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Luke Melia

@lukemelia.com
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software developer, entrepreneur, embereño, beach volleyball player, dad, waverider, founder Yapp

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Jonathan Ladd @jonathanmladd.com · 03/07/2026
Our Constitution bans foreign emoluments and names bribery as an impeachable offense. Another case where the problem isn’t the Constitution.
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Ricky Davila @therickydavila.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
The Albanian people have been massively protesting for several consecutive days against slumlord crook Jared Kushner and Crimestress Ivanka seizing land in their country to the sum of billions of dollars to build a trashy resort. I hope they don’t stop until their evil corrupt deal is reversed.
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EmberJS @emberjs.com · 29/05/2026
v7 released! Read more here: blog.emberjs.com/ember-releas...
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Mike Dalessio @flavorjon.es · 23/03/2026
So @jcn.bsky.social rescued some old GORUCO videos from 2010 and 2011 that I just posted up on rubyevents.org, including this killer talk from @sandimetz.bsky.social: www.rubyevents.org/talks/less-t... Enjoy the old school vibes!
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Less - The Path to Better Design
GORUCO 2011: Less - The Path to Better Design (Sandi Metz)
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Luke Melia @lukemelia.com · 31/01/2026
We've published a whitepaper about the open source system I've been working on with Cardstack: whitepaper.boxel.ai
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Boxel Whitepaper
A System of Composable Software in the Age of Abundant Code—By Chris Tse, Cardstack Foundation
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Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
ICE agent asked why he's taking pictures of a legal observer's car, replies: "Cuz we have a nice little database and now you're considered a domestic terrorist. So have fun with that."
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
America is now at the heavily armed secret police doing warrantless door-to-door house raids in search of undesirable ethnicities and/or political dissenters stage. The difference from well known historical cases is down to scale.
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
New incredible detail here: ICE says a match in its facial recognition app Mobile Fortify is a "definitive" determination of a person's status, and that this overrides birth certificates. This is an app ICE is using in the field to scan people www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...
Ranking member of the House Homeland Security Committee Bennie G. Thompson said in a statement “Mobile Fortify is a dangerous tool in the hands of ICE, and it puts American citizens at risk of detention and even deportation.” He also said “ICE officials have told us that an apparent biometric match by Mobile Fortify is a ‘definitive’ determination of a person’s status and that an ICE officer may ignore evidence of American citizenship—including a birth certificate—if the app says the person is an alien. ICE using a mobile biometrics app in ways its developers at CBP never intended or tested is a frightening, repugnant, and unconstitutional attack on Americans’ rights and freedoms.”
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NullVoxPopuli @nullvoxpopuli.com · 26/10/2025
@chris.manson.ie's herculean efforts are why vite landed in 6.8 🎉 Shipping proper (deprecations, CLIs, docs, tutorials, etc), is A TON of work, and the community helped get us there - esp on the docs and tutorials side - thank you to all who submitted a PR, opened an issue, or chatted in Discord!!
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Luke Melia @lukemelia.com · 26/10/2025
Ember.js 6.8 release looks like some nice steps forward. Great to have the equivalent of tracked-builtins now, well, built-in! blog.emberjs.com/ember-releas...
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Ember 6.8 Released
The Ember project is excited to announce the release of Ember v6.8. This is a standard minor release as part of the standard Ember Release Train process, but this release isn't...
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 19/10/2025
This is what democracy looks like. #NoKings
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
This has nothing to do with crime. This is an attempt to crush political dissent. Never before, in our entire 250 year history, has the military or immigration agents been used like this. It's dystopian, illegal, and it should stop.
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JazzReads📚🏀 @jazzreads.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
So exhausting..
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
Democrats should not and cannot fund the government without securing a statutory provision reversing the Supreme Court and banning ICE from questioning, detaining, or attacking Hispanic and Latino Americans on the basis of their ethnicity alone.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
STOP conceding that Trump can legitimately expand grab by deploying baseless claims of “emergency.” There was NO EMERGENCY to justify tariffs. There was NO “INVASION” to justify this migrant crackdown. And there is NO “EMERGENCY” that justifies military takeover of local law enforcement in D.C.
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
NEW: Wearing masks, no ID, unmarked & blacked out cars, refusing to say what agency they’re from and using profanity with any press & public nearby. This was at 14th & R in Washington DC, this morning (Sunday). What the hell is happening to the US? (🎥 Dan Rosenzweig-Ziff, Washington Post)
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Irina Nazarova @inazarova.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
⚡️ We launched the general ⚡️ ticket sale⚡️ for the San Francisco Ruby Conference on November 19-20! Get yours at lu.ma/sfrubyconf2025 The full program is live on sfruby.com/speakers and it is 🔥exceptional🔥. Friends, help us share the message!
