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Jonathan Garbee

@garbee.me

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Software Engineer focusing on the Web Platform and making apps accessible. Currently working at Deque.

Jonathan Garbee @garbee.me · 27/02/2026

Seriously, on the Firefox AI commit controversy. I don’t see the point in complaining. Anyone threatening to move to another browser over it isn’t escaping anything. Every major company is using AI heavily. Even in ways you don’t see through code. It’s just something we need to accept. AI is a tool.

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Hasani Rogers @deificartsllc.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

A new blog. Lit is better than React. dev.to/hasanirogers...

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Lit is better than React: Signals in Lit

I once asked Gemini about the performance between React and Lit. It led me down a path to...

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Jonathan Garbee @garbee.me · 18/12/2025

T-Fiber (T-Mobile's new fiber home internet, where they bought up others to jump start it) has to be the most incompetent gathering of anyone working in IT and Support I've ever seen. They can't get anything right and support will leave notes in tickets that is the exact opposite of what was said.

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Jonathan Garbee @garbee.me · 19/10/2025

@leviathanapp.bsky.social Bulk importing could use one key improvement. I have a text list exported from another program. Upon importing it, foils are correctly marked. But all normal cards are "Unspecified" for the finish. Tons of time would be saved if we could filter an import and mass update.

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Jonathan Garbee @garbee.me · 09/10/2025

This is way better and far less time consuming and mentally draining as the big survey. Both have their place to rank things, but the simplicity in this is refreshing.

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Jonathan Garbee @garbee.me · 04/09/2025

Seeing Atlassian buying the browser I was trying to use… instantly left it. Back to Chrome I guess.

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Jonathan Garbee @garbee.me · 21/08/2025

Idempotence in CI is so extremely important. Everywhere I’ve been people have just let CI run on whatever is latest. Which always leads to breaks. Treat CI like your app dependencies. Freeze as much as you can. Regularly automate updates to merge after testing. Respond to breaks to upgrade.

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Jonathan Garbee @garbee.me · 11/08/2025

Diving into the world of Apple Profiles for font distribution this weekend... What a gnarly pit. Looks like macOS will take variable fonts just fine (like Monaspace.) But iOS and iPadOS are both like, "This is a collection, not a single font". So you need to split static fonts for mobile.

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Jonathan Garbee @garbee.me · 24/05/2025

While giving people the benefit of the doubt is good, we need to stop holding people who work at major companies on such a high pedestal. No one can know everything. Most software engineers, just assemble legos. Stop thinking "they must have had a plan/reason". Generally the plan was deliver or

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Jonathan Garbee @garbee.me · 09/04/2025

I can’t be lied to believe that these tariffs aren’t just market manipulation by those close to Trump. Wreck the stocks so they can buy them up, then release tariffs and gain.

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Jonathan Garbee @garbee.me · 11/03/2025

You like one pizza picture… BlueSky unloads them all on you.

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Jonathan Garbee @garbee.me · 26/01/2025

My favorite diff handler for MacOS right now, Juxtacode. One time payment and handles everything I've put to it so far. Good work going on here. juxtacode.app

juxtacode.app

JuxtaCode

A nice Git merge tool for macOS

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Jonathan Garbee @garbee.me · 28/12/2024

Does "Design Unification" for an organization ever actually work? It is generally used to allow engineers to switch between teams seamlessly. Or sell more easily since everything the company has "looks the same". But, isn't the difference between old and new a selling point?

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