Tiger Oakes @notwoods.bsky.social · 01/01/2026Now that the NYE ball has dropped the livestream has switched to peak leaf blower content 000
Reposted by Tiger OakesCharles Villard @charlesvillard.co · 08/07/2025Loved this #leetheat episode! The musicality, the suspense, the Ketchup method! @georgerodier.com and @notwoods.bsky.social were fantastic! www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXU2...youtube.comTiger has a message for his wife in case he doesn't make it · Leet Heat S1.E11YouTube video by CodeTV (formerly Learn With Jason) 183
Tiger Oakes @notwoods.bsky.social · 17/06/2025Fun times CGI-ing fingers back in that were just out of frame 040
Tiger Oakes @notwoods.bsky.social · 02/04/2025I helped make a film! Worked on editing and acting with the NYC Short Film Club. youtu.be/YDYq3RhS-sMyoutu.beCozy Snare | NYC Short FIlm ClubYouTube video by NYC Short Film Club 140
Tiger Oakes @notwoods.bsky.social · 13/03/2025The M4 iPad Pro is so good I can edit a 6K short film with no proxies or lag. It blows away my 5 year old desktop PC 010
Tiger Oakes @notwoods.bsky.social · 26/02/2025My DIY project the last couple weeks has been building a giant 4’x6’ frame for a wood world map. I got hardboard wood sheets and moulding and cut, painted, and mounted all by hand :) 120
Tiger Oakes @notwoods.bsky.social · 08/02/2025After losing my scissors too many times I’ve created my best invention yet 020
Tiger Oakes @notwoods.bsky.social · 22/01/2025Man’s blood veins turn into butterarstechnica.comFlorida man eats diet of butter, cheese, beef; cholesterol oozes from his bodyHigh cholesterol is considered 240 mg/dL. The man’s was over 1,000 mg/dL. 040
Tiger Oakes @notwoods.bsky.social · 16/01/2025I took my birding camera to the #Severance Grand Central popup and took some desk photos 070
Tiger Oakes @notwoods.bsky.social · 29/12/2024Finding the murderer @nearestnabors.com during our @halfstackconf.bsky.social talk! Full talk with @thebetterdaphne.bsky.social’s shenanigans: www.wearedevelopers.com/en/videos/12... 080
Tiger Oakes @notwoods.bsky.social · 26/12/2024I don’t know how to teach devs to google things anymore. Most of the results are for SEO-optimized walls of text instead of solutions. You can point folks to official documentation, but that doesn’t help when the source of the problem is unclear. Maybe only use Stack Overflow? 6262
Tiger Oakes @notwoods.bsky.social · 13/12/2024Today is my last day working at Microsoft. I got to work on lots of web performance and mentorship here over 3+ years! Off to new things in New York starting next month. 1130
Tiger Oakes @notwoods.bsky.social · 10/12/2024Back in Seattle…for the last time. I’m moving to NYC next month! 040
Tiger Oakes @notwoods.bsky.social · 08/12/2024I’m very excited that `createSubscriber` was added to @svelte.dev, it covers the one use case that was keeping me on stores instead of runes. 🥳 Now it’s much easier to convert an observable into a rune! svelte.dev/docs/svelte/...svelte.devsvelte/reactivity • Docs • Sveltesvelte/reactivity • Svelte documentation 120
Tiger Oakes @notwoods.bsky.social · 04/12/2024New blog post: Here’s my @storybook.js.org Test Runner config for reducing flakiness in screenshot tests (no Chromatic needed). tigeroakes.com/posts/storyb...tigeroakes.comHow to fix Storybook screenshot testingReduce flakiness in Playwright screenshots 010
Tiger Oakes @notwoods.bsky.social · 25/11/2024I’m looking for a good mobile photo/video/code editing machine and currently looking at the iPad Pro, Surface Pro 11, and MacBook Air. Anyone have opinions on these? - Run Affinity suite, Davinci Resolve, VSCode - Want easy plane use - Doesn’t have to work offline (but nice) 220
