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Darshak Parikh

@proseandconst.xyz
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Web dev + web optimist • ATProto curious 📜️ proseandconst.leaflet.pub

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Darshak Parikh @proseandconst.xyz · 29/09/2026
Finally got around to writing about my experience at #IndiaFOSS2026. Many thanks to @tangled.org for the tickets! It was delightful to see the sheer energy and curiosity among the crowd. And at the risk of sounding way older than I am, my hopes for Gen Z have skyrocketed after this event.
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virgil (school hiatus) 🫆🔮💫 @vigilnaut.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
daily reminder ✨
DO NOT ask yourself whether your art is GOOD. instead ask: is it SINCERE, is it CATHARTIC, was it FUN TO MAKE, is it MADE BY ME, and don’t forget to stay silly
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patak @patak.cat · 28/08/2026
why bother to read what you didn't care to write?
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warpfork @warpfork.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Keyboard focus UX is **so** under-studied in recent decades. We've got places where interaction speed+accuracy actually matters -- store checkouts! -- using ancient UIs everywhere because *the keyboard actually works* and has affordances in pre-2000's software. Modern tech needs to re-learn this.
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Darshak Parikh @proseandconst.xyz · 14/08/2026
Who called it Vite+ and not Vitesuite?
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hayleigh @hayleigh.dev · 09/08/2026
why does every little atproto app being cooked up rn have to have a frontend Designed By Claude ™️ why are we so hyped about social data and an open internet and then turning to ai when its time to create and play
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Ky @ky.fyi · 02/08/2026
Hey friends. Still looking for work!
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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 27/07/2026
Tired of misleading cookie banners? The EU Commission has finally proposed a solution: set your privacy preferences in the browser once, and never see another banner. EFF joins a number of civil society organizations across Europe fighting to #KillTheCookieBanner killthecookiebanner.eu/
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Aurélien Mähl 🇪🇺 @apmaehl.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
🦆🦊🎻 @duckduckgo.com , @mozilla.org Firefox and @vivaldi.com just published a joint letter to EU lawmakers on the Digital Omnibus: make privacy signals work for people, not against the products they already trust. 1/n
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Brittany Ellich @brittanyellich.com · 16/07/2026
My #atproto intro from @cascadiajs.com is posted!! Check it out for an entry-level overview to atproto, why it exists, and how to develop on it! And then share it with your friends! Who wants to see if we can get more views on it than @t3.gg 's talk? 😉
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R. Alex Anderson @ralexanderson.com · 05/07/2026
Just some noodling on fractals and looking deeply at things.
alexanderson.leaflet.pub
Reality is Fractal
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Brookie @brookie.blog · 04/07/2026
complaining on my own platform 💞😌
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Brookie on pckt
can people pls stop using ai generated cover images for their blog posts :( like just use no image or a real image !! the ai images just make me not want to read it.
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Darshak Parikh @proseandconst.xyz · 03/07/2026
proseandconst.leaflet.pub
Emacs + Meow is an underrated combo
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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 25/06/2026
1) Open this image up 2) Find the small, blue feature in the very middle Congratulations, you've spotted the Perseverance rover on Mars, photographed from orbit! 3) Trace the rover tracks as they wend their way across the surface
A complex landscape of buttes, hills, hummocks, and sand dunes, in tones of gold and teal. In the middle, a small, beetle-blue feature. Around it, faint parallel tracks.
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Hazel E. Baumgartner - HELIRUNA OUT NOW! @hazelebaumgartner.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Dear Santa, This year for Prime Day I want the breakup of Amazon as a corporate conglomerate monopoly, with Kindle and Audible being nationalized into a sort of publicly owned internet library funded by a progressive tax on the hyper-rich and an annual stipend for authors.
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Andy Bell @bell.bz · 24/06/2026
"Pretty much everybody who’s from the 21st century, or anybody who’s a creative person, is pretty furious about AI. Anyone who’s not oblivious to culture is aware of that." Couldn't put it better myself tbh
anildash.com
How we’ll fight the platform war against Big AI - Anil Dash
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.
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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 23/06/2026
The M82 Cigar Galaxy, imaged by JWST. The bright central part is the main disk of the galaxy; jets of gas emanate at 90 degrees to the disk. This version is 4,000 px across. You can access the full 155 mpx image in the next post.
Too many stars. Altogether WAY too many stars.
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Darshak Parikh @proseandconst.xyz · 23/06/2026
Love this thread. Resharing it mostly as a reminder to myself to try out all the other awesome applications on the Atmosphere.
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Darshak Parikh @proseandconst.xyz · 23/06/2026
Been seeing Venus and Jupiter in the sky for the last several days. Such a delight to see a professional photo. #astrophotography The best my phone could manage was this:
A night photo of the faraway sky with Venus above the crescent moon. Trees below.
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Darshak Parikh @proseandconst.xyz · 22/06/2026
Nub seems like such a cool project! 🎯 Bullseye design choices, excellent performance and an interface you already know. Excited to try it out! #webdev #js
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Darshak Parikh @proseandconst.xyz · 21/06/2026
Just because something is no longer in public discourse doesn't mean it's forgotten. Meaningful has nothing to do with popular.
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Deep Purple, jQuery and the role of legacy
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Darshak Parikh @proseandconst.xyz · 20/06/2026
Shuffalo, 3m 33s 🟡🟡🟡🟡 🟡🟡🟡🟡🟡 🟡🟡🟡🟡🟡🟡 🟡🟡🟡🟡🟡🟡🟡 🟡🟡🟡🟡🟡🟡🟡🟡 🔘🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩 www.newyorker.com/puzzles-and-...
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Darshak Parikh @proseandconst.xyz · 19/06/2026
@atmosphere.community @mu.social @eurosky.social I remember some recent posts about coming up with an Atmosphere logo? That sounds like a great idea. Perhaps we should ask the community to come up with logo concepts and let them pick the favourite? I came up with a couple of sketches myself 👇️
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Darshak Parikh @proseandconst.xyz · 19/06/2026
> explain your @ Mine is bad wordplay. Or genius wordplay. Depends. Eye of the beholder and all.
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Darshak Parikh @proseandconst.xyz · 18/06/2026
Okay, this is fun! Shuffalo, 2m 12s 🟡🟡🟡🟡 🟡🟡🟡🟡🟡 🟡🟡🟡🔘🟡🟡 🟡🟡🟡🟡🟡🟡🟡 🟡🟡🟡🟡🟡🟡🟡🟡 🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩 www.newyorker.com/puzzles-and-...
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Play Shuffalo: Thursday, June 18, 2026
Can you make a longer word with each new letter?
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Ethan Marcotte @ethanmarcotte.com · 18/06/2026
🦊 Wrote down some rambling thoughts on “AI”: as generational damage, on what repair might look like, and on asking what happens next. ethanmarcotte.com/wrote/all-to...
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All tomorrow’s parties. — Ethan Marcotte
What happens next? Well, you tell me.
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Jake Archibald @jakearchibald.com · 18/06/2026
Me: I'm looking for a quicker route home following a flight cancellation.

