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Austin Akers

@austinakers.com

29 | Father | Husband | Breakdancer | DX Engineer @harper.fast | Cellist | Muay Thai Fighter | Community First | Author | OSS Contributor | Always Learning

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Before anyone gets the wrong idea: No, we can't plant enough trees to offset emitting more C02. Yes, we have to reduce emissions. That's not what I'm talking about.

I'm rejecting the claim that we can't plant a massive, sustainable forest that will live for 100s of years.

Yes we can.

25.02.2026 10:50 πŸ‘ 91 πŸ” 28 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

πŸš€ Coming in the next version of tsdown: built-in Node.js SEA (Single Executable Applications) support!

Now you can bundle your JS apps into a standalone executable with a single command:

tsdown --exe

26.02.2026 05:48 πŸ‘ 87 πŸ” 13 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 0

It was in the paper today!

12.02.2026 01:57 πŸ‘ 217 πŸ” 42 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Sponsor @patak-dev on GitHub Sponsors Hey! I'm one of the Project Stewards of [npmx](https://npmx.dev). We're building a modern browser for the npm registry, by fostering an ever growing community of developers and trying to set an exa...

We have a unique opportunity with npmx. We're building something very special together. I want to give myself the chance to focus on helping steward the project. I'm going to be working as an independent open source developer this year. Support my work and help me focus on npmx long-term πŸ™

01.02.2026 20:12 πŸ‘ 73 πŸ” 23 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 4
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GitHub - antfu/skills: Anthony Fu's curated collection of agent skills. Anthony Fu's curated collection of agent skills. Contribute to antfu/skills development by creating an account on GitHub.

late to the party. I have finally been convinced by multiple awesome developers to give agents another try.

this is my first premature contribution:
github.com/antfu/skills

28.01.2026 06:51 πŸ‘ 117 πŸ” 6 πŸ’¬ 7 πŸ“Œ 1
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npmx.dev/npmx.dev [READ-ONLY] a fast, modern browser for the npm registry

so, if you're on @tangled.org, we're there too! πŸ•ΈοΈ

πŸ‘‰ I just set up a read-only mirror of @npmx.dev for our friends there 🩡

09.02.2026 12:48 πŸ‘ 87 πŸ” 7 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 1
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feat: add llms.txt endpoint for LLM-optimized documentation by quantizor Β· Pull Request #2388 Β· tailwindlabs/tailwindcss.com Add /llms.txt endpoint that serves a concatenated, text-only version of all Tailwind CSS documentation pages optimized for Large Language Model consumption. Extract text from MDX files, removing J...

Adam Wathan of Tailwind CSS:

"75% of the people on our engineering team lost their jobs here yesterday because of the brutal impact AI has had on our business"

08.01.2026 10:48 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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I'm delighted to announce the first alpha of `@nuxt/a11y` πŸŽ‰

βšͺ new core nuxt module
βšͺ integrated in nuxt devtools

thanks to @timdamen.io for his incredible work on this ❀️

you can test it today – we'd love feedback, ideas, issues + PRs πŸ™

07.01.2026 21:57 πŸ‘ 97 πŸ” 20 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 1
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Podcast | Building an A.I. Tool in 3 Days Discover how Trent leverages Harper and ConvoIQ to streamline operations, improve data workflows, and boost productivity. This deep-dive conversation highlights real-world use cases, automation…

πŸŽ™οΈ Meet Trent, a HarperHack runner-up using Harper to build ConvoIQ, an AI business app to streamline workflows and build smarter dashboards.

Catch this interview in our latest podcast episode πŸ‘‰ buff.ly/GpgiIGW

#HarperFast #Podcast #HarperHack #Developers

03.12.2025 17:59 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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VoidZero Raises $12.5M Series A VoidZero raised $12.5 million in Series A funding to accelerate product development.

We raised a $12.5M Series A round, led by Accel.

In this next stage, VoidZero is accelerating development on both our open-source projects and Vite+, the unified JavaScript toolchain.

This is only the beginning!

β†’ voidzero.dev/posts/announ...

