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Orta Therox @orta.io · 28/09/2026

Week 2 at the new house, and a different horse has popped by.

A picture of a horse chilling on my drive

Orta Therox @orta.io · 28/09/2026

New blog post: On realising I need to evaluate my engineering principles in a post-LLM world This year, I've come to understand that the values (which have paid off incredible dividends) for the last decade aren't as applicable today as they were blog.puzzmo.com/posts/2026/0...

A screenshot of my blog post masthead, it reads:

A link I have relied on for the last 8 years broke:

<https://github.com/artsy/README/blob/main/culture/engineering-principles.md>

The link was a markdown document in Artsy's shared open-source documentation repo, it was the result of a few introspective sessions by the Artsy dev team where we settled on a series of principles that describe our general approach to software. I used the link in blog posts, hiring notices and in private chats a bunch.

Here's [the fixed link btw](https://github.com/artsy/README/blob/e4b7dff3209b43f4ab63bad919f2500972aade1b/culture/engineering-principles.md) because it's a git repo. I think the removal of the engineering principles isn't some ominous mark against the current day Artsy dev team, but I wonder if they just spotted a cultural change before I noticed it.

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Orta Therox @orta.io · 28/09/2026

Welcome back to the week, for folks who might have missed it. I've been working on allowing 3rd party games on @puzzmo.com this year and we're opening the doors just an inch to test the waters for this week bsky.app/profile/stfj...

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Derek Kunsken @derekkunsken.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The Quantum Dawn, 4th book of my space opera series, is being published in just weeks! I'm very excited. Let me know your favourite bookstore to order it from!

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Orta Therox @orta.io · 25/09/2026

For almost a year the largest project I have been working on is building support for non-Puzzmo games on @puzzmo.com Ribbit was built in 90% of that system, and Hue Complete Me was 100% in it. A month ago I ported the Crossword to it. Got a game? We're exploring opening up bsky.app/profile/stfj...

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Orta Therox @orta.io · 20/09/2026

Horse neighbour just popped round to check on my plants, thanks friend

A picture of a horse leaving my driveway

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Orta Therox @orta.io · 18/09/2026

Complete a second run of The Obra Dinn. What a game!

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Orta Therox @orta.io · 06/09/2026

The @vscode.dev documentary was such a great watch, I thought I knew most of the story but there are so many details that are fleshed out in this almost 2 hour whopper www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHL3...

youtube.com

The Story of VS Code | Official Documentary

YouTube video by Visual Studio Code

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Orta Therox @orta.io · 06/09/2026

Really though, what is 'it'? old.reddit.com/r/PS5/commen...

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Orta Therox @orta.io · 06/09/2026

@robdubbin.bsky.social My dude, I got the bag! Thank you so much! I've got a present for you coming to puzzmo hq (hopefully this week) which I can leave there either till next xword con or can get left with zach/Brooke too so cool!

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Orta Therox @orta.io · 01/09/2026

Cool to see @typescriptlang.org shipping a bunch of the long-term 'we don't think we have the perf budget to add these features' issues now that the go port is stable! They must be having a blast

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Jiahan Chen @chenjiahan.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Excited that TypeScript will finally support module types based on import attributes! Bundlers and frameworks can now provide accurate types for custom imports:

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Orta Therox @orta.io · 27/08/2026

@shew.dev turborepo 2.11 is looking impressive, nice work

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Orta Therox @orta.io · 24/08/2026

I've 1.0.0'd my Danger JS re-write today: Risk If you use Danger in GitHub + GitHub Actions then it should be a simple dependency switch and you'd end up with substantially less moving parts I've been using it daily in Puzzmo for 6 months with no issues npmx.dev/package/risk

A screenshot of the risk nom package page on npmx.dev

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Metropolitan Transportation Authority @mta.info · 24/08/2026

Feeling nostalgic 👾💾

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Orta Therox @orta.io · 24/08/2026

7 months ago I did a big "Upgrade to vite/rolldown" PR ( bsky.app/profile/orta... ) which reduced @puzzmo.com build times solidly. Today we have experimental support for the react compiler in Vite natively (via oxc) This managed to get all of puzzmo.com built in @vite.dev in under 3 seconds now!

