Brooke

@brookke.bsky.social

Senior Software Engineer at Ravio

🎉This Monday, May 19th, we're launching the Puzzmo iPhone app! 🎉 You can pre-download it here: apps.apple.com/us/app/puzzm... There's much more information to come, but a few important things to point out are... (1/6) 🧵:

‎Puzzmo: Solve. Smile. Share.

‎Hello! If you're reading this you either really love Puzzmo or you are somehow undecided about our app. Let's be clear: you should download the app. We made it for you and it's free and it's really g...

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Have you ever wished the browser would look at a background color and pick black or white for the text — whichever one provides more contrast? Now, the `constrast-color()` function in CSS does just that. webkit.org/blog/16929/c...

How to have the browser pick a contrasting color in CSS

Have you ever wished you could write simple CSS to declare a color, and then have the browser figure out whether black or white should be paired with that color?

webkit.org

TypeScript team: rewrites compiler in Go. Go community: what do you mean your new compiler takes more than a minute to compile? Unacceptable. Dishonorable even. We are so sorry for this sub par experience. Not how we do things around here. Two days later: WIP 5x speedup. HN: why pick Go anyway?

cmd/compile: slow escape analysis in large package in the typescript compiler · Issue #72815 · golang/go

Go version go version go1.24.1 linux/amd64 Output of go env in your module/workspace: AR='ar' CC='gcc' CGO_CFLAGS='-O2 -g' CGO_CPPFLAGS='' CGO_CXXFLAGS='-O2 -g' CGO_ENABLED='1' CGO_FFLAGS='-O2 -g' ...

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I’m working on a blog post about interesting and useful uses of ai in products that go beyond chatbots. What are you favourite AI powered features in products that aren’t just chat bots?

Their platform feels built by product-minded people. Want to add AI? Just two lines in the Wrangler config, and you’re set. Need a SQLite DB or key-value store? Same simplicity. It’s so refreshing to just ship without having to think about the underlying infra or even api keys...

Severance is so crazy, every episode is just like a shot of a guy walking, a sequence of two people ominously staring at each other while someone bangs a piano key, and then a jump scare with a goat. $20m per episode