Steve Cain

In order to keep the spam at bay, I decided to turn off DMs. Please mention me or reply to one of my posts if you want to chat.

GitHub just finished ripping styled-components out of github.com. Result: 55% less time to server-render a page, 25% faster component init. CSS-in-JS makes you pay for styles twice: collecting them on the server, running JS on the client. Static CSS is *always* more efficient. Ship CSS.

This will never stop blowing my mind. A 12-year sequence of real telescope images of a star 133 lightyears away. And around it, four planets slowly orbiting. Four real exoplanets, each more massive than Jupiter, imaged as they move around their host star.

Hi @stevecain.dev 🩷⁠ I was wondering if you wouldn’t mind reposting my classroom wishlist? Every bit of visibility helps so much with getting my students the supplies they need for a great year! No pressure at all, and thank you so much! 🍎✨

Food companies wanted deregulation. Now there are dozens of recalls across the country. Mining companies wanted deregulation. Now the black lung rate is at a 45-year high. Financial companies wanted deregulation. Now financial losses to fraud are the highest on record. Noticing a pattern?

Epically torn between the anxiety I feel over not being my authentic self and the anxiety I feel after I have been my authentic self

I've lost count of how many times per day I say: "that's too much", "that looks ridiculous" and "not that guy again" when I'm on socials. Bluesky does seem to be an exception most of the time.

By Ellis Rosen. www.newyorker.com/cartoons/iss...

We only rate dogs. This is a bed bug. She's very cute, and we actually wouldn't mind an infestation of this particular bed bug. But please only send dogs. Thank you... 12/10 (TT: lekik25)

Anita Knapp likes to sleep Betty Much.

Do not send your bot into my replies uninvited, I WILL waste your token budget. (Random Python scripts are good for this, on their end this would just keep generating past the post character limit.)

victory lapping on this one

Many times the most useful instincts come from repeated failures, some of which are so old you don't remember them anymore, but they've entered your subconscious and have permeated your thought patterns.

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Don't forget Algaezeera

I have a $30 stationary bike that I got at Goodwill and I have an old Android tablet stuck to it, but I don't have a Peloton membership. Nor do I have the interest to ride 80 miles to the beach. So I made PedalScape.com It's a local PWA, no backend at all, no tracking, just 4k bike rides.

Zero surprise that meta fucked this so badly. Nobody there cares about safety, security or integrity. Nobody Not a single person

Arby’s Reclassifies Their Food As Entertainment https://theonion.com/arbys-reclassifies-their-food-as-entertainment/

David Bruce helpfully unpacks the meters in that Angine de Poitrine video www.youtube.com/watch?v=frXX...

Ha ha ha ha

Elected officials should be subject to annual and bi-annual performance reviews from voters. If they truly "worked for us", then this wouldn't be hard to implement. Unfortunately that language is performative, at best.

My resolution to overturn the Supreme Court’s disastrous Citizens United decision — H.J.Res 122 — has now been co-sponsored by 72 Members of Congress. You can view the full list at: www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c.... I’ll keep fighting to get it across the finish line!

He's right. If one doesn't have their health, do any of their other rights even matter?

I turn off haptics and then just manually control silent mode using the side button. That way I still get notifications when I need them or manually check them, but yes - things are much calmer now.

Cringe-inducing pronunciations for me are "heighth" and "acrossed".

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Bluesky is the new science Twitter, new study by @whysharksmatter.bsky.social and Julia Wester concludes! "Results show that for every reported professional benefit that scientists once gained from Twitter, scientists can now gain that benefit more effectively on Bluesky than on Twitter."

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Are these the same ones who think chocolate milk comes from brown cows?

I get on this app to read the news, and the world it presents feels insufferable and irredeemable.

"Sodium is nearly 50 times cheaper than lithium and can even be harvested from seawater, making it a much more sustainable option for large-scale energy storage”

Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.

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It's kinda telling in the #dotnet community when one of the most used tools/frameworks, is supported by just 40. It's clear that there's a lack of people taking supply chain risks seriously.

And just like that, WB employees now work at a FAANG - I mean MAANG.

wtf is a FIFA peace prize? that's like being an NFL laureate in physics

Farewell to try .NET a way to run code right in docs that allowed me to introduce a new set of developers and PMs to various security challenges and problems over 10 years. It evolved from running lots of containers in weird isolation setups, all the way through to WASM.

Build the thing you wish to see in the world A blog post about building things because you want to, learning about #ATProto, and some recently influential conversations I've had on the @overcommitted.dev with @bradhe.net @turoczy.bsky.social and @ngerakines.me brittanyellich.com/build-the-th...

#ProudBlue #Pinks #ResistanceUnited Good morning, friends. We all carry more than meets the eye. Let's cultivate compassion and kindness, every day. #Jaye’sMorningLight

I’m Mudskipper! I’m 81lbs and they want me dead bc I don’t want 2enter a tiny popup crate! It’s Giving Tuesday! Can u give me a home? NY NJ NH NE MD DE DC PA VT RI CT VA- I can be transported 2u! I’m absolutely handsome! No vids of me- I haven’t been here long so I’ll be dead quickly! Pls repost

go is good because it makes typescript fast so I can write more typescript

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