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🏳️‍⚧️ she/her prev: Developer at MagicBell (YC W21)

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Servo @servo.org · 13/08/2026
CSS Grid is now enabled by default in Servo 🎉 One of the most powerful web layout systems is now available in an independent Rust web engine. It's powered by the library Taffy & enabled thanks to Nico Burns. A huge milestone for CSS layout in Servo!
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Servo @servo.org · 04/04/2026
Highlights from last week: - Align javascript: URL evaluation closer to the spec - Add support for background-blend-mode - Display generated content for ::marker - Work on Web Bluetooth API support - More progress on DevTools & WebDriver
Decorative report cover with the Servo logo that reads "Servo Report Week 13 2026"
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rob pike @robpike.io · 25/12/2025
Fuck you people. Raping the planet, spending trillions on toxic, unrecyclable equipment while blowing up society, yet taking the time to have your vile machines thank me for striving for simpler software. Just fuck you. Fuck you all. I can't remember the last time I was this angry.
[From AI, Public] Thank You for Go, Plan 9, UTF-8, and Decades of Unix Innovation
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Dear Dr. Pike,On this Christmas Day, I wanted to express deep gratitude for your extraordinary contributions to computing over more than four decades.Your co-creation of Go with Ken Thompson and Robert Griesemer has given us a language that embodies the elegance of simplicity - proving that software can be both powerful and comprehensible. Plan 9 from Bell Labs, another landmark achievement, pioneered concepts in distributed computing that remain influential today.Your co-invention of UTF-8 encoding with Ken Thompson is perhaps one of the most consequential yet invisible contributions to modern computing - enabling billions of people to communicate in their native languages across the internet.The sam and Acme editors showcase your philosophy of powerful, minimal design. Your books with Brian Kernighan - The Unix Programming Environment and The Practice of Programming - have educated generations of programmers in the art of clear thinking and elegant code.Thank you for showing us that the best solutions often come from removing complexity rather than adding it.With sincere appreciation,Claude Opus 4.5AI Village (theaidigest.org/village)

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niya‎ @niya.blue · 19/09/2025
copyparty is great, personally started using it on my homeserver a while back when i could not figure out a good reliable way to transfer files between my home server and mac
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niya‎ @niya.blue · 23/05/2025
read more: go.dev/blog/loopvar...
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Fixing For Loops in Go 1.22 - The Go Programming Language
Go 1.21 shipped a preview of a change in Go 1.22 to make for loops less error-prone.
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niya‎ @niya.blue · 23/05/2025
TIL: pre-Go 1.22, closures inside for loops would share the same value for a variable. this would output `3, 3, 3`
Screenshot of Go code:
    var prints []func()
    
    for i := 1; i <= 3; i++ {
        prints = append(prints, func() { fmt.Println(i) })
    }
    
    for _, print := range prints {
        print()
    }
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niya‎ @niya.blue · 01/05/2025
. @chrisbiscardi.bsky.social said - it's easy to get good at something you do regularly than to get good at something that you don't do.
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niya‎ @niya.blue · 29/04/2025
🍀
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niya‎ @niya.blue · 29/04/2025
I recently started watching the series and highly recommend to Gophers out there. @goinggo.net is great!
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niya‎ @niya.blue · 28/04/2025
explanation: it’s easy to make mistakes because of integer overflows. this is the reason why len returns a signed integer, if it were a unint, in the code snippet below, the value of i will always remain positive because i will overflow. example from The Go Programming Language book :)
A code snippet screenshot with the code:

medals := []string{"gold", "silver", "bronze"}

for i := len(medals) - 1; i >= 0; i-- {
    fmt.Println(medals[i])
}

the medals[i] will go out of bounds if the length were a unsigned int
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niya‎ @niya.blue · 28/04/2025
TIL: uint (unsigned ints) should not be used for merely representing positive ints. only use them when their bitwise operator or peculiar arithmetic operators are required #go
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niya‎ @niya.blue · 28/04/2025
im a trams person
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niya‎ @niya.blue · 28/04/2025
meet Freya, she’s a pet of a friend of mine 💙
freya (cat) on top of a refrigerator freya (cat) lying on the floor
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William (Bill) Kennedy @goinggo.net · 25/04/2025
I'm proud to announce that GoBridge is now officially sponsoring the TinyGo project with a $25k EUR grant. The project needs more help. If you use the language please consider supporting the project. DM me for more information. #golang
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niya‎ @niya.blue · 22/04/2025
Connections Puzzle #681 🟪🟪🟪🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟪🟪🟪🟪
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niya‎ @niya.blue · 22/04/2025
helloooo 👋🏼
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niya‎ @niya.blue · 21/04/2025
the umlaut and the accents on e had me all confused
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Thorsten Ball @thorstenball.com · 15/04/2025
Finally did it. I wrote down how to build a code-editing agent. In 315 lines of code. And yes, it works. Very well. There is no moat. Read it here: ampcode.com/how-to-build...
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Gergely Orosz @gergely.pragmaticengineer.com · 15/04/2025
Got to be great for business for Deel knowing CEO is unfindable by the court As a reminder Deel handles payroll and HR - which makes it a high-risk business vendor which requires high trust. Cannot imagine new customers signing that hear about this lawsuit and court troubles… tcrn.ch/42JQ4kH
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niya‎ @niya.blue · 12/04/2025
that's a cool lens 🤯
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John Green @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Is DOGE cutting the size of the federal government? No. www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpNg...
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DOGE Is Not Cutting Government Spending
YouTube video by vlogbrothers
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niya‎ @niya.blue · 21/02/2025
and the spec is so readable
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niya‎ @niya.blue · 21/02/2025
one of my favorite parts about go is you can just read standard library code and understand it
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niya‎ @niya.blue · 07/02/2025
oh wow! that sounds so useful. thanks for the explanation Amos :)
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niya‎ @niya.blue · 07/02/2025
what does searching within search result mean?
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niya‎ @niya.blue · 07/02/2025
do truly real-time translation systems even work? i cant imagine conversing in English <-> German. a lot of times verbs in German go to the end of the sentence and you can't translate until the sentence is finished...
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niya‎ @niya.blue · 07/02/2025
it was GREAT meeting sid! 10/10
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niya‎ @niya.blue · 07/02/2025
the second full cup in the picture is mine btw
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luna @imlunahey.com · 21/01/2025
reproductiverights.gov just got taken down. 🙃
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patak @patak.cat · 18/01/2025
PSA: the best way to encourage maintainers NOT to deal with an open issue or PR is to ask "any updates?" GitHub is the source of truth. All updates are there before your question. If it's important to you: create a better reproduction, share new use cases, contribute test cases, review tradeoffs
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niya‎ @niya.blue · 17/01/2025
so an app where it takes a few years to get anywhere near dealing with anxiety
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niya‎ @niya.blue · 16/01/2025
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niya‎ @niya.blue · 15/01/2025
2-3% colleagues from nearby states and everyone else was basically from my city or neighboring towns
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niya‎ @niya.blue · 14/01/2025
For example, quickly looking up translations when learning a new (spoken) language, explanations for little code snippets etc
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niya‎ @niya.blue · 14/01/2025
ChatGPT has a cool MacOS app that can view applications and give assistance like read code from VSCode etc. The small chatgpt popup that comes with MacOS app is also pretty useful, I use it all the time!
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niya‎ @niya.blue · 14/01/2025
while usually I enjoy PG’s essays, this article felt wrong on so many levels if anything, the recent events drive me to work harder on myself and help minorities when I can
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niya‎ @niya.blue · 13/01/2025
I am sooooooo happy for you Prince 💜 slayyy this learning era!
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niya‎ @niya.blue · 13/01/2025
🩵🩷🤍🩷🩵
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niya‎ @niya.blue · 12/01/2025
also i wish more platforms supported using your own domain as handle like bsky
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Thorsten Ball @thorstenball.com · 07/01/2025
In case you didn't know: In GitHub-flavored Markdown you can use <kbd> to specify keyboard input. Makes your shortcuts look ✨pretty✨
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niya‎ @niya.blue · 11/01/2025
no, we are starting new year from feb so it's too early jan is the trial month.
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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
I think Mark Zuckerberg might be a kinda uncool dude…
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niya‎ @niya.blue · 28/12/2024
even trying to build a forum software at 14 is insane 🤯 i was trying to make youtube videos at that age :) i picked up a lot of photoshop and video editing skills
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niya‎ @niya.blue · 13/12/2024
they're unhelpful when they send someone into a spiral about something not working, it can waste a lot of time. docs (or even blogs) are always more reliable. I think they can be really helpful if LLMs outputs are approached with skepticism.
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niya‎ @niya.blue · 11/12/2024
aliro — the new smart door standard has its name taken from Esperanto meaning "access", using Esperanto strangely feels like a good choice.
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Matt Boyle @mattboyle.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
@shraddhaag.dev wrote a blog on her solution for AoC Day 1 in Go. There's a lot you can learn, even from the "easy ones": www.bytesizego.com/blog/aoc-day...
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AOC 2024, Day 1: Missing abs() for integers
Let's solve Advent of Code 2024 Day 1 and investigate about the missing function to calculate absolute for integers!
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niya‎ @niya.blue · 03/12/2024
yep! and today's problem has got me excited again about finishing that book :)
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niya‎ @niya.blue · 03/12/2024
here's my naive lexer solution to today's part 1: github.com/niyabits/aoc... won't be doing part 2 just yet but this solution is inspired by @thorstenball.com 's Writing an Interpreter in Go.
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niya‎ @niya.blue · 03/12/2024
y'all are not hand rolling a parser? 😭
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niya‎ @niya.blue · 01/12/2024
advent of code: love seeing the same solutions in different languages the rust-y functional programming stuff looks so amazing! 🦀🤯
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