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building contrail in public :) github.com/SkyfallWasTaken

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skyfall @mahadk.com · 12/08/2026
@phfox.net what's the usage policy for Vanilla 4 icons? (more specifically, are you allowed to use the icons for websites you're building?)
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stellz @piss.beauty · 23/07/2026
"make no mistakes" negative, unrealistic, anxiety inducing, process focused "do a breakthrough" positive, incredible, aspirational, goal oriented
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skyfall @mahadk.com · 11/04/2025
might as well throw my hat into the ring for the #KofiPromoteChallenge if you like the work I do, support me on kofi! ko-fi.com/skyfalldev
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Tom Warren @tomwarren.co.uk · 04/03/2025
Apple is appealing against the UK’s backdoor encryption order. The company has filed an appeal with the Investigatory Powers Tribunal, which deals with complaints about the UK intelligence services and authorities www.theverge.com/news/623977/...
theverge.com
Apple reportedly challenges the UK’s secretive encryption crackdown
Apple’s appeal could reportedly be heard as soon as this month.
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skyfall @mahadk.com · 17/02/2025
apologies for getting political on the TL, but www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jehv... is really interesting
youtube.com
Worse Than Watergate: Thursday Night Massacre
YouTube video by LegalEagle
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skyfall @mahadk.com · 05/01/2025
Just wrote a new blog post on how to generate OG images for @astro.build (like the one below)! skyfall.dev/posts/astro-...
skyfall.dev
How to generate OpenGraph images with Astro and Satori
Generating OpenGraph images for your Astro site is an easy way to increase click-through rates and make link previews more appealing. Here's how to set them up!
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skyfall @mahadk.com · 23/12/2024
Really good mini-essay I found, think it's worth sharing here :) xcancel.com/johnrushx/st...
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skyfall @mahadk.com · 21/12/2024
git-wrapped.com/profiles/Sky... The stars bit is definitely not very accurate (no way in hell I got 180 stars lol) but it's definitely a lot nicer than the githubunwrapped this year
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GitHub Wrapped 2024 - Your Coding Year in Review
Like Spotify Wrapped, but for your GitHub activity! See your top languages, commit streaks, most productive days, and more in an engaging story format. Get your 2024 coding year in review now.
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skyfall @mahadk.com · 19/12/2024
I built a Wakatime extension for Figma over the last two days! addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefo... (still waiting on the chrome web store for chrome :/) gh link: github.com/SkyfallWasTa...
addons.mozilla.org
WakaTime for Figma – Get this Extension for 🦊 Firefox (en-GB)
Download WakaTime for Figma for Firefox. Metrics, insights, and time tracking automatically generated from your Figma activity.
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skyfall @mahadk.com · 17/12/2024
claude would probably have a lot more market share if they actually let you use claude sonnet and have more than 5 messages/day on the free plan
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skyfall @mahadk.com · 17/12/2024
Svelte dropped this update the day after I ran into an issue with stores :D
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skyfall @mahadk.com · 13/12/2024
this was a harrowing read, but also one that is definitely worth your time: www.esquire.com/news-politic...
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My Life As a Homeless Man in America
An extraordinary firsthand account.
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Anton Hur @antonhur.com · 11/12/2024
5th person to be cured of HIV “Today, researchers announced the Dusseldorf patient still has no detectable virus in his body, even after stopping his HIV medication four years ago.”
abcnews.go.com
5th person confirmed to be cured of HIV
Researchers are announcing that a 53-year-old man in Germany has been cured of HIV.
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The Verge @theverge.com · 10/12/2024
WordPress must stop blocking WP Engine, judge rules
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WordPress must stop blocking WP Engine, judge rules
A win for WP Engine.
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skyfall @mahadk.com · 11/12/2024
the fact that gen.xyz makes you pay extra to not get doxxed by whois is something, that's for sure
gen.xyz
.xyz Domain Names | Join Generation XYZ
.xyz is for every website, everywhere.® We offer the most flexible and affordable domain names to create choice for the next generation of internet users.
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David Buchanan @retr0.id · 10/12/2024
turso.tech/blog/introdu... the big thing that interests me here is the async io 👀
turso.tech
Introducing Limbo: A complete rewrite of SQLite in Rust
we forked SQLite with the libSQL project. What would it be like if we just rewrote it?
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Armin Ronacher @mitsuhiko.at · 10/12/2024
This is a huge undertaking, but I'm all for competition! Let them cook! turso.tech/blog/introdu...
turso.tech
Introducing Limbo: A complete rewrite of SQLite in Rust
we forked SQLite with the libSQL project. What would it be like if we just rewrote it?
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skyfall @mahadk.com · 08/12/2024
i've been trying to reverse engineer Google Find My Device, and it's been, uh, painful :/ since they use both gRPC and Protobuf, seem to be base64-ing protobuf blobs (??) within the json grpc, and I don't have a schema..
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skyfall @mahadk.com · 08/12/2024
exactly! typescript has genuinely saved so much time for me - if it didn't exist, I probably would've given up web dev altogether
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skyfall @mahadk.com · 08/12/2024
in a perfect world we would have a language with the type system and package manager of rust, the compile times of go, the package ecosystem of typescript and js/ts hot reloading
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skyfall @mahadk.com · 05/12/2024
i forgot to add github releases to my project... which is a github release cli...
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skyfall @mahadk.com · 05/12/2024
So uh, hawk tuah coin rugpulled. 💀
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Andras Bacsai @heyandras.dev · 04/12/2024
If you're signing up for the first time to Hetzner, register at coolify.io/hetzner (€20 - I receive cloud credits from this 💜) and then redeem your code (€10). How to redeem: 1. Visit console.hetzner.cloud/usage 2. Enter the code to claim your credits Enjoy!
