alistair @alistaiir Twitter profile

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alistair

1 year

There is a lot of ambiguity defining 'serverless' and 'edge' I'll try clean that up in this thread and I think we need a better term than 'edge runtime' tldr: I don't think edge runtimes exist, so I propose "Serverless Runtime"

Theo - t3.gg

@t3dotgg

1 year

The infra people should surrender Edge to the web people. Y'all already have an alternative term for Edge Location - "global"

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`no-node` has to be one of the NPM packages ever

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It is *crazy* how ALL of this is needed to just publish a package in today's JS ecosystem...

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2 years

@JoeWong82772216 @aweary the blockchain is just a super complex competitive game of multiplayer wordle

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@alistaiir

1 year

Can’t take software engineers anywhere. 🎄

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@alistaiir

1 year

new year new website @ • @nextjs 13 appDir • @tailwindcss • Lanyard by @phineyes providing Spotify & Discord status + some magic with Apple shortcuts to sync my location📍 drop feedback in the replies, there's defo some improvements to be made

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My Grandma made me an @vercel cushion

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@alistaiir

1 year

I really like breaking JavaScript. Any guesses as to how `magic` was implemented? 💫🪄

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3 years

@YungKurry_ @StellarCallout .

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@alistaiir

4 years

#WearAMask like the tweet now for cool animation

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@alistaiir

1 year

The web3 mfs that said "probably nothing" were 100% correct

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@alistaiir

5 months

If you're on a flight soon, please consider adding functionality to this project! It fetches and transforms information available on certain in-flight wifi services, even if you don't pay for the wifi plans. Example impl:

GitHub - alii/flight-tracker: Dashboard for when you are on a plane. Works by connecting to the...

Dashboard for when you are on a plane. Works by connecting to the inflight Wi-Fi network and pulling flight stats from their Wi-Fi portal. - alii/flight-tracker

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@alistaiir

2 years

hentai on the blockchain call that weeb3

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@alistaiir

3 years

You had to be there

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@alistaiir

1 year

I am organising a London #TypeScript meetup in January 2023! 📅 January 13th, 2023 🗺️ @Cloudflare Offices, Southbank Talks from @orta , @EastlondonDev & myself. Sponsored by @Vercel △, made possible by @CloudflareDev 🤍 Register to attend @ 🪄

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@alistaiir

3 years

@PoorlyAgedStuff pov: you came to the comments to look for context

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@alistaiir

3 years

crazy.. just had sub-millisecond hot reloads with next @canary . So excited to see what SWC can bring to Next's ecosystem! Great work ▲ @vercel and the Next.js team 🤍

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@alistaiir

1 year

Thank you so much to everyone who came. I don’t think it could have gone any better! Huge shoutout to @Cloudflare @CloudflareDev & @vercel for sponsoring the event and making it possible 🧡 📽️ Watch the replay

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@alistaiir

1 year

Gearing up for the #TypeScript London event in 75 minutes time! Watch live from home @ If you're attending in person, see you all soon!!

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@alistaiir

1 year

@jarredsumner I try and avoid newlines to save on precious disk space

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@alistaiir

4 months

We've been working very hard in the background and I truly cannot wait to show it off ✨🐎

truman 🐎

@trumansacks1

4 months

We've been working on something cool. Excited to share more tomorrow :) 🏇

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@alistaiir

5 months

hiring a backend lead typescript engineer dm if you - are looking for something long term - enjoy complex architecture (realtime sync, offline first) - love building beautiful products - want to join a world class team

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@alistaiir

3 years

@mateuszm1709 @spectatorindex Thanks for Japanese translation

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@alistaiir

4 months

Introducing...

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@CubbyApp

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Say hi to Cubby 👋 The new place where teams research content from the internet, together. Join us now as we enter into beta:

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@alistaiir

2 years

Good morning London ☀️🌅

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@alistaiir

3 years

@NikoOmilana I made a website for you

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@alistaiir

4 months

Beautiful. Phones living in the moment with no humans ❤️

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@alistaiir

3 years

Afternoon project launch✨ Just made a small @cloudflare worker to supercharge searching in your browser. Super simple and open source, installation takes just one minute and is documented in the readme. Check it out:

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@alistaiir

1 year

It takes 11 seconds to deploy persistent Redis on @joinhop , with private networking to your project (vpc)

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@alistaiir

3 years

Leva by @pmndrs is probably my new favourite React lib. I did not even have to specify that it was a color picker 🤯 👉

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@alistaiir

1 year

The answer (but please don't use this)

