Aaron McAdam
@aaronmcadam.com
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Design Engineer • TypeScript, React, Design Systems, Figma • Blog:
http://dev.to/aaronmcadam
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Randall Munroe
6 days ago
Results Age
xkcd.com/3245/
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Retro Tech Dreams
about 2 months ago
Blade Runner, the game (1997)
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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮
about 2 months ago
Good news! OpenAI is canceling so many large purchase orders and datacenter expansions that the global price of RAM is dropping.
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OpenAI funding fears hit memory chip prices
Spending cuts at OpenAI have hit memory chip prices as fears grow about the tech company’s ability to fund its expansion.
https://finance.yahoo.com/sectors/technology/articles/openai-funding-fears-hit-memory-154500748.html
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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝
about 2 months ago
The world’s most honest disclaimer.
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Dale Ryder
2 months ago
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Zac Thompson
2 months ago
You love to see it. Slop is anti art and doesn't deserve to be published.
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Accessibility Awareness
2 months ago
Looking for information on accessibility laws? Lainey Feingold has a resource on digital accessibility laws and policies that she's updated over the years. Though not exhaustive, it has great insight, histories, explanations, and links.
www.lflegal.com/global-law-a...
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Global Law and Policy
The legal framework gives us permission to dream what is possible. Lizzie Kiama (Kenya) at Microsoft Ability Summit 2021 Welcome to LFLegal's Digital Accessibility Global Law and Policy page. The cont...
https://www.lflegal.com/global-law-and-policy/
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Elly
2 months ago
commission by my mom for
@pennica.bsky.social
you can get the hi-res images at my kofi
ko-fi.com/bunsmiles
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani
2 months ago
Happy St. Patrick's Day, New York.
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@kettanaito.com
any thoughts on the best way to test async React Server Components these days? I know Vitest Browser Mode may not make sense for this (as tests run in browser). It'd be a shame to need separate tools just for RSCs though. Here's what I currently have:
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A test for a <Protect> component, similar to Clerk's <Show> but as an RSC.
A test for a <Protect> component, similar to Clerk's <Show> but as an RSC. - protect.test.ts
https://gist.github.com/aaronmcadam/f5dc969896f73e74a0df6f257d2dfec8
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Artem Zakharchenko
2 months ago
Man, the upcoming network source architecture in MSW is so good. Everything has its own place. Everything is extensible. Your network, your rules (sounds like a freaking footwear slogan but whatever).
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Elliot Jay Stocks
2 months ago
I can hardly believe the day has come, but I’m beyond thrilled to say that my new book is out! In theory, if you walk into a bookstore today, you should be able to buy or a least order Fine Specimens. Just published a post on the blog about the book, the book tour, and the book tour newsletter:
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Elliot Jay Stocks | A book! A book tour! A book tour newsletter!
Elliot Jay Stocks is a designer and author, usually doing something with typography
https://elliotjaystocks.com/blog/a-book-a-book-tour-a-newsletter
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François Best
4 months ago
Passing the 1K mark felt amazing, then the star count started losing its meaning (downloads are more relevant). But 10K kicks it back into the excitement zone. Onwards 🚀
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Accessibility Awareness
4 months ago
Everyone who works on a website has a role to ensure the site and its content are accessible. This resource from Vox Media breaks down some accessibility tasks by job role, including content creators, designers, developers, project managers, and testers.
accessibility.voxmedia.com
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Vox Product Accessibility Guidelines
As journalists, advertisers, producers, and creators, content is at our core at Vox Media. We want to ensure that everyone—regardless of ability, situation, or context—can access it.
https://accessibility.voxmedia.com/
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Cooper Lund
5 months ago
Things are going great over at X, The Everything App
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ΜΑΝΟΣ ΤΡΑΧΙΑΣ™
5 months ago
Lihua Zhang (Chinese Artist, born 1963) "Winter (Four Seasons in my Hometown)", 1996. Japanese Woodblock Print.
#art
#painting
#artist
#BlueSkyArt
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Artem Zakharchenko
5 months ago
Using Vitest Browser Mode to test this package that allows you to persist your Zustand store in IndexedDB.
github.com/zustandjs/z...
The code that's meant to run in the browser is meant to be tested in the browser. VBM makes it silly easy.
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GitHub - zustandjs/zustand-indexeddb: Persist Zustand stores in IndexedDB.
Persist Zustand stores in IndexedDB. Contribute to zustandjs/zustand-indexeddb development by creating an account on GitHub.
https://github.com/zustandjs/zustand-indexeddb
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ΜΑΝΟΣ ΤΡΑΧΙΑΣ™
5 months ago
February lace by Vasily Khudyakov (Russian, b.1983). Oil on canvas | 70 x 60 cm. Private Collection.
#art
#painting
#artist
#BlueSkyArt
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Laura Kalbag
6 months ago
There’s few folks as reliable, thoughtful, and no-nonsense as @bell.bz. I’ve known him a long time and I don’t endorse people lightly. If you’re looking for a studio/agency to get your project going, I couldn’t recommend Set.Studio enough:
set.studio
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molly conger
6 months ago
we have to go back. to warn them.
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Sam "The Patron Saint of Weirdos" Posnick
6 months ago
I think it's been proven time and time again that people only care about things when they have to pay for them. They'll eat the slop if it's free.
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Alex Plante 🐀👑
6 months ago
i know WHY this is but that just makes it even more of a kick in the pants lmao
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Susie Dent
6 months ago
Word of the day is ‘quockerwodger’ (19th century): a puppet politician whose strings are pulled entirely by someone else.
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Younes Jaaidi
7 months ago
⚡️Finally! The official statement!
@vitest.dev
is now the official
#Angular
#testing
framework 💪
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Emily Bache
7 months ago
I wrote a blog post today "The Microskills Theory of Programming":
coding-is-like-cooking.info/2025/10/the-...
