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Horia Dragomir @hdragomir.com · 10/06/2026

Why is Google Chrome being downloaded at 27 KB/s on my brand new Mac, Safari?!

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Horia Dragomir @hdragomir.com · 19/05/2026

The next frontier is actually getting your code to ship with confidence (Duh, but hitting extra hard today)

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Horia Dragomir @hdragomir.com · 24/04/2026

Right place, right time, camera already shooting star trails when a cheeky meteor says Hi

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Horia Dragomir @hdragomir.com · 14/04/2026

I wonder how well CI -aaS platforms are doing these days. Do their backs hurt from all the cartoon moneybags they have to carry around? If you're using CI, check your dashboard to see how much more execution is being driven by ol' claudie-claude

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Horia Dragomir @hdragomir.com · 07/04/2026

We have a team of four astronauts going to the moon and back, but there's a group of people online concerned with how Apple and Nutella may not capitalize on the marketing opportunity since their products are being used in space... The grindset is real and I don't know how I feel about it

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Horia Dragomir @hdragomir.com · 31/03/2026

Claude so stronk even OpenAI is pushing it

A screenshot of selected text from an OpenAI promotional email that reads:

Extend Codex with Plugins

Connect Codex to tools like Slack, GitHub, Linear, Google Drive, and more—including a plugin for Claude Code.

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Horia Dragomir @hdragomir.com · 20/03/2026

And yeah, almost a decade later, I'm still dealing with said dirt. SideEffects, man: not even once

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Horia Dragomir @hdragomir.com · 20/03/2026

UpdateWithSideEffects I'm working on upgrading an older repo from an even older version of ReasonML The amount of buggy code caused by untangling reducer calls with side effects is through the roof I remember when the team begrudgingly added in the escape hatch, many moons ago, how dirty we felt

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Horia Dragomir @hdragomir.com · 13/03/2026

sendBeacon could have been great

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Horia Dragomir @hdragomir.com · 05/03/2026

Everyone's a manager now! Remember the mentoring component of management Good luck!

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Horia Dragomir @hdragomir.com · 26/02/2026

Since HTML, CSS and JS are so fault tolerant and backwards compatible, does that rub off on frontend people? Do we feel more accommodating? More empathetic?

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Horia Dragomir @hdragomir.com · 26/02/2026

It's been over a decade since my team launched messenger.com - I made some great friends on that team. Today I noticed the sunset banner and felt incredible nostalgia and longing. I'll be using the heck out of this little webapp that could until it goes

Messenger.com won't be available after April 14, 2026 but you can continue your conversations on the mobile app and on Facebook.

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Horia Dragomir @hdragomir.com · 19/02/2026

Do you think waymos have exterior microphones or are people who angrily honk at them plain dumb?

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Horia Dragomir @hdragomir.com · 12/02/2026

💯 There is a time and place for extreme go horse, though. Just gotta make a plan to deal with the tech debt We're on track to get into untenable territory "in six months"

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Horia Dragomir @hdragomir.com · 11/02/2026

With how easy it is to generate new code that works in isolation: Do we even need refactoring? Did refactoring ever really help the experience your product was providing? Like, I'm old enough that it did for me, but is that still true?

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Horia Dragomir @hdragomir.com · 11/02/2026

After manually(!) reviewing prolly some 50k lines of ai generated slop code this past year: Writing code that does what you want it to do is kinda easy these days, albeit at a junior to mid level Getting LLMs to help you properly refactor is quite a frontier. It's absolutely not solved

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Horia Dragomir @hdragomir.com · 07/02/2026

As a society, we need a solution to tech debt incurred from vibe coding to fix vibe coded code I'm manually poring over some insane shit rn. inb4: "you just need to add better guardrails and write more CLAUDE.md docs" I prefer to fight fire with water

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Horia Dragomir @hdragomir.com · 03/01/2026

Remember when it was reasonable to expect your flight to at least depart on time? I feel like 80% of my flights from the past 12 months were super delayed Can someone explain or am I imagining it?