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@alistaiir

1 year

@danielcroe Yep ⭐

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@alistaiir

2 years

Developer bucket list achieved: top of HN :D read @

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@alistaiir

2 years

Thanks for the top @vercel & @leeerob :D

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@alistaiir

2 years

( @joinhop )

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@alistaiir

2 years

😍 @vercel

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@alistaiir

6 months

Add realtime Spotify status on your website in 60 seconds, just like on : 1. Run `bun add use-lanyard` (or use your fav package manager ✅) 2. Join the Lanyard Discord server here: 3. Add the component in the screenshot below 🏆

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@alistaiir

11 months

@theapplehub 3.5k to be in a black mirror episode

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@alistaiir

1 year

@fluiddesign201 @ThePrimeagen Poor discoverability, poor refactoring, poor CJS compatibility. More covered in @basarat ’s glorious docs:

Avoid Export Default | TypeScript Deep Dive

basarat.gitbook.io

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@alistaiir

2 years

Thanks for having us in London @vercel ! #nextjsconf #next13

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@alistaiir

3 years

@hiettdigital I am the first person on earth to RATIO a fridge.

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@alistaiir

3 years

not very hidden are ya, just found your twitter account 😂 @ahiddensociety

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@alistaiir

3 years

@juanbuis halfbook pro

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@alistaiir

3 years

Have been messing around a little bit with the Discord Integrations API. Looks like we'll get integrations like this super soon 👀

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@alistaiir

1 year

@FredKSchott source: i made it up

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@alistaiir

1 year

@dan_abramov @tesseralis useFlight()

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@alistaiir

3 years

@discord Please add support for joining more than 100 servers!!

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@alistaiir

1 year

@danielcroe Yep ⭐

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@alistaiir

2 years

Finally got access to the absolutely AMAZING bun by @jarredsumner , this stuff is next freaking level. Seriously check this out and watch this space.

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@alistaiir

4 years

this came in the post today, apparently i committed "tax fraud" but like i don't even pay tax @HMRCgovuk mfs wildin

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@alistaiir

4 years

Holla! I'm Alistair & I'm a full stack TypeScript engineer from the UK. Here are a few things I've worked on👇

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@alistaiir

2 years

Today I built a small, strongly-typed library for @joinhop that makes it incredibly easy to add methods to any [JSON] object. `npm install --save @onehop /json-methods` Useful for adding utilities to API responses, for example.

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@alistaiir

2 years

@spectatorindex The lettuce won

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@alistaiir

3 months

Very cool, Zed has been open sourced

GitHub - zed-industries/zed: Code at the speed of thought – Zed is a high-performance, multiplayer...

Code at the speed of thought – Zed is a high-performance, multiplayer code editor from the creators of Atom and Tree-sitter. - zed-industries/zed

github.com

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@alistaiir

3 years

@NewWaveKicks @DragonAIOBot @Dragon_Success @purchasable @Yazzzzir Worried about the wrong lifetime

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@alistaiir

3 years

Soooo you can't use port 5000 on #Monterey anymore without disabling the new Airplay Receiver function. Interesting that Apple picked such a commonly used port for developers 🤔

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@alistaiir

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Road trip

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@alistaiir

3 months

we do NOT sleep 🗣️🗣️🗣️

Cubby

@CubbyApp

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Cubby just got a lot more powerful 🚀🐎 Starting today, you can add pretty much any content into Cubby, both from the internet or your own files. - Audio (mp3s, voice memos, etc) - Videos (mp4s, mov, your camera roll) - PDFs, Google Docs, Word, ePubs, PPT And everything…

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@alistaiir

3 years

I've been working on a small update for bringing @linear 's webhooks to Disco/rd. It now supports displaying more information by using Linear's SDK directly. Check it out here:

GitHub - alii/linear-discord-serverless: Get linear's events forwarded to Discord webhooks through...

Get linear's events forwarded to Discord webhooks through Vercel serverless functions. - alii/linear-discord-serverless

github.com

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@alistaiir

5 months

New York 🗽

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@alistaiir

3 years

controversial opinion: bot devs can backdoor as much as they want, i don't see an issue – it's their bot, they can do what they want?.. if you're salty you didn't cop a restock then that's on you, regardless of if they backdoored stock what i don't agree with is fake stock, tho

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@alistaiir

1 year

Two points 1) My Tweet spreads misinformation as I did not know what is correct for publishing an esm/cjs package with types 2) That's okay, because the Tweet did well and it seems like nobody knows what is correct for publishing an esm/cjs package with types

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@alistaiir

1 year

It is *crazy* how ALL of this is needed to just publish a package in today's JS ecosystem...

