Samuel
I just watched ep IV for the first time in a long time immediately after catching up with Andor and I gotta agree with Will lmao
Will Stancil@whstancil.bsky.social· 8 May 2025
It actually is super interesting to find the hidden political values underneath seemingly apolitical works of pop culture - Lord of the Rings' inherent conservatism, for instance - but I think even by THOSE standards the original Star Wars trilogy is basically political inert.
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Samuel
honestly “people who look freaky and alien are bad and scary” is its most coherent political message
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Samuel
hate to give ep9 any credit (one of my most hated movies) but it was very progressive to make the slug man a good guy
Slug man from Star Wars episode 9 2 15
Samuel
IMO unfair to malign the poor slug as homophobic. He was just standing there minding his own business, it was JJ’s editing! #FreeKlaud
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Samuel
the best part about typescript is you can say things with extra emphasis
const tick = useTickEveryMinute() return useMemo(() => { tick!!!!!!!! 11 9 134
Samuel
we just need to make sure the app is completely finished, no more updates needed by the time gta6 comes out. that’s a thing that’s possible to do, right?
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Samuel
hello from the fabric build. the performance improvement is actually insane 🤯
hailey@hailey.at· 5 May 2025
i’m really excited to ship fabric. been using it today and scrolling my tl is buttery smooth. videos feel a lot better. things Just Work. really impressive stuff
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Samuel
too bad xcodebuild caching is completely broken (Apple’s fault)
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Samuel
Zed people (Zedders?) how can I make it so `#/components/Typography` is always the first option, `react-native` is the second, and never suggest reanimated internals
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Samuel
people are not ready for exactly how anticlimactic bsky-sans-bsky is going to be
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Samuel
turns out you can actually make decentralised social that doesn’t make a bunch of fundamental compromises that makes the UX suck ass. who knew!
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Samuel
anti-climactic = good, to be clear. your reaction to being on a different appview should be “wait, what changed? it seems to be exactly the same in every single way?”
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Samuel
react-native-windows/macos is insanely goated. it’s like if you took the best parts of electron (getting to write code in typescript, the best language) and removed the worst part (the web browser)
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Samuel
I learned recently that the reason Microsoft maintains react-native-macos is for Office - obviously, those are multi-platform apps! might as well use React Native
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