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Alvin Bryan

@alvin.codes

Developer Advocate at Yoto, prev: Unleash (feature flags), Contentful, WSJ Front-end dev: https://alvin.codes/ Takes photos sometimes: https://alvin.gallery/ πŸ“Manchester, πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§

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you had me at ascii globe

17.02.2026 17:09 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Let's not forget this though

16.02.2026 19:34 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I'm so looking forward to this!

22.01.2026 09:29 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

if you're celebrating people getting laid off from one of the very few companies that was consistently contributing to a fully open source product, because you think that css cascades are really that important, really take a long hard look at your priorities

08.01.2026 15:56 πŸ‘ 56 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Thrilled to announce the very first 25+ speakers (more to add soon) for our #CityJSLondon event taking place this April speakers include
@tej.as
@thekitze.bsky.social
@danielroe.dev
@nikkitaftw.bsky.social
@crockford.bsky.social
@scottspence.dev

Register now
london.cityjsconf.org

05.01.2026 13:04 πŸ‘ 14 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 3
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Thank you to the PM/dev who finally put this in gdocs

28.11.2025 14:50 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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oh hello πŸ‘€

17.11.2025 13:16 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Guess we doin' triangles now β–²

14.11.2025 10:04 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0

@goodenough.us Any more info (or a repo) available about your thermal printer project?

05.11.2025 08:55 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Liking, but not liking 😒

27.10.2025 16:15 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Very late to this but any chance your old svelte based editor is available somewhere ?

14.10.2025 20:30 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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The Telegram homepage is delightful

13.10.2025 12:16 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Office day 🌞

06.10.2025 09:38 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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ok @danabra.mov got me out of the cynicism

28.09.2025 16:16 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Best commit

25.09.2025 12:16 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

You might have, I was there myself so many times

but be warned that simple markdown editors still aren't a solved problem sadly

bsky.app/profile/bhol...

05.09.2025 09:41 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I'd be happy to help out, but I don't think it can be monetized tbh

03.09.2025 09:05 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

now I understand why filmtypes is way down in your priority list πŸ˜„

03.09.2025 09:00 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I will add this to the yoto.dev docs

03.09.2025 08:54 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I know the feel, I tried all the tiptaps and milkdowns editorjs of the world and... yeah they're not good

25.07.2025 10:26 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

πŸ‘€ is this prosemirror ?

24.07.2025 12:16 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

As a coder I can also give you the reasons

- why it *used to be* a problem
- why it's no longer a problem
- why this is inexcusable

17.07.2025 14:58 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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I've been quiet here on the work front, and never made an announcement

πŸ₯

But this year I joined Yoto!

It's an audio player for children that aims to entertain without the need for screens.

Why does an audio player need a developer advocate? You'll find out soon πŸ˜„

17.07.2025 13:55 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0

can't argue with that 🎨

09.07.2025 23:15 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

kleur > chalk πŸ˜›

09.07.2025 23:13 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

πŸ‘€ Can you share a code snippet? cc: @crabnebula.dev @tauri.app

09.07.2025 12:50 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

This is amazing!

I just wish more companies dared do this

08.07.2025 14:11 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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You can use emojis as import aliases. Here's a snippet from macos-web. app

08.07.2025 10:41 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 1
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Hello city centre

06.07.2025 12:26 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

All of these let you download what you buy

30.06.2025 12:36 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0