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The Microskills Theory of Programming - Coding Is Like Cooking
How to Succeed with Technical Coaching Software Developers are constantly shifting between activities. It might all be ‘coding’ but when you look more closely there are hundreds of distinct activities...
https://coding-is-like-cooking.info/2025/10/the-microskills-theory-of-programming/
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This is absolutely gorgeous 😍 Just order a copy, some specimens, and this awesome poster:
www.type-together.com/index.php?ac...
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7 months ago
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8 months ago
React 19.2 is now available! This release includes Activity, useEffectEvent, React Performance Tracks, partial pre-rendering, and more:
react.dev/blog/2025/10...
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React 19.2 – React
The library for web and native user interfaces
https://react.dev/blog/2025/10/01/react-19-2
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Seb ⚛️ ThisWeekInReact.com
8 months ago
<Activity> - The most exciting React feature just came out! Hide a React subtree and unmount its Effects while preserving its state, and keep rendering it with lower priority. Unlocks very exciting pre-rendering patterns along the way! More Activity modes are coming
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Cézanne vibes ❤️
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8 months ago
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Piccalilli
8 months ago
Pre-orders for Mindful Design are available now. Get a pre-order copy for £149, saving £100 off the full price of £249 for two weeks only. Pre-orders close again after September 30
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Mindful Design
A high quality, expansive video course that will elevate your design skills to a level you never thought was achievable.
https://piccalilli.link/md-pre-order-launch-bluesky-morning
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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan
8 months ago
In London, hate will never win.
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Pavel
8 months ago
This isn't even "UX vs UI". It's "the purpose of the fucking thing" vs "it sounded cool in a stakeholder meeting"
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🌈Dr. Frizzle
8 months ago
you don’t understand bro, if we didn’t lie, no one would buy our product 😩
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This conference looks amazing! Can’t wait to see any videos they might release!
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Dr Abeba Birhane
9 months ago
the more you learn about genAI, the less likely you're to use it!!!
www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-a...
I've repeatedly said in the past that meaningful change to the current disastrous reality is via combating big tech narrative & rhetoric and critical public awareness, which enables refusal/resistance
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The Less You Know About AI, the More You Are Likely to Use It
AI can seem magical to those with low AI literacy, a new study finds. That, in turn, might make them more willing to try it.
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-adoption-study-7219d0a1
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LithiumChaser
9 months ago
David Lynch on finishing a film
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Ben Stephens
9 months ago
Related, my favorite quote about the creative process is from David Lynch: “If I could tell you what my new film was about, I wouldn’t have to make it.”
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Joe Bell
9 months ago
After months of building, today we're exiting stealth mode! Introducing ˗ˏˋ
operate.so
ˎˊ- A precision-built CRM designed for sales and built for founders
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Operate
A CRM designed for sales, built for founders
https://operate.so
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Cathal Mac Donnacha
9 months ago
Hey Artem, curious if you ever get around to this one? If so, how did it go?
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zeu
10 months ago
he says this cause he is more than ever reliant on AI usage for profitability; it seems that he needs shame people into using AI cause otherwise he won’t have *his* career
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Happy little trees 🌲
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10 months ago
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Artem Zakharchenko
10 months ago
With the support for custom events, this library has finally become what I think type-safe event emitter should've always been in TypeScript. Check this out.
github.com/kettanaito/...
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GitHub - kettanaito/rettime: A type-safe marriage of `EventTarget` and `EventEmitter`.
A type-safe marriage of `EventTarget` and `EventEmitter`. - kettanaito/rettime
https://github.com/kettanaito/rettime
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Pavel
11 months ago
Build. Measure. Learn. Long ago, the three phases lived together in harmony. Then everything changed when the feature factory attacked. Only the Product Manager, master of all three phases, could stop it. But when the world needed him most, he was double-booked.
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welcome to the
11 months ago
he's become a crybully basically "if I cry everybody thinks what I say is realer" manhood is broken, manhood is fundamentally broken. he's literally saying nothing: he's dancing around topics and avoiding real things he's cosplaying; he's cosplaying as meaningful And its very tragic
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Hey
@simonswiss.com
, do you have any plans to update your Pro Tailwind courses for Tailwind v4? I need to upgrade a design system using v3, and I'd like to know how I should handle v4's different approach to config.
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Tailwind Multi-Theme Strategy Workshop
Level-up on advanced Tailwind concepts and patterns. Power-up with multi-theme, multi-style and multi-project UI components.
https://www.protailwind.com/workshops/multi-theme-strategy
11 months ago
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Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Wars, Star Trek, LotR, Marvel
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Insta Science
11 months ago
Pluto as visualized by NASA's New Horizons. -Credits: NASA
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I've just signed up for this
@playwright.dev
course with the one and only
@kettanaito.com
. I'm excited to delve into advanced testing patterns and discuss common pain points. 🎭
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End-to-end React Application Testing with Playwright
/*@jsxRuntime automatic @jsxImportSource react*/ const {Fragment: _Fragment, jsx: _jsx, jsxs: _jsxs} = arguments[0]; const {useMDXComponents: _provideCompone...
https://www.epicweb.dev/events/end-to-end-react-application-testing-with-playwright-07-25
11 months ago
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Artem Zakharchenko
11 months ago
📰 Today, I'm sharing one of my favorite APIs to help you design great test utilities. And to help you understand it, let's talk about flat tests and one glaring issue that they have...
www.epicweb.dev/better-test...
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Better Test Setup with Disposable Objects
Learn how disposable objects solve test cleanup problems in flat testing. Use TypeScript's using keyword to ensure reliable resource disposal in tests.
https://www.epicweb.dev/better-test-setup-with-disposable-objects
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