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suppose you're developing a theory of how the world works. if you're a software developer, you might be familiar with a concept of a game loop. you have some state and update function. you call the update function in a loop, and so the state changes over…

japanese verbs are awesome. you can take the dictionary form of a verb (for example, "taberu", to eat) and turn it into many forms: taberu ("eat"): tabemasu (polite "eat"), tabemashita (polite "did eat"), tabemasen (polite "not eat"), tabemasendeshita (po…

you're working on an atproto app that needs to write some records to your own collection like app.example.post or app.example.like. you're already using OAuth instead of app passwords. however you're still requesting transition:generic scope, which means…

i find some atproto documentation extremely confusing. the section about publishing lexicons is one of those parts that makes me want to tear my hair out. it sounds so hopelessly complicated. so i'm here to tell you publishing lexicons is actually very si…

i think i might have first heard this from Ryan Florence. the idea is that code is often garbage, but react components are nice because they divide that garbage into boxes that are individually replaceable. it's easy to delete a react component, to fork i…

last week, i released typelex. it may not be a super "serious" project, but it works. it's covered by 513 tests i'm highly confident in. it is also 100% vibecoded. i may have manually edited a line or two but that was it. here's how it happened i was comp…

if you're writing an AT application you probably have a lexicons folder in your repo with all of your Lexicons in JSON. it might look something like this this is fine and it works but it's a bit annoying to keep them up to date or even to find them in the…

"you can just do things". but also, "we". i've been bitching about the Discover feed and how it isn't getting much better while the alternatives don't get the same amount of data (no "show more/less" buttons, no "seen" tracking) and thus are at a disadvan…