30.10.2025 08:05 πŸ‘ 105 πŸ” 14 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 1
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πŸŽ‰ Congrats to Ethan Arrowood for winning the Leading by Example JavaScriptLandia Award from the @openjsf at #JSConf 2025!

Ethan’s impact spans the JS ecosystem β€” from @nodejs, Undici, and WinterCG to his leadership within OpenJS and contributions to Harper’s open-source efforts.

πŸ‘‰ buff.ly/YnbgF5o

16.10.2025 19:11 πŸ‘ 12 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Harper Hack '25 Experience an online hackathon that challenges you to code, design, and innovate using Harper with AI integrated. Push the limits of what applications can achieve, gain visibility for your work, and…

πŸš€ Harper Hack ’25 kicks off tomorrow!
Join us Oct 21 at 10 a.m. MT for the kickoff event πŸŽ‰

Compete in our 2-week virtual hackathon celebrating Harper’s open-source future β€” and win a trip to Tokyo (🎌 up to $5K value)!

πŸ‘‰ Sign up now: buff.ly/33cu3bW

20.10.2025 19:25 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1
A recycling box marked "bottles" but it has a thin, wide opening.

A recycling box marked "bottles" but it has a thin, wide opening.

The distressed woman from the "block goes in the round hole" meme video.

The distressed woman from the "block goes in the round hole" meme video.

11.09.2025 20:54 πŸ‘ 900 πŸ” 177 πŸ’¬ 10 πŸ“Œ 2
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The real JSConf stack:
β˜‘ JavaScript
β˜‘ Friends
β˜‘ Conference coffee

Harper’s proud to sponsor #JSConf2025β€”let’s code, connect, and caffeinate.πŸ“ Chesapeake Bay, Oct 14–16

πŸ‘‰ buff.ly/tdLeNS3

#JavaScript

03.09.2025 13:20 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

🀣🀣🀣🀣🀣🀣🀣

22.08.2025 17:43 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
A lake near the boundary waters canoe area wilderness at sunrise.

A lake near the boundary waters canoe area wilderness at sunrise.

A person standing in a road in rural Wisconsin illuminated by their headlamp and an aurora across the sky.

A person standing in a road in rural Wisconsin illuminated by their headlamp and an aurora across the sky.

A fist statue sits at an intersection in South Minneapolis underneath clouds illuminated by an orange sunset.

A fist statue sits at an intersection in South Minneapolis underneath clouds illuminated by an orange sunset.

A group of people stand around a fist statue in south Minneapolis after sunset.

A group of people stand around a fist statue in south Minneapolis after sunset.

Happy World Photography day.

I’m Riley, a freelance photo/video maker and I love highlighting our shared public spaces both built and wild.

I’d love a follow, a comment, a purchase or an assignment.

Have a stellar day y’all. I’m glad you’re here.

19.08.2025 16:44 πŸ‘ 30 πŸ” 14 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Stay safe by understanding what Tsunami threat levels mean. #BC Notification Zones A, B, C & D are under TSUNAMI ADVISORY. Strong currents are likely. Stay away from shore. More info:

www.emergencyinfobc.gov.bc.ca/event/tsunam...

30.07.2025 03:37 πŸ‘ 75 πŸ” 60 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 2
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SVG filters provide a basic lighting system you can sync with a little JavaScript and use in your web apps πŸ’‘

... not as powerful as MacOS implementation but pretty cool

08.07.2025 20:46 πŸ‘ 536 πŸ” 48 πŸ’¬ 13 πŸ“Œ 10
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If you want to learn how a full stack app works behind the scenes - without frameworks or libraries - this course is for you. You'll build a Google Calendar clone using PHP, MySQL, JavaScript, HTML, and CSS.
www.freecodecamp.org/news/build-a...

09.07.2025 00:01 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Meet the Google engineer making Maps more accessible After a falling tree branch paralyzed him, Google software engineer Sasha Blair-Goldensohn began helping people with disabilities navigate their cities and neighborhoods.

