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I love XState. It has solved so many problems in quite a few codebases for me, most recently it has become the backbone of a voice app I'm building for the banking sector. Thank yo…

I've got a bunch of irons in the fire at the moment, most leveraging or built with agentic coding tools; my harness of choice these days is pi+codex. - An internal apps platform bu…

Tommy drew a lot of inspiration from Chet Atkins who was really the pioneer of the bass+guitar "one hand band" style of playing. Tommy just improved on it a lot, adding more rhythm…

I swapped to Bazzite on my gaming rig (5800x3D, 64gb DDR4, 4080 Super 16gb) and it's been fantastic. I tried going with Omarchy for a bit to try and have that machine do double dut…

I was an avid user of Pipes and blogged a bit about the experience of using it to build an aggregated set of feeds from various employee blogs to feed into our company site back in…

I can appreciate the effort put into the goal of optimization shared in the post, even if I disagree with the conclusions. All of that effort would be much better directed at doing…

Veni, Vidi, Vici

I submitted an application for w24 that fits in the "Developer tools inspired by existing internal tools" category but wasn't accepted. I suspect my pitch probably needed work, and…

Merry Christmas to all my fellow hackers! :]

This may be slightly tangential but I recently discovered ncc[1] from vercel which can take a single node project and compile it and all dependencies to a single file. As an added …

I have a friend who is a mail-carrier (which I think is the most accurate gender-neutral term) for Canada Post. She refers to herself often as "postie" as well, and her co-workers …

It comes in waves. I'm in my 22nd year of developing software and I can reflect on times when I felt incredibly confident and didn't shy away from sharing my opinions, and other ti…

I’m a lifelong musician who recently started diving into the world of audio production. I like most music genres and try to experiment with producing a little from each. Here are a…

haha this was epic! thanks for sharing :D

I’ve been working on my music production skills with a learn monthly class from Andrew Huang. It’s been good to push myself into production; I have many years of live music experie…

The author addresses this in the OP: "We later learned that Google’s gRPC Team was working on a gRPC-Web spec internally. Their approach was eerily similar to ours, and we decided …

The quote in context is: "Husbands and wives may allow their partners to fill the role of best friend, letting other relationships fall by the wayside (something I’ve tried to acti…

If you are interested in learning more about Flow check out the docs [1] and github repo [2]. [1] - http://flowtype.org/ [2] - https://github.com/facebook/flow