Xander

@synapticism.com

Full-stack software engineer; React/TypeScript/Node/AI ⚙️ based in Taiwan, open to remote or hybrid work. This is my new account for tech; for my history/culture/urbex musings see @spectralcodex.com

It's funny how quickly "enshittification" came to mean simply "things getting worse" and not what Cory Doctorow originally meant when he coined the term. I guess that's the enshittification of enshittification?

I've been logging build duration, page count, and other metrics on one of my @astro.build projects for months now. Out of curiosity I charted the results; Astro 7 and the new Rust-based markdown compiler Sätteri had quite an impact on build times! (Note the log scale.)

Screenshot of a page on one of my sites showing build time and some major upgrades (Astro 7, Node 24, etc.). The trend line is heading down even as page count goes up.

Spinning up another Bluesky account specifically for following tech and web dev discourse, sharing what I learn, building in public, and that sorta vibe 🦋