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orta

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About orta

Hey there, I'm a co-founder of Puzzmo. Used to work on the TypeScript compiler team.

I've done important work on CocoaPods, Danger, GraphQL, Svelte and a few other big OSS projects

Keytrace: did:plc:t732otzqvkch7zz5d37537ry

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    I've been using clickhouse for the last year for in-house analytics and found it a really pleasant experience, thanks for all the progress you've made

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    It's a reference to the name Stanley, 'stan' is the signature at the end of letters being read in the song

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    Dev here: Keytrace lets you verify other accounts like Keybase does (e.g. public proofs of identity) but doesn't orient the connection on GPG. Instead uses an atproto/bluesky accou…

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    I'm linking my keytrace.dev: did:plc:t732otzqvkch7zz5d37537ry

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    Interesting project! Added it to my list of TypeScript derived languages: https://github.com/orta/awesome-typescript-derived-languages

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    This is a cool idea, I really enjoyed crashing at other companies offices for short periods - glad to see a company systematising that

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    OP here, luckily in this case, it means a more supported and vertically integrated alternative. Which does have less features, but actually gets bugs fixed and keeps up to date wit…

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    That was a fun read, nice work

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    With Claude Code at least, all of the chats you've had are stored in jsonl files on your computer in ~/.claude - I made a little TUI for exploring these in https://github.com/orta/…

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    Thanks yeah, your post hit the nail on the head so well I got to delete maybe a third of my notes for this!

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    This is an excellent insight

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    tsc's code is mostly the type-checker, you want to look for a "transpiler" here, so embedding either swc, esbuild, sucrase or the like to handle the process of converting for you. …

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    There was some interesting work on standardising on "ESX" in the TC39 discourse that folks in the thread may want to follow: https://es.discourse.group/t/proposal-esx-as-core-js-fe…

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    Congrats on a great write-up. Sometimes trying to ship something at that sorta scale turns out to just not really make sense in a way that is hard to see at the beginning. Another …

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    The syntax is written like a bash shell variable, the idea (I assume) is that the actual job itself doesn't matter but the idea of it being something they do for work does (because…

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    Good luck

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    Flutter web publicly launched with a NYT prototype https://verygood.ventures/success-stories/new-york-times

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    Puzzmo | Front-End | NYC | Full-time hybrid puzzmo.com is a re-imagining of daily games websites which uses brings modern live-service systems to newspaper style puzzles. We're a s…

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    I've done it pretty successfully ( https://artsy.github.io/blog/2019/04/29/how-did-artsy-become... ) and now regularly look back at prior source code and blogs as I work on somethi…

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    Cool! I think I'd be classed as deep Aphant like Loren (one of the paper's authors) but I also have an internal monologue.

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    I built Puzzmo.com on RedwoodJS, and have been working in Redwood everyday now for about 2.5 years. It's got a solid set of principles and it's gonna be cool to see where they take…