Justin Bennett
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Open-source enthusiast; maker. Engineer at @ValDotTown. Co-host of @DevtoolsFM. @recursecenter Alum. Prev at @oxidecomputer, @ArtsyOpenSource.
Brooklyn, NY
Joined June 2010
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Hey friends! Life update. Today's my last day at @oxidecomputer. I'm going to be co-founding a company next. I'll tell you all about that soon. For now though, I want to reflect on my time at Oxide.
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What if I told you you could run a @tldraw desktop app with just a URL? Well, you can, thanks to @deno_land and an OSS library I'm working on. So stoked to have this working. deno run
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Demo day high. @oxidecomputer is building something absolutely kickass. This'll be the standard by which hardware projects are measured in the future. Deep, deep hardware/software integration makes it feel absolutely magical.
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In an unexpected turn of events, Iām going to be attending the Fall 1 @recursecenter batch! Stoked.
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Hi friends! I'm a bit overdue with sharing what I've been working on. About two months ago I left @oxidecomputer to join @juancampa as the co-founder of @membraneio.
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Another successful side project Saturdays. If you want to join the next one, just DM me. Thanks to @ValDotTown for hosting us.
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Side project Saturday was a joy, as always. Thanks everyone for coming out! Loved the demo @steveruizok
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Iāve been missing @ArtsyOpenSourceās peer labs so @stevekrouse and I started side project Saturdays at the @ValDotTown office. Let me know if youād like to come to the next one!
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I feel like language design is stuck in the mindset of just considering syntax and semantics. I believe the future is seeing the problem of software (creating, editing, distributing, versioning, etc) as a wholistic problem. In that way, @unison is the future.
Get those PRs ready! Unison has just shipped its new solution for pull-requests, officially dubbed "Contributions." Read about them here:
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If you have many node projects, you probably have many gigs of node_modules hanging around. Here's a bash script I run to remove node_modules from projects not touched in a few weeks:
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Side project Saturdays is one of the highlights of my week. Thanks everyone who came out this weekend. As always, if you're interested in attending just DM me. Thanks again to @ValDotTown for letting us meet in their lovely office.
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Another group of folks aside from @vercel who I think really get the value of tooling is @TheGuildDev. The sheer amount of high quality OSS tooling for @GraphQL that lives under their umbrella is highly impressive. They've also done a good job of hiring tool builders.
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I'm *really* enjoying my time at @recursecenter. It's nice to rediscover the joys of programming.
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Today's Impossible Day at @recursecenter. My plan? Build a content-addressible module system for JS. I'll be posting updates on my site throughout the day.
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This year I'm going to make a thread on every Monday praising someone. Be it their work, their outlook, their friendship, or some other quality I admire. A low commitment to establishing the tone I'd like to see more of online: one of gratitude and appreciation.
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Ha, funny you should mention that. I'm starting something new soon.
Human Computer . š¤ . Interaction.
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So hyped for @localfirstconf. I wonāt get there until tomorrow night but Iāll be in Berlin for two weeks. Please say hello!.
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I get no greater thrill than connecting two people with similar niche interests. If all I did the rest of my life was bring people together it'd be a life well lived.
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Deno making the platform play explicit is some next level strategy. We've seen meta runtime providers pop up over AWS lambda, cloudflare workers, etc for a while now. Deno is explicitly making it easier to build that kind of product by making that usecase a first class feature.
a common challenge when adding a developer platform to your product is usage based customer billing. Deno Subhosting makes it easy to track usage org-wide and by project.
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I love a well crafted tool. More, I love building tools. There's little as satisfying as making something to enable others to accomplish something that was hard or impractical previously.
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It's always such a tremendous pleasure to talk to @Rich_Harris. This was a fun episode.
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Topological map as an organizational system is genius. Talk about mind mapping.
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When I was a kid, I grew up in a cabinet shop. I remember playing in the saw dust and peeling wood glue off my fingers like I was shedding a second skin. Sometimes I still feel like that kid, sitting in the world's workshop, trying to manifest something from my imagination.
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@Mappletons Weeeell, there's a lot to unpack there. Most of it is just me getting in the way of myself though. I wrote about it:
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Nope, changed my mind. Side project Saturday *is* going to happen. Starts at 9am ends at noon. Let me know if you'd like to stop by.
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Next week is my last week at @ArtsyOpenSource. I'll be forever grateful for everything folks there have taught me about building up products and people. After that I'll be attending @recursecenter. I'm extremely excited to have some self-investment time.
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So I bought a Mira Pro (25" e-ink monitor) and I'm going to start using it for day to day work for a bit. Curious to discover if the constraints of the display impact my digital behavior.
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The further I go in my career the less comfortable I am building anything without being deeply involved in the product process. I've got so little patience for building the wrong thing. Who is our customer? What are we trying solve? Why is this important to the business?.
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This was such a great episode. @peduarte it was a pleasure! Really admire the care and attention to detail that the @Modulz has put into @radix_ui. The entire ecosystem is better for it existing.
Why use @radix_ui? Rephrased: Why reinvent the wheel? . Full episode with @peduarte out today! Had a lot of fun on this one š„.
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Over the weekend I did some deeper thinking on @membraneio and its potential to support dynamic, growing AI agents:
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Weekly Praise 4/52 ā @alexobenauer . Itās rare that I met someone new in tech with similar interests in better software for people that Alexās name doesnāt come up. Discovering his lab notes was like a moment of awakening for me.
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I've spent my week going deep on docs. I have massive, massive respect for everyone who's good at this. It's a labor of love that takes a convergence of several skillsets to land out on a good experience.
