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TOM
@subtlegradient.bsky.social
Maker of things that do stuff since the 90’s. Mostly frontend. Previously @coinbase @godaddy @facebook @mootools
yes.
January 31, 2025 at 3:10 AM
github.com
January 14, 2025 at 1:24 AM
Is your middle initial O?
Because that would be AOKay
January 14, 2025 at 12:57 AM
yes

Feels like we’ve gone way way way too far down the wrong path. But all efforts to correct it have failed

RIP Paper
December 31, 2024 at 11:02 PM
DUDE!!!
AI making everything animate all the things by default will seriously raise the bar for product expectations

wen React Native tho 🥺
December 31, 2024 at 10:59 PM
Instead of the default worst case scenario; your phone gets hot and runs out of battery and uses all your data and the app crashes

Instead of that, I’m inverting the failure case. Worst case scenario, everything dangerous evaporates and you see some stale data for a few seconds
December 31, 2024 at 10:57 PM
we are so the same for real
December 13, 2024 at 6:55 PM
@sebmarkbage.calyptus.eu will spend 10 years thinking about a problem space and carefully invent a clever solution

My role is to observe and connect.
I see the implications of where he’s going and how it can be applied in reality today
December 12, 2024 at 2:43 PM
IRC 2007 was legendary
Was so sad when Twitter stole the IRC community
December 7, 2024 at 10:03 PM
Yes!

at Facebook in 2012 I hooked nodejs up to the debugger api of our mobile apps and automated Step Into to log every line of code executed and then diffed the logs to determine root causes of performance regressions
December 7, 2024 at 9:58 PM
I finally archived some of my favorite repos. After ignoring it since 2009, it was finally time to admit that I’ll never finish that MooTools n-way data binding library 😔
December 7, 2024 at 9:29 PM