Lex @thelextimes.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Greater Atlanta’s transit data is fragmented across MARTA, CobbLinc, Ride Gwinnett, Xpress, and others. I’m building open-source packages that give developers one consistent interface across them starting with MARTA and CobbLinc. 100
Lex @thelextimes.bsky.social · 20/09/2026I was poking around the Connect EBT card controls page and thought it could use some light redesign improvements. The goal was to help folks see at a glance: 1. Card protection 2. Card activity 3. How to change card controls medium.com/@thelextimes... 000
Lex @thelextimes.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Published 1.0.0 of my react hook that performs health checks against a provided API endpoint. npmjs.com/package/use-... 010
Lex @thelextimes.bsky.social · 08/09/2026I made a small hook with the help of Claude to test API endpoint health/reachability. It's loosely based on my other react-use-is-online which checks internet connection speed and type. www.npmjs.com/package/use-... 000
Lex @thelextimes.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Found an interesting quirk while using Disney+ the other day. Certain titles are not returned when you search for them on Disney+ but show up in Google search results. medium.com/@thelextimes...medium.comWhen Search Stops Being Search: A Curious Disney+ Product DecisionOne of the most valuable features of any streaming service is trust. 000
Lex @thelextimes.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Built a small TS client for consuming the Marta Transit API: www.npmjs.com/package/mart... 000
Lex @thelextimes.bsky.social · 24/08/2026Anyone know any good fintech or AML/CTF/KYC/OFAC OS projects I can contribute to? I contributed to MOOV's watchman a while back and added the US tel list with the help of Adam and looking to do more work in this area: github.com/moov-io/watc...github.comFix download us tel test and update mapper and reader file by cacheflow · Pull Request #774 · moov-io/watchmanOverview This PR integrates the US State Terrorist Exclusion List (US TEL) into Watchman. It downloads, parses, indexes, displays, and provides default configs for US TEL data. 🤖 Agent Assistance T... 000
Lex @thelextimes.bsky.social · 19/08/2026yay my Python FCM PR got merged. I owe a special thanks to the maintainers for reviewing this. github.com/olucurious/P...github.comfeat: Ensure service account file exists before initializing credentials by cacheflow · Pull Request #386 · olucurious/PyFCMThis PR adds a validation check to ensure that the service_account_file path passed to FCM exists before attempting to initialize credentials using Google OAuth. References #385. 000
Lex @thelextimes.bsky.social · 07/08/2026Anyone going to RenderATL? I'll be there. www.renderatl.comrenderatl.comRenderATL 2026 | August 12 & 13, 2026Render is the premier technology professional conference with a diverse lineup of technical speakers & immersive workshops featuring good vibes & great music. 110
Lex @thelextimes.bsky.social · 03/08/2026Updated my portfolio site: www.builtbylex.combuiltbylex.comLex Alexander | Senior Software EngineerSenior software engineer building high-scale products and infrastructure across payments, trust and safety, and developer platforms. 000
Lex @thelextimes.bsky.social · 30/07/2026I released a python version of my videoframer package. It analyzes any video you give it using your favorite LLM: Claude, OpenAI or Gemini. More to come. pypi.org/project/vide... 010
Lex @thelextimes.bsky.social · 29/07/2026Disney+ hides titles during search that aren't available in your tier. But they're still available on Google for SEO purposes. I think it's detrimental to the UX. I blogged about my findings here. medium.com/@thelextimes... 000
Lex @thelextimes.bsky.social · 29/07/2026Anyone know a dev or PM on one of threads teams related to statues and comments? I think I’ve found an issue with comments on web and mobile on threads that isn't consistent on other Meta products like Facebook. medium.com/@thelextimes...medium.comThe case of disappearing buttons on ThreadsThe same feature, two different behaviors, and what that might reveal about the app. 000
Lex @thelextimes.bsky.social · 29/07/2026Happened in my own city. You hate to see it. Wish we could stand with the Jewish community more. www.latimes.com/california/s...latimes.comMural at site of Jewish temple that burned in Eaton fire vandalized with swastikas, antisemitic graffitiAuthorities are investigating a hate crime after a mural at the site of the burned Pasadena Jewish Temple & Center was vandalized with an antisemitic message and swastikas last week. 000
Lex @thelextimes.bsky.social · 24/07/2026Published a new package that extracts frames from a video and analyzes them with an LLM like OpenAI, Gemini or Claude. www.npmjs.com/package/vide... 000
