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Justin Hunter

@polluterofminds.com
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Writer. Tinkerer. Co-founder of Orbiter. orbiter.host polluterofminds.com

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Justin Hunter @polluterofminds.com · 29/09/2025
Stupid code is useful code spikepuppet.io/posts/write-...
spikepuppet.io
Write the "stupid" code
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Justin Hunter @polluterofminds.com · 28/09/2025
The AL Central and the final NL Wild Card will be decided on the last day of the season. I love baseball!
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Justin Hunter @polluterofminds.com · 27/09/2025
I’m rebuilding a 1980 Suzuki GS850 with my son and I have never known shit about electrical. But I’m determined to learn and I’m already learning so much. It’s a great project. Reminds me a lot of coding
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Justin Hunter @polluterofminds.com · 27/09/2025
Fantastic article by @danabra.mov overreacted.io/open-social/
overreacted.io
Open Social — overreacted
The protocol is the API.
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Justin Hunter @polluterofminds.com · 26/07/2025
The internet is only as forever as you make it. This is why I don’t like blogging on closed platforms. I want every one of my blog posts in HTML or markdown format that I can have forever and recreate anywhere. tallywinkle.bearblog.dev/the-internet...
tallywinkle.bearblog.dev
"the internet is forever"
<font size=1><b>current mood:</b> nostalgic</font> I've grown up hearing the cautionary tale that "anything that goes on the internet is forever!" I'm s...
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Justin Hunter @polluterofminds.com · 25/07/2025
A couple of years ago, I paid $99 for Nova, a Mac only IDE. I didn’t give it much time tbh, but I’m thinking about giving it another shot. It’s made by Panic, and it’d be cool to support them. nova.app
nova.app
Nova
The beautiful, fast, flexible, native Mac code editor from Panic.
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Justin Hunter @polluterofminds.com · 24/07/2025
People want the small web. We are building for those people. Host your sites, build your apps, never be locked in. smallcypress.bearblog.dev/a-small-web-... orbiter.host
smallcypress.bearblog.dev
A Small Web July
I am putting this out into the ether to see if anyone wants to join me, in any capacity, in some kind of accountability structure (following each others blog...
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Justin Hunter @polluterofminds.com · 23/07/2025
We just updated Orbiter's custom domain infra to be decidedly faster and more resilient. Our original setup used a traditional NGINX reverse proxy. Now, we're using Cloudflare proxies. This gives us the full benefit of Cloudflare's CDN as well as bot and DDOS protection without manual configuration
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Justin Hunter @polluterofminds.com · 22/07/2025
In addition to having the simplest static site/SPA hosting out there, Orbiter also supports serverless functions. We tried to maintain the simplicity when we designed this backend functionality. orbiter.host/functions
orbiter.host
Funtions
Host your server on Orbiter
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jin @dankvr.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
Orbiter looks awesome for deplying dweb sites 😤👍 That and ipcm.dev, solves dynamic IPFS content with smart contracts pinata.cloud/blog/ipcm-so...
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Justin Hunter @polluterofminds.com · 20/07/2025
For the lovers of the hand-crafted, artisanal web: orbiter.host
orbiter.host
Orbiter
Open Source Web Hosting Without Walled Gardens
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Justin Hunter @polluterofminds.com · 20/07/2025
I think it’s a good exercise for writers especially to read Ken Liu’s and Ted Chiang’s takes on AI in addition to articles like this. 3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily...
3quarksdaily.com
Will The Fear Of Being Confused For AI Mean That We Will Now Write Differently? - 3 Quarks Daily
by David Beer
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Justin Hunter @polluterofminds.com · 15/07/2025
This is basically an advertisement for Orbiter. You can get this kind of discount by using Orbiter directly without any additional proxy. x.com/siddsax/stat...
x.com
Siddhartha Saxena on X: "Our @vercel bill before @Cloudflare, and after Cloudflare proxy. https://t.co/0XBfpKOcTW" / X
Our @vercel bill before @Cloudflare, and after Cloudflare proxy. https://t.co/0XBfpKOcTW
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Justin Hunter @polluterofminds.com · 14/07/2025
Last year, I read a lot of books on the history of PC and console gaming. It made me start thinking about assembly more than I ever had. Just came across this interactive tutorial and will be diving into during my free time on my vacation. shikaan.github.io/assembly/x86...
