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Figured I'd just keep updating showoff.barelyhuman.dev instead of trying to segregate repositories in github accounts for my own sanity.

reduced a few re-renders and some memory allocations that were added in by AI, i'm just glad the tests were behavioral so it was easier to do the refactor

At some point I might want a new job and looking at how the market is I guess I'll be looking for one for a very long time. sucks to be a specialist in compute and scale since it doesnt really matter anymore to most people.

Obsessed with trying to simplify how we manage worktrees have a few tools that can handle this, not sure of which experience I like more. 1. A mac menubar app 2. A TUI 3. Worktree management in conflicto

Need Vite's HMR for your server app? Vavite 6 is out! Now comes with Vite 7 (and 8 beta) support, server-side hot module replacement, separate server mode (e.g. for Bun.serve support), and a much simplified API. github.com/cyco130/vavite

Truth be told the need for hyperfocused, does one thing best sites like Ping(ping.tinytown.studio) have no life. I'm glad and happy that I hace users but I'll also have to add in a little more to it to make it worth the maintenance costs. open to ideas of things people want to see.

On android the splash logo is blurry for @bsky.app

Guess I'm going to be cheaper to hire since a LLM subscription isn't mandatory for me to get things done. </satire>

I just lowered the monthly price for the Zustand banner sponsorship 🐻 If your team uses Zustand, this is a simple way to support maintenance and get a small, tasteful logo spot. github.com/pmndrs/zustand

People who are open to new opportunities and interested in working at usebruno.com , please get in touch with me. We are hiring for SDE2/3 positions, and are looking for candidates with experience in JavaScript/TypeScript. Note: This is an on-site role based in Bangalore, India.

I'm looking for my next opportunity in the front-end space 🌐 I've worked at some great companies: Hugging Face, V7, Appwrite, and Significa. I've built NPM packages with 400k downloads/week, and am an avid open-source contributor. Let me know if you want to work together!

good time to refresh swift lang skills www.swift.org/blog/nightly...

reminiscing the time where success for what I built was having just 1 user and being okay with it if that user was me

Here's a toy app using @preactjs.com + signals and @nitro.build (to avoid the browser's CORS error) It's an example on one of the ways you can use signals and how most of the App logic can be changed to just listening to values as compared to dealing with hooks 1/n

posthog.com and stripe.dev, I like where this is going, old OS interfaces inside a browser. Do i try something similar for reaper.is?

News for people that follow me. I'll be working as a SDE3 for usebruno.com github.com/usebruno/bruno

Oh, I forgot, this got merged github.com/usebruno/bru...

After using it for almost a year, I guess I can recommend it to people usebruno.com

reaper.is/writing/2025...

ping.tinytown.studio/log#release-...

and adex is now unnecessary

Preact-iso now has it's URL pattern matching logic ported to multiple languages! You can now preload JS and CSS for your app from Python, Go, PHP or Ruby.

goblin.run has been up for 4 years and I'm glad i can still keep it running for free

I have no use of `http://rawjs.xyz` anymore, so if anyone needs it, do let me know

fun news! I was laid off from Twilio. going to take this weekend to chill out, and will start looking for roles next week. if you or someone you know is looking for staff/principal level Developer Advocacy, OSPO, dev infra, or similar roles pass them along! reposts from tech folks appreciated <3

In the past year or two, I have built over 19 products, most of which are open source. There are many more ideas I want to build, so stay tuned! (I will also open-source all my directories very soon!) #opensource #buildinpublic

✺ Introducing NLC: A terminal assistant for natural language commands. I built NLC to learn about the AI SDK, and I have to admit, Vercel has done an excellent job of making this tool both simple and powerful. I highly recommend it. github.com/remvze/nlc

Math... and me, there's always something that I ruin while doing arc calculations, I should teach a model svg animations and then let it design these for me

A cross domain list of things I find interesting (its been there for a while and updated as I find new things) reaper.is/interesting

I released the Preact-MCP, it's already a great tool. It can help you work with preact/signals/preact-iso/.... everything in our ecosystem. Check it out at github.com/JoviDeCroock...

Both parts of the write up around the example repo are done and available on the reaper blog reaper.is/writing/2025...

I've released the first version of my Preact animation library, built on Preact Options API, motion/mini, and WAAPI. Check it out! www.npmjs.com/package/prea...

The moment AI starts maintaining open source out of the goodness of its heart, then I’ll fear for my job

A little coffee at 12.30 AM and I was able to finish the first part in one sitting for the above repo. It's probably a lot to take in but I hope it helps someone somewhere understand the basics reaper.is/writing/2025...

with all the nitro posts, probably a good time to post this for preact github.com/barelyhuman/...

another one into the bucket for devs to learn about preact, ssr, and how the internals (simplified) of most meta frameworks work. github.com/barelyhuman/...