Lex
@thelextimes.bsky.social
Recovering comedian turned software engineer. Build things by day, read history/humanities & walk cities. ex-Ticketmaster · ex-TaskRabbit · OS contributor · architecture nerd.
I released a python version of my videoframer package. It analyzes any video you give it using your favorite LLM: Claude, OpenAI or Gemini. More to come. pypi.org/project/vide...
Disney+ hides titles during search that aren't available in your tier. But they're still available on Google for SEO purposes. I think it's detrimental to the UX. I blogged about my findings here. medium.com/@thelextimes...
Anyone know a dev or PM on one of threads teams related to statues and comments? I think I’ve found an issue with comments on web and mobile on threads that isn't consistent on other Meta products like Facebook. medium.com/@thelextimes...
The case of disappearing buttons on Threads
The same feature, two different behaviors, and what that might reveal about the app.
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Happened in my own city. You hate to see it. Wish we could stand with the Jewish community more. www.latimes.com/california/s...
Mural at site of Jewish temple that burned in Eaton fire vandalized with swastikas, antisemitic graffiti
Authorities are investigating a hate crime after a mural at the site of the burned Pasadena Jewish Temple & Center was vandalized with an antisemitic message and swastikas last week.
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Published a new package that extracts frames from a video and analyzes them with an LLM like OpenAI, Gemini or Claude. www.npmjs.com/package/vide...
Woke up at 3am and couldn’t sleep so i opened this bad boy up and was not disappointed: harvardlawreview.org/print/vol-13...
Exploring the Limits of Qualified Immunity Under Harlow’s Discretionary Function Test Harvard Law Review
Introduction Buried in Harlow v. Fitzgerald, the Supreme Court’s leading decision on qualified immunity, a largely overlooked phrase invokes a mostly forgotten distinction in...
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What I’m currently reading: 1. Generations by Strauss and Howe 2. Democracy in America by De Tocqueville
Working on a react hook to interact with ActiveStorage direct uploads in Rails. github.com/cacheflow/us...
GitHub - cacheflow/useActiveStorageDirectUpload: A react hook to interact with active storage in Rails
A react hook to interact with active storage in Rails - cacheflow/useActiveStorageDirectUpload
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With the help of ChatGPT I banged out this post on setting up signing keys on Github: I added visuals and assumed folks may forget some steps. medium.com/@thelextimes...
A few years ago I tried contributing to @yarnpkg.dev. My PR never got merged, but I learned a lot. Here's the story: medium.com/@thelextimes...
How I failed to contribute to Yarn
Back in 2018, I wanted to understand how JavaScript tooling actually worked.
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I'd love to hangout with other senior devs, PMs and designers again so we can talk about the literal bulls*t we see in tech these days.
I've released version 1.4.3 of react-use-is-online. I've updated the test suite and fixed connection state detection on non-chrome browsers like Edge, Safari and Firefox. If you find any bugs lmk! www.npmjs.com/package/reac...
How do you prove to sites you're not an LLM? I keep getting these Cloudflare bot challenges and weird "verify your human" questions.
Any dope open source projects out there used by the largest AI companies?
Working on a posthog PR rn to ignore certain screens during autocapture. We used Posthog at a company I worked at and I’m glad I could open a PR. I hope this gets merged and I can continue contributing! github.com/PostHog/post...
Just released 1.4.0 of react-use-is-online. Need to fix connection detection on WebKit browsers. www.npmjs.com/package/reac...
Recommendations are broken across platforms. I think I’ve been profiled as a junior dev across event discovery platforms because I’m constantly shown newb events: medium.com/@thelextimes/w…
Trying to get back into open source. github.com/PostHog/post...
Feature request: (React-Native) add allowlist/ignorelist option for screen autocapture · Issue #3702 · PostHog/posthog-js
Is your feature request related to a problem? Currently, the only way to control which screens are tracked when captureScreens: true is to use a before_send hook const TRACKED_SCREENS = new Set(['H...
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My name is Lex. I've: - Shipped product to over 30 million users - Contributed to OS projects used by millions. Even Trump uses some of my code. Hate to say it lol. - Created over $60 million in value - Just got rate-limited by YC for applying to too many jobs This job market is wild.
Comparative Privilege A positional good whose value comes from relative advantage and functions as a protective buffer against risk or precarity.
Trying to get better at python. Been a rubyist for 10+ years. Contributed to my first python package. It’s the Firebase Cloud Messaging client in Python. github.com/olucurious/P...
GitHub - olucurious/PyFCM: Python client for FCM - Firebase Cloud Messaging (Android, iOS and Web)
Python client for FCM - Firebase Cloud Messaging (Android, iOS and Web) - olucurious/PyFCM
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diapers are dope. if you're a nerd, you'll love this. worksinprogress.co/issue/engine...
Engineering the disposable diaper - Works in Progress Magazine
Benjamin Spock told mothers in the mid-twentieth century to buy six dozen cloth diapers and a covered pail. Within a decade, both were obsolete.
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