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Paul Chin Jr.

@paulchinjr

Prophet of Nicolas Cage. Serverless Developer. Norfolkjs Organizer.

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CSS Daily - A Daily CSS Challenge A daily CSS challenge - like Wordle, but for CSS!

Watched March MadCSS and thought "what if we could do this every day?"

So I built it. In a day.

cssdaily.dev β€” a daily CSS challenge. Write CSS to match a target, get pixel-diffed in real-time. New challenge every morning.

Scoring adapted from @wesbos.com and @tolin.ski's open-source SynHax.

07.03.2026 03:05 πŸ‘ 60 πŸ” 10 πŸ’¬ 7 πŸ“Œ 1

renting a vm to lobster 24/7, so that you can hit a web api, so it can write nextjs code, that runs on a neighboring rack. the future is now.

05.03.2026 01:58 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Never thought commit messages would feel retro.

27.02.2026 02:44 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Do any of you have a real world take on the determinism of embedding models? Do they seem deterministic enough? Or do you not count on that?

10.02.2026 20:29 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

tw: jump scare. when was the last time you updated your gravatar?

10.02.2026 04:56 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I worry less about open source, and more about the communities. Open source is a ton of work, paid and unpaid. If the user communities are involved, then I'm hopeful people figure things out.

06.02.2026 01:55 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Be Love.

06.02.2026 01:17 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

that's dope, meetups are the reason I'm able to do what I do now.

06.02.2026 01:40 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I don't think that we, as a culture, revere lasers enough.

06.02.2026 01:39 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I'm blaming the lobster bots as responsible for taking down github actions, dns gets a pass ... this time

02.02.2026 21:05 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I finally figured out why the holodeck sims were never contemporary, but set in the 20th century. It's so painfully obvious, that's the only stuff that was in public domain. Could you imagine Federation copyright laws?!

16.01.2026 02:47 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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I fell for the humblebrag, but I worked really hard on it last year, and I have all my new friends to thank for it. Thanks again to sls.guru for sponsoring me. hashtag#praisecage

13.01.2026 16:09 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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The rad DJ at #awsreinvent is criminally underutilised

05.12.2025 01:33 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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#AWSreInvent Day 1, focusing on databases this year with @alexdebrie.bsky.social @marcbrooker.bsky.social

01.12.2025 23:00 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Hi! I do Serverless stuffs. If that sounds cool, we should chat!

01.12.2025 22:56 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Glad your travels were safe enough. Would love to chat about what I learned giving 11 talks about cloud this year at various confs.

01.12.2025 22:55 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Based

01.12.2025 22:52 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Would def take Australia right now.

01.12.2025 22:49 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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It’s #awsreinvent time!

01.12.2025 22:48 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Gaben will fulfill the promise of the Linux Desktop

14.11.2025 21:45 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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16.10.2025 11:56 πŸ‘ 82 πŸ” 27 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 3
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Surprisingly useful conference swag from @thisdotlabs.bsky.social , Pan pizza dough recipe from @kenjilopezalt.bsky.social , thanks @dthompsondev.bsky.social !!

12.10.2025 12:08 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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This conference is my follow list IRL. It was really cool to see @swizec.com in person, talking about HTMX and TANSTACK. #cyc2025

26.09.2025 15:18 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
KA large group of people posing together on an indoor pickleball court, holding paddles and smiling at the camera. The group is diverse, with men and women of different ages standing in several rows. The bright facility has blue and yellow walls, tall white pillars, and high ceilings with overhead lights."

KA large group of people posing together on an indoor pickleball court, holding paddles and smiling at the camera. The group is diverse, with men and women of different ages standing in several rows. The bright facility has blue and yellow walls, tall white pillars, and high ceilings with overhead lights."

A group of people lined up side by side on an indoor pickleball court, holding paddles and waiting for their turn to play. The facility has bright blue walls with large yellow accents, tall white pillars, and high ceilings with overhead lights. Some people are playing on nearby courts in the background.

A group of people lined up side by side on an indoor pickleball court, holding paddles and waiting for their turn to play. The facility has bright blue walls with large yellow accents, tall white pillars, and high ceilings with overhead lights. Some people are playing on nearby courts in the background.

Danny with Jake and his shirt explained in the next photo

Danny with Jake and his shirt explained in the next photo

Close-up of a novelty black T-shirt with the word 'PickleBall' at the top in blue letters. The shirt features two illustrated faces of men looking surprised at a large blue pickleball in the center. The ball has pink text that reads, 'I WENT TO CYC & HAD A BALL.' Below, the tagline says, 'If you can code a pickleball… you can pickleball a code.'

Close-up of a novelty black T-shirt with the word 'PickleBall' at the top in blue letters. The shirt features two illustrated faces of men looking surprised at a large blue pickleball in the center. The ball has pink text that reads, 'I WENT TO CYC & HAD A BALL.' Below, the tagline says, 'If you can code a pickleball… you can pickleball a code.'

The @commityourcode.bsky.social Pickleball event for Day[0] was a HUGE SUCCESS!

We even had a pickleball pro guiding newer players with a group lesson! I guess you could say it was a... Smashing success πŸ˜‚ pun absolutely intended!

Also this shirt by Jake is actually amazing πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚

25.09.2025 04:26 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

It was cool to see you speak live in person!

26.09.2025 02:32 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Ok, so I won't lose my job to AI, but I will lose it to someone with AI, but they will lose it to someone who can do it without AI. Am I AI?

16.09.2025 17:19 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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We're thrilled to have Paul Chin Jr. (@paulchinjr.bsky.social), Senior Serverless Developer for Serverless Guru, presenting "Data Gone in 60 Seconds: A Serverless ETL Heist" at #AllThingsOpen! 2025.allthingsopen.org/sessions/dat...

11.09.2025 20:00 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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It's coming up fast!

08.09.2025 21:28 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

When a conflict comes along
You must diff it
Before the PR lives too long
You must diff it
When merging is going wrong
You must diff it

08.09.2025 20:52 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
sandcastle unreal demo
sandcastle unreal demo YouTube video by Paul Chin Jr.

I scanned my kids' sand castle, a scanned castle, if you will #unrealengine5 #photogrammetry www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBm7...

27.08.2025 20:19 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0