Orta Therox
@orta.io
Somewhat indie games dev/founder on @puzzmo.com with @stfj.net and friends - always thinking about dev tooling
Prior work on @typescriptlang.org and @artsy.net
Prior work on @typescriptlang.org and @artsy.net
I think experienced programmers working together with AI tooling is creating a new form of collective mob programming. It's interesting to both watch and be involved in!
Been watching with Pete on openclaw
Seeing it happen this week with npmx. Sent my first PR to them adding richer OG images.
Been watching with Pete on openclaw
Seeing it happen this week with npmx. Sent my first PR to them adding richer OG images.
January 31, 2026 at 11:00 PM
I think experienced programmers working together with AI tooling is creating a new form of collective mob programming. It's interesting to both watch and be involved in!
Been watching with Pete on openclaw
Seeing it happen this week with npmx. Sent my first PR to them adding richer OG images.
Been watching with Pete on openclaw
Seeing it happen this week with npmx. Sent my first PR to them adding richer OG images.
I woke up today with my mind begging to write a new programming language just for making CRUD admin apps against GraphQL with Relay
January 29, 2026 at 2:47 PM
I woke up today with my mind begging to write a new programming language just for making CRUD admin apps against GraphQL with Relay
@byjp.me after some research I think my (ad-hoc) guess to signing is to use canonicalize ( www.npmjs.com/package/cano... ) on the object, then add a JWTish signature object
January 29, 2026 at 7:40 AM
@byjp.me after some research I think my (ad-hoc) guess to signing is to use canonicalize ( www.npmjs.com/package/cano... ) on the object, then add a JWTish signature object
It's not true but it's funny to imagine that mine and @steipete.me's Claude Code Anon meetup on the 19th is what helped Clawd literally turn a corner on popularity.
January 27, 2026 at 9:17 AM
It's not true but it's funny to imagine that mine and @steipete.me's Claude Code Anon meetup on the 19th is what helped Clawd literally turn a corner on popularity.
Londoners, the atproto meetup is this wednesday: smokesignal.events/did:plc:k4on...
January ATProto London
After a brief hiatus, we're back at Newspeak House from 7 to 10 pm on 28 January!
ATProto.London is open to anyone with an interest in this technology or decentralised social media more generally. .....
smokesignal.events
January 26, 2026 at 8:57 AM
Londoners, the atproto meetup is this wednesday: smokesignal.events/did:plc:k4on...
OK, time to email everyone who has shipped a CocoaPod.
January 19, 2026 at 11:08 AM
OK, time to email everyone who has shipped a CocoaPod.
Finding this very interesting: bsky.app/profile/dana...
Makes me wonder if we can make a Puzzmo's daily puzzles as something we put on @puzzmo.com Bluesky's registry. Then for folks who opt in, place their puzzle progress/results in their user's registry on puzzle completions.
Makes me wonder if we can make a Puzzmo's daily puzzles as something we put on @puzzmo.com Bluesky's registry. Then for folks who opt in, place their puzzle progress/results in their user's registry on puzzle completions.
formats over apps
A Social Filesystem — overreacted
Formats over apps.
overreacted.io
January 18, 2026 at 10:22 PM
Finding this very interesting: bsky.app/profile/dana...
Makes me wonder if we can make a Puzzmo's daily puzzles as something we put on @puzzmo.com Bluesky's registry. Then for folks who opt in, place their puzzle progress/results in their user's registry on puzzle completions.
Makes me wonder if we can make a Puzzmo's daily puzzles as something we put on @puzzmo.com Bluesky's registry. Then for folks who opt in, place their puzzle progress/results in their user's registry on puzzle completions.
Had a side-project today of shipping a COSMIC native app for SoundCloud
Wild how far you can get in a fully vibed codebase (when the stakes are so low)
github.com/orta/cosmic-...
Wild how far you can get in a fully vibed codebase (when the stakes are so low)
github.com/orta/cosmic-...
January 15, 2026 at 9:38 PM
Had a side-project today of shipping a COSMIC native app for SoundCloud
Wild how far you can get in a fully vibed codebase (when the stakes are so low)
github.com/orta/cosmic-...
Wild how far you can get in a fully vibed codebase (when the stakes are so low)
github.com/orta/cosmic-...
@benricem.bsky.social if you want to hit london running, I'm running a meetup next week (ignore that it is full luma.com/6vf3yqpj )
and every month I try to go to puzzledpint.org which you + partner are welcome to come too
and every month I try to go to puzzledpint.org which you + partner are welcome to come too
Puzzled Pint
Puzzled Pint is a casual, social puzzle solving event which happens at bars/pubs on the second Tuesday of every month in multiple cities around the world.
puzzledpint.org
January 15, 2026 at 9:34 PM
@benricem.bsky.social if you want to hit london running, I'm running a meetup next week (ignore that it is full luma.com/6vf3yqpj )
and every month I try to go to puzzledpint.org which you + partner are welcome to come too
and every month I try to go to puzzledpint.org which you + partner are welcome to come too
January 15, 2026 at 7:02 PM
Reposted by Orta Therox
My GopherCon talk was just posted!
