@flarnie.bsky.social
I'm Flarnie Marchan. I'm a staff software engineer, tech lead, indie game developer, and open source hacker.
Formerly on React.js core team. Former maintainer of Draft.js. Opinions my own.
Find me in the fediverse -> https://universeodon.com/@Flarnie
Formerly on React.js core team. Former maintainer of Draft.js. Opinions my own.
Find me in the fediverse -> https://universeodon.com/@Flarnie
Thought this was a helpful, bite sized read - “5 things I know that I wish I’d known sooner”
usefulfictions.substack.com/p/50-things-...
usefulfictions.substack.com/p/50-things-...
50 things I know
And wish I'd known sooner
usefulfictions.substack.com
November 15, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Thought this was a helpful, bite sized read - “5 things I know that I wish I’d known sooner”
usefulfictions.substack.com/p/50-things-...
usefulfictions.substack.com/p/50-things-...
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"Of course, it doesn’t feel right to want IT to HAPPEN. And it’s obviously not okay to try to make IT HAPPEN. That’s not what this is ABOUT, just to make things CLEAR LEGALLY as far as VARIOUS AGENCIES are concerned."
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/whe...
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/whe...
When It Happens
It’s been so long, you sometimes forget that eventually, IT will HAPPEN. It’s impossible to say when IT will HAPPEN. But it can’t be too long until...
www.mcsweeneys.net
November 13, 2025 at 7:27 PM
"Of course, it doesn’t feel right to want IT to HAPPEN. And it’s obviously not okay to try to make IT HAPPEN. That’s not what this is ABOUT, just to make things CLEAR LEGALLY as far as VARIOUS AGENCIES are concerned."
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/whe...
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/whe...
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Toad found a lantern in the attic. “Frog will see this light. I will show him the way out of the woods,” said Toad.
November 14, 2025 at 2:37 AM
Toad found a lantern in the attic. “Frog will see this light. I will show him the way out of the woods,” said Toad.
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In 2006 a high school English teacher asked students to write to a famous author & ask for advice.
KURT VONNEGUT - born 103yrs ago today - was the only one to respond.
His reply was a doozy.
KURT VONNEGUT - born 103yrs ago today - was the only one to respond.
His reply was a doozy.
November 11, 2025 at 10:39 AM
In 2006 a high school English teacher asked students to write to a famous author & ask for advice.
KURT VONNEGUT - born 103yrs ago today - was the only one to respond.
His reply was a doozy.
KURT VONNEGUT - born 103yrs ago today - was the only one to respond.
His reply was a doozy.
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Is it finally happening!? 👀
November 11, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Is it finally happening!? 👀
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🏳️⚧️ We’re back with paid opportunities for Trans+ creatives!
Writer? Illustrator? Audio producer? This is for you.
With @transhistoryweek.com we’re investing in 20 Trans+ creatives to make content for Trans+ History Week 2026.
Deadline 2nd Dec 2025, 11:59PM GMT 🗓️
🧵 Details 👇
Writer? Illustrator? Audio producer? This is for you.
With @transhistoryweek.com we’re investing in 20 Trans+ creatives to make content for Trans+ History Week 2026.
Deadline 2nd Dec 2025, 11:59PM GMT 🗓️
🧵 Details 👇
November 11, 2025 at 2:46 PM
🏳️⚧️ We’re back with paid opportunities for Trans+ creatives!
Writer? Illustrator? Audio producer? This is for you.
With @transhistoryweek.com we’re investing in 20 Trans+ creatives to make content for Trans+ History Week 2026.
Deadline 2nd Dec 2025, 11:59PM GMT 🗓️
🧵 Details 👇
Writer? Illustrator? Audio producer? This is for you.
With @transhistoryweek.com we’re investing in 20 Trans+ creatives to make content for Trans+ History Week 2026.
Deadline 2nd Dec 2025, 11:59PM GMT 🗓️
🧵 Details 👇
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this is cool and people saying "just buy a whistle on amazon" did not read the story, have lost the light in their hearts, and will not enter heaven with that attitude www.404media.co/the-latest-d...
The Latest Defense Against ICE: 3D-Printed Whistles
Chicagoans are making, sharing, and printing designs for whistles that can warn people when ICE is in the area. The goal is to “prevent as many people from being kidnapped as possible.”
www.404media.co
November 11, 2025 at 2:01 PM
this is cool and people saying "just buy a whistle on amazon" did not read the story, have lost the light in their hearts, and will not enter heaven with that attitude www.404media.co/the-latest-d...
