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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 · 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 · 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

Progress photos part 2: I used a simple 3 color palette: Ultramarine blue, cadmium yellow light, and alizarin crimson. I used a relatively thin medium for the lower layers: 2:1 turpenoid to safflower oil. Getting heavier with more raw paint as I worked up.

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

Progress photos part 1: The wash/underpainting is just burnt sienna and turpenoid.

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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

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

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Ben Lesh @benlesh.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

Oh no. I can’t see the controls on iPhone.

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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

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

Haha. So like... None of them?

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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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Ben Lesh @benlesh.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

lol... if only I contributed to open source. 😿 (It seems like this is off a little)

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Ben Lesh @benlesh.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

It's been ages, but I swear that sometime in 2017 or so, @danr.bsky.social (TS team) told me "Use interfaces, not types, for objects". I've also seen people whom I trust less tell everyone to "use types, not interfaces". What is everyone doing now? cc @mattpocock.com

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Ben Lesh @benlesh.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Spotted wild parakeets while waiting in line for barbecue here in Austin. 🦜🦜

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Ben Lesh @benlesh.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

PSA: Use `crypto.randomUUID()` and not the `uuid` package. It's supported in all modern browsers and in Node >19.

// Old and busted
import { v4 as uuid } from 'uuid';
uuid();

// New hotness
crypto.randomUUID();

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Ben Lesh @benlesh.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Side note: “danabra mov” reads like part of a Harry Potter spell.

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Ben Lesh @benlesh.bsky.social · 08/11/2024

Does BlueSky have their own emojis? Or is this my new Windows machine showing me really lame looking emojis?? 🤪🫡🦆 Okay, I actually like the duck though...

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Ben Lesh @benlesh.bsky.social · 08/11/2024

I guess I don't spell Shawarma very often... Also, I feel like when that's what I'm ordering, I already know it's what I want when I walk in, so I probably don't even really read the menu. 🤔

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Ben Lesh @benlesh.bsky.social · 07/11/2024

While perusing BlueSky, I came across this meme. I feel so included! 🥰 😂⚰️

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Ben Lesh @benlesh.bsky.social · 07/11/2024

Okay... here's a primitive example. Let's say that the expected version number updates 3 times in a row, but the actual only updates 1 time after all of that. What's ACTUALLY rendered here only changed twice. Which is fine in isolation. But the component has a lot of other hooks/logic to execute.

export function SomeComponent() {
// ... up here there's a bunch of other hooks and logic
// maybe a lot. Because "yay tech debt!".

const expectedVersion = useExpectedVersion();
const actualVersion = useActualVersion();

const isUpToDate = expectedVersion === actualVersion;

return <>
{/* ... a lot of other stuff */}
<div>{isUpToDate ? 'up to date' : 'out of date'}</div>
</>
}

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Ben Lesh @benlesh.bsky.social · 02/05/2023

And after looking through some GraphQL related stuff, I decided to checkout tRPC's offering for streaming data... and look! Another observable implementation. No RxJS here.

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Ben Lesh @benlesh.bsky.social · 02/05/2023

More observables in the wild. Note that there's no RxJS here. That observable is yet another flavor of observable. This time from Facebook's Relay library.

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Ben Lesh @benlesh.bsky.social · 27/04/2023

Wait! The orchid set?! We have that. Even have a light kit for it.

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Ben Lesh @benlesh.bsky.social · 25/04/2023

I always think of the scene in Commando as the quintessential “gearing up” sequence. But I think you and Sam Raimi did it better. (No idea is this gif will work on this platform)

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Ben Lesh @benlesh.bsky.social · 25/04/2023

I'll be honest, I'm disappointed but unsurprised here.

My name is Harry Potter.

Hello, Harry Potter! It's nice to meet you. How can I help you today?

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Ben Lesh @benlesh.bsky.social · 24/04/2023

Today’s lunch bag art was just a quick one for my youngest.

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