Jim Simon

@jimsimon.dev

Staff Software Engineer (Web Platform) @ Reddit Also: Father of two boys • Loves hockey • Casual self-hoster • Nightly gamer Opinions and posts are my own and don't reflect the views of my employer.

Nothing has so clearly shown how much the US is an "empire in decline" than what I just watched. Time for the EU to fill the vacuum that the US is creating. Anything less means continental dominance by China & Russia. The US was isolationist during WW1/2. We're repeating that historical mistake.

It feels like the Lit ecosystem is still missing a well maintained server framework. There used to be an Astro plugin, but support for it was dropped last year. Something in the same vein, with all the modern bells and whistles, would be a nice next step for the community.

Alright! This fix has rolled back out again as of last night! Both the double audio bug and low/incorrect thumbnail quality bug for Reddit videos should be fixed now. Thanks for following along!

We need a "Who's using web components" site to counter all of the "Nobody uses web components" folks. Something we can just link to everytime someone says it. Big name companies off the top of my head: Adobe, Blizzard, Cisco, GitHub, Google, IBM, ING, Microsoft, Mozilla, Red Hat, Reddit, VMWare

It's frustrating how the loudest voices in the room are often still the most influential even when they're wrong or out of touch.

Astro 5 is out. Anyone reading this probably already knows about Server Islands and Content Layer, but 5.0 is packed with dozens of features big and small. Here's some of my favorites 👉

Out of curiosity, what happens if you erroneously get put on one of these mass block lists going around? Is there an easy way to tell if you're on one? Do you just forever lose access to large chunks of content? Not that I plan on getting added to one, but it seems like it could be abused.