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NGL, I kind of like the idea of Bellingcat hijacking a Russian plane
Oh well 🤷♀️
Oh well 🤷♀️
Russian state media are today alleging that a Bellingcat reporter was involved in an attempt to hijack a Russian fighter plane.
We would like to make clear that Bellingcat had absolutely no involvement in the alleged activities and the accusations towards us are entirely false.
We would like to make clear that Bellingcat had absolutely no involvement in the alleged activities and the accusations towards us are entirely false.
November 11, 2025 at 3:46 PM
NGL, I kind of like the idea of Bellingcat hijacking a Russian plane
Oh well 🤷♀️
Oh well 🤷♀️
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EXCOMMUNICATE VANCE
EXCOMMUNICATE VANCE
EXCOMMUNICATE VANCE
EXCOMMUNICATE VANCE
EXCOMMUNICATE VANCE
If your government thinks the Pope “doesn’t know what he’s talking about” when he defends migrants’ dignity, the world should see the warning sign. The US is no longer leading on human rights. It’s suppressing them.
November 5, 2025 at 1:02 PM
EXCOMMUNICATE VANCE
EXCOMMUNICATE VANCE
EXCOMMUNICATE VANCE
EXCOMMUNICATE VANCE
EXCOMMUNICATE VANCE
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Erica Deuso is the first openly transgender person to be elected mayor in Pennsylvania.
The longtime Democratic advocate defeated Republican Rich Bryant Tuesday to serve as the next mayor of Downingtown.
🔴 Live election updates: www.inquirer.com/politics/ele...
The longtime Democratic advocate defeated Republican Rich Bryant Tuesday to serve as the next mayor of Downingtown.
🔴 Live election updates: www.inquirer.com/politics/ele...
November 5, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Erica Deuso is the first openly transgender person to be elected mayor in Pennsylvania.
The longtime Democratic advocate defeated Republican Rich Bryant Tuesday to serve as the next mayor of Downingtown.
🔴 Live election updates: www.inquirer.com/politics/ele...
The longtime Democratic advocate defeated Republican Rich Bryant Tuesday to serve as the next mayor of Downingtown.
🔴 Live election updates: www.inquirer.com/politics/ele...
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i’d also say that the GOP’s obsession with this gives candidates an opportunity to articulate and stand up for their values. “i refuse to make anyone feel like they don’t belong in my [state/city/community]. and i want everyone to live the best life they can achieve [insert policy slogan]”
I am taking particular pleasure in the complete collapse of trans-as-unbeatable-wedge-issue narrative this morning. It might be an 80-20 issue in voters minds, but it has to be on voters minds to matter. The results in VA demonstrate that it is very much not on voters minds.
November 5, 2025 at 2:38 PM
i’d also say that the GOP’s obsession with this gives candidates an opportunity to articulate and stand up for their values. “i refuse to make anyone feel like they don’t belong in my [state/city/community]. and i want everyone to live the best life they can achieve [insert policy slogan]”
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😎😎😎😎 GOOD THINGS CAN STILL HAPPEN 😎😎😎😎
November 5, 2025 at 5:22 AM
😎😎😎😎 GOOD THINGS CAN STILL HAPPEN 😎😎😎😎
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Zohran Mamdani campaigned a lot and appears not to hate the voters whose support he's seeking. Here's what other Democrats can learn from his unorthodox strategy.
November 2, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Zohran Mamdani campaigned a lot and appears not to hate the voters whose support he's seeking. Here's what other Democrats can learn from his unorthodox strategy.
I use Focusmate as a productivity tool and it’s funny how within a 10 second interaction (intros and stating your goal for the session) you can tell if you vibe with someone or not.
November 1, 2025 at 4:03 PM
I use Focusmate as a productivity tool and it’s funny how within a 10 second interaction (intros and stating your goal for the session) you can tell if you vibe with someone or not.
Hey US on-call engineers - this Sunday is daylight savings time! Check to make sure that your servers are using UTC, and/or that your scheduled jobs can handle weirdness from the time change.
October 31, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Hey US on-call engineers - this Sunday is daylight savings time! Check to make sure that your servers are using UTC, and/or that your scheduled jobs can handle weirdness from the time change.
There is a post that is worth seeing but needs a trigger warning.
I’ll put a summary and link in the replies here.
The tldr is that ice abductions in the US are getting worse and worse.
I’ll put a summary and link in the replies here.
The tldr is that ice abductions in the US are getting worse and worse.
October 30, 2025 at 11:42 PM
There is a post that is worth seeing but needs a trigger warning.
I’ll put a summary and link in the replies here.
The tldr is that ice abductions in the US are getting worse and worse.
I’ll put a summary and link in the replies here.
The tldr is that ice abductions in the US are getting worse and worse.