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skyfall @mahadk.com · 03/12/2024
I just completed "Mull It Over" - Day 3 - Advent of Code 2024 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2024/day/3 my input parser is a bit... verbose so to speak, but everything else looks good!
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Day 3 - Advent of Code 2024
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skyfall @mahadk.com · 02/12/2024
I've completed "Red-Nosed Reports" - Day 2 - Advent of Code 2024 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2024/day/2 The code isn't amazing and could probably be faster (around 300 microseconds rn, but I'm aiming for ~100), but it works! github.com/SkyfallWasTa...
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Day 2 - Advent of Code 2024
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skyfall @mahadk.com · 01/12/2024
it's update time! - completed day 1 of #adventofcode - wrote a small blog post for my new site - and got 220 visits!! - tried to learn dijkstra's algorithm - did some hackathon planning (zenithhacks.org) - added a drafts system to my blog (skyfall.dev) - fixed contact link page
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skyfall @mahadk.com · 01/12/2024
Just wrote a new blog post! skyfall.dev/posts/satori... #tailwind #satori #writing :)
skyfall.dev
How to use Satori with your Tailwind config
A quick guide to using Satori with your Tailwind plugins, fonts, and everything else in your config!
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skyfall @mahadk.com · 01/12/2024
I just completed "Historian Hysteria" - Day 1 - Advent of Code 2024 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2024/day/1 I did face a bunch of silly errors because of things like forgetting to multiply or adding instead of subtracting though 🤦‍♂️
adventofcode.com
Day 1 - Advent of Code 2024
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skyfall @mahadk.com · 30/11/2024
Is it just me or has Mistral become kind of irrelevant?
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skyfall @mahadk.com · 30/11/2024
Well i didn't get to do anything for a bit (because busy :/) but I managed to cook up some more stuff for my personal site! - I added generated OG images! (e.g. skyfall.dev/posts/first-...) not super pretty, and they don't show up on bsky for some reason, but they do show up on twitter/discord! 🧵
skyfall.dev
How I built this blog
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.
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skyfall @mahadk.com · 28/11/2024
going to be posting daily updates, because why not! today, I: - mostly worked on my personal website - fixed status colours (turns out tailwind jit wasn't picking up on em) - fixed my blog post layout (it wasn't the proper width before) - updated the blog post preview now live at skyfall.dev :)
skyfall.dev
Home • Mahad Kalam
Mahad Kalam (@skyfall)'s personal website. I ramble about Rust, TypeScript, web dev, and more!
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skyfall @mahadk.com · 26/11/2024
is it just me or has the discover feed suddenly become so much better?
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skyfall @mahadk.com · 24/11/2024
not entirely surprised tbh
"Your music is more obscure than
95% of 477,989 GB users on Obscurify. The higher the rating, the more obscure."
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skyfall @mahadk.com · 21/11/2024
doing some 1am web design rn
a webpage saying "hey i'm skyfall", with my pfp on the right, and some blog links
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skyfall @mahadk.com · 17/11/2024
windows 11 setup is genuinely so bad "do you want microsoft 365 pro?" "do you want microsoft 365 basic?" "sign in to a microsoft account!" "can we use your location for ads?" "can we send your ink data to microsoft?"
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skyfall @mahadk.com · 16/11/2024
coding at 4am lol
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skyfall @mahadk.com · 14/11/2024
GitHub was obviously intended for Minecraft server backups
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David Fowler @davidfowl.com · 12/11/2024
Announcing .NET 9 devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/annou... #dotnet
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skyfall @mahadk.com · 13/11/2024
thinking of learning #rubyonrails, should I do it 👀
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skyfall @mahadk.com · 13/11/2024
hey there, I’m skyfall, a software dev making cool things with computers! in the past, I’ve built a disposable email service (vortex.skyfall.dev), a fantasy os for the web (phantom.skyfall.dev), a shop tracker for @hackclub.com, and a ton of other cool stuff on my GitHub: github.com/SkyfallWasTa...
phantom.skyfall.dev
Phantom
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skyfall @mahadk.com · 12/11/2024
hot take: people really need to stop saying how Bluesky is better than twitter if it's actually gonna have lasting traction
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skyfall @mahadk.com · 11/11/2024
update: the code is terrible and is broken in extremely confusing ways
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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
God grant me the serenity to accept I am cooked, The courage to say fuck it we ball, And the wisdom to know when we are so back
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skyfall @mahadk.com · 10/11/2024
I think a lot more people would like frontend dev if CSS was more straightforward
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skyfall @mahadk.com · 10/11/2024
“based on what you know about me. draw a picture of what you think my current life looks like” (GCSEs are kinda like AP in the US, I use ChatGPT a lot for learning stuff! :))
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skyfall @mahadk.com · 09/11/2024
coding at 2am is very fun
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skyfall @mahadk.com · 09/11/2024
I really like how Bluesky's API is fully open, really cool to be able to make new bots/feeds/apps with it :D
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skyfall @mahadk.com · 05/11/2024
remember when elon said that twitter was too political?
A Twitter post from the New York Times: "Elon Musk plans to spend election night with Donald Trump, giving the former president direct access to the person controlling X, a key information platform, on what could be a chaotic evening."
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skyfall @mahadk.com · 04/11/2024
As a Brit, the fact that there's so much noise in US politics really confuses me
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skyfall @mahadk.com · 04/11/2024
it's been 4 days and i'm already following 517 people :p
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