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Lex

@thelextimes.bsky.social
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Recovering comedian turned software engineer. Build things by day, read history/humanities & walk cities. ex-Ticketmaster · ex-TaskRabbit · OS contributor · architecture nerd.

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Lex @thelextimes.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Greater 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.
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Lex @thelextimes.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
How is everyone liking the muse model?
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Lex @thelextimes.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I 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...
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Lex @thelextimes.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Published 1.0.0 of my react hook that performs health checks against a provided API endpoint. npmjs.com/package/use-...
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Lex @thelextimes.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I 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-...
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Lex @thelextimes.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Found 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...
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When Search Stops Being Search: A Curious Disney+ Product Decision
One of the most valuable features of any streaming service is trust.
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Lex @thelextimes.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Built a small TS client for consuming the Marta Transit API: www.npmjs.com/package/mart...
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Lex @thelextimes.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
what's everyone hacking on this season?
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Lex @thelextimes.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Anyone 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...
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Fix download us tel test and update mapper and reader file by cacheflow · Pull Request #774 · moov-io/watchman
Overview 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...
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Lex @thelextimes.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
yay my Python FCM PR got merged. I owe a special thanks to the maintainers for reviewing this. github.com/olucurious/P...
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feat: Ensure service account file exists before initializing credentials by cacheflow · Pull Request #386 · olucurious/PyFCM
This 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.
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Lex @thelextimes.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Anyone going to RenderATL? I'll be there. www.renderatl.com
renderatl.com
RenderATL 2026 | August 12 & 13, 2026
Render is the premier technology professional conference with a diverse lineup of technical speakers & immersive workshops featuring good vibes & great music.
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Lex @thelextimes.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Updated my portfolio site: www.builtbylex.com
builtbylex.com
Lex Alexander | Senior Software Engineer
Senior software engineer building high-scale products and infrastructure across payments, trust and safety, and developer platforms.
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Lex @thelextimes.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
I 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...
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Lex @thelextimes.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Disney+ 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...
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Lex @thelextimes.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Anyone 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...
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The case of disappearing buttons on Threads
The same feature, two different behaviors, and what that might reveal about the app.
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Lex @thelextimes.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Happened in my own city. You hate to see it. Wish we could stand with the Jewish community more. www.latimes.com/california/s...
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Mural at site of Jewish temple that burned in Eaton fire vandalized with swastikas, antisemitic graffiti
Authorities 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.
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Lex @thelextimes.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Published 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...
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Lex @thelextimes.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Woke up at 3am and couldn’t sleep so i opened this bad boy up and was not disappointed: harvardlawreview.org/print/vol-13...
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Exploring the Limits of Qualified Immunity Under Harlow’s Discretionary Function Test Harvard Law Review
Introduction Buried in Harlow v. Fitzgerald, the Supreme Court’s leading decision on qualified immunity, a largely overlooked phrase invokes a mostly forgotten distinction in...
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Lex @thelextimes.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
What I’m currently reading: 1. Generations by Strauss and Howe 2. Democracy in America by De Tocqueville
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Lex @thelextimes.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Working on a react hook to interact with ActiveStorage direct uploads in Rails. github.com/cacheflow/us...
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GitHub - cacheflow/useActiveStorageDirectUpload: A react hook to interact with active storage in Rails
A react hook to interact with active storage in Rails - cacheflow/useActiveStorageDirectUpload
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Lex @thelextimes.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
With 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...
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Lex @thelextimes.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
A 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...
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How I failed to contribute to Yarn
Back in 2018, I wanted to understand how JavaScript tooling actually worked.
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Lex @thelextimes.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
I'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.
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Lex @thelextimes.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
I'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...
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Lex @thelextimes.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
How do you prove to sites you're not an LLM? I keep getting these Cloudflare bot challenges and weird "verify your human" questions.
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Lex @thelextimes.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Getting ready to ask for help today.
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Lex @thelextimes.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Any dope open source projects out there used by the largest AI companies?
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Lex @thelextimes.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Working 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...
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Lex @thelextimes.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Just released 1.4.0 of react-use-is-online. Need to fix connection detection on WebKit browsers. www.npmjs.com/package/reac...
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Lex @thelextimes.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Recommendations 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…
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Lex @thelextimes.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Getting cooked by an AI on GitHub. Cannot believe this bro.
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Lex @thelextimes.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Trying to get back into open source. github.com/PostHog/post...
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Feature request: (React-Native) add allowlist/ignorelist option for screen autocapture · Issue #3702 · PostHog/posthog-js
Is 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...
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Lex @thelextimes.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Threads has an issue medium.com/@thelextimes...
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The case of disappearing buttons on Threads
The same feature, two different behaviors, and what that might reveal about the app.
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Lex @thelextimes.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
My 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.
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Lex @thelextimes.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Comparative Privilege A positional good whose value comes from relative advantage and functions as a protective buffer against risk or precarity.
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Lex @thelextimes.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Trying 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...
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GitHub - 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
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Lex @thelextimes.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Who are the most interesting companies in the AI space?
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CherieAnne @cherieanne.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
My heart goes out to any aspiring dystopian fiction authors who keep having their ideas stolen by the Conservative Party
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Lex @thelextimes.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
diapers are dope. if you're a nerd, you'll love this. worksinprogress.co/issue/engine...
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Engineering the disposable diaper - Works in Progress Magazine
Benjamin Spock told mothers in the mid-twentieth century to buy six dozen cloth diapers and a covered pail. Within a decade, both were obsolete.
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Lex @thelextimes.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
only 9 followers. we inside but we outside.
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Lex @thelextimes.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Is this thing on?
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