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Winamp Skins Bot @webamp.org · 10/04/2026

energy_amplifier_by_vlda.wsz via the Winamp Skin Museum

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evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

You may be tempted to roll your eyes and say that this was obvious, but there is a substantive difference between pointing out there is a slippery slope and having solid evidence that Ring's CEO is planning to expand Search Party beyond lost pets. Kudos to 404 Media.

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Matthew Green @matthewdgreen.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

There’s a lawsuit against WhatsApp making the rounds today, claiming that Meta has access to plaintext. I see nothing in there that’s compelling; the whole thing sounds like a fishing expedition.

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GraphQL @graphql.org · 15/01/2026

🎤 The GraphQLConf CFP is open! Got a GraphQL idea or story to share? Join us May 6 - 7 at Meta HQ in Menlo Park. Submit your talk 👇 sessionize.com/graphqlconf...

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GraphQLConf 2026: Call for Papers

GraphQLConf 2026, the official GraphQL conference brought to you by the GraphQL Foundation, brings the entire GraphQL community together to learn, eng...

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Jordan Eldredge @capt.dev · 09/01/2026

Setting Chrome to mimic a 3G network it's even worse! 8 distinct layouts.

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Jordan Eldredge @capt.dev · 09/01/2026

What the heck is going on with Spotify's embedded player that it flashes through no fewer than six different layouts as it loads?

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Casey Newton @caseynewton.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

I reached out to the author of this viral Reddit post thinking there might be a story in it. He sent me an employee badge that Gemini flagged as being AI-generated and supporting documents that I suspect were also generated by AI. Be careful out there folks! www.reddit.com/r/confession...

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From the confession community on Reddit

Explore this post and more from the confession community

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Jordan Eldredge @capt.dev · 03/01/2026

Remembering the time a few months ago where I asked Claude to write a Bach chorale using LilyPond and then do 10 iterations of critical feedback and improvements. It ended up with this hilarious monstrosity. The reviews it gave the final draft were quite impressive...

Bach choral with many ordainments and flourishes

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GraphQL @graphql.org · 01/01/2026

Happy New Year 🎉 New year, new resolutions: fewer null checks, clearer error handling, and getting nullability right in GraphQL. Let's see how far we get this year.

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dan @danabra.mov · 15/12/2025

deployed big update to rsc-playground.pages.dev lots of bugfixes and a few new examples. this basically works now! i'll open source a bit later

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Jordan Eldredge @capt.dev · 14/12/2025

Tis the season for me to remind you that the Spike Jones Xmas Spectacular is the best Christmas album: jordaneldredge.com/spike-jones-...

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Spike Jones Presents a Xmas Spectacular / Jordan Eldredge

My favorite Christmas album

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Jordan Eldredge @capt.dev · 10/12/2025

I updated grats.capt.dev internal snapshot tests to serialize using markdown and the result is so nice! Snapshot output now has syntax highlighting and nice readable headings showing what each bit of the output means.

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Mark Erikson @acemarke.dev · 04/12/2025

x.com/panchito built a _really_ slick looking Github file viewer clone that fully uses RSCs and new React features, as well as making smart use of modern CSS. Great writeup on the implementation: wtbb.vercel.app I tried browsing the React repo example and it's _fast_! Really impressive!

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Without the blue bar

a github clone with NextJS 16 and cache components

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dan @danabra.mov · 04/12/2025

maybe not the best moment for it but i finally condensed my “why react server components” into a short blurb that does well on HN

Server Components is not really related to SSR.
I like to think of Server Components as componentized BFF ("backend for frontend") layer. Each piece of UI has some associated "API" with it (whether REST endpoints, GraphQL, RPC, or what have you). Server Components let you express the dependency between the "backend piece" and the "frontend piece" as an import, instead of as a `fetch` (client calling server) or a <script> (server calling client). You can still have an API layer of course, but this gives you a syntactical way to express that there's a piece of backend that prepares data for this piece of frontend.
This resolves tensions between evolving both sides: the each piece of backend always prepares the exact data the corresponding piece of frontend needs because they're literally bound by a function call (or rather JSX). This also lets you load data as granularly as you want without blocking (very nice when you have a low-latency data layer).
Of course you can still have a traditional REST API if you want. But you can also have UI-specific server computation in the middle. There's inherent tension between the data needed to display the UI (a view model) and the way the data is stored (database model); RSC gives you a place to put UI-specific logic that should execute on the backend but keeps composability benefits of components.

