Orta Therox @orta.io · 03/10/2026Hey! What's up? Another long day? ( not super spicy, but great flavour ) 010
Orta Therox @orta.io · 03/10/2026I am at the Huddersfield international crisp festival (at the sportsman) - I will update you all on my crisps. Starting with Doctor Salas's Extremely Spicy Habanero Can confirm they are damn hot 2120
Orta Therox @orta.io · 02/10/2026@searls.bsky.social I've been thinking a lot about this today Do you think it still stands, or do you have a more informed opinion given we're a few more months down the line? 000
Orta Therox @orta.io · 28/09/2026New 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... 3174
Orta Therox @orta.io · 20/09/2026Horse neighbour just popped round to check on my plants, thanks friend 3491
Orta Therox @orta.io · 25/08/2026React Compiler on puzzmo.com: JS gzip 1036 -> 1235 KiB (+19.2%), so roughly +20%. Assuming it lives up to its goals, I'd take that cost 110
Orta Therox @orta.io · 24/08/2026I'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 4232
Orta Therox @orta.io · 24/08/20267 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! 3373
Orta Therox @orta.io · 24/08/2026Not great! So, I previously gated deploys by my computer etc Now, I have it so that only org admins can create tags and a CODEOWNERS for workflows. Deploys then run off the tags. 040
Orta Therox @orta.io · 02/08/2026Bought 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. 0150
Orta Therox @orta.io · 26/07/2026Moved 90% of our houseplants up to the north now. They're currently living at a friend's. 0230
Orta Therox @orta.io · 10/07/2026It'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-... 2185
Orta Therox @orta.io · 03/07/2026Well folks, happy Claude Codiversary for me. It's been a year since I adopted the tool. I made a blog post after 4 days, 6 weeks and now 12 months! I've shipped ~1,100 PRs with it, and I think the team's measurable gains are 1.x, and are definitely worth it. blog.puzzmo.com/posts/2026/0... 280
Orta Therox @orta.io · 30/06/2026@krausefx.com only 6 more months till we can get our next prints! 080
Orta Therox @orta.io · 29/06/2026In one year we've fully shifted @puzzmo.com from being a RedwoodJS + React Native codebase to being a very web app-y web app. They were great foundations to start with but the path of the company just took us in other directions 3120
Orta Therox @orta.io · 20/06/2026This post on what happened to tea.xyz is a great read on a bad idea (an attempt to mix crypto with OSS) bsky.app/profile/andr... 1235
Orta Therox @orta.io · 05/06/2026I've been playing around with @christoph.nkzw.tech's codiff and started to build a narrative mode for local code review An LLM tries to build a narrative arc based on your conversation + staged changes, this is passed to codiff as a rich structured diff with annotations github.com/nkzw-tech/co... 0122
Orta Therox @orta.io · 05/06/2026A really useful keyboard shortcut for @vscode.dev: ctrl + r Basically lets you quick jump between your open windows (and folder which you have opened previously) - I remember it by thinking it's 'search my projects' as the same command in the terminal searches your history 070
Orta Therox @orta.io · 03/05/2026OK, we are live with reverse lookups for @keytrace.dev thanks to @byjp.me ``` curl 'keytrace.dev/xrpc/dev.keytrace.reve…' | jq ``` Will get you info about any particular keytrace claim made across all of atproto 0323
Orta Therox @orta.io · 01/05/2026So close (to completing the training without dying) bsky.app/profile/made... 050
Orta Therox @orta.io · 18/04/20262nd time I've ever hit a limit on the Claude Max subscription. Claude Design is a very interesting tool to play with. 390
Orta Therox @orta.io · 16/04/2026It sure would be nice to have ! support inside type expressions 1150
Orta Therox @orta.io · 12/04/2026As I'm in NYC for my usual Apex ranked I've been at OS NYC and it's been a great venue 060
Orta Therox @orta.io · 02/04/2026I've been trying to use the new scheduled claude code (web) features to do this, so far it's caught a few typos and links 020
Orta Therox @orta.io · 23/03/2026Added multi-user login support to my version of the gym app, so that I can show when my wife is also booked on to a class. 090
