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Espen Hovlandsdal @espen.codes · 03/08/2026

Any AIs gotten good at recognizing fonts yet?

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Espen Hovlandsdal @espen.codes · 11/04/2026

Asked Gemini to draw me a blue jay in SVG

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Espen Hovlandsdal @espen.codes · 22/11/2025

Made a lot of mistakes in my life, but buying a monitor that provides power, ethernet, mouse, keyboard and video signal through the same cable is not one of them.

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Artem Zakharchenko @kettanaito.com · 05/11/2025

📣 Huge news: MSW ships a first-class support for Server-Sent Events! Develop, test, and debug your apps with the new `sse()` API. Learn more: mswjs.io/blog/server...

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Server-Sent Events Are Here!

First-class support for mocking Server-Sent Events lands in MSW.

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Espen Hovlandsdal @espen.codes · 01/10/2025

React Native: - `fetch` does not have streaming support - No `TextDecoder` - No `Event`, `EventTarget`, `MessageEvent` - `URLSearchParams` only has `append` method Wish it had a similar push for supporting web APIs as Node.js did recently. Making cross-env libraries that support RN is not easy.

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Espen Hovlandsdal @espen.codes · 16/04/2025

I would never say that I _miss_ pandemic times, but I did spend 3-4 weeks making a scenario based on A Song of Ice and Fire for a 30 year old isometric 2D game, with zero regrets or shame 🤔

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Sanity @sanity.io · 09/04/2025

icing without cake is just icing

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Espen Hovlandsdal @espen.codes · 22/03/2025

C++ is wild and I don’t mean that in a good way.

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Espen Hovlandsdal @espen.codes · 09/03/2025

Firefox was actually fast and easy! ✅ Next up: WebKit

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Espen Hovlandsdal @espen.codes · 09/03/2025

Alright, that's Chromium done ✅ Next up: Firefox!

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Espen Hovlandsdal @espen.codes · 08/03/2025

Have forgotten how it feels like to wait for stuff to compile… Currently building Chromium from source 😴

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Espen Hovlandsdal @espen.codes · 28/01/2025

Sometimes I wish there was a way to message people on GitHub. Someone leaves an issue or a comment on one of my repos and I'm curious how they are using it, but don't want the interaction to be in public (noise/irrelevant to the thread). Of course, I understand what a slippery slope that could be.

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Colin McDonnell 💎 Zod @colinhacks.com · 27/01/2025

BIG DAY 😇 Introducing Standard Schema! It’s a specification for a standard interface to be implemented by TypeScript schema libraries. The goal is to make it easier for frameworks and tools to accept user-defined schemas, without writing separate adapters for different libraries. standardschema.dev

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Standard Schema

A common interface for TypeScript validation libraries

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Espen Hovlandsdal @espen.codes · 07/12/2024

Is there a way to test a module in React Native's JavaScript environment, without running a full emulator? Does the jest environment catch things like the broken URL and Intl implementation etc? This is a for a generic JS module that should _preferably_ work in React Native.

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Espen Hovlandsdal @espen.codes · 05/12/2024

Y'all, it's happening! React 19 is now `latest` on npm! @react.dev

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Christian Grøngaard @hamburger.cloud · 26/11/2024

Today, I released the library we use to drive >200 tests using Gherkin to make sure @sanity.io's Portable Text Editor behaves correctly. Pkg: www.npmjs.com/package/race... Src: github.com/portabletext... PTE Gherkin spec: github.com/portabletext... PTE Gherkin test suite: github.com/portabletext...

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racejar

A testing framework agnostic Gherkin driver. Latest version: 1.0.1, last published: 4 hours ago. Start using racejar in your project by running `npm i racejar`. There are no other projects in the npm ...

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Espen Hovlandsdal @espen.codes · 20/11/2024

Big thanks to libvips team (@jcupitt.bsky.social @lovell.info @kleisauke.nl) for creating a lightning-fast, incredibly reliable image processing library. Some of the nicest open-source maintainers you'll ever meet - polite, helpful and responsive. Happy that @sanity.io sponsored them with $4000 ✨

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Espen Hovlandsdal @espen.codes · 20/11/2024

This release is anything but boring. Mapping "free-form" content into the structured schemas defined in Sanity? Really cool. Can't wait to continue building on this and get closer to realizing the full "content operating system" vision we have in mind - you're going to love it.

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Espen Hovlandsdal @espen.codes · 20/11/2024

Started a start pack (heh) for Norwegian developers: go.bsky.app/N4YoK7s - shoot me some usernames that should be on there (would love to get some more diversity)!

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Espen Hovlandsdal @espen.codes · 16/11/2024

How often do you check your spam folder?

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Espen Hovlandsdal @espen.codes · 13/11/2024

Fiiiiiiinally shipped AVIF (output) support in Sanity 😅 More to come!

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Lukas Taegert-Atkinson @lukas.taegert-atkinson.net · 13/11/2024

Huge thanks to @sanity.io for sponsoring Rollup with a whopping $3000! This really gives me confidence to keep making Rollup a great tool to use! opencollective.com/rollup/contr...

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Financial contribution to Rollup · Contribution #806066 - Open Collective

The JavaScript module bundler

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Espen Hovlandsdal @espen.codes · 12/11/2024

While we're on the subject of open-source sustainability; giving thanks to open-source maintainers (beyond $$ support) is not something I do often enough. Going forward, I am going to start posting more about the awesome projects, apps, modules and tools that I use.

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Espen Hovlandsdal @espen.codes · 12/11/2024

Proud to be working at a company that recognizes the value of giving back to open-source maintainers and to push towards a more sustainable open-source culture.

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Espen Hovlandsdal @espen.codes · 12/11/2024

Is there a way to track upload progress when using `fetch()` yet? Should be possible using a custom read stream, but unsure if backpressure will work correctly or if you would end up with "read"-progress instead of "send"-progress

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Espen Hovlandsdal @espen.codes · 03/11/2024

There's a gaze of raccoons that stop by our backyard every day, and it's always a highlight of my day watching the videos (mounted a camera on the gate they slip under).

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Espen Hovlandsdal @espen.codes · 03/11/2024

Dad taught me HTML. The next 5 years was spent making “fansites” for video games I liked and FTPing them to our ISPs servers. Those were the days.

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Syntax @syntax.fm · 02/11/2024

I just spent way too long adding every guest to a Syntax starter pack If you want to follow the best devs in web development 👇🏻 go.bsky.app/SoASbQA

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Espen Hovlandsdal @espen.codes · 11/08/2023

Discover weekly gave me 80's polish punk, and I'm surprisingly here for it.

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Espen Hovlandsdal @espen.codes · 03/08/2023

In the US, people say “bless you” when you sneeze - even if you don’t know them.

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Carrie Hane @carrieh.bsky.social · 28/07/2023

Listen, if you stop my in the middle of completing my task to ask what my experience was with what you call an pseudo-automated system, I'm going to score you even lower than I would have if you hadn't interrupted me.

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