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If you're in interested in the future of computing, tools for thought, etc DM me. There's a discord community that I'm *extremely* excited about that's bringing together a lot of the best minds in this space. Join us, let's build the future together.
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I still firmly believe Google's implementation of manifest v3 is both highly hostile to the web and incredibly self serving. I don't typically like to talk negatively about any company's technical decision in public b/c I know there are likely good folks behind it but still.
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So long @ArtsyOpenSource! Take care friends. See you next week @recursecenter. Can't wait to build and learn amazing things with you.
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I'm incredibly excited about this year. Big things to come on all fronts.
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I've had two random technical interests that are quickly converging: delimited continuations and WASM. There's an excellent paper by Donald Pinckney et al from 2020 demonstrating an implementation of delimited continuations in WASM.
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33 today! Spending the day doing what I love: meeting people working on interesting problems. Glad to be on this spinning ball of mud with you all!.
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You know, one nice thing about chatgpt: It doesn't ridicule you for asking stupid questions. Oh, you asked the same question as 10,000 other people? No sweat. Not really sure how to express what you're trying to ask? That's fine, just iterate on the question, it doesn't mind.
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@oxidecomputer And let me tell you, the Oxide rack is so much better than anything else out there on the market. I mean, the reality is there's *nothing* on the market like it. If you're not paying attention to what they're doing, you should. It's going to shake things up.
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First @vercel hired @wSokra and now @kdy1dev. Webpack and SWC under one roof. Proves they understand the value of tooling and the value of the people behind the tools.
Next.js 11.1. ā ES Modules support.ā Rust-based tooling to replace JS (Babel and Terser).ā 2x faster data with HTTP `keep-alive`.ā 70% faster builds, 67% less memory with source maps.ā ESLint and `next/image` improvements (Sharp support).
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Blessed are the tool makers, for they pave a path for progress.
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You know, I really do want to build my own stuff. I'm just *so tired* I don't really have the spoons for it right now. In the mean time, I'll just cheer on all the cool shit y'all are building.
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@oxidecomputer Truthful, leaving is extremely hard. That said, I'm grateful for the experience and I'm excited about both what's next for me and what's next for Oxide. There are good times ahead.
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Hey friends, I'm going to this. Would love to see you there!.
Announcing Local-First Conf 2024. The first in-person local-first conference for software builders. š
30th May 2024.š Berlin, Germany. Get your ticket today. Only 150 available. š
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It's 2021 and I'm learning @dart_lang. What would 2014 me say? Anyway, @FlutterDev is cool y'all.
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I want to do another batch @recursecenter again sometime. In person! How novel will that be, ha.
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The last few days have been full of lovely computer conversations and reconnecting with friends from all over. Malleable software scene is wholesome.
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I know it's a little past Thanksgiving, but I've been reflecting on what I'm grateful for this morning. Here's a short list:.
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The kind of aesthetic I'm here for.
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@doitwithalambda @jgomo3 āWell, to fully build out this module you need to fly a Cessna from Kansas City to Teterboro airportā. Every city is a feature flag and you have to file a flight plan for it to build.
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@adamwathan Have you given auto a try? It'll auto deploy canary on PR builds (assuming they're not from a fork).
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Constantly annoyed that the govāt says Iām not rich enough to give people money to build shit. Okay Mr 33 Trillion Dollar deficit, tell me how I canāt give a friend 5k but I can go put myself upside down on a home loan. Iāve got no debt, let me use my money how I want š©.
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A super power of is that the relative terseness of a val gives excellent API usage examples that are easy to grok. Want to learn atproto? There's a val for that. With a large enough corpus, it'll be the go to place for API examples.
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Love that thereās a lot of conversations at @localfirstconf acknowledging market realities.
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@jevakallio I feel like itās such a massive improvement. I was tired of seeing a super sized image of my face when sharing repos with folks >_>.
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"We argue that, by combining liveness, richness, and composability, [[programming systems]] can better capture the full potential of interactive computation without leaving behind the expressivity of traditional code.".
"Live, Rich, and Composable: Qualities for Programming Beyond Static Text" - @qualmist.
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Building a cloud platform with a new language is kind of going at the problem on hard mode. It isn't that you can't be successful (I love what @unisonweb is doing for example). It's just hard b/c you've got to get ppl over the language learning hump to start using the service.
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It was such a good day. Thanks to @zaymonantonio for being a wonderful dinner companion. @geoffreylitt, @hotemogf, @rupert_parry and the other @causalislands speakers were excellent!.
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@DevtoolsFM @HipsterSmoothie @oxidecomputer @davidcrespo @lenjaminbeonard @ahl I'm grateful for all the amazing people I've met recently who share my weird fascination with the future of computing. @charlesetc, @jessmartin, @xhfloz, @polbaladas, @stevekrouse, @alexobenauer, @alanlaidlaw, @geoffreylitt, @Paul_Rony to name a few. There are many, many more.
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I dreamed up a weird programming tool in a fit of insomnia induced delirium. Why can I not just be insanely creative during normal hours?.
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@oxidecomputer The team is stacked. I've never worked with a crew so incredibly capable. There's an ongoing internal joke about how many startup's worth of work they're doing. and imo, doing it better and faster than individual startups could.
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Here's an excellent talk by my coworker @ashfurrow about how we use automation to reinforce our culture at @ArtsyOpenSource.
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This was an awesome episode. @remix_run is excellent, you should definitely check it out. Thanks again @mjackson!.
How did @remix_run abstract away the server? Just a little bit of magicāØOur conversation with @mjackson is out today!.
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