Shows a GitHub pull request with the notes puzzmo.com : 13.4 seconds down to 2.8 seconds

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Orta Therox @orta.io · 24/08/2026

Shipped the first version of Danger JS to use trusted publishing. For the longest time Danger operated on the Moya community guidelines (if you get a PR merged, we'll offer you org access) which meant if GitHub write access was what mattered, then we had over 200 people who could make deploys!

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Joe Fabisevich @mergesort.me · 22/08/2026

Thinkin' a bit about today @joanwestenberg.com's recent essay on ethics for the modern world. www.joanwestenberg.com/p/neo-...

15. Don't join in a punishment
because it has attracted a
crowd.
An algorithm will regularly show you a
stranger and invite you to help destroy
them. It will offer one clip, sentence, or
accusation, then encourage immediate
certainty.
Refuse the pleasure of acting as judge,
jury, and eager member of the crowd.
You probably don't know the whole story,
and the crowd certainly won't know when
to stop. Even if it's all entirely justified,
the mob doesn't need another pitchfork-
wielding, pearl-clutching, outraged
asshole.
Kierkegaard's formulation: "The crowd is
untruth." The algorithm has simply given
the crowd push notifications.

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Orta Therox @orta.io · 22/08/2026

Competing in the ALGS Challenger Circuits today, wish me luck! I wonder if it'll be on twitch

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Marvin Hagemeister @marvinh.dev · 21/08/2026

The new content-mapper API in tsgo has just been merged and will be part of TS 7.1 It's what every framework dev has dreamed of for years. Really excited about this becoming a reality! github.com/microsoft/ty...

github.com

Content mappers by andrewbranch · Pull Request #4712 · microsoft/typescript-go

Implements microsoft/TypeScript#63800 (comment) Overview Content mappers are external integrations that allow TypeScript to include otherwise unsupported file types in a program. They transform a f...

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Orta Therox @orta.io · 20/08/2026

@andymatuschak.org really enjoyed two accidental tyrannies - thanks for making it public and giving it such a great site to dig around on

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madebygare @madebygare.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

I'm happy to announce my latest game Celestial Particles madebygare.itch.io/celestial-pa... for the 30th Secret Jam of Games (@secretlivesofgames.bsky.social) jam. Click and Idle your way to creating the cosmos! #gamedev #idle #clicker

madebygare.itch.io

Celestial Particles by madebygare

Create.

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Orta Therox @orta.io · 15/08/2026

I've bumped all of the @typescriptlang.org compiler usage in @puzzmo.com to now use TS7 and the new compiler API. All looks very reasonable and has every feature I needed for codegen and AST introspection Literally no notes :+1:

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Andrew Branch @andrewbran.ch · 15/08/2026

The API comes in sync and async flavors. You import from "unstable" for now, but it's not going to change architecturally before 7.1. Breaks will be mostly targeted renames/moves. You access programs through obtaining immutable snapshots. There will be more ways coming soon. More on this later.

A TS file creating a sync API instance from "typescript/unstable/sync" with a virtual file system, and obtaining a program, checker, and emitter.

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Andrew Branch @andrewbran.ch · 15/08/2026

If you’re not stalking TypeScript PRs, you might be surprised how much you can do with the API in nightlies (and even in 7.0 stable), so here’s a tiny demo that I think hits some of the highlights. 🧵

A package.json in VS Code after npm installing typescript@next

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Orta Therox @orta.io · 07/08/2026

Tooting from my new Jolla phone

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Andrew Branch @andrewbran.ch · 07/08/2026

Thanks for mentioning the APIs and arethetypeswrong! ❤️ I feel like I need to get the word out that the compiler APIs are available today in nightlies, and even in 7.0, they’re just under “typescript/unstable” to make it clear that we reserve the right to make breaking changes before 7.1.

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Andrew Branch @andrewbran.ch · 07/08/2026

They are not quite complete but they’re getting pretty close! Several projects (like ts-loader) have already started building against them. The feedback from those early adopters has been super valuable but I’m getting the sense a lot of folks don’t know it exists already!

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Orta Therox @orta.io · 02/08/2026

Bought a new t-shirt in the size "small" for the first time in a few years, and it's a great fit! This year I've lost 6kg (13lb) in fat from the gym and gained a tonne of muscle. It's been fun.

