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@osamaqarem.com

Ramblings at osamaqarem.com Palestinian software engineer living in Berlin • 🇵🇸🇲🇾🇩🇪

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@osamaqarem.com

now I just need to make sure all my posts have good photos is it finally time for a proper image service

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@osamaqarem.com

www.gingerbill.org/article/2026... While reading this, I couldn’t help but think of how devs use AI today. It’s very common to see AI be the identity of a PR: - “Committed by Claude” - “Generated by Claude” - and sloppy PR description When the identity of a PR should instead be the work itself.

gingerbill.orgGood Tools Are InvisibleTL;DR: A good tool is and ought to be invisible—striving to make such tools is the goal of a toolmaker.One habit I see a lot, and have to push back on, is taking a tool's shortcomings and reselling th...
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@osamaqarem.com

Unfortunately it’s not possible to avoid all of this as AI companies aggressively advertise themselves everywhere… Of course, there are also scenarios where it’s useful to know whether the work used AI, like demonstrating a quick proof of concept for an RFC.

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Jake Bailey
@jakebailey.dev

Really excited that this is out the door! Super proud of the work the team has done in the past year to get this complete. Excited for the future; API stuff is in full swing, more perf improvements, and more. Please give it a try!!!

TypeScript@typescriptlang.org

📣 The moment is here. 📣 TypeScript 7 is officially released! 7️⃣ devblogs.microsoft.com/typescript/a...

devblogs.microsoft.comAnnouncing TypeScript 7.0 - TypeScriptToday we are proud to announce the availability of TypeScript 7, a 10x faster native port of TypeScript! Since its early days, TypeScript has promised to

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dan
@danabra.mov

man i just can’t with the claude-written announcements. you made an interesting thing, why not describe it in your own words? “but here’s the biggest unlock, and it’s the part that’s hardest to see” i already read this all day

Cloudflare@cloudflare.social

We are launching Workers Cache, a regionally tiered cache that sits directly in front of your Worker entrypoints. Infinitely composable, configured via standard HTTP headers. https://cfl.re/4bo49YW

blog.cloudflare.comYour Worker can now have its own cache in front of itToday we are launching Workers Cache: a tiered cache that sits in front of your Worker, configured by a single line of Wrangler config and the same Cache-Control headers you already know.
osama
@osamaqarem.com

User story As a consumer, I’m happy to live in RAM shortage and to pay more for my hardware for the benefit of giving AI companies 200$ a month to use their products.

osama
@osamaqarem.com

just got passed by a 20-30 y.o. looking dude in an electric chair loaded with two crates of beer going mad fast while hitting a vape

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@osamaqarem.com

the bro science comedy in Project Hail Mary is super funny. Also this is the only sci-fi/space movie where I felt satisfied with the ending.

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Victor
@vpon.me

Ever noticed how your entire page shifts when you open a modal? That's not a bug, that's a missing CSS property.

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Sam Rose
@samwho.dev

If I ever start regularly posting to LinkedIn, please understand that I am in distress and that is my signal to you that you need to save me.

osama
@osamaqarem.com

sometimes github errors in a rare spot and you get to see some really dusty UI. loading? error? we have both sir!

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@osamaqarem.com

I usually hate my own writing and like how others write. Now, I'm seeing more people delegate their writing to AI (not coding). It's obvious, and not very good. It's made me like my own writing more.

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Titus 🇵🇸
@wooorm.com

Hello friends and welcome to a new “How is ESM vs CJS going!” 33.4% of the popular packages on npm now includes ESM. Up from 29.6% half a year ago. We have a third! ESM-only is up from 11.5% to 12.6%. This is also the impact of half a year of Node 18 being EOL, making `require(esm)` available