@antfu.me hey! I've been trying to reach you via email for a special message 😃 Could you send me a DM?
Justin E. Samuels
@thugdebugger.dev
Founder & CEO of @RenderATL.com | Software Engineer @Mailchimp @Intuit | Inc Magazine 30u30ish | Mississippi State Alumni & UC Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Program Graduate 🗺️ RenderATL.com
So it's looking like I'll be speaking at @renderatl.com at the Node.js Interactive track.
Catch me and @pfrazee.com live tomorrow! Going to be fun discussing builder mentality and ownership in respect to how its showing up at Bluesky!
Tomorrow, we're going live with the CTO of Bluesky and guarantee you don't want to miss it... RSVP for your chance to get a free ticket to RenderATL: luma.com/renderatl-gqym
June is coming so fast! I'm so excited to have my stupid idea from a year ago be so close to done. Fingers crossed but if everything works out, I hoping to launch the game live during my talk "How I Ignored Reddit and Made a Steam Game Using React" at @renderatl.com
Getting the new Blackjack Roulette demo ready for Steam Nest Fest! New additions: 1) Controller Support!!! 2) This Smug looking guy created by rajieskecchi (www.artstation.com/rajieskecchi) New Demo Very Soon! Wishlist Now! store.steampowered.com/app/3930450/...
"move fast and break things" was a cute motto until you break prod on a friday at 4:47pm. then it's just "move fast and update your resume." be careful out there...
We’re excited to welcome technical communities and organizations from around the world into RenderATL as community partners. Every year, it gets bigger than Atlanta, and that’s because of the people building in their own cities and bringing that energy with them. Apply today: RenderATL.com/links
Happy to welcome @pfrazee.com, CTO of @bsky.app to the @renderatl.com 2026 speaker lineup! See you soon in the Silicon South!
I've been seeing an alarming pattern in OSS GitHub communities lately: people just scraping issues, pinging maintainers with urgency to get the issues assigned to them and producing PRs (mostly through coding agents) within minutes of maintainers agreeing to assign the issue.
Have you heard!? We’re giving away FREE tickets to BlerDCon so if you love anime, gaming, comics, cosplay, and blerd culture… this is for you. And while you’re there? Pull up to our conversation with Zillow! 🎟️ Grab your free tickets now in the RenderATL app: renderatl.com/app
least surprising thing ever: llms are NOT ANALYTICS TOOLS. “it explained everything so confidently, nobody questioned it” literally “so confident” is a red flag.
Another example of why I feel no shame in my "I know AI but I won't cheerlead it" position: www.reddit.com/r/analytics/...
@steipete.me hey! I saw on your repo to ping you on social (or email) about speaking at conferences! I organize @renderatl.com and I would love to have you keynote our AI track this year. We also created an open source award show, that I would love to nominate your projects for! 👇🏾 commits.dev
The Commits Award Show | August 12, 2026
Join us as we honor open-source innovators, share their stories, and give them the flowers they deserve. The real reward of open-source? The community that builds it.
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Happy New Year! The CFP for @renderatl.com is open and filling up FAST! Apply ⬇️ renderatl.com/cfp
Render (RenderATL) 2026: Call for Speakers
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Speaker list for @renderatl.com so far is looking 🔥 For all those that’s been asking….CFP drops 1/1/26 and will be open for only 30 days! Set your alarms ⏰
JSConf Guadalajara was the perfect setting to meet these amazing people 💙 What started as networking became real friendships. Good food, great conversations, and connections that matter. @rginn206.bsky.social @msbrianaholmes.com @thugdebugger.dev @bytesofbree.bsky.social
More conferences are adapting the silent headphones stages I welcome this trend 😏
MCP is about to do to user experiences, what API did in the 2010s While you may not like AI, your customer & user base is eating it up and demanding it in your app interactions. MCP will become a standard within the next year.
We are excited to announce @infinite.red, Old Mission, @arcjet.com, and @renderatl.com as React Conf silver sponsors this year!
For too long, Open Source developers have been overlooked and taken for granted. Our goal with The Commits is to provide a platform where open source can finally have their biggest night at the same level as The Oscars or The Grammys...but at The Commits ⬇️
RenderATL is proud to announce The Commits, an award show celebrating the heart of open-source — the people. Join us as we honor open-source innovators, share their stories, and give them the flowers they deserve. Learn more about The Commits & submit a nomination by visiting commits.dev today!
Protect your mental health. Strong leaders protect their and their team’s mental health. Be strong leaders.
I think you're both generally right from my experience. I think we are doing a disservice to juniors by telling them not to learn how to use it. The reality is, it is almost impossible to find a job right now if you don't accessorize your CV with it. I also think it is destroying our pipeline of
Can't code? I'd say ask a friend, but at the rate AI is improving, maybe you won't even need to. Someone built a functional Appview with replit overnight. bsky.app/profile/doll...
The Appview code should have everything blueskys appview does, the only problem it is running into is getting the right numbers for database connections and pooling. github.com/dollspace-ga...
👀 Something big is happening next summer during @renderatl.com. Join the live stream announcement with our friends at @github.com featuring @alacolombiadev.bsky.social, @francescociulla.bsky.social, and more special guests 😏 Learn more ⬇️ t.co/xhMLHstfx5
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Big conference with community conference pricing. Tomorrow 👇🏾
Yes, you read that right — tickets go on sale TOMORROW This will be the lowest price these tickets will be offered at, and we’re only releasing a limited amount. Once they’re gone, they’re gone. You can’t miss the biggest tech experience of 2026 so grab your ticket tomorrow! #RenderATL2026