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Magenta @magentab.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
this headline is complete fucking horseshit btw, this is what he actually said
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Dave Winer @scripting.com · 23/06/2025
It’s disgusting what Trump is doing to our country.
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 12/06/2025
“Pretty much wherever you are, you’re probably less than 30 minutes away from your closest No Kings event.” - @leahgreenberg.bsky.social with @democracynow.org We hope to see you at your local #NoKings Day mobilization on Saturday: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i...
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
a woman just trying to get home gets shot
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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
Hello. I live in Los Angeles. The president is lying.
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Ruth Ben-Ghiat @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
Fake emergencies to justify crackdowns-not very original
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Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 02/06/2025
One more for the "WTF" quota... This lady has been legally in the U.S. for 50 years. She was detained by ICE in *February* when coming home from a trip to the Philippines and only just released last week. "It was horrific; it was awful, it is crowded—super crowded." www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...
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ICE releases health worker arrested at airport despite living in the U.S. legally for 50 years
Lewelyn Dixon had been arrested at the Seattle airport after a trip to her native Philippines in late February. She was released from ICE custody after three months.
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Martin Fowler @martinfowler.com · 13/04/2025
"how a child development researcher charged with no crime ended up in a crowded cell in Louisiana" www.propublica.org/article/rume...
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American Rendition: Rümeysa Öztürk’s Journey From Ph.D. Scholar to Trump Target Languishing in Louisiana Cell
“So horrifying and so heartbreaking”: Öztürk’s close friend provides an intimate look into one of the hundreds of foreign students who have had their visas revoked — and in dozens of instances have be...
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Yehuda Katz (he/him) @wycats.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
I published a new post about my personal coding workflow with AI coding assistants and an approach to making it sustainable. Yeah, I used the phrase "vibe coding." It's a little cringe, but it's the phrase people are using, in my experience. 🤷
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Vibe Coding the Right Way
How I made vibe coding sustainable (for me) with a consolidation phase
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kottke.org @kottke.org · 01/04/2025
Hands Off! A bunch of big organizations (50501, Women’s March, MoveOn, Indivisible, Hands Off) are coming together on April 5 for a day of nationwide action & protest against the Trump regime. “If we don’t fight now, there won’t be anything left to save.” [kottke.org]
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Hands Off! A Day of Action and Protest on April 5.
On April 5th, a group of prominent national organizations (including 50501, Indivisible, Hands Off, MoveOn, and Women’s March) and many local organizations are all coming together for a day of nationwide action and pro
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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
Peter Marks has been a constant force for good at FDA and this is beyond worrisome. It’s devastating news. wapo.st/4j31DJa
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RFK Jr. forces out Peter Marks, FDA’s top vaccine scientist
Marks, an architect of Operation Warp Speed for coronavirus vaccines, warned that a measles outbreak shows how confidence in science is being “undermined.”
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Katie Gengler @katiegengler.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
I've been moved to post on socials ... by a codemod! Ember's template-tag-codemod did a fantastic job moving all my components to template-tag but what _really_ wow'd me is polish provided by the [merge-history](github.com/embroider-bu...) command. #emberjs
A screenshot of an editor showing `git annotate` with history for both the template and JS sides of an Glimmer component now rolled into one file with the template tag authoring format.
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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Tonight, hours after the Paul Weiss news broke, an associate at Skadden Arps sent a firm-wide email: "Please consider this email my two week notice, revocable if the firm comes up with a satisfactory response to the current moment...We do not have time. It is now or it is never..."
Jeremy and colleagues, Many deals I work on have concepts of conditional
notice. This is mine. Please consider this email my two week notice, revocable if the firm comes up with a satisfactory response to the current moment, which should include at minimum (i) signing on to the firm amicus brief in support of Perkins Coie in its litigation fighting the Trump administration's executive order against it, ii) committing to broad future representation, regardless of whether powerful people view it as adverse to them, (iii) refusal to cooperate with the EEOC's request for personal information of our colleagues clearly targeted at intimidating non-white employees, (iv) public refusal to fire or otherwise force out employees at the Trump administration's directive or implied directive and (v) public commitment to maintenance of affinity
groups and related initiatives. This is not what I saw for my career or for my evening, but Paul Weiss' decision to cave to the Trump administration on DEl, representation and staffing has forced my hand. We do not have time. It is now or it is never, and if it is never, I will not
continue to work here.
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Luke Melia @lukemelia.com · 20/03/2025
“If the government thinks a non-criminal migrant presents a threat then they can kick them out of the country but they cannot unilaterally decide that their untested suspicions justify prison time in another country.” abovethelaw.com/2025/03/trum...
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Trump Admin Unveils New Legal Standard: 'We Have No Proof, Which Actually Proves Our Case' - Above the Law
Many deportees lacked any evidence of criminality, but the government argues that really makes them MORE criminals.
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Patricia Zengerle @reuterszengerle.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
This is terrifying. Grabbed on the street and spirited away without any process for “views.”