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GraphQL @graphql.org · 27/11/2025

Ever wonder how GraphQL clients like Relay keep your app’s data perfectly in sync without extra network calls? 🤯 Meta’s Sabrina Wasserman breaks down the core engine behind modern GraphQL clients. Watch here 👇 www.youtube.com/watch?v=hz0...

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Local Data Consistency With GraphQL - Sabrina Wasserman, Meta

Have you ever wondered how GraphQL clients like Relay keep local data consistent across surfaces, ensuring that changes made within a session are seamlessly ...

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Laurie Voss @seldo.com · 25/11/2025

I think the npm client should probably follow pnpm in making post-install scripts be opt-in and recording that decision in package-lock, so if a package that was previously inert suddenly has a post-install script, it wouldn't execute. www.sonatype.com/blog/the-sec...

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The Second Coming of Shai-Hulud: Attackers Innovating on npm

Sha1-Hulud returns to npm with automated, self-replicating malware and pipeline persistence. Sonatype details the campaign and how to stay protected.

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GraphQL @graphql.org · 19/11/2025

Curious how Meta approaches GraphQL in real production systems? Check out this playlist with all their GraphQLConf talks from past years. Full playlist: www.youtube.com/playlist?li... #graphql #react #relay

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GraphQL at Meta

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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 13/11/2025

I simply refuse to accept that police ever have to look like this. this is just pure cosplay. it should be illegal for cops to be dressed like soldiers going to war.

police dressed as military in front of a police tank

police dressed in camo like soldiers like total knobs

cops dressed head to toe in camo like full kit wankers

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Jake Bailey @jakebailey.dev · 13/11/2025

helper functions should go below the functions they're helping

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Jordan Eldredge @capt.dev · 12/11/2025

You know you've arrived when someone makes a short-form video in which they point enthusiastically at a thing you made

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GraphQL @graphql.org · 11/11/2025

Local reasoning. Zero over-fetching. Seamless pagination. Optimistic updates. Consistent UI. Tiny bundles. Built in lock-step with #GraphQL; Meta's Jordan Eldredge shares The Big Ideas in #Relay to enhance user experience and developer velocity. youtu.be/yInL1aPZjvI

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The Big Ideas in Relay - Jordan Eldredge, Meta

Relay, Meta’s advanced GraphQL client for React, has many innovative capabilities not available in other clients. We will explore these capabilities, what th...

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Jordan Eldredge @capt.dev · 10/11/2025

This weekends exploration for the Winamp Skin Museum: what if you could algorithmically doom scroll Winamp skins 🤔

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Jordan Eldredge @capt.dev · 09/11/2025

@communityinter.net nice to meet you at the park today!

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evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

This is very clearly the direction in which things are headed, especially since so many of the people who built and maintained the tools the US IC has developed-in house have been fired or have left.

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P(aul) Frazee @pfrazee.com · 04/11/2025

One of the huge perks of working at a software company is, when there's something about the product that bothers you personally, you can get your hands dirty and find out why it's basically impossible to get fixed

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GraphQL @graphql.org · 04/11/2025

GraphQL error handling sucks. There, I said it. Null checks everywhere, and ambiguity: error, or true null? We've all been there. In this talk, Benjie Gillam shows how to fix GraphQL's biggest mistake in 512 bytes. 👇 youtu.be/odwQUAkmW44

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Fixing GraphQL's Biggest Mistake in 512 Bytes - Benjie Gillam, Graphile

GraphQL error handling sucks. There, I said it.Ever hunted through the errors list to figure out if a null was legit or caused by an error? If you're like me...