Reposted by Tiger OakesAileen Villanueva @aileenvl.bsky.social · 23/11/2024@notwoods.bsky.social and @thebetterdaphne.bsky.social How to automate your murder mystery: immersive games in your home talk in JsConfJP 🇯🇵 was amazing! 🤩 052
Tiger Oakes @notwoods.bsky.social · 21/11/2024We’ve landed in Tokyo for JSConf JP, the last stop on our conference tour! 030
Tiger Oakes @notwoods.bsky.social · 15/11/2024✈️ Landed in New York yesterday for #JSNationUS and #ReactSummitUS! 030
Tiger Oakes @notwoods.bsky.social · 14/11/2024Motives to murder your #halfstack emcee (with @leichteckig.bsky.social, @rowdy.bsky.social, @nearestnabors.com, @html5test.com) youtu.be/cOzTYKz_iAIyoutu.beMotives to murder your conference emceeYouTube video by Tiger x Daphne 063
Reposted by Tiger OakesJo Franchetti @thisisjofrank.bsky.social · 13/11/2024Of course the important question is not "whodunnit" but "howdidjawritetheapp". I may seem suspect, but it weren't me guv! 011
Tiger Oakes @notwoods.bsky.social · 13/11/2024Slides for our murder mystery talk at #halfstack speakerdeck.com/notwoods/how...speakerdeck.comHow to automate your murder mystery: immersive games in your homeHave you hosted a murder mystery party but dreaded the paper puzzles and constant character confusion? For Halloween, we tricked out our party with Node… 030
Reposted by Tiger OakesDaphne Oakes @thebetterdaphne.bsky.social · 13/11/2024#halfstack inception marking our 2nd year tradition at Halfstack! @notwoods.bsky.social 062
Tiger Oakes @notwoods.bsky.social · 13/11/2024Good morning #HalfStack London! I put together a starter pack with all of today’s speakers who are on Bluesky go.bsky.app/BFoCk2g 061
Tiger Oakes @notwoods.bsky.social · 11/11/2024Put a GPT on it! (with @thebetterdaphne.bsky.social and @nearestnabors.com) 021
Tiger Oakes @notwoods.bsky.social · 08/11/2024✈️ Flying to London tonight for HalfStack Conf, let me know if anyone wants to meet up next week! 030
Tiger Oakes @notwoods.bsky.social · 08/11/2024Been busy but got to make my Twitter account private today. Nearly everyone I’ve ever DM’d is here now so that’s one final use case I can throw out 🗑️🚮 030
Tiger Oakes @notwoods.bsky.social · 04/11/2024We're flying off to London this week to give a talk and solve a murder mystery at HalfStack London 2024! Come join us in Shoreditch on Nov 13, 10% discount code below: ti.to/halfstack/ha... 052
Tiger Oakes @notwoods.bsky.social · 03/11/2024thumbor-es is now on both NPM and JSR! It's a modern API to generate #Thumbor URLs, for image manipulation using an open source tool. www.npmjs.com/package/thum... 000
Tiger Oakes @notwoods.bsky.social · 20/10/2024#NodeJS users, it it fairly clear what this server code does? My main concern is that I’m using fetch classes in this slide instead of something like express or http.IncomingMessage. 100
Tiger Oakes @notwoods.bsky.social · 18/10/2024Daphne captioned this as “surprised face with pants” 010
Tiger Oakes @notwoods.bsky.social · 09/10/2024Lots of moving around for weddings, conferences, and honeymoon! 000
Tiger Oakes @notwoods.bsky.social · 04/10/2024Going to 3 different conferences in 3 different continents over 2 weeks next month! Very excited but also dreading the jet lag 000
Tiger Oakes @notwoods.bsky.social · 01/10/2024This week I'm learning how to create a VSCode language plugin for the `_headers` file in Netlify/Cloudflare Pages. Hoping to publish it soon! github.com/NotWoods/vsc... 010
