leefreeman.dev @leefreeman.dev · 17/07/2026Disappointed that the official monster raving loony party are running three candidates and forcing their base to choose 010 0
Reposted by @leefreeman.devMike McQuaid @mikemcquaid.com · 13/05/2026Open source maintainers at profitable companies: stop asking permission to fix what your employer already depends on. No paperwork. No programme. No manager’s blessing. Just maintain it on the clock.ossresistance.comOpen Source ResistanceA direct-action manifesto for maintainers keeping open source alive on company time. 319344 0
leefreeman.dev @leefreeman.dev · 19/02/2026She'd be gutted that she wasted 12 million quid paying off one of his accusers and he got arrested anyway 000 0
leefreeman.dev @leefreeman.dev · 19/02/2026I think Andrew should prove his innocence by giving another interview to Newsnight or similar 000 0
leefreeman.dev @leefreeman.dev · 02/02/2026Did Chelsea forget that Josh and Sarr are on the books or are the SDs just addicted to transfers? 100 0
leefreeman.dev @leefreeman.dev · 28/01/2026It doesn't seem right that Benfica could play 3 CL games in a row against Real Madrid (has such a thing ever occurred before?) 000 0
leefreeman.dev @leefreeman.dev · 30/12/2025Walked into the pub 5 minutes in and we immediately concede 000 0
leefreeman.dev @leefreeman.dev · 20/12/2025I never expected anything from a lunchtime kick off away to Newcastle but did think we'd be slightly less shit 000 0
leefreeman.dev @leefreeman.dev · 02/12/2025So I joined a gym recently which is great, but turns out you can just go to decathlon everyday for free and use the equipment there and they will not stop you 000 0
leefreeman.dev @leefreeman.dev · 07/11/2025Having lots of things to do close to where you live discovered as being incredibly good and cool, actually. 100 0
leefreeman.dev @leefreeman.dev · 30/10/2025My initial instinct is that we need to be able to easily beat up the robot 000 0
leefreeman.dev @leefreeman.dev · 27/10/2025We've had increasingly right-wing governments for 15 years here, and it seems that the Dutch voters think they will solve their problems by voting right even harder. 010 0
Reposted by @leefreeman.devJake Lazaroff @jakelazaroff.com · 02/10/2025show this to anyone else you know who also assumed DHH was just a normal conservative dude rather than a raging white supremacist lunaticjakelazaroff.comDHH Is Way Worse Than I Thought | jakelazaroff.comDHH's politics are not normal. Maybe they used to be, I don't know, but as of right now the dude is_way outside of what most people would consider moral or acceptable. 29490174 0
leefreeman.dev @leefreeman.dev · 29/09/2025People love to say Rails has a DHH problem, which is true, but React has a Gizmo Rauch problem 120 0
leefreeman.dev @leefreeman.dev · 27/09/2025Good thing Maresca brought on those defensive substitutions to shore things up at the back 000 0
leefreeman.dev @leefreeman.dev · 14/09/2025Riding my bike for the first time in 6 weeks and I must say, it's just like riding a bike. 010 0
leefreeman.dev @leefreeman.dev · 13/09/2025Online used to exist only in a box in a room in your house, we called it a desktop computer and it was the only way to access it. Now the internet is in our pockets all the time and madness has ensued. 000 0
leefreeman.dev @leefreeman.dev · 29/07/2025So after more than 10 years I cancelled my spotify subscription. I didnt use it to listen to podcasts but my subscription over time had been paying the likes of Joe Rogan, Harry & Megan and the Obamas rather than the aryists I'd signed up to listen to. 100 0
leefreeman.dev @leefreeman.dev · 22/07/2025I was running a few months ago and got stuck chatting to a bloke who had spent the previous day in a cafe talking to chatgpt. In the course of the conversation the chatbot told him that he felt sadness and the man took this at face value and uncritically repeated it to me. 100 0
leefreeman.dev @leefreeman.dev · 11/07/2025My company are using it already for the interview process 020 0
leefreeman.dev @leefreeman.dev · 10/07/2025To be fair Head of Nasa is a terrible name for a metro line and I would avoid riding it too 021 0
