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

“You think the most wealthy and well connected people in the world, people from most prestigious law school on the planet, are somehow in violation of laws you don’t fully understand, and you’re going to get a legal battle with them?” Same energy youtu.be/7zJ0DLJmXl8?...

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Batman The Dark Knight Trilogy Movie Clip | Mr. Reese's Plan | Warner Bros. Entertainment

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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

I don’t make the rules. 🤷‍♂️

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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

It's UNFORTUNATE that it's a common term. "Green" in particular, was a really poor choice. "green" means success or active 99% of the time in software. Odd/even was right there. lol

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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

It would have to be a lot of extensions. In 25 years, I don't think I've worked at any two companies that had the same pairing of issue tracker and source control. Teams of humans that are hustling are terrible at organizing information across multiple tools.

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

... not to mention a lot of the discussions about "why" some code is the way it is might happen in person, or in Slack, or elsewhere.

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

They could, but clearly it's vastly more complicated than just adding some jsdocs to methods or a one liner explaining "why" some code is the way it is. Also it's not one-size fits all. There are a dozen version control systems and probably a hundred bug trackers and team management tools.

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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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Ben Lesh @benlesh.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

AH! That's a "lube station" (lol) I thought it was some sort of crazy keyboard you took the caps off of

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Ben Lesh @benlesh.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Haha. I meant what model of keyboard is that big square keyboard, and what is the use case for such a keyboard? I mean, I’m happy that you have your own system to lube things, believe me 😂

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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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Ben Lesh @benlesh.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

What the heck is that keyboard and what is it used for?

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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

I know this is probably old news for some folks, but I'm always shocked at the number of broken GitHub links I find in the wild.

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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 · 24/01/2025

You shut your filthy mouth! 🤣

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Ben Lesh @benlesh.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

This is really good. Nice work!

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Ben Lesh @benlesh.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Semi related: I’m doing some art with gliding (silver leaf, though, not gold) and Eytzinger is a manufacturer of materials related to that process. Strange coincidence.

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Ben Lesh @benlesh.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

I’m not familiar with the algorithm. It seems to expect a sorted array to build a flattened, balanced binary tree? It might be good to give more descriptive variable names for the uninitiated. But I can look up the algorithm.

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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

Any rough edges or quirks around iframes or the like? Just curious.

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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

"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

Zeu Breu, nitro brew, or kombucha, or beer. I'd buy it. Because I like saying it.

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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 · 29/12/2024

Explain "fine grained async" are you talking about controlled scheduling?

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

useState and useMemo are basically very explicit very poorly integrated signals.

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

Put differently, if we react has to build an object tree, and then diff it against another object tree in order to know what to update, then targeted updates aren’t really on the table. And reactive types like signals really don’t have any direct advantage for react.

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

Without a compiler, and with the virtualized DOM paradigm, I don’t really know that react is in a great position to benefit from signals. Frameworks that use compilers and “templated“ DOM (including JSX usage) will always have an advantage using any reactive primitive for targeted updates

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

If you’re keeping state just to coordinate events, that’s probably something that should live in an observable. But any state that you’re rendering? Signals.

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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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