Ragland Asir
raglandasir.bsky.social
Ragland Asir
@raglandasir.bsky.social
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Every line of code is a liability, and now with the power of AI, I can create 8000 new liabilities per day!
August 26, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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View Transitions are enabled by default in Firefox Nightly, so they're on their way to stable. Give it a test with your current transitions, and give me a shout if anything doesn't look right.
August 21, 2025 at 8:16 AM
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Hot take: Stop following DRY so religiously.

I've seen more codebases destroyed by premature abstraction than by duplication. Sometimes copy-paste is the right answer.

New post: terriblesoftware.org/2025/05/28/d...
Duplication Is Not the Enemy
We’re taught to eliminate duplication at all costs. But the wrong abstraction is far more expensive than a little copy-paste. Here’s why.
terriblesoftware.org
May 28, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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Fantastic explanation of the challenges of developing in a codebase over time

My fave line: “Every new requirement makes it slightly worse, but never quite bad enough to justify a complete rewrite.”

terriblesoftware.org/2025/05/28/d...
Duplication Is Not the Enemy
We’re taught to eliminate duplication at all costs. But the wrong abstraction is far more expensive than a little copy-paste. Here’s why.
terriblesoftware.org
June 9, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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Val Town has always been inspired by @glitch.com - they paved the way for zero-config instantly-edited websites. It's a bummer that what brought so many people joy and was a great community for diverse communities is coming to an end

So: where does Val Town fit into this?

blog.val.town/glitch 💜🐟
Val Town for Glitch Users
Updates and articles from the Val Town team
blog.val.town
May 23, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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i'm tired of being told to stop doomscrolling. i'm just scrolling, it's not my fault there's doom on there
January 30, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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Super excited to see @cloudflare.social launching v1 of their @vite.dev plugin, with first class React Router v7 support.

Huge shout out to James Opstad for working with us to ensure support on top of our recent Vite Environment API work.

blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-...
“Just use Vite”… with the Workers runtime
The Cloudflare Vite plugin integrates Vite, one of the most popular build tools for web development, with the Workers runtime. Today, we are announcing the 1.0 release and official support for React R...
blog.cloudflare.com
April 8, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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"Stable doesn't mean bug-free, or battle tested, it just means we can't change the API anymore".

As an open-source maintainer, this quote by @tkdodo.eu resonates profoundly.

Help out maintainers and try out beta/RC versions while you still can influence them. 🙏
March 25, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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Decentralisation is hard
March 20, 2025 at 7:53 AM
Who knows anything about anyone, let alone themselves

youtube.com/shorts/yX5pr...
December 8, 2024 at 7:45 AM
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Are you ready? Today marks the start of ‘The Bellingcat Open Source Challenge’! Five days a week, for the entire month, find a new a new open source exercise on challenge.bellingcat.com
December 2, 2024 at 9:19 AM
yo, have you heard?
November 28, 2024 at 6:29 AM
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💅 e18e community starter pack
go.bsky.app/JoSyk5A
November 7, 2024 at 1:10 PM
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If you need some non-election material to distract you, Leslie Lamport just dropped a new book on TLA+ lamport.azurewebsites.net/tla/science-...
A Science of Concurrent Programs
lamport.azurewebsites.net
November 6, 2024 at 10:07 AM
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I had to read it twice.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/arti...
August 4, 2024 at 11:12 AM
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Those words are in quotes because that notion is kind of ridiculous. We all deserve it. None of us needs to earn it. When you are in your right might and capable of kindness you really should be kind. We didn't just fall out of a coconut tree or whatever
July 28, 2024 at 4:36 PM
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CrowdStrike xkcd.com/2961
July 19, 2024 at 5:53 PM
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complaint driven development
April 28, 2024 at 12:59 AM
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The weekend is here! Celebrate with a nap.
December 8, 2023 at 10:29 PM
Wordle 880 2/6

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November 16, 2023 at 5:11 AM