Justin

Justin

@just-be.dev

Open-source enthusiast; maker. Previously at Val.town, Membrane.io, oxide.computer, artsy.net. Co-host of devtools.fm. Recurse center alum. Twitter: @zephraph Mast: just_be@pkm.social

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Justin
@just-be.dev

I wonder what it felt like to work in the dotcom boom. Was there a pervasive sense that the internet is inevitable but also that things were insane in ways that obviously wouldn't work?

Justin
@just-be.dev

Had a fantastic time at @localfirstconf.com. Started off relatively stark with discussions acknowledging the general political instability of our times and how much data sovereignty matters. Ended with an absolutely wild demo of @inkandswitch.com's patchwork project. Lots of good bits in between.

Justin
@just-be.dev

I just generally enjoy how deeply thoughtful folks in this space are. It's certainly *not* without its own issues, but it's a space that I feel a fleetingly rare sense of belonging.

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VoidZero
@voidzero.dev

VoidZero is joining Cloudflare. Our mission stays the same: to make JavaScript developers more productive than ever before. Vite, Vitest, Rolldown, Oxc, and Vite+ remain MIT-licensed. Evan and the VoidZero team will continue leading them.

Justin
@just-be.dev

Didn't expect a random Thursday to be one of the hardest days of my life, but here we are. Life is weird. Lovely and strange and sometimes absolutely tragic.

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Orion Reed
@orionreed.com

The nascent HTML-in-Canvas API is exciting to me not because of flashy effects, but because it extends the semantics that the DOM can (tractably) represent — as a tiny example, it's possible to show an element in multiple places, cheaply, under arbitrary transforms. folkjs.org/demos/html-i...

Justin
@just-be.dev

NY's requirement to publish the creation of a business in the paper for 6 weeks is kinda insane. You even have to post if you're doing a new DBA. I get it's likely just a subsidy of legacy print media which on the face of it is fine. It's $1.4k to do a publishing in BK, so everyone uses Albany.

Justin
@just-be.dev

I would bet good money that some politicians in Albany get kickbacks from local publishers to keep that law alive. @lizkrueger.bsky.social has been pushing bills since 2019 to get it repealed. Here's the latest attempt: www.nysenate.gov/legislation/... (prev include S4716, S1481, S3361)

nysenate.govNY State Senate Bill 2025-S6483Eliminates the requirement that limited liability companies publish their articles of organization and that certain partnerships publish their registrations; establishes the department of state modern...
Justin
@just-be.dev

I keep finding all these new & exciting tools and services. Historical me would be delighted and dig into them and build some mental context about where they sit in the ecosystem. There are *so* *many* now. It's cool, but also so very exhausting. Too much of a good thing?

Justin
@just-be.dev

Was trying to publish some NPM packages for the first time in a while and wooo... the DX there definitely still needs a lot of love. JSR is *so* easy, heck, they'll write the publish action for you.

Justin
@just-be.dev

When I'm working on a difficult piece of software there are all these moments of introspection dredged up by the friction that make me continually question if it's the right way to do things or the appropriate direction. Coding agents remove a lot of that. It's easier to go the wrong way longer.

Justin
@just-be.dev

That's not to say I don't *plan* up front (regardless of whether I'm using an agent or not). It's fairly common to learn during the process though. I still learn during the process with agents, but the learnings can sometimes be delayed.

Justin
@just-be.dev

The nice thing about AI is that I can ask it any question, no matter how stupid and feel fine about it. The bad thing about AI is now anytime I ask a human an informational question I feel bad about wasting their time.

Justin
@just-be.dev

I bought some open ear head phones made for running and have been just playing ocean sounds at work in the morning. Kinda helps ground me while also not blocking folks out.

Justin
@just-be.dev

As I reflect on this year, I'm grateful for all the wonderful people whose paths I've intersected with. My life is better for knowing each of you.

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dan
@danabra.mov

if you want to try typelex.org in your project, i think it's ready for initial testing and feedback. it's basically "coffeescript for lexicons", for better or worse. feel free to file issues on @tangled.org: tangled.org/@danabra.mov... thanks!

typelex.orgtypelex – An experimental TypeSpec syntax for LexiconAn experimental TypeSpec syntax for AT Protocol Lexicons. Write Lexicons in a more readable syntax using TypeSpec.
dan@danabra.mov

now that we have 500 tests passing (incl. lexicons from some community repos), i feel decent about removing "it's probably buggy". fixed the few bugs i'm aware of today

Justin
@just-be.dev

"CoreWeave's (CRWV) aggressive debt strategy has sparked a wave of borrowing among AI startups, with companies like Fluidstack securing billions of dollars in loans using AI chips as collateral"