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Brian LeRoux

@brianleroux.bsky.social

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AWS hero blogging at webdev.rip, building sanity.io, arc.codes and enhance.dev ... loves Nanaimo, Vancouver, programming, JavaScript, cloud functions, infra-as-code, synths, drum machines, and outdoors-y stuff. 🇨🇦

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Brian LeRoux @brianleroux.bsky.social · 9h

Sunny and 11°C 🍂🍁

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Matt Round @mattround.com · 16h

You’d think “AI helps so much with cumbersome boilerplate and complex frameworks” would lead to people questioning all the cumbersome boilerplate and complex frameworks

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Brian LeRoux @brianleroux.bsky.social · 1d

so the vanilla case is 3x more efficient than this shows

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Brian LeRoux @brianleroux.bsky.social · 1d

be it html, or javascript that renders html, I stand by my "unserious" adjective 🤣

Brian LeRoux @brianleroux.bsky.social · 1d

/me just stares

a close up of a black cat 's face with the words imgplay above it

Alt: a close up of a black cat zoning out

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Brian LeRoux @brianleroux.bsky.social · 1d

fomo and some regret to not be w my ppl @jsconf.bsky.social 💓

Brian LeRoux @brianleroux.bsky.social · 1d

just imagine, returning an html string, like a wild animal

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Brian LeRoux @brianleroux.bsky.social · 1d

I guess I'm happy they have engineered themselves into a place where they can now render html sub second. The levels of unserious aside.

Kenton Varda @kentonvarda.com · 1d

Those benchmarks from @t3.gg revealed some interesting issues in Workers. Happy to say it's all fixed now, save for some lingering next.js-specific stuff we're continuing to work on. Thanks for the reproducible test cases, @t3.gg.

Excessive details in blog post: blog.cloudflare.com/unpacking-cl...

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Brian LeRoux @brianleroux.bsky.social · 3d

Beautiful!

Brian LeRoux @brianleroux.bsky.social · 3d

😂😑😭

Brian LeRoux @brianleroux.bsky.social · 3d

It's a thing for sure

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The Great Software Quality Collapse: How We Normalized Catastrophe

The Apple Calculator leaked 32GB of RAM.

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Hourly Videogame Box Art @vgboxart.bsky.social · 5d

CASTLEVANIA

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Brian LeRoux @brianleroux.bsky.social · 5d

CSS is incredible

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Simplify

Reminding myself just how much you can do with CSS these days.

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Brian LeRoux @brianleroux.bsky.social · 5d

Idk if enjoy is the right word but appreciated it for sure 🥲😂

For all the mess out there I do remain optimistic ppl will discover the platform with enough experience suffering these abstractions

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Simplify

Reminding myself just how much you can do with CSS these days.

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Josh Horowitz @joshuahhh.com · 6d

Vendoring your dependencies is the best way to own the libs.

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Brian LeRoux @brianleroux.bsky.social · 11d

expect a smug series b funding announcement soon

Brian LeRoux @brianleroux.bsky.social · 11d

it's almost like they used the language of decentralization to trick ppl into adopting another centralized platform

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Brian LeRoux @brianleroux.bsky.social · 12d

you can guess they are doing an exceptionally poor job of public relations this week in particular

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Brian LeRoux @brianleroux.bsky.social · 12d

love me a "zero configuration" guide with a fifty bullet point list of configurations

this industry is so unserious at times

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Brian LeRoux @brianleroux.bsky.social · 13d

it's the first pick so, ya gotta do what you gotta do. marner poised for a monster year also. draistl another obvious choice.

Brian LeRoux @brianleroux.bsky.social · 13d

ugggh. mcdavid, I guess.

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Hourly Videogame Box Art @vgboxart.bsky.social · 14d

METROID

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Hourly Videogame Box Art @vgboxart.bsky.social · 14d

GOLDEN AXE

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Luc van Donkersgoed @lucvandonkersgoed.com · 14d

I'm ready to call it - the Pre:Invent '25 season has (un)officially started with the release of ECS Managed Instances. To keep track of the deluge of releases coming our way, I've added the Pre:Invent '25 feed to AWS News. Go take a look and subscribe with email or RSS 👉 buff.ly/2QPW0Ha

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Brian LeRoux @brianleroux.bsky.social · 16d

On hindsight, grifting a generation of web developers into believing html is somehow hard or bad was the least problematic thing about this guy

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