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NullVoxPopuli @nullvoxpopuli.com · 16/03/2025
This is a bit out of order... but... *here we go!* Just as far as perf goes, Ember handles mass updates quite a bit better (imagine updating data in a graph or table, for example).
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Second Ave. Sagas @2avesag.as · 11/02/2025
Taking a little break from my social media break to remind everyone that you must be registered with a party to vote in the mayoral primaries, and the deadline to do that is Friday. We can still all tell Eric Adams to get f'ed if the corrupt feds won't and Hochul dithers about removal.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
This is evil. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/06/h...
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Dozens of Clinical Trials Have Been Frozen in Response to Trump’s USAID Order
The stop-work order on U.S.A.I.D.-funded research has left thousands of people with experimental drugs and devices in their bodies, with no access to monitoring or care.
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spaminthelab.bsky.social @spaminthelab.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Due to the freeze on credit card use, my laboratory (in the FDA) risks losing the contents of our liquid nitrogen tanks which store INVALUABLE samples-they cannot be replaced, so they are literally priceless, and reflect about 50 years worth of research.
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Ethan Sacks @ethansacks.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
A friend of mine worked as US Aid for a number of years, traveling the world doing crucial life saving work. She sent me this link that puts the sudden, illegal stoppage in stark numbers. Can I ask as many of you you out there as possible to spread this link around? www.usaidstopwork.com
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USAIDStopWork
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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 03/02/2025
If anybody is worried about this, I will gladly play the role of "dude with the red string on the cork board" so you look sane by comparison. Because the reality is the richest person in the world is a nazi who snuck in at midnight to steal every American's data so he could shut down the government.
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Luke Melia @lukemelia.com · 26/01/2025
Congratulations to Thailand, where Marriage Equality went into effect this week! #LoveIsLove
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
“Someone with a 1-hr car commute needs to earn 40% more to be as happy as someone with a short walk to work. On the other hand, if someone shifts from a long commute to a walk, their happiness increases as much as if they’d fallen in love.” #CityMakingMath 50 reasons to want walkable streets.
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50 Reasons Why Everyone Should Want More Walkable Streets
From making you live longer to making cities more resilient: If you want a reason to make your city more walkable, it's in here.
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
A paper that understands its responsibility, in a country that knows it when it sees it. Impressive from Die Zeit. Refuses to show the salute, but calls it out for what it so obviously was. Headline: “A Hitler Salute is a Hitler Salute is a Hitler Salute”
A screenshot of the Die Zeit website. It is a photo of Musk in black and white doing the Hitler “seig heil” salute - but the actual salute is blocked out by blue material on the left hand side of the photo. The headline is underneath.
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NullVoxPopuli @nullvoxpopuli.com · 30/12/2024
🎁 Ember v6 is released! As always, all available features are available in 5.x. If you're deprecation free, v6 is effectively non-breaking. Read about it here: blog.emberjs.com/emb...
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Chris Manson @chris.manson.ie · 21/12/2024
Yesterday we got the @emberjs.com RFC that will make @vite.dev the default build system for new apps accepted 🎉🎊🎉 We now have a plan that is all agreed and we just need to make it happen 💪 This is a great holiday OSS present for me 🎁🎄😍🐹
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Luke Melia @lukemelia.com · 11/12/2024
Who is doing the best thinking about how human computer interfaces change if AI proliferates?
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Luke Melia @lukemelia.com · 10/12/2024
OH: "I feel like that line gets executed in development, I would be OK with intrusive reporting, such as someone ringing by doorbell and delivering a singing telegram of the stack trace."
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Luke Melia @lukemelia.com · 30/11/2024
@pubspeak.bsky.social welcome to Bluesky!
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Chris Thoburn @runspired.com · 27/11/2024
key is always a good tool. Reminds the though that one of the overlooked benefits of WarpDrive over roll-your own data is stable references for objects and arrays. I think that's one of the reasons a lot of apps never end up needing to reach for key, the default (identity) just always seem to work
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Luke Melia @lukemelia.com · 26/11/2024
I updated the README for ember-modal-dialog to address the current status of development and maintenance for this addon. TL;DR it's not needed anymore -- we recommend you embrace the `dialog` element and floating-ui instead.
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Jen Simmons @jensimmons.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
I have to admit, I’m excited about `background-clip: border-area` (and the *finally* fully-supported `background-clip: text`)! It feels like it’s been a long time since we got something new in #CSS that lets us more easily create interesting graphic design. webkit.org/blog/16214/b...
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Luke Melia @lukemelia.com · 16/11/2024
I had vscode's copilot write a randomColor function. I noticed it failed to pad the hex output. So I asked copilot to review the code it wrote (without prompting it about the issue I noticed). It found the bug and proposed a fix. I guess it was... just not trying that hard on its first pass?
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