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Nick Williams
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The world, the web, and the wide bit in between

Based in South Wales. Budding pianist. Full stack product engineer with a frontend focus. A11y, design systems, components, OSS. Building things on the internet since the 90s
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Zohran placard: the band is zombie nation and the song is kerncraft for [sic] hundred
November 9, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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Autumn burns brightly
Trees with striking yellow leaves stand tall above a floor carpeted in rusty leaves Towering rocks against a blue sky, crowned with a tree bearing yellow and orange leaves My dog, standing on a woodland path. The sky is blue, the leaves on trees range from green to yellow, and the sun shines in from the right hand side
November 2, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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Best paired with King's Hand
King's Hand is a dessert made of M&M's and cookie dough, molded into the shape of a hollow hand and baked, before being filled with Greek salad. It was invented by a 28-year-old data analyst, who says the idea for the dish came to her in a dream in which it was the main course of a festival feast
October 31, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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Sean Parker social network meme: drop the "prince" it's noncier
October 30, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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If so, it's something I've been trying to nerd snipe people into doing for a long time. I built out a prototype one time but couldn't dedicate anymore time to it
Tweet from me to Wes Bos: "I've wanted to build a sort of browser dev tools that's integrated with a midi controller for so long. Imagine tweaking knobs to change font size, padding, margin, line height etc. You could dedicate a knob or slider to each. Design would become a very tactile experience"
October 28, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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Silhouette
The silhouette of my collie/whippet dog standing at the top of a hill, with a pink and lilac sky behind her
October 15, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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Sunday stroll
Two dogs running enjoying a pine forest Crepuscular rays burst through pines casting a golden light onto ferns at floor level. Also, my dog View from atop mountain across a valley on a beautiful autumn day
October 13, 2025 at 8:55 AM
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Junior soprano reacting to his court sketch "I'm fucking fodder for cartoonists now?"
October 4, 2025 at 9:11 AM
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🚨 Soup season is now in effect

Roast chicken soup by me, crusty wholemeal bread by my girlfriend. Delicious
A bowl of chicken soup, accompanied by two slices of buttered wholemeal bread
September 30, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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They jump and smash the floor then flames travel outwards from them on both sides
Last judge in silksong doing a flaming wave attack
September 18, 2025 at 9:28 AM
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Compile this, pal
Flex tape meme: slapping `as any` on the leak
September 3, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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It leverages a lesser known property of tagged templates: you get a stable reference to the strings array across multiple invocations, so you can just directly compare references. From mdn:
A snippet of JS showing the behaviour of stable references in tagged templates
August 23, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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> GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke has resigned, and GitHub is moving even closer into Microsoft’s CoreAI team

www.theverge.com/news/757461/...
Withered wojak
August 11, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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Visited Slimbridge wetlands this weekend. Ticked a fair few birds off my list - avocets, bearded tits, cranes, and many more. Beautiful day for it. Only took these two photos because I was glued to the binoculars most of the time
A crested screamer (a type of crane) standing near water. The background is filled with reeds A flamboyance of flamingos on an island surrounded by water. In the foreground is a ducks backside as it bobs underwater for food
August 10, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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the dream: AI will free us from mundane labour to focus on creative pursuits the reality: AI free us from creative pursuits to focus on mundane labour
August 6, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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Just spotted that Daisy UI recommends Cally (among others) for its date picker component 😁 daisyui.com/components/c...
A screenshot of the above link showing Cally being recommended in Daisy UI
August 5, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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A grey cat with striking green eyes, lying on a sofa in front of a coral coloured wall
August 2, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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😁
A tweet of mine dated 2023-08-21: Tired: ui = fn(state) Wired: state = fn(ui)
July 19, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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To commit, or not to commit, that is the question
Epic handshake meme.. Left side: git add -p Right side: handsome thespians Handshake: stage hunk
July 18, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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I knew this was a trick question after the earlier two about zero and one. But I never expected it to be this fucked up lol
``` new Date("2") ``` Except for some reason "2" is interpreted as a month, and the year is set to 2001.
July 11, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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Oh my
Soundwave transformed into a boombox with various "tapes"
July 10, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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Screenshot of a tweet of mine reading "I'm politically homeless [fascist]", dated 2024-07-06
July 5, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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Egg fried rice topped with crispy gochujang tofu and a side of kimchi
Close up shot of the dish as described in the main post
July 2, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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A man with "sickos" written on his top peers through a window and says, "Yes... Ha Ha Ha... *YES*!"
June 29, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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"Just a quick `brew install`", I tell myself once again
"if you wish to install a package via homebrew, you must first compile the universe" — Carl Sagan
June 17, 2025 at 8:46 PM