Carolyn: Thank you for your patience. I was looking into your travel dates and wanted to let you know that there is currently no flight availability for June 18th.
Would you like me to check the day before, June 17th, to see what options are available instead? Please let me know how you would like to proceed and I will be happy to look into it for you.

Me: June 17th was yesterday so I won't be able to make flights on that day.
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Kurbs @kkurbs.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Please Use AI
PLEASE USE AI
Shawn Smucker
Be sure to use Al when making your next, I don't know, meal plan, for example. Definitely do not call your friend who loves to cook and ask her for her favorite recipes or tips or ways to save time making meals, because you will end
up talking for longer than you had hoped, hearing, perhaps, about her father's cancer diagnosis or how lonely she's been or even what she's planted in her spring garden and then lost with the early frost.
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Robin-Yann Storm @rystorm.com · 12/06/2026
I hate hearing the word ‘framework’ from any engineer. You can replace that word with ‘overengineer’ and you'll be right about 90% of the time. You don't have to make frameworks for everything! Stop making everything 'robust' and 'future proof' while the project is still being iterated.
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Darshak Parikh @proseandconst.xyz · 12/06/2026
Glide typing is fun. I almost asked someone to "feel free to drop a reindeer" when I meant reminder.
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Darshak Parikh @proseandconst.xyz · 11/06/2026
You know what's an awesome programming language? Fennel (and by extension, Lua, which Fennel transpiles to) I decided I don't want a unit testing library and chose to write my own barebones test runner. It took <5 min to hand-code. #lua #fennel #programming
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Darshak Parikh @proseandconst.xyz · 09/06/2026
Great, now song interpretations on Genius are LLM slop.
Song summary on genius.com: “Dracula” by Tame Impala is the third single to his fifth studio album, Deadbeat. Being very catchy and melodic, the song highlights Tame Impala’s psychedelic style. Using cryptic vocals and immersive instrumentals, "Dracula” has a bit of a mysterious flow to its melody, giving off the impression there is more under its surface.