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Jordan Eldredge @capt.dev · 02/11/2025

There were only about 50 skins which were not already in our collection. Further confirmation that the museum's >101,000 skins represent the vast majority of all skins ever created.

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Jordan Eldredge @capt.dev · 02/11/2025

I’ve been made aware of a 2013 “panic download” archive of downloads.nullsoft.com containing ~60k Winamp skins. Downloaded and hashing all the files to find any which are not already in the Winamp Skin Museum.

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Mark Erikson @acemarke.dev · 31/10/2025

Exciting progress today! Called with @capt.dev about the React "concurrent stores" prototype, and we brainstormed potential Redux integration issues. I then whipped up a prototype branch that reworks `useSelector` to use the prototype, and _most_ tests pass! github.com/reduxjs/reac...

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[DRAFT] Initial React "concurrent stores" compat prototype by markerikson · Pull Request #2263 · reduxjs/react-redux

This PR: Is a first prototype to see if we can use the WIP React "concurrent stores" API as a replacement for useSyncExternalStore Added a Yalc-built version of https://github.com/theju...

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Jordan Eldredge @capt.dev · 31/10/2025

LuigiHann designed this around 2018 to celebrate the @archive.org integrating Webamp and adding a dedicated collection of Winamp skins.

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Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

📣THREAD: It’s surprising to me that so many people were surprised to learn that Signal runs partly on AWS (something we can do because we use encryption to make sure no one but you–not AWS, not Signal, not anyone–can access your comms). It’s also concerning. 1/

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kepano @stephango.com · 25/10/2025

somehow @capt.dev revived this Winamp 5 skin I made 21 years ago

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Simon Willison @simonwillison.net · 22/10/2025

OpenAI's CISO Dane Stuckey posted an essay (on Twitter) about how their new ChatGPT Atlas browser attempts to deal with the risk of prompt injection attacks, I ended up writing a point-by-point commentary on my blog: simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/22/...

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Dane Stuckey (OpenAI CISO) on prompt injection risks for ChatGPT Atlas

My biggest complaint about the launch of the ChatGPT Atlas browser the other day was the lack of details on how OpenAI are addressing prompt injection attacks. The launch post …

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Jordan Eldredge @capt.dev · 22/10/2025

Works especially well with SQLite’s full text search. Been building a little search DSL for my site which compiles to SQLite’s FTS+structured search/sort conditions. github.com/captbaritone...

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jordaneldredge.com/packages/search-query-dsl at master · captbaritone/jordaneldredge.com

My personal website. Contribute to captbaritone/jordaneldredge.com development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Jordan Eldredge @capt.dev · 22/10/2025

Markdown+metadata is such a good format for blog posts. But deploy-to-publish feels heavyweight, and I often want to publish from my phone. Current setup: Author in Notion and pull from Notion API to Markdown in SQLite DB. Site renders from SQLite.

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Jordan Eldredge @capt.dev · 15/10/2025

Been using this repo to iterate on API ideas for a concurrent compatible store for React. Still exploratory but excited that we’re very close to something that we can start trying out with existing data stores and start an iteration cycle based on what we learn.

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Jovi 🐨 @jovidecroock.com · 12/10/2025

The 3 worst GraphQL myths: ❌ Everything is POST ❌ All URLs are /graphql ❌ Anyone can query anything One solution destroys all three: Persisted Operations/Trusted documents www.jovidecroock.com/blog/graphql...

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GraphQL Myths

Common misconceptions about GraphQL and how persisted operations address them.

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Jordan Eldredge @capt.dev · 11/10/2025

I just brought my Winamp Skin bot to Bluesky @webamp.org

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Jordan Eldredge @capt.dev · 11/10/2025

Working on a Bluesky Winamp Skins bot…

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Jordan Eldredge @capt.dev · 10/10/2025

“Unleash the Thong Song” may be the greatest text ever rendered in a button

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