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Hey there, I'm a co-founder of Puzzmo. Used to work on the TypeScript compiler team.

I've done important work on CocoaPods, Danger, GraphQL, Svelte and a few other big OSS projects

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orta··on I am often wrong
Yeah, I feel you here :+1:
orta··on People who can't picture anything are rewriting the science of imagination
To add to this as a follow aphant - I don't have a way to hear sounds unless they are in my voice. So everything from songs, to sirens are simply me speaking it via inner monologue.
orta··on Training AI to Paint with Code
I've been working in this space, though with a different goal (deterministic watercolour + ink houseplants in svg) - https://github.com/orta/plants / https://plants-production-71e6.up.railway.app
orta··on Ruby Central's Destructive Legacy
Tragic
orta··on Ten years of ClickHouse in open source
I've been using clickhouse for the last year for in-house analytics and found it a really pleasant experience, thanks for all the progress you've made
orta··on Most Americans don't trust AI – or the people in charge of it (2025)
It's a reference to the name Stanley, 'stan' is the signature at the end of letters being read in the song
orta··on Keytrace (Keybase on ATProto)
Dev here: Keytrace lets you verify other accounts like Keybase does (e.g. public proofs of identity) but doesn't orient the connection on GPG. Instead uses an atproto/bluesky account as the central source of identity, and stores everything in atproto.

So you could think of it as a simpler, de-centralized version of the Keybase identity proof system.

orta··on [dead]
I'm linking my keytrace.dev: did:plc:t732otzqvkch7zz5d37537ry
orta··on Show HN: Write native binary web apps with TypeScript and Express
Interesting project! Added it to my list of TypeScript derived languages: https://github.com/orta/awesome-typescript-derived-languages
orta··on Kagi Hub Belgrade
This is a cool idea, I really enjoyed crashing at other companies offices for short periods - glad to see a company systematising that
orta··on CocoaPods trunk read-only plan
OP here, luckily in this case, it means a more supported and vertically integrated alternative. Which does have less features, but actually gets bugs fixed and keeps up to date with the platform - so it's a net win overall IMO
orta··on DrawAFish.com Postmortem
That was a fun read, nice work
orta··on 6 weeks of Claude Code
With Claude Code at least, all of the chats you've had are stored in jsonl files on your computer in ~/.claude - I made a little TUI for exploring these in https://github.com/orta/claude-code-to-adium

Personally, I'm less sold on tracking prompts as being valuable both for production cases (imo if a human should read it, a human should have wrote/fully edited it applies to commits/PRs/docs etc) and for vibe cases where the prompts are more transitory

orta··on 6 weeks of Claude Code
Thanks yeah, your post hit the nail on the head so well I got to delete maybe a third of my notes for this!
orta··on 6 weeks of Claude Code
This is an excellent insight
orta··on Show HN: Tsbro – TypeScript for the browser, no build step
tsc's code is mostly the type-checker, you want to look for a "transpiler" here, so embedding either swc, esbuild, sucrase or the like to handle the process of converting for you. I've never heard of one written in C++ but that may exist.
orta··on Proposal for Standardized JSX
There was some interesting work on standardising on "ESX" in the TC39 discourse that folks in the thread may want to follow: https://es.discourse.group/t/proposal-esx-as-core-js-feature...

Core docs: https://gist.github.com/WebReflection/2d64f34cf58daa812ec876...

orta··on My failed attempt to shrink all NPM packages by 5%
Congrats on a great write-up. Sometimes trying to ship something at that sorta scale turns out to just not really make sense in a way that is hard to see at the beginning.

Another personal win is that you got a very thorough understanding of the people involved and how the outreach parts of the RFC process works. I've also had a few fail, but I've also had a few pass! Always easier to do the next time

orta··on Will that hub or dock slow your SSDs, or even make them faster?
The syntax is written like a bash shell variable, the idea (I assume) is that the actual job itself doesn't matter but the idea of it being something they do for work does (because contextually it means they have less decision power.) So, if it were me, saying I work for Puzzmo is about as useful as me saying I work for $DAYJOB in a sentence like that.
orta··on Deno vs. Oracle: Canceling the JavaScript Trademark
Good luck
orta··on We're forking Flutter
Flutter web publicly launched with a NYT prototype https://verygood.ventures/success-stories/new-york-times
orta··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2024)
Puzzmo | Front-End | NYC | Full-time hybrid

puzzmo.com is a re-imagining of daily games websites which uses brings modern live-service systems to newspaper style puzzles.

We're a small 4 person dev team, looking to for a senior engineer with a focus on the front-end and happy to learn how to do some API work to get their ideas shipped. Not a games dev position.

- Tech: TypeScript (I used to work on it!) / React / Vite / Expo

- Us: https://www.theverge.com/23929222/puzzmo-newspaper-games-cro... and https://www.puzzmo.com/press

- Apply: We've closed out applications

orta··on As an Employee, You Are Disposable (2023)
I've done it pretty successfully ( https://artsy.github.io/blog/2019/04/29/how-did-artsy-become... ) and now regularly look back at prior source code and blogs as I work on something else but with similar patterns

I would say that getting to a point where this sort of thing is possible requires a huge amount of out-of-bounds culture and technical work though. Probably outside of the commitment range of folks who just want to work as an employee and not think about work outside of your paid hours

orta··on Deep Aphantasia: a visual brain with minimal influence from priors?
Cool! I think I'd be classed as deep Aphant like Loren (one of the paper's authors) but I also have an internal monologue.
orta··on React Server Components Now in RedwoodJS
I built Puzzmo.com on RedwoodJS, and have been working in Redwood everyday now for about 2.5 years. It's got a solid set of principles and it's gonna be cool to see where they take it with this simpler model for building sites.
orta··on Bun v0.8
( FWIW, they are right, Bun the _runtime_ can use the npm module Vite. https://github.com/oven-sh/bun/issues/250#issuecomment-16463... )
orta··on Veilid is an open-source, P2P, mobile-first, networked application framework
Good luck!
orta··on The Concise TypeScript Book
Perhaps it is LLM generated, as git says it is ~3 months old - but it links to a page on the TypeScript website which was removed a long time before that, https://www.typescriptlang.org/dt/search
orta··on Apollo Back end just made public
You probably want MIT
orta··on Ask HN: What Happened to Elm?
I did a bit of a writeup on the gaps in soundness for TypeScript in the docs, https://www.typescriptlang.org/play?strictFunctionTypes=fals...
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