Matt Lehrer

✨ My new library gpuix-svelte is out! Build native desktop apps for macOS, Windows and Linux using Svelte and gpui, a Rust-powered graphics engine. Excited to see what you build! #svelte #native gpuix-svelte.stanislav.garden

One way to think about the difference between living in the US and Europe is that if I still lived in NYC, the iPhone Duo would cost about a third of a month's rent while it costs two months rent in Malmö. Sweden probably makes this worse than other parts of Europe because of the 25% VAT.

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GOAT OR BIRD????

I personally say “I learned it by watching you” much more. I think it’s very close but if I had to pick one as more famous, it would be your brain on drugs.

BREAKING: Social Democrat Magdalena Andersson abandons attempt to form a government

The order feels designed to infuriate everyone who reads it so that it’s more likely to be a part of The Discourse.

Great case of "land doesn't vote, people do" in Sweden

This oped is an excellent summary of what it feels like here. The headlines everyday on how the opposition promises to form commissions to study the problems introduced the last four years make me want to scream.

I am very nervous about this Swedish election!

“The Miami Herald will no longer have a Miami beat” is the state of local journalism in a nutshell. Really, really bad.

If you use AI less than I do, you just don’t get it. If you use AI more than I do, you’ve fucking lost it. The optimal amount of AI is exactly how much I currently use.

I need more Boox Picco news

attention Fastmail executive team: please continue to be normal. If you have any thoughts about anything other than emails, please keep them to yourselves. Please do not fund any external projects that have anything to do with anything other than emails. Thank you.

I'm going to relisten to Dolly Parton's America and get inspired all over again. I have enthusiastically recommended this to tons of people and now you, too. www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/dol...

I am in for #SvelteSummit in Ljubljana! Is anyone getting there Tuesday or leaving Sunday for a day to just be a tourist? I am thinking about a day trip to Bled but am open to ideas.

Finally decided to look for alternatives to the Sonos app. Tried SonoPhone, hated it. Awkward UI and I think it’s impossible to go from a song to its artist’s page, a dealbreaker for me. Went through the mild hassle of setting up Music Assistant and am really liking it so far. www.music-assistant.io

I think every designer should write a love letter to a font at least once in their lifetime. This is mine: A 150-year-old font you have likely never heard of, and one you probably saw earlier today. aresluna.org/the-hardest-...

Emoji Dictaphone cc @fredbenenson.com

There’s a guy on TikTok who posts just him taking a pizza out of the oven every day with tongs and all of the comments are about how their day is ruined from having watched this

this owns www.inverse.com/input/cultur...

I believe there are a TON of use cases where slow is completely fine. This is great.

After soon 2 years living in Sweden as a Finn, two profound insights: 1. Swedes are as awkward as Finns, just better dressed 2. Both suck at smalltalk, but in Sweden being silent isn’t as socially accepted as in Finland, so Swedes sometimes pretend not to have seen you to avoid awkward smalltalk

Click through for the details: eBay employees (incl. execs) sent them "a bloody pig mask, pornography, a package of fly larvae and live spiders, and live cockroaches...They also listed Craiglist ads for a swinger party, a threesome, and an estate sale, all pointing to the Steiner’s home address."

Svelte Summit tickets are coming in the next few days 🎟️ Join the launch list and we’ll email you a discount code when they go live. See you in Ljubljana on November 19–20. → sveltesummit.com/ticket-updates

obviously this is a huge problem for safety this example was mundane, arguably even good. But it still involved ruthlessly pursuing a goal without considering if that goal is good or intended

this wasn’t supposed to happen yet

I started the Molly Crabapple book Here Where We Live Is Our Country, about the Jewish Bund. I feel a strong connection to them. Am I Bundist, not as much anti-Zionist? This is very hard to reconcile, as an emigrant.

This show is somewhere around 10% of the reason we moved here

📊 LayerChart 2.0 is officially released! After ~16 months of development and 67 pre-releases, the official 2.0.0 release has been published! 🎉 This includes the Svelte 5 rewrite, CSS framework agnostic, improved API and state, numerous new components and chart types, and so much more!

‘Say yes and never do it’ Mel Brooks knew how to deal with the studios

Not my three year old picking up the eight inch orange painted wooden penis bottle opener in the beach tourist shop and yelling “mommy, it’s a carrot! <fake bite>”

How I Stop LLMs Drifting In Production Codebases: scottspence.com/posts/how-i-... heavy Svelte focus

Cherry blossom! This is a heavy one: inspecting one of the petals crashes the web renderer. random-item() isn't implemented yet, but the petal styles still look random because even though the pattern repeats each petal starts at a random point.

SvelteKit 2.63.0 just got released, and env vars are now handled much better than before! 🔥 Here is a quick recap:

I made Mexican matzah brei (migas) for the first time. I thought it was pretty good. Could barely get the kids to taste it. Typical.

Happy #WorldBicycleDay to all who celebrate this simple solution to some of our most complex problems.

this is a big one

This is really quite a good walkthrough of how deanonymization can work here in 2026, with fairly smart people who thought they’d done their homework to respect someone’s privacy.

why do banks get to decide national holidays? how did that start?

the cargo bike

the replacements.fyi site now lets you drop a package.json into it to see which dependencies can be replaced with native functionality, or more performant choices 🎉

As a liberal, I am against this sort of thing.