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Alex Parish
@alexparish.bsky.social
👨‍💻⚛️ | Principal Software Engineer at FTSE 100 eCommerce | Co-founder Tastebuds.fm from 🚀 to 1M users | Startups, JavaScript, #webperf

📍 Hertfordshire, UK
Rare Bank of England W
August 7, 2025 at 11:31 AM
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Every time I read these stories I cant help but think of Vance who came to Munich to tell Europe that we have freedom of speech problem.
Trump calls for journalist Natasha Bertrand to be fired.
June 25, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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The Telegraph has taken that fake story with the stock photo illustrations down. But it's pitiful what the right wing media in this country has become.
Brexit broke them and they never recovered. They spent years pretending black was white and up was down. They lost their moral bearings completely.
May 25, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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I will say, I know a *lot* of devs who made good choices like this to take care of their users, quietly doing the right thing. I wish more people knew how often some programmer made a thoughtful decision to protect their interests that they never knew about.
10 years ago, in college, I turned down an offer to buy a privacy-focused app that I built, rather than risk my users' data being exposed. Instead, I licensed the app's source code to them for half the money, and accepted a job offer to work on their forked version of the app.
I could have made millions of dollars, multiple times, if I had chosen to just go along with people who later went on to destroy the public sphere, to undermine journalism, to weaken democracy globally, to enable the rise of fascism, to *literally directly enable genocide*. So many others did.
May 12, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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Anyone using #tailwind in a large company with browser support requirements? Please upvote and add your stories to my suggestion (plea) for them to follow Baseline: github.com/tailwindlabs...

#tailwindcss
Could Tailwind agree to follow Widely Available Baseline? · tailwindlabs tailwindcss · Discussion #15817
Hi, Congrats on the v4 release! However the browser support, in a professional setting, makes me a bit itchy. Chrome and Safari are March 2023 versions, so that's not so bad as we only have 8 month...
github.com
February 3, 2025 at 4:10 PM
February 1, 2025 at 1:11 PM
A great start would be retaliating immediately with a 100% tariff on Tesla imports.
GET READY: The White House just said Trump will implement 25% tariffs on Mexico and Canada and a 10% tariff on China beginning SATURDAY.
January 31, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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It’s all beginning to feel a bit 1984. We’re in a battle against autocrats and oligarchs who are using money and misinformation to dismantle democracies. That’s why we’re looking for 1,984 new monthly supporters to make our biggest and boldest plans a reality (see link in bio)
January 30, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Great to hear that brands have now started shuttering their accounts on the far-right cesspit that Twitter has become.
January 28, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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In the wake of Meta’s decision to remove its third-party fact-checking system and loosen content moderation policies, here's how to delete your Facebook, Instagram, and Threads accounts
How to delete Facebook, Instagram, and Threads | TechCrunch
In the wake of Meta’s decision to remove its third-party fact-checking system and loosen content moderation policies, Google searches on how to delete
tcrn.ch
January 10, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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Lewis Goodall absolutely nails it here.
Have written about Starmer's speech- his best moment yet as PM. He implicitly identified what sits at the heart of this story: the emergence of a common UK/US online right, headed by the radicalised Musk.

It is making extremist, until recently fringe politics mainstream in British conservatism.
Starmer's best moment as PM
And the Powellisation of conservative thought
open.substack.com
January 6, 2025 at 8:32 PM
More great work by the @e18e.dev community.

Also a great example of the value of keeping dependencies up to date using Renovate or Dependabot!
Just landed a change with some help from @skk.moe to save 112 TB of traffic to the npm registry by switching to the amazing tinyglobby library from @superchupu.dev. I noticed this opportunity using an awesome tool that @fuzzyma.bsky.social developed and shared with the @e18e.dev community!
December 15, 2024 at 9:22 PM
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Working on a React project? If you’ve migrated to TypeScript, check your dependencies - many projects still include the prop-types package even though it’s no longer used.

Cleaning up unused dependencies keeps your app lean and easier to maintain #webperf #e18e
November 27, 2024 at 10:45 PM
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damn, this is impressive.

tldr, the repo's github action workflow wasn't safely evaluating the github PR's branch name, and it opened up a shell injection, and the attacker was able to inject a crypto miner into a popular pypi package
absolutely incredible attack vector
December 6, 2024 at 5:03 PM
My PR removing the fs-extra dependency from get-uri - in favour of Node’s native fs module - has been merged and published.

This change is estimated to save around 600GB of bandwidth every month.

Interested in making the npm ecosystem faster and more efficient?

👉 @e18e.dev
December 6, 2024 at 7:48 PM
We need more of this. Let’s call it how it is.
"You're somebody who will exploit any problem going for your own political ends. #Brexit was a fundamentally damaging thing to this country. That is your one legacy... It's made us poorer, made us weaker, and hit our standing in the world." @alastaircampbell2.bsky.social on🔥. #BBCQT ~AA
December 5, 2024 at 10:34 PM
The world’s most insecure billionaire is absolutely panicking about the collapse in activity on his propaganda network
Change to Twitter Suggests Elon Musk Is Panicking Over Users Leaving for Bluesky
X owner Elon Musk appears to be spooked by the flow of users leaving the social media platform in favor of alternatives like BlueSky.
futurism.com
November 28, 2024 at 9:31 PM
Adobe: The leading cause of coffee breaks you didn’t ask for.
Huh? My system is running out of memory! I have 32 gigs of RAM. Let’s see……

Oh, it’s the *PDF* application. 😅
November 28, 2024 at 1:35 PM
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This will make your day
Wonderful creativity from the kids at Christmas! 🎄
November 28, 2024 at 8:13 AM
Working on a React project? If you’ve migrated to TypeScript, check your dependencies - many projects still include the prop-types package even though it’s no longer used.

Cleaning up unused dependencies keeps your app lean and easier to maintain #webperf #e18e
November 27, 2024 at 10:45 PM
If you work with npm projects this is definitely worth checking out:

knip.dev

“Knip finds and fixes unused files, exports and dependencies”

#webperf #e18e
webpro.nl Lars @webpro.nl · Nov 26
✂️ Knip v5.38.0 is out

This release marks 100 of us and that's just wonderful ❤️

Thank you! 🥹
November 26, 2024 at 8:58 AM
Really interesting watch.
Great video covering more details on the hack of Andrew Tate's "The Real World."

A lot of good content regarding the vulnerabilities the hackers leveraged and other details I didn't get into in my article.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=j84g...
The Andrew Tate Hack is Worse than you Think...
YouTube video by No Text To Speech
www.youtube.com
November 25, 2024 at 11:04 PM
Upgrading Docker containers to Node 22 at work. Hoping to see some performance improvements from Node 20. Am I going to be disappointed? 😬 #webperf
November 25, 2024 at 7:42 PM
November 25, 2024 at 7:37 PM
It’s been very hard to feel positive about the direction of the country over the last decade, but it definitely feels like we’re turning a corner now.
Labour is so clearly the party of law and order.

Police-recorded crimes hit a 20-year high under the Tories, and we all felt it. Starmer is already coming down hard on criminals.

9 examples:
November 25, 2024 at 3:22 PM