Lex @thelextimes.bsky.social · 22/07/2026Woke up at 3am and couldn’t sleep so i opened this bad boy up and was not disappointed: harvardlawreview.org/print/vol-13...harvardlawreview.orgExploring the Limits of Qualified Immunity Under Harlow’s Discretionary Function Test Harvard Law ReviewIntroduction Buried in Harlow v. Fitzgerald, the Supreme Court’s leading decision on qualified immunity, a largely overlooked phrase invokes a mostly forgotten distinction in... 100
Lex @thelextimes.bsky.social · 19/07/2026What I’m currently reading: 1. Generations by Strauss and Howe 2. Democracy in America by De Tocqueville 000
Lex @thelextimes.bsky.social · 08/07/2026Working on a react hook to interact with ActiveStorage direct uploads in Rails. github.com/cacheflow/us...github.comGitHub - cacheflow/useActiveStorageDirectUpload: A react hook to interact with active storage in RailsA react hook to interact with active storage in Rails - cacheflow/useActiveStorageDirectUpload 000
Lex @thelextimes.bsky.social · 07/07/2026With the help of ChatGPT I banged out this post on setting up signing keys on Github: I added visuals and assumed folks may forget some steps. medium.com/@thelextimes... 000
Lex @thelextimes.bsky.social · 06/07/2026A few years ago I tried contributing to @yarnpkg.dev. My PR never got merged, but I learned a lot. Here's the story: medium.com/@thelextimes...medium.comHow I failed to contribute to YarnBack in 2018, I wanted to understand how JavaScript tooling actually worked. 000
Lex @thelextimes.bsky.social · 06/07/2026I'd love to hangout with other senior devs, PMs and designers again so we can talk about the literal bulls*t we see in tech these days. 000
Lex @thelextimes.bsky.social · 05/07/2026I've released version 1.4.3 of react-use-is-online. I've updated the test suite and fixed connection state detection on non-chrome browsers like Edge, Safari and Firefox. If you find any bugs lmk! www.npmjs.com/package/reac... 000
Lex @thelextimes.bsky.social · 05/07/2026How do you prove to sites you're not an LLM? I keep getting these Cloudflare bot challenges and weird "verify your human" questions. 000
Lex @thelextimes.bsky.social · 04/07/2026Any dope open source projects out there used by the largest AI companies? 000
Lex @thelextimes.bsky.social · 04/07/2026Working on a posthog PR rn to ignore certain screens during autocapture. We used Posthog at a company I worked at and I’m glad I could open a PR. I hope this gets merged and I can continue contributing! github.com/PostHog/post... 010
Lex @thelextimes.bsky.social · 04/07/2026Just released 1.4.0 of react-use-is-online. Need to fix connection detection on WebKit browsers. www.npmjs.com/package/reac... 000
Lex @thelextimes.bsky.social · 02/07/2026Recommendations are broken across platforms. I think I’ve been profiled as a junior dev across event discovery platforms because I’m constantly shown newb events: medium.com/@thelextimes/w… 000
Lex @thelextimes.bsky.social · 26/06/2026Getting cooked by an AI on GitHub. Cannot believe this bro. 000
Lex @thelextimes.bsky.social · 26/06/2026Trying to get back into open source. github.com/PostHog/post...github.comFeature request: (React-Native) add allowlist/ignorelist option for screen autocapture · Issue #3702 · PostHog/posthog-jsIs your feature request related to a problem? Currently, the only way to control which screens are tracked when captureScreens: true is to use a before_send hook const TRACKED_SCREENS = new Set(['H... 100
Lex @thelextimes.bsky.social · 11/06/2026Threads has an issue medium.com/@thelextimes...medium.comThe case of disappearing buttons on ThreadsThe same feature, two different behaviors, and what that might reveal about the app. 010
Lex @thelextimes.bsky.social · 11/06/2026My name is Lex. I've: - Shipped product to over 30 million users - Contributed to OS projects used by millions. Even Trump uses some of my code. Hate to say it lol. - Created over $60 million in value - Just got rate-limited by YC for applying to too many jobs This job market is wild. 000
Lex @thelextimes.bsky.social · 05/06/2026Comparative Privilege A positional good whose value comes from relative advantage and functions as a protective buffer against risk or precarity. 060
Lex @thelextimes.bsky.social · 04/06/2026Trying to get better at python. Been a rubyist for 10+ years. Contributed to my first python package. It’s the Firebase Cloud Messaging client in Python. github.com/olucurious/P...github.comGitHub - olucurious/PyFCM: Python client for FCM - Firebase Cloud Messaging (Android, iOS and Web)Python client for FCM - Firebase Cloud Messaging (Android, iOS and Web) - olucurious/PyFCM 020
Lex @thelextimes.bsky.social · 04/06/2026diapers are dope. if you're a nerd, you'll love this. worksinprogress.co/issue/engine...worksinprogress.coEngineering the disposable diaper - Works in Progress MagazineBenjamin Spock told mothers in the mid-twentieth century to buy six dozen cloth diapers and a covered pail. Within a decade, both were obsolete. 000