shikaan.github.io
A friendly introduction to assembly for high-level programmers — Hello
A friendly introduction to assembly for high-level programmers — Hello
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Justin Hunter @polluterofminds.com · 10/06/2025
People should take all their old Intel Macs that will no longer be supported by the upcoming versions of macOS and turn them into Linux machines rather than dump them. tedium.co/2025/06/09/a...
tedium.co
One Year Left: Apple’s Long Goodbye For Intel Macs
After two decades, Apple has announced its final version of MacOS for Intel. Guess that means Hackintoshing is done, too.
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Justin Hunter @polluterofminds.com · 10/06/2025
Time is a valuable constraint that a lot of engineers dislike. Having a deadline changes how you approach a problem. It unlocks creativity. www.joanwestenberg.com/smart-people...
joanwestenberg.com
Smart People Don't Chase Goals; They Create Limits
A few years ago, I sat across from a friend at a late dinner. He was telling me about his new promotion, the big title, the bonus, the corner office. I remember watching his face as he described it. H...
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Justin Hunter @polluterofminds.com · 09/06/2025
This is the strangest thing you’ll read on the internet today. But you will read it. And you’ll keep reading until the end. And you’ll ask yourself why while still being entertained. ericneyman.wordpress.com/2019/11/26/f...
ericneyman.wordpress.com
Finding Shawn Mendes
In this day and age, celebrities have a lot of influence over our politics. Garthwaite and Moore estimated that Oprah Winfrey’s endorsement of Barack Obama in 2008 netted him an extra 1 milli…
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Justin Hunter @polluterofminds.com · 06/06/2025
Lol AI scrapers don’t read terms and conditions. techcrunch.com/2025/06/05/x...
techcrunch.com
X changes its terms to bar training of AI models using its content | TechCrunch
Social network X has changed its developer agreement to prevent third parties from using the platform's content to train large language models.
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Justin Hunter @polluterofminds.com · 03/06/2025
Paul Graham has some really good essays, but its essays like this that make him sound elitist and out of touch. You know why you should write? Because you want to. Simple as that.
paulgraham.com
The Shape of the Essay Field
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Justin Hunter @polluterofminds.com · 03/06/2025
The general point of this article is really good. Educators need to personally leverage AI themselves to build learning tools for their students. Use, don’t run from, AI. resobscura.substack.com/p/ai-makes-t...
resobscura.substack.com
AI makes the humanities more important, but also a lot weirder
Historians are finally having their AI debate
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Justin Hunter @polluterofminds.com · 02/06/2025
Pretty neat tool! Markdown tables are hard (for me) so this is great.
thisdavej.com
Copy Table in Excel and Paste as a Markdown Table
Easily create Markdown tables by copying data from Excel or Google Sheets and pasting it into the text box below using Ctrl+V. Alternatively, as a new feature, paste a Markdown table to convert it to...
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Justin Hunter @polluterofminds.com · 02/06/2025
I’ve felt this way a lot. Next.js especially makes me feel this way. I will still use React quite a bit, but I’ve decided I’m done jumping through the constantly changing bits of Next and would prefer the simplicity of an old client-server relationship.
github.com
GitHub - jchester/bobotw: A stupid waste of time that I enjoyed
A stupid waste of time that I enjoyed. Contribute to jchester/bobotw development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Justin Hunter @polluterofminds.com · 01/06/2025
This is why I won’t let LLMs write for me.
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Justin Hunter @polluterofminds.com · 31/05/2025
Need to share your web project with someone quickly? Upload it to Orbiter for free and have a link in seconds. orbiter.host
orbiter.host
Orbiter
The simplest way to upload and host static sites and apps
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Justin Hunter @polluterofminds.com · 31/05/2025
This is a great write-up. Collaborative data syncing is a hard problem and Linear seems to do an awesome job at it. github.com/wzhudev/reve...
github.com
GitHub - wzhudev/reverse-linear-sync-engine: A reverse engineering of Linear's sync engine for learning purposes. Endorsed by Linear's CTO.