A screenshot from my gym app shiowing fat in kg going from 27kg to 21kg

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Orta Therox @orta.io · 01/08/2026

Reminder: I want to see more @puzzmo.com accounts when I'm on Bluesky! Help me juke my stats, if you've hooked bsky to Puzzmo, but don't have a paid account; DM me your profile link in the next 6 days and I'll gift you a year's sub (The link is in the dropdown when you click on your nav avatar)

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Orta Therox @orta.io · 31/07/2026

I want to see more @puzzmo.com accounts when I'm on Bluesky! Help me juke my stats, if you've hooked it up and got the label, but don't have a paid account; DM me your profile link over the next week and I'll gift you a year's sub (The link is in the dropdown when you click on your nav avatar)

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Orta Therox @orta.io · 31/07/2026

Going to see Death Note the Musical tomorrow!

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Orta Therox @orta.io · 30/07/2026

I have added support to @keytrace.dev to be able to claim that you have membership of an npm org. This package.json is shipped to the keytrace org, with my did npmx.dev/package-code... Which means I have write access to the org, and that's enough for me to say you had publish access then

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gamera obscura @ohrobin.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

also "puzzmo" is super fun to say aloud

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Joe Fabisevich @mergesort.me · 25/07/2026

I love this post by @seangoedecke.bsky.social so much, I wish I could retweet it 10000x. At the moment domain expertise matters more than ever, so people and organizations should lean into that rather than focusing on getting everyone to do everything all the time.

seangoedecke.com

LLMs reward expertise

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Orta Therox @orta.io · 26/07/2026

Moved 90% of our houseplants up to the north now. They're currently living at a friend's.

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Davide Aversa @davideaversa.it · 26/07/2026

Because @puzzmo.com stats are stored in my PDS, I just added a section on my blog that fetches my live data. :D Maybe I can add other games ATproto-powered like Four Corners.

My Puzzmo stats, fetched live on my webpage thanks to ATproto.

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Zach Gage @stfj.net · 24/07/2026

we released a new experimental game today on Puzzmo for subscribers! puzzmo.com/play/hue-com...

puzzmo.com

@helvetica's finished Hue Complete Me #1013

Play the best daily puzzles on Puzzmo

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dame @dame.is · 22/07/2026

interesting: @certified.app

Trending in the Atmosphere

Three tabs: Today (selected), This Week, This Month

1. standard.site — 2.4K active — trend line chart
2. certified.app — 812 active +105% — trend line chart showing upward trajectory
3. puzzmo.com — 415 active +5% — trend line chart
4. studynext.app — 218 active +8% — trend line chart

Dark green background with light green text and borders.

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patak @patak.cat · 17/07/2026

I love that these noodles are a regular reminder that npmx is in the community's hands. @felixs.dev sent a mock of this idea a few days ago, @graphieros.npmx.social nudged them to animate it, and @jviide.iki.fi went full interactive the next day. We can reclaim our tools; we can make them ours.

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Onefin @onefin.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

look puzzmo gives me these cool share images now

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Onefin @onefin.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

hello i'm interrupting this month's artfight content to let you know that 📣📣 i wrote today's puzzmo midi! 📣📣 www.puzzmo.com/puzzle/2026-... if you play it you are awesome

share card for "What a Relief!", the Jul 17, 2026 crossword By Onefin Edited by bob weisz

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Zach Gage @stfj.net · 15/07/2026

i've finally updated the work on my site stfj.net. there's a lot there, sorry. I built this site to be the kind of comprehensive archive I would want from any artist I liked — going all the way back to college (even to work that's not that good) no i dont have a SSL cert nor is the site responsive

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brooke husic @xws.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

for puzzmo day 1000, @orta.io and i made this website for you! data.puzzmo.com

data.puzzmo.com shows the grids, titles, and bylines for the daily midi, daily mini, and most recent big crossword. there's a tab to look at all of puzzmo's puzzles, a search bar for looking up any of our 202 constructors, and a word vault containing the clues for about 70 thousand puzzmo answers and 8 million answers from the wider crossword universe.

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Orta Therox @orta.io · 10/07/2026

It's an Orta + @xws.bsky.social Crossword day on @puzzmo.com This Crossword is themed around a genre of games that kinda play themselves. I'm a fan of them! www.puzzmo.com/puzzle/2026-...

A pitch image for my crossword, showing the title and giving a clue reference

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Orta Therox @orta.io · 10/07/2026

It's an Orta + @xws.bsky.social Crossword day on @puzzmo.com This Crossword is themed around a genre of games that kinda play themselves. I'm a fan of them! www.puzzmo.com/puzzle/2026-...

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