GopherCon 2025: Porting the TypeScript Compiler to Go for a 10x Speedup V2 - Jake Bailey
YouTube video by Gopher Academy
youtu.be
January 7, 2026 at 2:50 AM
My GopherCon talk was just posted!
Posted a new @puzzmo.com blog post on the first 'no integration code' game we have shipped: Ribbit.
It's the 4th on a long-running series of how we integrate games into the API and App levels of Puzzmo infra
blog.puzzmo.com/posts/2026/0...
It's the 4th on a long-running series of how we integrate games into the API and App levels of Puzzmo infra
blog.puzzmo.com/posts/2026/0...
Daring Deeds: Look Ma No Code
Welcome to the fourth post in the series on how Games and Puzzmo infrastructure (the app and the API) come together.
Let me do a quick re-cap for the first three posts:
I built a plugin system for gam...
blog.puzzmo.com
January 6, 2026 at 11:15 AM
Posted a new @puzzmo.com blog post on the first 'no integration code' game we have shipped: Ribbit.
It's the 4th on a long-running series of how we integrate games into the API and App levels of Puzzmo infra
blog.puzzmo.com/posts/2026/0...
It's the 4th on a long-running series of how we integrate games into the API and App levels of Puzzmo infra
blog.puzzmo.com/posts/2026/0...
I'm going to be in NYC for a week from tomorrow
January 4, 2026 at 11:50 AM
I'm going to be in NYC for a week from tomorrow
Reposted by Orta Therox
livestream reminder: the full technical deep dive on the Doom in #typescript types codebase is happening tomorrow at 1pm Eastern with Dillon Mulroy hosting. let us know if there's anything specific you'd like to have covered!
January 3, 2026 at 9:59 PM
livestream reminder: the full technical deep dive on the Doom in #typescript types codebase is happening tomorrow at 1pm Eastern with Dillon Mulroy hosting. let us know if there's anything specific you'd like to have covered!
Reposted by Orta Therox
Happy New Year!
An all new StyleX website has just gone live.
It's rewritten from the ground up, and is built on:
- Waku
- Fumadocs
- StyleX (obviously)
No UI is used from fumadocs, and all the components were re-written with StyleX.
An all new StyleX website has just gone live.
It's rewritten from the ground up, and is built on:
- Waku
- Fumadocs
- StyleX (obviously)
No UI is used from fumadocs, and all the components were re-written with StyleX.
January 2, 2026 at 3:30 AM
Happy New Year!
An all new StyleX website has just gone live.
It's rewritten from the ground up, and is built on:
- Waku
- Fumadocs
- StyleX (obviously)
No UI is used from fumadocs, and all the components were re-written with StyleX.
An all new StyleX website has just gone live.
It's rewritten from the ground up, and is built on:
- Waku
- Fumadocs
- StyleX (obviously)
No UI is used from fumadocs, and all the components were re-written with StyleX.
Reposted by Orta Therox
puzzmo frog game good
January 1, 2026 at 8:14 PM
puzzmo frog game good
Looking forwards to our Claude Code anon meetup in a few weeks time, luma.com/6vf3yqpj
Claude Code Anonymous, London Chapter · Luma
Hi - this is an event by Orta Therox and Peter Steinberger. Two well respected technologists who have a strong appreciation for using Claude Code as a tool for…
luma.com
January 2, 2026 at 4:16 PM
Looking forwards to our Claude Code anon meetup in a few weeks time, luma.com/6vf3yqpj
New experimental @puzzmo.com game comes out in an hour
January 1, 2026 at 11:48 AM
New experimental @puzzmo.com game comes out in an hour
Puzzmo - Cross|word
Play Cross|word on Puzzmo, Take a hint.
www.puzzmo.com
December 30, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Had an 'upgrade to vite 8' PR running for a few weeks, and got it feature complete. Here's the rough difference in build timings for our vite projects in a monorepo from 6 -> 8.
Looking like the react compiler is now ~90% of the build times for puzzle.com
Looking like the react compiler is now ~90% of the build times for puzzle.com
December 29, 2025 at 8:59 AM
Had an 'upgrade to vite 8' PR running for a few weeks, and got it feature complete. Here's the rough difference in build timings for our vite projects in a monorepo from 6 -> 8.
Looking like the react compiler is now ~90% of the build times for puzzle.com
Looking like the react compiler is now ~90% of the build times for puzzle.com