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Will Anderson

@itsananderson.com

I'm a software developer with a decade of experience building desktop apps. Electron core maintainer. Desktop Platform @ Dropbox

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John C Woods did nothing wrong

24.01.2026 17:59 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

This is performance art, not a real voter profile that campaigns should shape their strategies around www.instagram.com/ronbarba1/?h...

30.10.2025 01:11 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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a man with long hair and a mustache says no there is too much . Alt: Inigo Montoya says "Let me explain. No there is too much. Let me sum up."

You know there's a good debugging story when someone leaves the equivalent of:

05.10.2025 03:55 ๐Ÿ‘ 8 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Capri Moon(shine)

06.09.2025 19:36 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

fun news! I was laid off from Twilio.

going to take this weekend to chill out, and will start looking for roles next week.

if you or someone you know is looking for staff/principal level Developer Advocacy, OSPO, dev infra, or similar roles pass them along!

reposts from tech folks appreciated <3

25.07.2025 21:01 ๐Ÿ‘ 420 ๐Ÿ” 266 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 36 ๐Ÿ“Œ 9

I really like the framing of your response! One thing I'd add is that this feature went through the RFC process where the non-standardness was discussed at length. If community members want more input on these types of features, participating in RFC discussions is a good way to do that.

24.07.2025 16:14 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Image of the "is this a pigeon?" meme, with the butterfly labeled "thing I find annoying" and the person saying "is this woke?"

Image of the "is this a pigeon?" meme, with the butterfly labeled "thing I find annoying" and the person saying "is this woke?"

16.07.2025 15:27 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Undertaker meme with the text: Building an alternative to Electron isn't as hard as people say. I built mine in basically a weekend, and I'll be publishing it as soon as I get it working on Windows and Linux.

Undertaker meme with the text: Building an alternative to Electron isn't as hard as people say. I built mine in basically a weekend, and I'll be publishing it as soon as I get it working on Windows and Linux.

11.07.2025 00:10 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Today marks 8 years since I started at Dropbox. It's a really interesting experience working on the same codebase for that long. Seeing the long-term impact of my own technical decisions and investments has helped me grow a lot as a software engineer.

19.04.2025 00:25 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

In case you were looking to backup your kindle books (since Amazon is removing the option to download them on the 26th), this script works quite well in minimizing the click-pain of downloading them individually:

gist.github.com/spf13/1fee1e...

19.02.2025 14:21 ๐Ÿ‘ 133 ๐Ÿ” 57 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 32 ๐Ÿ“Œ 10

We just finished season 1 over the weekend. Knowing it aired like 3 years ago makes me nervous about finishing season 2 and having a long wait for more episodes ๐Ÿ˜…

29.01.2025 02:23 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Impossible. They refuse to accept that there are more than two jokes.

16.12.2024 00:05 ๐Ÿ‘ 11 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I did solve day 1 on my phone, while taking a flight, which was an interesting challenge. Fun way to play around with Termux, but coding from a phone keyboard was less fun ๐Ÿ˜…

09.12.2024 15:15 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

In past years I've used Advent of Code to get more comfortable writing Rust.

This year my theme is "father of three with no spare time" aka "the laziest node scripts you've ever seen"

09.12.2024 15:11 ๐Ÿ‘ 9 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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From the GalaxyS21 community on Reddit Explore this post and more from the GalaxyS21 community

Maybe it's unique to Pixel phones rather than being a universal Android thing. The comments here seem to indicate that it is ๐Ÿ™ www.reddit.com/r/GalaxyS21/...

I'm sure you could use an OCR app to grab text from arbitrary images, but that's definitely less convenient.

08.12.2024 06:59 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Screenshot showing the Android app switcher and demonstrating that you can use it to select text inside apps

Screenshot showing the Android app switcher and demonstrating that you can use it to select text inside apps

Some Android flavors, you get to the app switcher with the square button at the bottom of your screen. Others, you can activate it by swiping up from the bottom of your screen and holding for a few seconds. Should look like this

08.12.2024 00:42 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Not sure exactly which Android version introduced it, but there's a similar feature available in the app switcher. I use it often to copy text from apps (especially banks) that don't directly enable text selection.

07.12.2024 22:47 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I've been migrating my follows incrementally. Unfollowing people over there as they pop up here. My feed is now basically "people not yet on bsky" and it's pretty quiet

30.11.2024 06:55 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I'd be floored if you were the first person to get round to it

24.11.2024 08:46 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I haven't seen async callback Christmas trees like that for about as long as it's been since I've seen CoffeeScript ๐Ÿ˜…

Also love all those unused "err" parameters ๐Ÿ˜…

20.11.2024 04:21 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Clicking an image from someone's post, and then swiping back (on my Android phone at least), navigates away from Bluesky. On the other site the "back" gesture dismisses the image modal.

14.11.2024 08:03 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I like the @bsky.app experience so far, but I wish the website used pushState when I view a piece of media, so the back button didn't navigate me away from the website ๐Ÿ™

03.11.2024 05:43 ๐Ÿ‘ 3 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0