A reverse engineering of Linear's sync engine for learning purposes. Endorsed by Linear's CTO. - wzhudev/reverse-linear-sync-engine
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Justin Hunter @polluterofminds.com · 31/05/2025
So DOGE was largely just the same as the Obama USDS but with more chaos and more firing of people. sahillavingia.com/doge
sahillavingia.com
DOGE Days
My experience joining the United States DOGE Service as a software engineer, and what I learned along the way.
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Justin Hunter @polluterofminds.com · 31/05/2025
I view all of this crawling as a balance. We’re going to be living in a post SEO world. And if you want your sites discovered, you’ve got to let the crawlers in. But at the same time, the cost of server resources is real and you have to mitigate the surge. lambdacreate.com/posts/68
lambdacreate.com
(lambda (x) (create x))
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Justin Hunter @polluterofminds.com · 30/05/2025
Getting one of these felt like living in the future in the early 2000s.
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Justin Hunter @polluterofminds.com · 30/05/2025
This is what the web should be. Build things you like, have fun, experiment. Fight the hegemony. goodinternetmagazine.com/my-website-i...
goodinternetmagazine.com
My website is ugly because I made it
If my mom wanted good art on her fridge, she could’ve purchased reprints of works by Vermeer, Lichtenstein, Wyeth, etc. But she didn’t want good art – she wanted my art. Somebody with good taste coul...
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Justin Hunter @polluterofminds.com · 30/05/2025
Pretty clear that Trump has always wanted a kingdom. Now he can have a castle. AI Safety Institute is about to become CASL. www.axios.com/pro/tech-pol...
axios.com
Scoop: AI Safety Institute to be renamed Center for AI Safety and Leadership
The AI testbed has been bracing for changes since President Trump took office.
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Justin Hunter @polluterofminds.com · 30/05/2025
I love PWAs and I want them to succeed but the App Store model has so much inertia despite its problems. I’ll keep pushing for PWAs because they represent the open web, but it’s an uphill battle. thenewstack.io/when-to-use-...
thenewstack.io
When To Use Progressive Web Apps and When To Go Native
Today’s progressive web apps (PWAs) can run offline, send push notifications, and load so fast they almost predict what you want.
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Justin Hunter @polluterofminds.com · 29/05/2025
Web Assembly is fun. I wanted to learn it a little bit, so I just built a simply app that takes C++ code to blur images, compiles that to wasm, then uses the wasm in the browser to blur an image.
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Justin Hunter @polluterofminds.com · 29/05/2025
Glitch recently announced that they would no longer be hosting projects. This is going to leave a lot of creators looking for a new home, so I wrote about three options for migrating projects. orbiter.host/blog/how-to-...
orbiter.host
How To Migrate Your Project From Glitch To Another Host
Glitch announced that they won't be hosting projects anymore, so let's learn how to migrate those projects
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Justin Hunter @polluterofminds.com · 29/05/2025
Web Assembly combined with the power of modern computers and browsers makes it possible and maybe even likely that browser-based gaming can become a much larger category. velzie.rip/blog/celeste...
velzie.rip
Porting Terraria and Celeste to WebAssembly
Absurdly cursed mono webassembly hacks, and a journey to create a project that definitely shouldn't exist
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Justin Hunter @polluterofminds.com · 29/05/2025
Today I learned that in 1996/97, Netscape built an alternative to the newly created CSS called JSSS (JavaScript-Based Style Sheets). It went nowhere and didn’t become a standard. But for all you CSS-in-JS fans today, maybe you should thank Netscape. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JavaScr...
en.wikipedia.org
JavaScript Style Sheets - Wikipedia
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Justin Hunter @polluterofminds.com · 26/05/2025
Pretty wild that JWTs are only 10 years old. self-issued.info?p=2708
self-issued.info
Ten Years of JSON Web Token (JWT) and Preparing for the Future – Mike Jones: self-issued
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Justin Hunter @polluterofminds.com · 25/05/2025
Maybe you should reinvent the wheel. endler.dev/2025/reinven...