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@alistaiir

1 year

@trunarla no fals support😔(needed)

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@alistaiir

3 years

@NikoOmilana @AjShabeel I MADE U A WEBSITE

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@alistaiir

1 year

Gearing up for the #TypeScript London event in 75 minutes time! Watch live from home @ If you're attending in person, see you all soon!!

TypeScript London

Live stream of the TypeScript London event, January 13th 2023.Thanks to everybody that came, it was a great success!Chapters:00:00- Simon talks about the fir...

www.youtube.com

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@alistaiir

3 years

I've put together some Poimandres inspired iTerm themes based upon the @pmndrs VSCode themes by @0xca0a ! You can download them here:

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@alistaiir

1 year

I’ve had Spotify for 12 years and this might be my final reason to switch away🤦‍♂️

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@alexeheath

1 year

I’m at a Spotify event where CEO @eldsjal just announced what he calls the “biggest change” to the app since launch of mobile over a decade ago. It’s a TikTok-like visual feed with clips of music and other stuff, replacing the main tab. Thoughts?

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@alistaiir

1 year

@Steve8708 By far the answer has to be A Also the familiarity with tools such as scss remains

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@alistaiir

3 years

Learnt this brilliant way to add two numbers today in #JavaScript ! /s #100daysofcode #programming

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@alistaiir

3 years

BBC iPlayer asking if we pay our TV license

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@alistaiir

2 years

jet beans intellij idea @jetbrains @intellijidea

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@alistaiir

3 years

IM FINALLY COMING TO THE USA

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@alistaiir

3 years

Thanks @sketch for the free socks! Super comfy <3

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@alistaiir

3 years

Just got my second vaccine. Man I love microsoft products.

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@alistaiir

3 years

Tech twitter be like: ✨I made this using only CSS 🤯 Here's how: 🧵👇

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@alistaiir

4 months

You can now use the wonderful @pmndrs theme in MacOS terminal thanks to @trevmanz

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@alistaiir

3 years

@benawad babe wake up new ben awad tweet

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5 months

#SVB Advert in Times Square 😮

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@alistaiir

4 years

good afternoon !

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@alistaiir

5 months

@willdepue @waitbutwhy 's book

What's Our Problem? A Self-Help Book For Societies

Available today

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@alistaiir

3 years

Welp, made my first blog post: Hopefully this will help somebody out there, thank you @m_chael for the inspiration to do so! :D

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@alistaiir

3 years

introducing my revolutionary app where you can

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@alistaiir

3 years

Working on @notify 's new Hub system has been an absolute joy with @prisma . I'm rarely this excited about a JavaScript library but prisma really does so much for you ✅

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@alistaiir

5 months

Is this how we get multi threading in js..?

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help me

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@alistaiir

3 years

Made a discord server that doesn't let you leave with @boon_cpu

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@alistaiir

3 years

Updated my personal site! It's using @phineyes 's lanyard service, and What do you think?

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@alistaiir

7 months

OrbStack 1.0 released yesterday. It is a delightful alternative to Docker desktop for Mac. I have been testing it out for the past few months and it's a really really awesome tool. Big congrats @kdrag0n @OrbStack 🎂🎉

OrbStack 1.0: Fast, light, easy way to run Docker containers and Linux

Say goodbye to slow, clunky containers and VMs. The fast, light, and easy way to run containers and Linux. Develop at lightspeed with our Docker Desktop alternative.

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@alistaiir

3 years

I love looking out of the window in the morning. Looking at people and thinking, damn. Like we’re all human, i had no idea that person existed. they have family, friends and their own life going on. Walking from one destination to another. I don’t know how to word this properly

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@alistaiir

7 months

I made an ambient song to write code to

[email protected]

alistair · Song · 2023

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@alistaiir

3 years

okay, switching to firefox, it looks amazing on macos.

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@alistaiir

1 year

Just got orb'd by @m1guelpf and now own some @worldcoin 🐐

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@alistaiir

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@archillect

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@alistaiir

3 years

Discord is adding Cloubhouse. They're called "Stages"

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@alistaiir

3 years

(badly) ported the @pmndrs theme for iTerm over to Windows Terminal If you're interested, repo is

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@alistaiir

1 year

Screen Studio by @pie6k is *such* an amazing tool. Recorded and edited this short clip for @joinhop in literally 50 seconds. I fr cannot recommend this app enough ⭐

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@alistaiir

3 months

Round 2 - if you work to music, link is in my bio and in the replies (algorithm moment)

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@alistaiir

3 months

1h dnb DJ set, if you work to music:

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