cursor is not in bsky, so I'm gonna shout at the invisible: why the heck do they need to fetch my stripe profile every 3-5 seconds? meh

Now that I have a real job (oh yeah, I got a job) I have to pay more attention to LinkedIn. I hate it. It is just creepy. Everyone is so toxically positive and upbeat. So fake. I can confidently say that it is the worst address book ever.

House sale incoming, which means funds for the homestead starter kit! Spent the day looking up trucks, camera gear, planning tasks, and learning a bit more about floor framing. More fun than programming.

Anyone saying "software engineering was never about writing code" is kidding themselves. A mere attempt at appearing stoic in the face of a complete shitshow that already affected many other industries. It's called hindsight bias and you're not smarter for saying it.

charli xkcd@ky.fyi · 3mo ago

I wrote about why I quit my job, and how weird and tiring tech feels these days.

the best thing to come out of the AI era is (some) humans realising how unsustainable making a single burger patty is.

New beans hit different

Embarking on a WCAG2.2 compliance journey at work. Workload for the next 2 months: solved.

Sorry, not sorry.

Expo SDK 55 is out 😅 RN 0.83, React 19.2 & a long list of things that make your app faster, smaller, & easier to build ♦ Hermes bytecode diffing cuts update sizes by ~75% ♦ Brownfield support gets a serious upgrade ♦ MCP now queries EAS + TestFlight crashes Full changelog: expo.dev/changelog/sd...

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I just optimised the heck out of my company's Maestro E2E tests with EAS workflows. I used a mix of repacking & a few other undocumented optimisations to Android Emulators. Here's what I've done. #expo #reactnative

Accelerating continuous integration with Fingerprint, Repack in EAS Workflows

Cut CI build times by up to 78% with Expo’s Fingerprint + Repack workflow. Skip native builds and ship faster with smarter automation.

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when is someone gonna tell facebook the marketplace app is absolute garbage performance-wise? M4 max, 64gb. Trying to type a message to a seller, characters take 3 seconds to be computed & reflected into the UI. #fb #react @react.dev

@expo.dev can't find where to report bugs with EAS. Enabling verbose logs in EAS crashes during yarn installation (yarn v4). expo.dev/accounts/one...