After a falling tree branch paralyzed him, Google software engineer Sasha Blair-Goldensohn began helping people with disabilities navigate their cities and neighborhoods.

08.07.2025 10:03 πŸ‘ 254 πŸ” 61 πŸ’¬ 8 πŸ“Œ 4
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There's a lesser-known a connection between Borland/Pascal and C#:

The creator of Turbo Pascal is the same person who created C# (and TypeScript): Anders Hejlsberg. And several Borland folks joined Microsoft with him.

From Scott Guthrie (the creator of ASP .NET) in The Pragmatic Engineer Podcast:

08.06.2025 08:49 πŸ‘ 60 πŸ” 9 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 1
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Final birthday present came in today!! Time to turn this into a server and self-host some apps! πŸ™‚

07.06.2025 18:21 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Announcing Rolldown-Vite We are building the next generation of JavaScript tooling

Today we are excited to announce Rolldown-Vite: a technical preview of the version of @vite.dev entirely powered by the Rust stack we built over the past year (Oxc + @rolldown.rs)

voidzero.dev/posts/announ...

30.05.2025 15:32 πŸ‘ 321 πŸ” 73 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 10

Rolldown-Vite is a drop-in replacement of the stable channel Vite, with greatly improved production build performance (3~16x in real world apps)

It will become the default Vite version in the near future when it stabilizes.

30.05.2025 15:32 πŸ‘ 35 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1

This is exciting! Time to try out Rolldown-Vite and share your feedback with us, while also gaining 3~16x production build time reductions.

If you have any questions around it, please let me know!

And as usual, more improvements are in the pipeline πŸ™ŒπŸ»

30.05.2025 15:35 πŸ‘ 33 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0
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I don’t care about your sign, name your hotdog.

24.05.2025 23:08 πŸ‘ 3212 πŸ” 517 πŸ’¬ 923 πŸ“Œ 1973

Buried in the tax bill: "no State or political subdivision thereof may enforce any law or regulation regulating artificial intelligence models, artificial intelligence systems, or automated decision systems during the 10-year period beginning on the date of the enactment of this Act."

22.05.2025 14:22 πŸ‘ 2063 πŸ” 1060 πŸ’¬ 122 πŸ“Œ 299
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GitHub - toddeTV/gltf-type-toolkit: This plugin generates type-safe glTF file representations in TypeScript and optimizes the loading and bundling of models in web projects, while being bundler-agnost... This plugin generates type-safe glTF file representations in TypeScript and optimizes the loading and bundling of models in web projects, while being bundler-agnostic (Vite, Rollup, Webpack, esbuil...

πŸŽ‰ News for all @threejs.org & @typescriptlang.org lovers!

We released gltf-type-toolkit v1.0.0 ! πŸš€
github.com/toddeTV/gltf...

Generate type-safe glTF representations & optimize 3D model loading - all build tool agnostic thanks to @unjs.io unplugin! So use it with @vite.dev, Rollup, @nuxt.com, etc.

21.05.2025 07:51 πŸ‘ 21 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
Suppose you want to focus the input as soon as it appears. You might try this:

function MyComponent() {
	const inputRef = useRef<HTMLInputElement>(null)
	const [show, setShow] = useState(false)

	return (
		<div>
			<button
				onClick={() => {
					setShow(true)
					inputRef.current?.focus() // This probably won't work!
				}}
			>
				Show
			</button>
			{show ? <input ref={inputRef} /> : null}
		</div>
	)
}

Suppose you want to focus the input as soon as it appears. You might try this: function MyComponent() { const inputRef = useRef<HTMLInputElement>(null) const [show, setShow] = useState(false) return ( <div> <button onClick={() => { setShow(true) inputRef.current?.focus() // This probably won't work! }} > Show </button> {show ? <input ref={inputRef} /> : null} </div> ) }

Do you know why this won't focus the input and how to fix it? Learn about that with more practical examples in my latest article on Epic React: epicreact.dev/mastering-fo...

20.05.2025 21:22 πŸ‘ 27 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 8 πŸ“Œ 0