Orta Therox @orta.io · 22/03/2026While I've been writing up all my documentation for @keytrace.dev - I've been experimenting with a Ralph loop for my SoundCloud app (basically 'compare this codebase to spotify/soundcloud/apple music and add missing features') and the before/after is getting pretty drastic 060
Orta Therox @orta.io · 20/03/2026Found a piece of OpenClaw history, here's a chat I had with the prime instance last year in December /Cc @steipete.me 0121
Orta Therox @orta.io · 20/03/2026I was chatting with @danielroe.dev about issue triage, and he mentioned that he built his own TODO app using GitHub projects as a backend. Seemed like a good idea, so I copied it! Mine only works with GitHub org projects, and always uses optimistic updates for all networking orta.io/triage 3331
Orta Therox @orta.io · 20/03/2026I wonder if I'm wrong about vscode not being able to use Claude Code? I did some settings spelunking and found these: A setting for 'plan' and 'chat' default models, which allow selecting Claude Code agents (and a test chat showing it is running in code) 560
Orta Therox @orta.io · 18/03/2026I've added @rocksky.app scrobbling to my COSMIC SoundCloud player github.com/orta/cosmic-... 1213
Orta Therox @orta.io · 06/03/2026Looking forwards to 24 hours on the train going from Seattle to San Fransisco via the Coast Starlight on Sunday! www.amtrak.com/coast-starli... 1140
Orta Therox @orta.io · 03/03/2026Death Note (the musical?!) is happening in London for a few weeks in August/Sept this year I'm going! 270
Orta Therox @orta.io · 03/03/2026Shipping today: @puzzmo.com is an @atproto.com app! - We have published lexicons and the Cross|word midi deploying to @puzzmo.com's registry every day - We have user streaks deploying to user registries if they Oauth connect too Massive write-up: blog.puzzmo.com/posts/2026/0... 69815
Orta Therox @orta.io · 03/03/2026Shipping today: @puzzmo.com has integrated support for @bsky.app The site/app have follower syncing, and a labeler so that you can spot new Puzzmo folks when browsing Bluesky posts www.puzzmo.com/bluesky blog.puzzmo.com/posts/2026/0... 67113
Orta Therox @orta.io · 02/03/2026My wife is slowly learning which I don't know when to use "Which" vs "That" when writing. 130
Orta Therox @orta.io · 01/03/2026They also spammed @keytrace.dev, I told them that it was fucked up that crypto scammer like him were making the world worse (this is a 'Solana vuln scanner') and they replied with contrition and apologised which was a surprise Guess they got banned for spam 120
Orta Therox @orta.io · 28/02/2026Started to flesh out the amount of services which you can cryptographically verify you have access to using @keytrace.dev GitHub, DNS, Masto, Bsky, npm, Tangled, PGP, Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram, Reddit & Hacker News 5467
Orta Therox @orta.io · 26/02/2026I've started the process of talking with the fastlane crew about them taking over Xcodeproj from CocoaPods 130
Orta Therox @orta.io · 25/02/2026This is a very interesting request to the @typescriptlang.org docs Definitely not a fan of phrases like 'beat a dead horse', 'kill two birds with one stone' etc with their explicit violence but not sure I agree with this premise. In part because duck typing is different from structural typing. 3160
Orta Therox @orta.io · 23/02/2026Tonight I'm switching @keytrace.dev to 'beta' think we've only got 1-2 more weekends to get it fully over the line and I'm willing to commit to the lexicons etc 1200
Orta Therox @orta.io · 22/02/2026I've added PGP key support to @keytrace.dev and worked with @manoo.dev to handle profile metadata and started collabing on lexicons keytrace.dev/orta.io 3246
Orta Therox @orta.io · 21/02/2026I had Claude Code decompile the android app for my gym to get all the API details while I was the gym. Now I have a native app for COSMIC (and that was my last app which only existed on a phone that I use) Now to bake better notifications 4201
Orta Therox @orta.io · 19/02/2026I found it (reasonably easy / possible) to build my own native Signal client which I use for talking to my wife. Which I took an evening on a few weekends ago. This is the start of mine and your chat for example 250