Andira Rahman Imani

Hiya! The name's Andira, or Aan for friends and family. I'm a Jakarta-based web developer who's still finding my way in the industry. I'm a huge fan of @svelte.dev in my projects. I got a humble portofolio site you can check out at andirarahman.com right now. Nice to meet y'all.

Say it with me one more time! #INTEROP #INTEROP #INTEROP

BABE WAKE UP NEW SVELTEKIT MAJOR VERSION JUST DROPPED

I have been watching Solitary Gourmet on YouTube as part of an attempt at immersion and it is such a chill series. It hits just right for my Japanese immersion exercise since the pace is calm and the language seems closer to daily conversation.

open source is communism (complimentary)

i want to do a little ✨ ama about atproto ✨ in this thread. no question is too simple if you’ve been curious about atproto but don’t know much (anything?) about it, ask any question and i’ll try to explain it in my own words. (+ would love to hear from friends who aren’t very active on bsky)

Look, I’m an open source maintainer, and if you want people to use that FOSS software as an alternative to that proprietary software it’s good to understand why people wanted to use that proprietary software in the first place and why they might be hesitant to switch It’s not because users are dumb

turns out, living in a walkable neighborhood that is nearly car free wants you to be outside and walk more *shocking*

After thinking about this question all weekend, I think my favorite candidate is the alchemical symbol for air: 🜁 It’s connotes both atmosphere and “transfer”. It’s a standard Unicode character. It references a capital “A.” And it’s very simple, which feels appropriate for a protocol, like 🌐 or 🛜.

Skyrdle 375 3/6 🟨⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩⬛🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Anyone else had trouble with verifying a domain on @leaflet.pub or is it just me? Because I have put the proper dns records hours ago and the status check still says “still processing”

Explain your @ It's just my name "Andira Rahman" with the .com TLD because I also use it for my own "portfolio" website. I haven't really made changes to it since I first made it though, so it's a little dated...

This is my current dilemma on how I want to spend my upcoming births.

simply, more OSS projects should DO THIS. OSS is a long playing game, if not forever. but we are people behind those projects, and we need good rest and balance to keep things sustainable. I am super happy to see this move and looking forward to see how it could change how OSS works for all of us.

it’s not a perfect metaphor, but in terms of social responsibility i think operating an autonomous AI agent account on Bluesky is like having a child, pet, or familiar — if it causes issues in public or bothers people, you as the “parent” are responsible even when you’ve done due diligence

finally responded to an email that I'd been putting off for a month took me less than 20 seconds I will not learn from this

formats over apps

I just binged the latest season of The Bear and it was somewhat soothing. I feel like we're seeing that the story is making a soft landing towards its emotional conclusion. I hope they stick the landing and not try to drag the show on.

It’s kinda wild how calm my Bluesky TL is considering my Twitter TL is on fire with perverts being blasted for digitally and sexually harassing women with the new AI feature

I do love how convenient it is that there’s a train specifically for people going to and from the city’s airport in my city.

In the wake of the tragedy in Australia today, someone took the time to create a fake news website and made up a white “IT professional” named "Edward Crabtree" and claimed he stopped the Bondi shooting. The real hero is a man named Ahmed Al Ahmed. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...

I just realized that Firefox implemented Temporal API already. I'm a bit surprised since I for some reason thought that they're usually slow on new feature adoption.

I actually think I like working, it's just that I hate that it's REQUIRED for me to live. And also that I need to do it on other people's terms. Also I hate that I can't really control my work environment much. My desk in the office has terrible Feng Shui.

I feel stupid. I was confused as to why XP-Pen doesn't have a fucking driver on Nix's package repo even though they support Linux. They named the package without the hypen... I'm trying it as soon as I get home.

There's something fun yet calming about folding a piece of paper into a zine. I don't even put things in it. I just like folding it into shape without tools. Just sharp corners and careful tearing.

Microsoft Blocks Windows 11 Workarounds for Local Accounts, Forces Internet Connection During Setup. I think it is time to switch to macOS or Linux or BSD 🤓 alternativeto.net/news/2025/10...

I don't 100% agree with that stance, but it does show why concentrating so much of the modern open-source frontend ecosystem under one roof is problematic – and this is something I've been worried about since the recent Nuxt.js announcement from a couple months ago.

i wrote about atproto and why it matters

As my thoughts develop on AI: I agree these tools have socially-beneficial *potential*. Also, in a moment in which unabashed technofeudalists are using AI to help them execute a terrifying global power grab, you cannot be surprised that their targets don’t want to focus on its *positive* aspects.

"are you a web dev" or even "are you an artist" is a much less interesting question to me than "am i welcoming learners", "is what i am saying loving or kind?", and "do my posts result in more or fewer great works being made?"

learning how to draw is more like learning how to tinker with linux or program something than one thinks. i think the biggest stopgap is usually the free time, but the culture of learning how to draw has this very peculiar situation where people treat it as exceptionally less systematic or

I just binge-watched Stick (2025) and it was a solid show. Interesting cast of characters with satisfying arcs for a single season. I don't know if I want more but for what it was, it's simple and satisfying. Like Ted Lasso lite.

Going to suggest something to everyone instead of just dooming. Email YouTube and Google support your concern about this. If they see so many complaints, they may backtrack.

If your website is going to make me load 40MB of assets they had better be embossed cyber control panel PNGs and not AdSense JavaScript packets

I think AI is going to eventually tank in the longterm, but... the only real way to combat this is single-interest communities. Forums, user comms, etc, with a barrier to entry. They become trustable knowledgebases. It's really the only way forward is to return to what worked best the first time

I don’t think there’s a single serious critic who says AI’s not useful? The concerns I see are about content rights, worker impacts, environmental effects, epistemological threats, or media manipulation. But that’s all predicated on the idea that it *does* work, often too well for people to manage…

Planners call it “the popsicle test.” Can a child in your neighbourhood safely walk to a store, buy a popsicle and walk home before it melts? Zoning often prohibits small shops in residential areas. We’re proposing to change that. Tell us what u think! Info sessions June 18 & 19 tinyurl.com/4mpv7mhk

I am not smart enough to fully appreciate all this exciting stuff currently under development in svelte with awaits and now remote functions, but I have a feeling the next svelte possibly sveltekit update is going to be wild.