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Ben Lesh @benlesh.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

So let me get this straight, the Trump administration is going into a tax/business/legal battle with Harvard University? Isn’t that literally the best school in the entire world for law and business?

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Ben Lesh @benlesh.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Just remember, every new lint rule you add is just another reason everyone should hate you. That’s right, you, the engineer that added 10–20 additional lint rules on top of the defaults, after enabling all the built-in rules. Everyone hates you. Even your immediate family. You’re the worst.

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Ben Lesh @benlesh.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Visual aggression testing.

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Ben Lesh @benlesh.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

"Micro optimization" is an overused term. If someone's doing some hard-to-read trickery to eek out some performance that probably doesn't matter? Sure. "micro optimization" If someone wrote readable, more efficient code? That's just better code, not a "micro optimization".

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Tech Stack Nation @techstacknation.com · 24/02/2025

Want to learn more about Observables in Chrome? Learn about it like we did, from @domfarolino.com himself! Shout out to @benlesh.bsky.social, author of the original proposal. Big love to Ben and Dominic, both for bringing this code to life and for teaching us about it! 🤩 youtu.be/IMIVmCkwOT4

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Chrome's New Observable API w/ Dominic Farolino 🔥🤩 | #WeLearnTogether at TechStackNation.com

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Ben Lesh @benlesh.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Dear AWS: "blue/green" deployments are so weird. Was "odd/even" not available to you? Please stop being weird. kthx

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Ben Lesh @benlesh.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

RxJS 7.8.2 has been published. github.com/ReactiveX/rx...

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Ben Lesh @benlesh.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

✨Heads up! Observables are shipping natively to a browser near you soon! Huge thank you and congrats to @domfarolino.com ❤️ I've helped / worked on / watched this through different standards bodies for more than 10 years now. ☠️ (I'm going to have a lot of work now to adapt RxJS to this 😅)

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Ben Lesh @benlesh.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Hey @bsky.app , why can't I click on someone's profile banner and view it enlarged? I want to get a better look at whatever they're showing off of up there.

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Ben Lesh @benlesh.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

"Good code is self commenting" 🙄 Sure. But even perfect code can't always tell you WHY it's doing what it's doing. Now with AI assistants, they're not going to git blame, and read PRs and issues to know the "whys" ...but they can read inline comments and jsdocs.

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André Staltz @staltz.com · 07/02/2025

If you'd ask me in 2015 what will web dev look like one decade from now, my imagination would have gone WILD. Instead, we just got Next.js

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Daniel Glejzner @danielglejzner.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Rx Visualizer Beta V1 out now. #rxjs #angular Check it out here: rxvisualizer.com

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Ben Lesh @benlesh.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

🚨PSA: When copying GitHub URLs, always hit "Y" first! Hitting "Y" adds the current SHA to the URL. This ensures your link doesn't break as the repository changes over time.

An image highlighting the SHA in the URL after hitting the "Y" key on GitHub

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Ben Lesh @benlesh.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

I'd kill for greenfield work. But the money is in maintaining 5+ year old, neglected spaghetti for very productive spaghetti farmers. The real reason to work on OSS is just to have a nice place of your own to enjoy coding.

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Ben Lesh @benlesh.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

I'm not sure why I never realized this, but it makes sense. JSX doesn't treat new lines in text the same way that the browser interprets them in HTML text content It's just interesting, in HTML the outcomes below would be the same.

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Ben Lesh @benlesh.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

Lmfao. Either a bug in the blue sky app messed up my upload, or I accidently selected this picture of a sloth named Choco that was "adopted" for me for Christmas. Probably the latter

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Ben Lesh @benlesh.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

This is the first oil painting I've finished in 25 years. A long overdue gift for my parents. Although there's a lot to improve, I've never been happier with a painting. I'm not really an "artist" anymore, but a hobbyist. So I'll take it

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Ben Lesh @benlesh.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

"I haven't wiped my butt all year" - my 9 year old girl at 12:03am

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Ben Lesh @benlesh.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

Watching Ghostbusters 2. My favorite New Year's Eve movie. 🍻

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Ben Lesh @benlesh.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

I LOVE telling my kids I love them. It's the best feeling I get every day.

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Ben Lesh @benlesh.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

This is probably the most concise I’ve ever been on signals in react

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Tech Stack Nation @techstacknation.com · 17/12/2024

If you're an architect or team lead using RxJS and Angular, this video is for you! 😎 Featuring @synalx.bsky.social & @pkozlowski.bsky.social responding to the new Observable API from @domfarolino.com and @benlesh.bsky.social 🔥 Red rover, red rover, send @littledan.dev over? 🙏🥰 youtu.be/205cMTcQ82Y

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Angular Team Responds to Chrome's New Observable API | Architects Study Group | We Learn Together 🔥

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Ben Lesh @benlesh.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Honestly, being forced to work with Microsoft Edge at work has me appreciating it a bit. + Optional vertical tabs + AI tab grouping + Solid AI integration with Copilot + A lot of the same goodness of Chrome in dev tools etc

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Ben Lesh @benlesh.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Y'all, I've been playing Cooking Madness 2. I'm trained and ready to run around making burgers and sushi on a busy street or in an active volcano now.

