Rob Balfré
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Rob Balfré
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Dev, Svelte, tech 🇬🇧 🦘 🏳️‍🌈
@microsoft.com @developer.microsoft.com I'm lost in your sign in flow hell trying to reset my Azure sign in. There is literally no way to reset an account. I'm getting charged for services I can longer access. I've been assigned a help ticket but it's been weeks and nothing 😭
October 10, 2025 at 6:53 AM
One of these headlines is not like the other.
October 5, 2025 at 2:16 AM
Getting off vercel tomorrow. Sad day for Svelte.
October 1, 2025 at 12:15 PM
@svelte.dev 😬😬😬
October 1, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Claude Sonnet 4.5 is 🔥

That is all.
October 1, 2025 at 8:37 AM
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svelte-check is now much faster for all Svelte users!!! 33% faster in this real world test case!!!

Thanks @43081j.com for all your efforts to speed up Svelte as part of improving the JS ecosystem via @e18e.dev!
September 19, 2025 at 2:13 PM
holy moly, for the nonsense it churns out 50% of the time that is some expensive shit right there! @cursor.com.web.brid.gy @anthropic.com surely thats a bug??!
May 23, 2025 at 11:37 PM
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Leaving Barcelona with a whole bunch of new friends and wonderful memories. The #sveltesummit energy is special and unique. Feel very lucky to be part of it 🧡
May 10, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Feeling stuwpid. How does global state management work in Svelte now. Was there a breaking change since March?

@svelte.dev
May 5, 2025 at 5:13 AM
github.com/sveltejs/kit...

Would be nice if @vercel.com supported Websockets + SvelteKit out of the box via @cloudflare.social Durable Objects integration or something similar.

I'm very keen to use it and don't want to move off Vercel.

@rich-harris.dev @svelte.dev @sveltesociety.dev
feat: native support for Websockets by LukeHagar · Pull Request #12973 · sveltejs/kit
This PR is a replacement to #12961 with a completely different Websocket implementation using crossws that should be fully compatible with all major runtimes. Functionality has been validated local...
github.com
March 16, 2025 at 9:10 PM
@gitlab.com CRAZY IDEA but maybe walk new users through setting up a simple repo... you need a fucking degree to "Generate an SSH key pair" on windows.
February 19, 2025 at 7:21 AM
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We just updated ~100 profile links on svelte.dev to point to BlueSky. Most of the Svelte community is more active here now, so it just made sense.

If you have a personal website, project website, or GitHub profile you may want to take this opportunity to add a link to your BlueSky profile there!
Svelte
Web development for the rest of us
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February 18, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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this is super cool and opens SvelteKit up to an entirely new class of applications. amazing work (and huge props to our UnJS friends for making it possible)
Sveltelodas rejoice!

This has been one of my most enjoyable PRs in a very long time.

I have been a lover of SvelteKit for years, and finally diving in deep into the codebase has been an absolute Joy.

@svelte.dev @sveltesociety.dev @rich-harris.dev We are so close to the finish line.
WebSockets in SvelteKit are ready for testing!

Please test them out and share your feedback:
github.com/sveltejs/kit...

Thanks to @lukehagar.com for implementing it (our most overdue feature!), @pi0.io for providing the crossws library used, and Tee Ming for helping to review and guide the PR.
February 10, 2025 at 11:38 PM
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I miss the days when the worst malfeasance committed by the federal government was secretly building a second machine in the Sea of Japan.
February 6, 2025 at 1:56 AM
Google Photos is just showing off now!
January 30, 2025 at 11:47 PM
Musk is a nazi and the richest person in the world. When does 007 do his thing?
January 26, 2025 at 7:27 AM
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The full video that was projected on the Tesla gigafactory in Berlin last week

youtu.be/NjWl_RNDMSA
Heil Tesla
YouTube video by Led By Donkeys
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January 25, 2025 at 11:34 AM
With Playwright + SvelteKit how do you rerun tests when code changes? UI mode lets you watch the tests and rerun but not the kit code. Hmmm

@sveltesociety.dev @svelte.dev #playwright #svelte
January 23, 2025 at 10:57 PM
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January 22, 2025 at 2:42 AM
GitHub Git operations are down. Panic!
January 14, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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this looks neat
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January 10, 2025 at 12:42 AM
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January 5, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Svelte 5 + TS is 🔥

I'm cooking something really juicy 😋
January 5, 2025 at 2:45 AM
Think I might name my next side project Wombat just cause this Etsy art is cute.
January 3, 2025 at 11:41 PM