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Ryan @rschristian.dev · 15/08/2026

We added some similar-ish rules to the Preact org a while back, haven't really seen any decrease in junk PRs (not that we were/are getting a ton to be fair) but it definitely has been helpful as instant-close justification I've found. I spend less time thinking about wording and how to reply.

Screenshot of the Preact org's Code of Conduct, containing the following text:

We recognize that LLM's have become an integral tool for many users, however when using LLMs to help write issues or pull requests, disclose this. Transparency preserves the collaborative integrity that makes open-source communities work. It's the difference between "I used AI to help structure this bug report" (honest, helpful) and silently passing off generated content as your own analysis (deceptive, counterproductive). We as maintainers want to engage with humans rather than LLM-generated messages, put time in your issue report and that will be reflected back.

Examples of unacceptable behavior by participants include:

- The use of sexualized language or imagery and unwelcome sexual attention or advances
- Trolling, insulting/derogatory comments, and personal or political attacks
- Public or private harassment
- Publishing others' private information, such as a physical or electronic address, without explicit permission
- Other conduct which could reasonably be considered inappropriate in a professional setting
- Writing an issue, pull request or comments through an LLM without disclosing this

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Ryan @rschristian.dev · 14/08/2026

Tailwind use (which is also guaranteed with AI garbage sites) at least makes it easy to override I suppose.

Screenshot of the following code:

```
function styleImprovements() {
const css = `
.backdrop-blur,
.backdrop-blur-sm,
.backdrop-blur-md,
.panel {
--tw-backdrop-blur: 0 !important;
}
`;
const style = document.createElement('style');
style.appendChild(document.createTextNode(css));
document.querySelector('body').appendChild(style);
}
```

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Ryan @rschristian.dev · 21/06/2026

Good to be back after… 8 years 😳 Gettin’ a bit harder to lie to myself & say I’m not getting old these days. Damn you math

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Ryan @rschristian.dev · 12/02/2026

Woke up this morning to a dozen notifications from @jovidecroock.com advancing @preactjs.com & its integrations. He’s often single-handedly pushing the ecosystem forward and I wanted to show some appreciation on behalf of all users — without him, Preact would be no where near as successful.

Screenshot of my Gmail inbox on mobile. There’s 7 emails, all notifications from GitHub & all triggered by Jovi

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Ryan @rschristian.dev · 23/10/2025

Great, and if you look at stable:

Interop 2025 Dashboard, stable variant. Chrome is at 93, Edge 93, Firefox 81, and Safari trailing at 66.

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Ryan @rschristian.dev · 20/09/2025

Firefox's devtools provide me a great reminder at least as they insert a little "event" indicator in the element inspector alongside "flex" and the like, so when I see many of these, I start to ask myself if I can swap this out w/ some good ol' delegation. It'd be nice if Chrome copied this.

Screenshot of Firefox's devtools, showing the "Element Inspector" tab. It shows how FF inserts a little "event" button next to elements, making it easy to spot which elements have event handlers attached and which do not.

This button sits alongside "flex", which is an indicator that both Firefox & Chrome support.

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Ryan @rschristian.dev · 15/09/2025

& this is FF & Linux:

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Ryan @rschristian.dev · 15/09/2025

That was FF & Windows, this is Chrome & Windows:

Image showing the stylized header of the linked article

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Ryan @rschristian.dev · 15/09/2025

Just FYI, the stylized header gets cut off in a few places on my screen:

Image showing the stylized header of the linked article, reads "Eithe Tailwind is CSS-IN-JS or STYLEX isn'"

The last letters of "Either" and "isn't" are cut off entirely, with "is" and "or" partially cut off too, though still readable.

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Ryan @rschristian.dev · 22/07/2025

Was debugging some (potential) memory leaks and discovered Firefox has this really neat graph mode for displaying retaining paths:

Screenshot of Firefox's 'Retaining Paths' graph in the memory debugger. It's a directed graph of Nodes showing JS object dependencies.

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Ryan @rschristian.dev · 10/06/2025

The absolute mess that Twitter has devolved into. It should be incredibly easy to detect & remove these, but apparently not for the few who remain there.

Screenshot of my message inbox on Twitter. Shows 5 different chats, each with 130-160 people within with obvious spam titles like "Smart Mining Team" (appears twice) and "Earn money by watching videos". All 5 messages are just from the last 12 hours.

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Ryan @rschristian.dev · 22/05/2025

NPM downloads of course signify very little and are heavily inflated by CIs and scrapers, but... it looks like Preact has exceeded 6m downloads per week which is pretty neat: npmtrends.com/preact

Screenshot from the linked site; shows a line chart that displays downloads over time with the latest reading showing "May 11, 2025: 6,012,852".

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Ryan @rschristian.dev · 18/05/2025

Well that's certainly a choice

An alert on a webpage, saying the following:

"Sorry, this site cannot be viewed in Internet Explorer or FireFox. Please visit again using the most recent version of Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, or Safari. This page will redirect to Google Chrome's Download page."

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Ryan @rschristian.dev · 28/03/2025

Preact has this one which always gives me a chuckle:

Preact source code, includes a comment saying "labelled break is 1b smaller here than a return statement (sorry)"

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Ryan @rschristian.dev · 20/03/2025

Okay, but is this a "Your maintenance request for the washer/dryer that'll flood your apartment was submitted successfully" [object Object] or a "Lmao something went fucky, good luck with that" [object Object]?

A JavaScript alert from my property management company's website saying only "[object Object]"

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Ryan @rschristian.dev · 18/02/2025

It’s warmer in Finland?! I feel robbed (& cold)

Image of the iOS weather app, showing Chicago, IL. It’s -19°C, feels like -25°C. High of -11°C and low of -20°C.

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Ryan @rschristian.dev · 14/02/2025

Feel like a pic is owed after that description:

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Ryan @rschristian.dev · 26/01/2025

Somehow this made it into prod as well

JavaScript code that runs on the site: the function is called "checkTermsRead" with a log statement that prints "they see me scrollin'"

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Ryan @rschristian.dev · 11/12/2024

99.999% of what npm audit detects

"Falling off bike" meme/comic. There are three panels: in the first, someone is riding a bike, holding a stick of some kind, in the second, they've leaned over to put the stick in between the spokes of their front wheel while they're still riding the bike, and in the third, they've fallen to the ground and are holding their knee in pain.

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Ryan @rschristian.dev · 05/12/2024

Current temperature, courtesy of the Windows taskbar weather widget. Thank god for the cloud coverage, might be a tad toasty otherwise.

Readout from the Windows taskbar weather widget, claiming it's "11444 degrees Fahrenheit and Cloudy"

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Ryan @rschristian.dev · 01/12/2024

I'm fairly certain this is another example of your past brand work, saved because it's equal parts horrifying and hilarious. Gotta make sure people understand the true range of your art.

Picture of GitHub's "Octocat" maskot but with a rather terrifying clown face photoshopped onto it.

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Ryan @rschristian.dev · 25/11/2024

As the UI here might give a better picture: Admittedly not quite sure how "Default" differs from "Auto", but the gzip/brotli option (which seems to be the default?) still has CF choosing which to use when. I should add, forcing brotli does seem worse. Maybe a poor compression level?

Image showing the "Compression Options" on Clouflare's site. There are four options in a list: "Enable Zstd Compression (Beta)", "Enable Brotli and Gzip", "Disable Compression", or "Custom". "Custom" has a dropdown menu with the options "Zstd", "Brotli", "Gzip", "Default", and "Auto".

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