Julien Apoena Calixte

Julien Apoena Calixte

@apoena.dev

Head of Engineering, making good apps that last with lean thinking. Sharing about tech, lean management and politics. πŸ‡§πŸ‡·πŸ‡«πŸ‡· https://apoena.dev

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Curiously missing from the Anthropic "watermark" is any trace of the work of countless writers, victims of Anthropic's bold theft of our work, without our permission or knowledge.

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Continuing down the path toward a fully independent phone... what about the actual phone part? 🎬 calling an atproto handle

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Happy to announce Octane – the successor to Inferno. React’s programming model, compiled. Hooks, Suspense and Actions, compiled ahead of time. No virtual DOM. No Rules of Hooks. No manually maintained dependency arrays. The compiler understands what your code. octanejs.dev

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Replying to @adamchalmers.com

Watching the way the maintainers have managed the project and how they interact with the community. There's a lot of effort around cultivating and developing skills, both hard and soft. Focus on humans over code. Hard to quantify in some ways, but you feel it.

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One of the fun things about playing with the new HTML-in-Canvas API is that it lets me revisit all sorts of cool ideas I’ve seen in the past and wished I could implement on native elements. Like this one, based on Paola Demichelis article from about a year ago. (Links πŸ‘‡)

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Replying to @antonyillahiwarren.bsky.social

People who are against taxing the rich seem to be unaware of who the rich really are. They hear this and think that it's local business owners who have nice houses and retire early. The single most effective message we have is to lay out the numbers in front of them.

This may be the greatest strength of the ATmosphere community. I've just been curious about how it works, what to build on atproto and each website talking about is fascinating.

Also, I don't know if it's the air in Canada or simply the ethos of people of the ATmosphere but everybody is very humble, welcoming and approachableβ€”it feels more like a bunch of nice and nerdy fellows being happy to talk about their favorite thing, than a startup meetup with dudes trying to shine

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A vibrant toucan perches on a mossy branch in the rain, its colorful beak glowing against the misty rainforest backdrop as droplets cling to its feathers. #costarica #rain #forest #toucan Photo: Jeffrey Barsky

Another month, another course from Michael BallΓ©, a French lean sensei on management. April was about being a good team leader. This month: solving problems. Sounds obvious. Everyone wants to solve problems and be more efficient β€” but at work, inertia feels endless.

The best solutions are rarely chosen. There's always a gap between what seems like a good idea and what actually happens. Michael's key insight: it all starts with telling a different story. We must separate the person from the problem.

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Introducing Void, the Vite-native deployment platform: πŸš€ Full-stack SDK βš™οΈ Auto-provisioned infra (db, kv, storage, AI, crons, queues...) πŸ”’ End-to-end type safety 🧩 React/Vue/Svelte/Solid + Vite meta-frameworks 🌐 SSR, SSG, ISR, islands + Markdown πŸ€– AI-native tooling ☁️ One-command deploys void.cloud

VoidZero@voidzero.dev

One. More. Thing. youtu.be/Bp86buftbX8

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I made Claude act like Steve Jobs and this may actually be one of the best things I've ever done

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Almost 5k πŸš€ let’s get there today - tell your friends! πŸ‡«πŸ‡· On passe les 5,000 aujourd’hui? Parlez d’Eurosky Γ  vos amis! πŸ‡ͺπŸ‡Έ ΒΏLlegamos a 5,000 hoy? Β‘CuΓ©ntaselo a tus amigos! πŸ‡©πŸ‡ͺ Schaffen wir heute 5,000? ErzΓ€hlt euren Freunden von Eurosky! πŸ‡³πŸ‡± Halen we vandaag de 5,000? Vertel je vrienden over Eurosky!

I'm in! πŸ‡ͺπŸ‡Ί πŸ™Œ Massive respect for the effort going into building a more independent Europe! One thing though: anyone know how to create an app password to log in via CLI? πŸ‘€

Eurosky Social@eurosky.social

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I'm reading Small is Beautiful by Schumacher. He wrote about the same problems we face today β€” and that was 50 years ago!

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SAM ALTMAN: β€œPeople talk about how much energy it takes to train an AI model … But it also takes a lot of energy to train a human. It takes like 20 years of life and all of the food you eat during that time before you get smart.”

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It's not that we're 100% AI will make us live better. Again, Schumacher felt the opposite with machines: "The amount of real leisure a society enjoys tends to be in inverse proportion to the amount of labour-saving machinery it employs." Written 50 years ago β€” and truer than ever.

We need brains and hands, hands and brains β€” to enjoy creativity and feel useful. We need to bring back a human face to these technologies. And stop giving a platform to such dystopian discourse.

I'm reading Small is Beautiful by Schumacher. He wrote about the same problems we face today β€” and that was 50 years ago!

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SAM ALTMAN: β€œPeople talk about how much energy it takes to train an AI model … But it also takes a lot of energy to train a human. It takes like 20 years of life and all of the food you eat during that time before you get smart.”

The problems these men create with their solutions grow faster than the solutions themselves. "The direction of research should be towards nonviolence rather than violence, toward low energy."

For over 5 years, I've watched teams work on software projects. Time and again: a project only succeeds when there's a good team leader. But what does it actually mean to be a *good* one?

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3. How to handle the unexpected: you lose credibility when you freeze. It's not about knowing everything β€” it's about knowing the right patterns and frameworks to help your team take the first steps.

For over 5 years, I've watched teams work on software projects. Time and again: a project only succeeds when there's a good team leader. But what does it actually mean to be a *good* one?

Michael BallΓ©, a lean sensei, has a clear take: being a leader is not being the boss. The leader β€” the one people turn to when things get crazy β€” is built and granted. It comes down to knowing 3 things well:

1. What the deliverables are and when they're needed. Obvious? Maybe. But can you easily name yours right now? 2. The right competencies: leadership is gained by showing, not telling.