Fun fact - in my experience, singing is the best painkiller.
Tylenol is good, but singing is the best.
Tylenol is good, but singing is the best.
October 29, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Fun fact - in my experience, singing is the best painkiller.
Tylenol is good, but singing is the best.
Tylenol is good, but singing is the best.
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New: Videos show ICE/CBP agents are scanning peoples' faces on the street to verify citizenship. ICE has tool to instantly look up unprecedented number of databases with just a photo
“I’m an American citizen so leave me alone”
“Alright, we just got to verify that”
www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...
“I’m an American citizen so leave me alone”
“Alright, we just got to verify that”
www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...
ICE and CBP Agents Are Scanning Peoples’ Faces on the Street To Verify Citizenship
Videos on social media show officers from ICE and CBP using facial recognition technology on people in the field. One expert described the practice as “pure dystopian creep.”
www.404media.co
October 29, 2025 at 2:42 PM
New: Videos show ICE/CBP agents are scanning peoples' faces on the street to verify citizenship. ICE has tool to instantly look up unprecedented number of databases with just a photo
“I’m an American citizen so leave me alone”
“Alright, we just got to verify that”
www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...
“I’m an American citizen so leave me alone”
“Alright, we just got to verify that”
www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...
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This is an excellent point. Zohran ran a textbook campaign that the centrists are always talking about, just talking about rent control and free buses and cost of living, and the centrist Dems tried to make it all about Israel/Palestine and other identity issues (his Muslim faith) to smear him.
centrists will tell you to your face that we all need to abandon identity issues, and focus on kitchen table issues instead and yet when a leftist candidate runs a generational campaign based on kitchen table issues, it's the centrists weaponizing identity politics to smear the leftist.
October 28, 2025 at 1:11 AM
This is an excellent point. Zohran ran a textbook campaign that the centrists are always talking about, just talking about rent control and free buses and cost of living, and the centrist Dems tried to make it all about Israel/Palestine and other identity issues (his Muslim faith) to smear him.
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"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"
October 28, 2025 at 10:46 AM
"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"
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these guys have been clearly, openly warning you about a bubble (they created) that's going to cause mass economic upheaval next year
they're getting lean not because AI is so great, they're getting lean because they know the check is coming due for their bad choices across AI and authoritarianism
they're getting lean not because AI is so great, they're getting lean because they know the check is coming due for their bad choices across AI and authoritarianism
October 28, 2025 at 1:44 PM
these guys have been clearly, openly warning you about a bubble (they created) that's going to cause mass economic upheaval next year
they're getting lean not because AI is so great, they're getting lean because they know the check is coming due for their bad choices across AI and authoritarianism
they're getting lean not because AI is so great, they're getting lean because they know the check is coming due for their bad choices across AI and authoritarianism
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Ugh. "content within a `
` element with `display: contents` is not accessible when expanded." bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi... — sadly unsurprising for Safari considering all the history that Adrian documents in his post.
#a11y
#a11y
October 28, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Ugh. "content within a `
` element with `display: contents` is not accessible when expanded." bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi... — sadly unsurprising for Safari considering all the history that Adrian documents in his post.
#a11y
#a11y
Nice idea - Text reads: Keep kids fed this Halloween. 40% of SNAP recipients are children! If you are passing out candy add shelf stable foods to your treat bucket. With no SNAP in November many kids will have less access to food.
October 27, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Nice idea - Text reads: Keep kids fed this Halloween. 40% of SNAP recipients are children! If you are passing out candy add shelf stable foods to your treat bucket. With no SNAP in November many kids will have less access to food.
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There's a new #CSS Working Group poll to get feedback on different names for the infamous 'Pinterest' layout.
- Since it uses many of the grid-* properties, `grid` will be in the name somewhere
- We don't use metaphors in CSS names, so `masonry` is not listed here
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
- Since it uses many of the grid-* properties, `grid` will be in the name somewhere
- We don't use metaphors in CSS names, so `masonry` is not listed here
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Ex-Masonry Display Type Keyword Poll
See https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/12022 for context.
This poll intentionally leaves out `masonry` as an option, see https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/12022#issuecomment-34172962...
docs.google.com
October 27, 2025 at 7:53 PM
There's a new #CSS Working Group poll to get feedback on different names for the infamous 'Pinterest' layout.
- Since it uses many of the grid-* properties, `grid` will be in the name somewhere
- We don't use metaphors in CSS names, so `masonry` is not listed here
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
- Since it uses many of the grid-* properties, `grid` will be in the name somewhere
- We don't use metaphors in CSS names, so `masonry` is not listed here
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...