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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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Espen Hovlandsdal @espen.codes · 07/11/2025

It happens! Thanks for the fix ❤️

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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...

mswjs.io

Server-Sent Events Are Here!

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

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Espen Hovlandsdal @espen.codes · 02/10/2025

Expo replaces APIs like `URLSearchParams`, but not `fetch` - what's the rationale for that? Just more room for breakage?

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

Yep. Wish it was in React Native instead of Expo though. Telling people who use your libraries “use expo” isn’t always going to work.

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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 · 12/05/2025

More than happy to show up :) Will DM you!

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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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Espen Hovlandsdal @espen.codes · 11/04/2025

Really sorry to hear this, Adam - makes absolutely no sense.

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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

Safelisting the “Last-Event-ID” header for CORS requests :)

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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 · 07/02/2025

I’m not a native speaker, but dictionary says: > relating, belonging, or owing allegiance to another country or government 🤷‍♂️

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

Can you make it slimmer, now that we’ve got more modern hardware?

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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

standardschema.dev

Standard Schema

A common interface for TypeScript validation libraries

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Espen Hovlandsdal @espen.codes · 08/12/2024

That would be good enough - but question is is there are some easy ways of doing so - eg a GitHub action/workflow or similar

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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

They really are no joke. Whole house was shaking for a good 20 seconds (from the quake, not the warning)

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

Too late it's out; bsky.app/profile/espe...

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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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Espen Hovlandsdal @espen.codes · 04/12/2024

Flakiness might be okay if it’s rare enough, but you don’t want a “purchase was successful” assertion to be wrong, I’d rather get back like an order ID and manually assert that part

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Espen Hovlandsdal @espen.codes · 04/12/2024

This is really cool! I’d be scared to rely on the assertion part in a production grade app (because of non-determinism), but using the other tools (eg getting structured data back) and asserting manually should be fairly safe.

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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...

npmjs.com

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 · 21/11/2024

Heisann, norsk utvikler 👋 Lagt til!

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

Didn't fit a link in there - you'll find them at www.libvips.org, and if you're in the Node/JavaScript ecosystem you already may be familiar with sharp, which is powered by libvips: sharp.pixelplumbing.com

libvips.org

libvips

A fast image processing library with low memory needs.

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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

Not sure how that happened 😅 Added!

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

Thanks for the all the 'ats! Added!

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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 · 20/11/2024

Har også begynt på en starter pack for norske utviklere/tech-relaterte! go.bsky.app/N4YoK7s

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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 · 16/11/2024

Not holding out hope for a `.hovlandsdal` 😉

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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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