might as well throw my hat into the ring for the #KofiPromoteChallenge if you like the work I do, support me on kofi! ko-fi.com/skyfalldev

Apple is appealing against the UK’s backdoor encryption order. The company has filed an appeal with the Investigatory Powers Tribunal, which deals with complaints about the UK intelligence services and authorities www.theverge.com/news/623977/...

apologies for getting political on the TL, but www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jehv... is really interesting

Just wrote a new blog post on how to generate OG images for @astro.build (like the one below)! skyfall.dev/posts/astro-...

Really good mini-essay I found, think it's worth sharing here :) xcancel.com/johnrushx/st...

git-wrapped.com/profiles/Sky... The stars bit is definitely not very accurate (no way in hell I got 180 stars lol) but it's definitely a lot nicer than the githubunwrapped this year

I built a Wakatime extension for Figma over the last two days! addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefo... (still waiting on the chrome web store for chrome :/) gh link: github.com/SkyfallWasTa...

claude would probably have a lot more market share if they actually let you use claude sonnet and have more than 5 messages/day on the free plan

Svelte dropped this update the day after I ran into an issue with stores :D

this was a harrowing read, but also one that is definitely worth your time: www.esquire.com/news-politic...

5th person to be cured of HIV “Today, researchers announced the Dusseldorf patient still has no detectable virus in his body, even after stopping his HIV medication four years ago.”

WordPress must stop blocking WP Engine, judge rules

the fact that gen.xyz makes you pay extra to not get doxxed by whois is something, that's for sure

turso.tech/blog/introdu... the big thing that interests me here is the async io 👀

This is a huge undertaking, but I'm all for competition! Let them cook! turso.tech/blog/introdu...

i've been trying to reverse engineer Google Find My Device, and it's been, uh, painful :/ since they use both gRPC and Protobuf, seem to be base64-ing protobuf blobs (??) within the json grpc, and I don't have a schema..

exactly! typescript has genuinely saved so much time for me - if it didn't exist, I probably would've given up web dev altogether

in a perfect world we would have a language with the type system and package manager of rust, the compile times of go, the package ecosystem of typescript and js/ts hot reloading

i forgot to add github releases to my project... which is a github release cli...

So uh, hawk tuah coin rugpulled. 💀

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I just completed "Mull It Over" - Day 3 - Advent of Code 2024 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2024/day/3 my input parser is a bit... verbose so to speak, but everything else looks good!

I've completed "Red-Nosed Reports" - Day 2 - Advent of Code 2024 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2024/day/2 The code isn't amazing and could probably be faster (around 300 microseconds rn, but I'm aiming for ~100), but it works! github.com/SkyfallWasTa...

it's update time! - completed day 1 of #adventofcode - wrote a small blog post for my new site - and got 220 visits!! - tried to learn dijkstra's algorithm - did some hackathon planning (zenithhacks.org) - added a drafts system to my blog (skyfall.dev) - fixed contact link page

Just wrote a new blog post! skyfall.dev/posts/satori... #tailwind #satori #writing :)

I just completed "Historian Hysteria" - Day 1 - Advent of Code 2024 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2024/day/1 I did face a bunch of silly errors because of things like forgetting to multiply or adding instead of subtracting though 🤦‍♂️

Is it just me or has Mistral become kind of irrelevant?

Well i didn't get to do anything for a bit (because busy :/) but I managed to cook up some more stuff for my personal site! - I added generated OG images! (e.g. skyfall.dev/posts/first-...) not super pretty, and they don't show up on bsky for some reason, but they do show up on twitter/discord! 🧵

going to be posting daily updates, because why not! today, I: - mostly worked on my personal website - fixed status colours (turns out tailwind jit wasn't picking up on em) - fixed my blog post layout (it wasn't the proper width before) - updated the blog post preview now live at skyfall.dev :)

is it just me or has the discover feed suddenly become so much better?

not entirely surprised tbh

doing some 1am web design rn

windows 11 setup is genuinely so bad "do you want microsoft 365 pro?" "do you want microsoft 365 basic?" "sign in to a microsoft account!" "can we use your location for ads?" "can we send your ink data to microsoft?"

coding at 4am lol

GitHub was obviously intended for Minecraft server backups

Announcing .NET 9 devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/annou... #dotnet

thinking of learning #rubyonrails, should I do it 👀

hey there, I’m skyfall, a software dev making cool things with computers! in the past, I’ve built a disposable email service (vortex.skyfall.dev), a fantasy os for the web (phantom.skyfall.dev), a shop tracker for @hackclub.com, and a ton of other cool stuff on my GitHub: github.com/SkyfallWasTa...

hot take: people really need to stop saying how Bluesky is better than twitter if it's actually gonna have lasting traction

update: the code is terrible and is broken in extremely confusing ways

God grant me the serenity to accept I am cooked, The courage to say fuck it we ball, And the wisdom to know when we are so back

I think a lot more people would like frontend dev if CSS was more straightforward

“based on what you know about me. draw a picture of what you think my current life looks like” (GCSEs are kinda like AP in the US, I use ChatGPT a lot for learning stuff! :))

coding at 2am is very fun

I really like how Bluesky's API is fully open, really cool to be able to make new bots/feeds/apps with it :D

remember when elon said that twitter was too political?

As a Brit, the fact that there's so much noise in US politics really confuses me

it's been 4 days and i'm already following 517 people :p

look, I'm not exactly a fan of AI art, but this is actually super cool and it's crazy that it's ~realtime

Bun is awesome software, it's genuinely increased my DX by a factor of 10 No more waiting around for npm, no more configuring TypeScript or using tax, and it has things like deep-equal built in