Lyrically, the song seems to be one of love but also escapism. It makes references to the legendary vampire and his aversion to sunlight, Dracula. The sun likely symbolizes an end to good times, with the music video backing this up by picturing a sort of nighttime party. The speaker wishes to stay in the night or darkness with another person (perhaps a lover?), forever, although they fear that they would never love the speaker back. The song highlights the pull of detaching from all your cares to stay in the moment, to hold on to the now.
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Darshak Parikh @proseandconst.xyz · 05/06/2026
India StatCounter page is crazy.
A screenshot showing desktop OS market share in India. Unknown 49.33%, Windows 41.27%, Linux 5.33% and so on.
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Darshak Parikh @proseandconst.xyz · 28/05/2026
I keep saying this, Deep Purple are _still_ underrated: How many words we waste To justify a crime Compare it to an act of love That really takes no time Why not take a moment to unwind? Inside your mind — “Clearly Quite Absurd” (2005) #rock #music
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Kevin Deng @sxzz.dev · 26/05/2026
npm increasingly feels like a zombie org under GitHub. As someone who's been around the JS ecosystem and part of multiple OSS orgs for years, what I'm seeing isn't just "big co moves slow." It's quiet neglect of critical infrastructure the entire JS world runs on. A short thread 🧵
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Darshak Parikh @proseandconst.xyz · 27/05/2026
This is genuinely super interesting: youtu.be/qPuzWFvRajk #opensource
youtu.be
10 weird OSS projects you need right now...
YouTube video by Fireship
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⭑ salma @whitep4nth3r.com · 23/05/2026
I sat in my garden for five hours today looking at nature and dipping into crosswords every now and then and it was glorious can highly recommend.
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Darshak Parikh @proseandconst.xyz · 23/05/2026
The killer feature of Lisps is not macros or structural editing (though those are nice too). The killer feature is REPL-driven development. Writing and testing code are not separate stages; they are intertwined. It's a completely different way to program. #lisp #programming
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Darshak Parikh @proseandconst.xyz · 17/05/2026
This is meant as comedy, but only partly. Even implementing half of these ideas would make the world a much better place to live. youtu.be/XLjLM-0gPLg #comedy #politics
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Can We Agree The World Is BROKEN? | Stand-Up Comedy by Vir Das
YouTube video by Vir Das COMEDY
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Darshak Parikh @proseandconst.xyz · 14/05/2026
I feel Lua deserves far more attention than it gets. It's fast and light while still being powerful and expressive, but too many folks tend to relegate it to a config language status. Remember, Balatro is written in Lua.
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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 03/04/2026
This image of home just came down from the Artemis II crew. Taken after their translunar injection burn, there are aurorae at top right and lower left, and zodiacal light at lower right. Credit: NASA/Reid Wiseman
That's home. That's us.
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Taplaos @taplaos.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
🫖👻🌺🍵
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Darshak Parikh @proseandconst.xyz · 11/03/2026
Did you know that many Indic languages share a common ancestor with Western European languages? Specifically, Sanskrit and Latin descend from a "proto-Indo-European" language. For example: [1/n] #linguistics #languages #etymology
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Zicklag @zicklag.dev · 09/03/2026
This is cool! I just tried this out and it worked on my second try. It got stuck before importing the first time so I just refreshed and retried. Anyway, to the lay person it may not be clear what's happening or what this does, so let's go over exactly what's going on. 🧵👇️
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Darshak Parikh @proseandconst.xyz · 06/03/2026
Just a confused moogle flying around here, kupo!
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