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Alexander Karan @alexanderkaran.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Yeah, I mean more when you're all supposed to be working together on a project......... Like in a group channel, group chats and direct DMs.

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Alexander Karan @alexanderkaran.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I don't mean a chatbot; I mean people connecting their Slack or Discord to an agent. So you think you're talking to someone, but it's actually an agent doing it all for them and you're talking to a bot.

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Alexander Karan @alexanderkaran.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I always wonder: where does it lead? Ah want to stay sane while working in software. You need to use AI as a filter for everything... it feels a little dark lol Invent a spam problem, then force me to pay for AI to prevent AI spam lol.

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Alexander Karan @alexanderkaran.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Some people don't bother talking anymore or trying to understand the issue/project/roadmap. I get walls of text pasted from an LLM. In Slack/Discord, I wonder if it's even a real person. A few times now, it's just been a bot using the person's account. Cripples my motivation a little...

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Alexander Karan @alexanderkaran.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Hell Yeah! Ordered. Somehow shipping to Australia was free? Can’t wait till it arrives! Wish there were more books on sustainability in our field.

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Alexander Karan @alexanderkaran.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

We just had a very dry and warm winter here. Very very nervous about summer.

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Alexander Karan @alexanderkaran.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Because if everyone used React, the world would be a utopia, and we can't have that!

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Alexander Karan @alexanderkaran.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Another crazy jump was the total number of requests it could handle in our load tests. You can see how much hard work the team at @solidjs.com put into version two of SolidStart.

Total requests handled by SolidStart in the Server side load test

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Alexander Karan @alexanderkaran.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Another tease of the @e18e.dev framework tracker is our improvement-over-time page for each framework. We record each major and minor version for every test. Picking on @solidjs.com here, but look at some of the improvements in version two for SolidStart. SSR First Paint and Build Times:

Sever side rendered first paint for Solid Start

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Alexander Karan @alexanderkaran.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Also: - understand the project - what your PR does - why it does things this way Fuck it would even take have at least glanced at it at this point!

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Alexander Karan @alexanderkaran.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Honestly same I never want to go back

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Alexander Karan @alexanderkaran.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I’m gonna be honest my life is so much happier with Vitest in it.

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Alexander Karan @alexanderkaran.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

All these stats are for Desktop; we'll include mobile versions as well. One final sneak peek at the HTTP Archive data: Interaction to Next Paint

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Alexander Karan @alexanderkaran.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

You might be wondering why @tanstack.com is not in there. Don't worry, our very own @rdforte.bsky.social got it added in, and it will be in the dataset any day now. Of course, frameworks don't control how people use them, so HTTP Archive data is not enough to go on. More sneak peeks coming.

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Alexander Karan @alexanderkaran.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

The @e18e.dev framework tracker is nearing an official release. We have worked hard to include a wide array of stats on meta-framework performance, including data from HTTP Archive. See below for a sneak peek at the percentage of sites in each framework that meet the benchmark. 🧵

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Alexander Karan @alexanderkaran.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

😂 Shots fired! Thanks for the laugh.

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Alexander Karan @alexanderkaran.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Your blogs are solid gold though and very much appreciated

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Alexander Karan @alexanderkaran.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Some people just want to watch the world burn! 😂😜

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Alexander Karan @alexanderkaran.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Have you considered create-react-app instead?

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Alexander Karan @alexanderkaran.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

People tell me I need to be AI native but no one can tell me what that actually means. Closest I got was AI everywhere all at once…..

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Alexander Karan @alexanderkaran.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Tried to read a blog post on APIs today... Between AI hoovering up everyone's stuff and more and more governments age-gating the internet, I think the open web is rapidly in decline.

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Alexander Karan @alexanderkaran.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

I try to keep regular pair design, architecture, planning, and programming going on my team. We all seem happier and produce better work when we do. However I have never seen a work world as isolated as it is now. I have to work much harder to keep the pairing happening.

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Alexander Karan @alexanderkaran.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Best part of going to bed is knowing I am one step closer to making myself coffee again….

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Alexander Karan @alexanderkaran.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Watching my partners parents age has cemented something I started to realise when I worked with tech in schools. Replacing everything with apps, websites and tech was a really fucking stupid idea. It's so much harder for them to enjoy life now that everything's an app not a person.

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Alexander Karan @alexanderkaran.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Coming from JS and Go, I found Java weird and do not enjoy it. Then I used Kotlin and now don't mind working in JVM world 🤣. Kotlin also reminds me a lot of Swift which I also enjoyed. So much care and though was put into Kotlin and it really shows.

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Alexander Karan @alexanderkaran.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Oh, I do love Kotlin. So much so I tried to bring some of it to JS: es.discourse.group/t/array-prot... Building services in Kotlin is such a joy. Still, there is something lovely about JS/TS that pulls me back a lot.

es.discourse.group

Array.prototype.mapNotNull

Transforming arrays while filtering out null/undefined values with a single call is a common pattern in modern languages, but JavaScript requires chaining, reduce or for loops: const users = [ { id...

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Alexander Karan @alexanderkaran.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

No matter how many other languages I try and love, Go and Kotlin, for example, I always come back to JS/TS. I know it's not perfect, but I really do love building with it.

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James @43081j.com · 03/07/2026

module-replacements 3.0.0 🎉 this data is what powers things like the @e18e.dev ESLint plugin, actions, skills, and @npmx.dev's help text on packages. we also recently passed 400K dls/week 🔥

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Release 3.0.0 · e18e/module-replacements

What's Changed feat: add detect-package-manager to the docs and manifest by @waldyrious in #275 fix: link for if exists was invalid by @garthdw in #277 feat: add parseEnv section in dotenv by @blu...

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Alexander Karan @alexanderkaran.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

That one little light in Perth Australia is all me lol! Love this!

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Alexander Karan @alexanderkaran.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

The @e18e.dev meta-framework tracker is getting closer to our first release. Thanks to the team behind HTTP Archive and contributions from @rdforte.bsky.social, we now have metrics for each meta-framework in the wild in our report. Sneak peek of what we are working on (designs not final)

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e18e @e18e.dev · 27/06/2026

Every Babel package is ESM-only now! 🎉 Inflection point. If you were waiting for a signal to leave CJS behind for your packages, this is it!

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Alexander Karan @alexanderkaran.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Maybe time for fire bans in hot weather like Australia.

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Alexander Karan @alexanderkaran.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

This meme almost makes the complete catastrophe that was Brexit worth it. I enjoyed the laugh!

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Alexander Karan @alexanderkaran.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Anywhere to sign up to get notified so I don’t forget lol

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Alexander Karan @alexanderkaran.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

I would really love to stop paying for Grammarly. Spelling and grammar often jumble themselves in my head. Does anyone have some good recommendations on alternatives? I never need it on my phone. People I care enough about to text can suck it, lol. I only use it in browsers and apps when I write.

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Alexander Karan @alexanderkaran.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

🧵(4/4) Sure, I can often navigate around poor software when forced to, but what about people who don't work in tech? What about people with disabilities? I remember the first time I watch a visually impaired person use the internet I realised why doing my job well was important. Quality matters.

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