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Ricky @ricky.fm · 10/12/2024

Wrapping setState in startTransition will prevent 100% of the wasted renders for the old state. The problem is the unnecessary synchronous setState, not the number of renders.

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Simeon.__proto__ @dotproto.com · 10/12/2024

Fuck this

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Ben Lesh @benlesh.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Coding and education about coding are completely changing. You can literally have Claude or ChatGPT walk you through best practices and how-tos in nearly anything code-related. Personalized. Free. Interactive. Directly in the codebase you care about. How could online tutorials compete?

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Tech Stack Nation @techstacknation.com · 08/12/2024

One more video about @benlesh.bsky.social 🥰 #sorryNotSorry 😇🤣 cc @synalx.bsky.social Ben, love ya! Pop in again to nerd out with us anytime! ❤️ You too @littledan.dev, we would love TC39 updates! 🙏🤓 youtu.be/IvlJnXZjrOk

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"Roasting" RxJS Goat Ben Lesh 🔥😂🥰 w/ Chrome & Angular Friends

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Ben Lesh @benlesh.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

This is what happens when you try to use AI for professional art work. This is a Call of Duty: Black Ops loading screen. 🤣

Zombie Santa Claus with six fingers on his right hand

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Ben Lesh @benlesh.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Y’all what in the world is happening in South Korea right now? Do I know any South Koreans here? Can somebody explain?

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zeu @zeu.dev · 03/12/2024

FRIENDS STAY WINNING 🥇 Congratulations @devagr.bsky.social & @cmgriffing.bsky.social 💛✨🥳

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Ben Lesh @benlesh.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

I doubt this will be seen by large numbers of people. 🤣

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Ben Lesh @benlesh.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Social media has ruined web dev the EXACT same way that it ruined politics. If there were elections in tech, it would be down to a few very popular but completely unqualified candidates who would each have their followers believing they were the "best", and then we'd elect a moron.

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Ben Lesh @benlesh.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

#TypeScript PSA: If you're using `for..of` to do all of your iteration, you don't need to pass/type things as Array, use Iterable! `for..of` does iteration, so any Iterable will work. Passing `Item[]` here would be a unnecessarily restrictive:

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Tech Stack Nation @techstacknation.com · 03/12/2024

Big thanks to Dom, Alex, and Pawel for making time to visit our group and chat about what they're working on, thanks to @benlesh.bsky.social for the proposal and introduction to Dom, and thanks to @ag-grid.bsky.social for helping our community host cool discussions like this one! #WeLearnTogether 🥰

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Ben Lesh @benlesh.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

90% of what people are building with AI is useless or silly, where they took about 15 minutes to write a silly prompt and added some storage to the system. That said, it's still better than "Web 3" where 99% of it was useless and silly, but they spent years working on it.

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Ben Lesh @benlesh.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Apple feature request: the ability to disable speakers on phones in your home for when your in-denial-about-being-hearing-impaired boomer relatives visit.

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Ben Lesh @benlesh.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

protobuf, and .proto files are too low-resolution to be the "source of truth" for generated types for other languages. Letting backend developers lean so hard on those for so long was a mistake. .proto files should be generated from strongly defined languages, not the other way around.

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Ben Lesh @benlesh.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Haha. So like... None of them?

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Ben Lesh @benlesh.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

One of the things I like about the tech community here on BlueSky is that I haven’t seen as much self promotion. At least maybe the grifters haven’t figured out the algorithm here. Twitter was so bad I nearly walked away from it.

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Ben Lesh @benlesh.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

AI coding helpers still stink at assisting large refactors, sadly. They speed things up a little, but I'd like it to step through changes and have me validate and apply them over and over. For example, to convert a whole codebase from JS to TS, which isn't always easy.

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Ben Lesh @benlesh.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

I'm very impressed by Microsoft Edge's built-in shopping features. If you browse to an item on a retail site, Edge will give you price trend information and prices for other retailers! Super handy, IMO.

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Catra @handle.invalid · 22/11/2024

bluesky should *truly* innovate on block features by letting me add a note saying why the fuck i blocked someone, for my own future benefit

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Jamie Kyle @jamie.build · 19/11/2024

Only semi-related, but a common difference I see between real world usage of interfaces vs type aliases Always prefer to use properties with function types, not methods Methods are bivariant even with --strictFunctionTypes www.typescriptlang.org/play/?target...

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Ben Lesh @benlesh.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

After reading responses, I'm going to stick with defaulting to interfaces. It's the TS team recommendation. Even working on a TS library in a monorepo with 100,000+ targets, I never once saw a reopened interface cause an issue. I *have*, however, seen degraded TS performance from overuse of `type`.

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