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Horia Dragomir @hdragomir.com · 30/12/2025

At Akia, we say the compiler barfed

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Horia Dragomir @hdragomir.com · 04/12/2025

Something something happy JS day!

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Horia Dragomir @hdragomir.com · 10/11/2025

I don't know what Google or Fitbit did, but my pixel watch gen3 has gotten a massive battery life bump with last week's update - I'm still on Thursday night's charge

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Horia Dragomir @hdragomir.com · 25/10/2025

Oh, man! Oh, boy! Oh, geez!

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Horia Dragomir @hdragomir.com · 23/10/2025

A few days ago, I started focusing on photography again. I dusted off my very old camera (Sony a6000) and took it out for a spin Found this cheeky #hummingbird

A hummingbird photographer from behind, perched on a long narrow leaf with a classic downtown office building in the background. The low sun is barely illuminating the left half of the bird as it appears to look over its shoulder back at the camera

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Horia Dragomir @hdragomir.com · 21/10/2025

Your mind goes infinitely inwards

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Horia Dragomir @hdragomir.com · 19/10/2025

Some pages have event listeners on the capture phase that prevent the event from reaching your extension input that lives inside a shadow dom. Wild stuff

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Horia Dragomir @hdragomir.com · 19/10/2025

I maintain an extension. It's so annoying sometimes Wait until the page that you're on starts capturing *some* of your keystrokes

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Horia Dragomir @hdragomir.com · 18/10/2025

"Nipple deep in a pool" is exclusively how I will be referring to it from now on

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Horia Dragomir @hdragomir.com · 17/10/2025

A pigeon was perched on my office's flag pole. I said 'sup and it looked at me While maintaining eye contact, it took a shit on my company's flag So that's my day. How are you?

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Horia Dragomir @hdragomir.com · 15/10/2025

My apologies to @container and @eng for random mentions in our github PRs - it's real cool when github auto-tokenizes your commit message body except when it's not lol

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Horia Dragomir @hdragomir.com · 09/10/2025

He just speedran the last year of my work felt like - bugs and all 11/10

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Horia Dragomir @hdragomir.com · 08/10/2025

So many announcements at @react.dev conf, but one of my favorites has to be CSS in React Native via @expo.dev Huge. Massive. Let's go!

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Horia Dragomir @hdragomir.com · 08/10/2025

Straight up genie behaviour

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Horia Dragomir @hdragomir.com · 07/10/2025

Work day: over Next stop: Henderson, NV for @react.dev Conf! Flight: delayed

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Horia Dragomir @hdragomir.com · 30/09/2025

I've had a hard time getting --x: var(--x, 1em); to work as I want it and ended going with --x: var(--default-x, 1em) but I think figuring out this thing would be massive for composition

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Horia Dragomir @hdragomir.com · 23/09/2025

In Sweard, AK, when the coffee shop is closed, they just give you a free cup of diner style filter coffee so set you straight. Free. Out of a closed coffee shop Like, what is this place?

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Rachel Andrew @rachelandrew.co.uk · 17/09/2025

The WebDX Community Group is hosting an AMA on the r/webdev subreddit tomorrow. This is the group behind the "State of ..." surveys and Baseline, so if you have questions about those initiatives—or anything else around developer experience, join us! web.dev/blog/baselin...

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Join the WebDX CG for an AMA on Reddit | Blog | web.dev

Join the AMA on r/webdev on September 18 and ask us anything!

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Horia Dragomir @hdragomir.com · 17/09/2025

Surely svh / dvh accounts for this lol

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Horia Dragomir @hdragomir.com · 13/09/2025

Get well soon This is a really cool demo tho!

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Horia Dragomir @hdragomir.com · 09/09/2025

Ah, yes - when I think Microsoft I think "green" lol

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Horia Dragomir @hdragomir.com · 05/09/2025

There's a ridiculous amount of cool stuff! They ate!

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