Brian LeRoux
@brianleroux.bsky.social
AWS hero blogging at webdev.rip, building sanity.io, arc.codes and enhance.dev ... loves Nanaimo, Vancouver, programming, JavaScript, cloud functions, infra-as-code, synths, drum machines, and outdoors-y stuff. 🇨🇦
Come for the webperf, stay for Ben's smooth intelligent voice
Ben Schwarz@benschwarz.bsky.social · yesterday13 years after my first ShopTalk Show (episode 68!), Chris and Dave had me back to talk web performance: why airline websites are so slow, RUM vs synthetic testing, and whether fixing speed actually makes money ✈️🐢 shoptalkshow.com/734/
More info on Orange Shirt day if you’re not familiar: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nationa...
National Day for Truth and Reconciliation - Wikipedia
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In Canada we’re celebrating our nation day of reconciliation ( orange shirt day )! It’s *also* national coffee day for those who celebrate
web dev is fine. standards, delivery and maintenance remain important as ever and require humans and machines both. heavyweight abstraction framework based dev doesn't really make much sense anymore as particular syntax affordances don't matter much to a machine. as always, outcomes > outputs.
AWS has been a certificate authority for a decade now. (I've had auto renewing certificates that entire time and can vouch that it's pretty nice!)
We have a civic and provincial election coming up in BC (Canada). Reached out to a teacher friend and another friend who is a nurse for their recommendations on who to vote for. I had some ideas but this feels more important than ever. Feeling much better calibrated to vote for my values.
In 2001, we really thought this was what the future of web design would look like.
web components as progressive enhancement remains underrated (and undefeated!)
Considering it too and already have email via Proton, but they are donating to dubious projects themselves, running out of options brennan.day/normalized-f...
Normalized Fascism in Open Source: $12 Million Given to DHH
Open source has become a safe harbor for far-right politics, from David Heinemeier Hansson's white-nationalist rhetoric and the Omarchy Foundation's $12 mi…
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getting real tired of upgrading my web components every time a new major version of web components comes out
This one will hurt: I love 1Password as a product. But I'm the son of a concentration camp survivor. I will not give money to companies that align themselves with nationalism, and certainly not ethnic cleansing. Completely disappointing, @1password.bsky.social. www.flyingpenguin.com/dhh-nazism-f...
DHH Nazism Funded by 1Password VP Who Wrote “Honest Security” | flyingpenguin
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How quickly are Google and Apple moving to accept these changes?
Sarah Szalavitz💡@dearsarah.bsky.social · 4w agoUN votes to adopt new world map that shows Africa’s true scale Togo-sponsored resolution called to phase out traditional map that depicts continent as similar size to Greenland www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s... it’s 2026 & for the first time, the UN voted to allow Africa to be accurately scaled.
Knowing that the plastic dinosaurs we played with as kids consisted, to whatever actual extent, of real dinosaurs.
Make a band bigger Ninety inch nails 🤘
Jim Nielsen@jim-nielsen.com · last mo.Make a band bigger: Forget Sum 41, I wanna see Exponential 41!
pretty wild how liberating it is to write code that just works in the browser without a build step
Ryan@rschristian.dev · last mo.It's still incredibly pleasing to run through old projects converting TS into JS + JSDoc. I made the decision to cut out TS (excluding `.d.ts` files, they get a pass) from all my personal projects years ago and I'm still very much convinced that's the right move. TS as an authoring format ain't it.
the Mario Galaxy planet off in the distance with a boss waiting on it
Idle thought, are the ppl who are still on twtr also watching Fox News or.. (?)
I've been working on this for over a year: I'm remaking all of Ocarina of Time's prerenders in 3D, trying to match the N64 style rather than the 3DS one. The provisional name is OoT unJPEG. It will be distributed as both a romhack that runs on real N64 hardware and a mod for Zelda 64 Recompiled.