leefreeman.dev @leefreeman.dev · 19/06/2025Given what we know about the typical media consumed by a 68 year old white man in Britain, they might be better off keeping to themselves? 000 0
leefreeman.dev @leefreeman.dev · 10/06/2025Big to start work and find Jest 30 had been released last week. While I wouldn't pick it for a new project, the upgrade was quick and painless given there has been years since the last release 000 0
leefreeman.dev @leefreeman.dev · 24/05/2025The agent to his colleagues after reading Ken's newsletter one time: "are we the baddies?" 000 0
leefreeman.dev @leefreeman.dev · 12/05/2025Oh, and I quit my job at the consultancy and am available for freelance work from 1st July. I'm basically a TypeScript DevOps person whose open to Amsterdam-area hybrid or fully remote work. 010 0
leefreeman.dev @leefreeman.dev · 12/05/2025Playing with building react native apps is great but doing a clean build basically maxes out all 16 cpu cores and I'm probably two/three months away from justifiably buying myself a new laptop that should crush this work 000 0
leefreeman.dev @leefreeman.dev · 24/04/2025The best thing about YOLO-editing your k8s cluster through k9s/vim is when your cat just jumps and walks all over your keyboard and now you really can't exit vim 000 0
leefreeman.dev @leefreeman.dev · 17/04/2025The toilets at my work are gender neutral and it turns out that the general population are in fact completely capable of being fucking normal about it, apart from the rabid followers of a children's author whose books they never grew out of. 030 0
Reposted by @leefreeman.devJames @43081j.com · 04/04/2025we're switching to quarterly posts for @e18e.dev showcases/updates, so here's the first one! we'll still be posting about other things in between, too 🙏e18e.devCommunity Showcase (Q1 2025)An update on what the community has been up to in Q1 of 2025 05914 0
leefreeman.dev @leefreeman.dev · 12/03/2025Regardless of any arguments for or against the TypeScript Go announcement (which I am in favour of by the way), I'm impressed at the simultaneous outreach across podcasts, reddit, discord, blogposts etc 020 0
leefreeman.dev @leefreeman.dev · 04/03/2025Big dog @wesbos.com nailing it on the latest potluck @syntax.fm about mixing templating languages being a complete drag, which is why I think React has so much gravity despite its many valid criticisms 000 0
leefreeman.dev @leefreeman.dev · 21/02/2025So I wrote about when all my pipelines at work started failing after the weekend and what a really good and cool time I had as a result leefreeman.dev/blog/pitfall...leefreeman.devPitfalls of mixing package managersOr how my pipelines broke over the weekend 'for no reason'. 000 0
leefreeman.dev @leefreeman.dev · 31/01/2025So now that the CRA repo is seeing a tiny bit of attention again, I think the only reasonable step left is to make a final release upgrading it to be a tiny wrapper over create-vite 000 0
Reposted by @leefreeman.devAndy Bell @bell.bz · 28/01/2025This deepseek situation demonstrates the underwhelming, wasteful output of the western tech industry perfectly. It’s all built for making billionaires richer and that’s why it’s burning you out. 1728 0
leefreeman.dev @leefreeman.dev · 27/01/2025Luckily OpenAI will totally develop AGI any day now, right? 100 0
leefreeman.dev @leefreeman.dev · 21/01/2025Got to see No Other Land earlier, found it heartbreaking and moving but also enraging and a feeling of impotency from where I am 000 0
leefreeman.dev @leefreeman.dev · 05/01/2025So I went to my first ever Yoga class this morning and definitely seen an impact on stress levels 🙃 010 0
leefreeman.dev @leefreeman.dev · 17/12/2024Most days I hope to be a good developer, but today I really hope to be a lucky one! 000 0
leefreeman.dev @leefreeman.dev · 03/12/2024Set up my own domain handle, took less than 5 minutes, this is so dev friendly 👍 000 0
leefreeman.dev @leefreeman.dev · 29/11/2024Using the Instagram group chat nickname feature to immediately give everyone the nickname 'big dawg' because I can 000 0
leefreeman.dev @leefreeman.dev · 27/11/2024I've got to be honest, there are so many 'State of...' surveys going around constantly that I can't be arsed to pay any attention anymore 000 0
