair these problems, you will need to contact the computer manufacturer. "AKA me"
September 10, 2023 at 6:17 PM