Tiger Oakes @notwoods.bsky.social · 28/09/2024After switching from Android to iOS last year I noticed all new indie apps just target iOS. This is a pretty clear list of reasons why: ia.net/topics/our-a...ia.netOur Android App is Frozen in CarboniteAfter seven years of trying, we need to change course on our adventure in the Android galaxy. 020
Tiger Oakes @notwoods.bsky.social · 17/09/2024Thanks #AstroJS for including my notion-astro-loader package in the Astro 5.0 beta release notes! 🤩 020
Tiger Oakes @notwoods.bsky.social · 18/08/2024Did you know rimraf is built-in to Node.js? I wrote a tiny CLI wrapper for it but you can also just use `node -e`. It's 1/10th the size of rimraf! npx crossrm ./path www.npmjs.com/package/cros... 010
Tiger Oakes @notwoods.bsky.social · 12/08/2024Writing React feels like navigating a minefield of deoptimizations, and writing in a large team feels like walking through a blown up minefield 010
Tiger Oakes @notwoods.bsky.social · 17/06/2024In Amsterdam last week I ended up playing TWO escape rooms and they were both the best I’ve seen in my life! Europe rooms just hit different with way more intricate mechanisms, like running through a parking lot and stairs unwinding from the wall. 010
Tiger Oakes @notwoods.bsky.social · 31/05/2024I wish there was an easy way to check if you know anyone in spots you’re traveling to. Didn’t realize how much I used Twitter’s location field when more people were there. 120
Tiger Oakes @notwoods.bsky.social · 08/05/2024Today I learned Vite is French for fast, just like “wiki” is Hawaiian for fast. There’s an alternative timeline where we research on Vitepedia and use Wiki for web development. 000
Tiger Oakes @notwoods.bsky.social · 18/04/2024Do you want to be a React bad boy?youtube.comLearn the art of ignoring best practices at React Summit 2024Have you ever wanted to be a React bad boy? I’ll show you the art of ignoring best practices. Join me at React Summit on June 14 and 18. https://reactsummit.... 000
Tiger Oakes @notwoods.bsky.social · 09/04/2024I learned you can avoid forced synchronous layout by reading in the ResizeObserver callback!tigeroakes.comResizeObserver is a safe place to read scrollWidth/clientWidthAvoid forced synchronous layout and safely read an element's size. 000
Tiger Oakes @notwoods.bsky.social · 19/03/2024Looking to mix #MurderMystery parties with #IoT? Learn about our smart safe, murder SFX, live guest list and more in our interview with the mystery kit writer!foulplayco.comFeatured Murder Mystery Party: A Whodunnit Party Meets Tech Innovation — Foulplay GamesWe are always impressed by the creativity of our Foulplay murder mystery party hosts, but occasionally there is a party that leaves us truly speechless. That was the case meeting Tiger, our featured... 000
Tiger Oakes @notwoods.bsky.social · 13/02/2024New blog post! Tips and tricks for Microsoft's Fluent UI design system in React. Fluent UI has a few patterns I think other React libraries should adopt, like "slots" as a shortcut to pass className and props to different child elements. tigeroakes.com/posts/fluent...tigeroakes.comTricks for writing CSS in Fluent UI React v9Advanced features for clean & performant CSS. 000
![#!/usr/bin/env node
// @ts-check
import { parseArgs } from "node:util";
import { rm } from "node:fs/promises";
const options =
/** @satisfies {import('node:util').ParseArgsConfig['options']} */ ({
force: { type: "boolean", short: "f", default: true },
recursive: { type: "boolean", short: "r", default: true },
});
const args = parseArgs({
options,
allowPositionals: true,
allowNegative: true,
});
await Promise.all(args.positionals.map((path) => rm(path, args.values)));](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:potjcy6l4gsbfh4sfh6pqojk/bafkreigmsiz23plumqu7kehy5taaf7mberydkvaqq4mlgdo7rpybt2uy3q)