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Justin Hunter @polluterofminds.com · 24/05/2025
This is FIRE coded nonsense, but a bunch of tech bros who don’t need to worry about this and are not the supposed target will read this and be like hell yeah shagbark.substack.com/p/how-to-liv...
shagbark.substack.com
How to Live on $432 a Month in America
(For All Expenses)
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Justin Hunter @polluterofminds.com · 24/05/2025
This seems trivial but so many people don’t approach life this way. josephthacker.com/personal/202...
josephthacker.com
Root for Your Friends
Discover the power of rooting for your friends and how it can amplify success for everyone involved.
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Justin Hunter @polluterofminds.com · 23/05/2025
“Anthropic notes that Claude Opus 4 tries to blackmail engineers 84% of the time when the replacement AI model has similar values.” techcrunch.com/2025/05/22/a...
techcrunch.com
Anthropic's new AI model turns to blackmail when engineers try to take it offline | TechCrunch
Anthropic says its Claude Opus 4 model frequently tries to blackmail software engineers when they try to take it offline.
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Justin Hunter @polluterofminds.com · 23/05/2025
Glitch is ending support for app hosting. If you need a new home, Orbiter might be it. We have a generous free plan and affordable paid plans. And we’re dead-simple to use. blog.glitch.com/post/changes... orbiter.host
blog.glitch.com
Important changes are coming to Glitch
We’ve got an important update for the Glitch community today: We’ll be ending web hosting for your apps on Glitch.
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Justin Hunter @polluterofminds.com · 23/05/2025
We’ve been super focused on developers but one of the cool things about Orbiter is hosting a site/app is as simple as uploading your assets. Like the old ftp days. orbiter.host
orbiter.host
Orbiter
The simplest way to upload and host static sites and apps
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Justin Hunter @polluterofminds.com · 22/05/2025
I've just signed the pledge to Stop SSR! Join the movement for faster, client-rendered websites at www.stopssr.com #StopSSR
stopssr.com
Stop SSR - Join the Client-Side Rendering Movement
I've taken the pledge to resist the pressures of Server-Side Rendering. Join me in building a faster web with client-side rendering!
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Justin Hunter @polluterofminds.com · 22/05/2025
This is still, by far, the most popular blog post we’ve written on Orbiter. orbiter.host/blog/the-sta...
orbiter.host
The Static Website Manifesto
Building websites used to be fun. Let’s bring back the joy of putting your work online. This is our manifesto.
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Justin Hunter @polluterofminds.com · 21/05/2025
In 2008, I went to this exhibit and was blown away by the scale at which a house could be automated. Smart homes as a concept weren’t new, but this was tangible yet out of reach still. Today, you can run all of this on a raspberry pi. Pretty wild. worldlandscapearchitect.com/museum-of-sc...
worldlandscapearchitect.com
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Justin Hunter @polluterofminds.com · 20/05/2025
Want a global dashboard of what humans are doing like you’re a god? You got it! This is pretty neat. humans.maxcomperatore.com
humans.maxcomperatore.com
WHAT THE HELL ARE PEOPLE DOING?
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Justin Hunter @polluterofminds.com · 20/05/2025
This is wild and impressive. First of all, building games largely without proprietary game engines and code is awesome. Second, I didn’t realize how far C# had come. noelberry.ca/posts/making...
noelberry.ca
Making Video Games in 2025 (without an engine)
Thoughts, tools, and libraries I use to make games
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Justin Hunter @polluterofminds.com · 19/05/2025
Great post from @justinjackson.ca on podcasting’s future. A lot of parallels to websites in terms of the openness of RSS vs walled gardens of Facebook, Medium, and others. Applies to hosting too. justinjackson.ca/youtube-kill...
justinjackson.ca
Will YouTube kill the podcast industry?
The podcast industry has long relied on the open nature of RSS to sustain a variety of small businesses. But that could all disappear if YouTube wins.
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Justin Hunter @polluterofminds.com · 18/05/2025
Remember how we spent 20+ years either correcting our own language or encouraging others to correct theirs so as not to use phrases that made others feel lesser just so that gen z and gen alpha could start using those phrases all over again?
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Justin Hunter @polluterofminds.com · 18/05/2025
Finished migrating my site to @11ty.dev (and redesigning it in the process of course 😅). polluterofminds.com
polluterofminds.com
Mind Pollution by Justin Hunter
Come allow your mind to be polluted by topics such as startups, development, writing, and product management
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