Elliot Nelson 🦈

Senior Staff Engineer @ WBD, Code Whomper, Unit Test Junkie, Open Source Fan, Puzzle Solver. Feed Me Wet Burritos.

[Elliot Nelson 🦈 @7tonshark]

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[Elliot Nelson 🦈 @7tonshark]

Organize Claude's knowledge of your project into small ADRs (Architectural Decision Records) within the repo.

https://t.co/iqxWndS4fx

[Thomas H. Ptacek @tqbf]

This is a perfect piece of technical writing. https://t.co/64vw45650w

[TypeScript @typescript]

We've got some updates on TypeScript 7! The new native port

- can type-check any project
- supports --build and --incremental
- has rich editor features implemented
- is still 10x faster

and is ready for you to try today!

https://t.co/wPOXTwZVlG

[Julio Medina @JulioMedina]

Looking forward to this one! Just got it this week.

There Is No Anti Memetics Division by @qntm

[Elliot Nelson 🦈 @7tonshark]

@mattpocockuk My experience is mixed - AI has changed how I do certain tasks (for the better), but the vaunted "super speed up" seems imaginary. If AI builds your product 5x faster, it also takes 5x longer to polish the last 10%, ending up with exact same timeframe.

Better - but not faster.

[Elliot Nelson 🦈 @7tonshark]

@vaderonice @GailSimone Some of the best parts of Curb imo, didn't realize the RFK Jr connection until he became relevant recently.

On the flip side, Curb is still mostly Larry David pissing Cheryl off repeatedly, so now you can enjoy the same scenes a whole new way!

[Elliot Nelson 🦈 @7tonshark]

@tony_ohagan @RealDickmann @rasmic Not to say "AI can't write any of it" - just that atm might be "I'm feeding Sonnet 4.5 in Copilot a paragraph on the next function, then cleaning up what it generates", rather than giving a feature or even file to Claude, because at certain complexity it's not worth it.

[Elliot Nelson 🦈 @7tonshark]

The post-mortem for Ashes of Ulthar, this year's JS13K entry: https://t.co/uPvPblHtSM #js13k

[js13kGames @js13kGames]

Here are the WINNERS of the #JS13K 2025 competition, congratulations! 🎉

1. CLAWSTRIKE
2. Cat Survivors
3. Witchcat

Blog post: https://t.co/0ZSedpzJIC

Full results: https://t.co/wOLjNpmJIS

#gamedev #gamedevjs #gamejam #indiedev #indiegames #JavaScript #HTML5

[Elliot Nelson 🦈 @7tonshark]

New Propane

https://t.co/M2N5j7WrsN

[debone @javascripl]

@7tonshark Freedom! That wraps up "Ashes of Ulthar"! Thanks for the game @7tonshark

[Elliot Nelson 🦈 @7tonshark]

@javascripl Hah that's a lot of torches! Nice work and thanks for checking it out!

[james hawkins @james406]

wow TIL

[Elliot Nelson 🦈 @7tonshark]

My entry in the #js13k game jam this year is Ashes of Ulthar: https://t.co/VJNjgOlo0a

(It's barely hinted at in the flavor text but yes, it's a wink to the short story by Lovecraft and intended to be the same village.)

A full post-mortem coming... eventually!

[js13kGames @js13kGames]

We’ve wrapped the 14th yearly edition of the #js13k competition with 197 entries - thank you all so much for making so many tiny web games! Now is the time to start voting and picking the winners!

https://t.co/vqEJdAjamC

#gamedev #gamedevjs #gamejam #JavaScript #OpenSource

[js13kGames @js13kGames]

That's it, thanks for submitting your #js13k 2025 entries! We're accepting the games in the queue and clearing any issues, so be patient. You can still submit as Unfinished in the next few hours as all remaining drafts will be deleted by tomorrow.

https://t.co/1Ax3BKFSnS

#gamedev #gamedevjs #gamejam #compo #competition #JavaScript #HTML5 #indiedev #indiegames

[js13kGames @js13kGames]

Less than 4 DAYS left to finish and submit your #js13k 2025 entry!

https://t.co/xIqelikzZD

Start wrapping up and focus on fixing bugs instead of trying to add new features.

#gamedev #gamedevjs #gamejam #JavaScript #HTML5 #deadline #countdown #submit

[JLarky @JLarky]

I'm convinced that gitflow is a psyop and no one ever done that in practice because it takes like 30 seconds of thinking before you realize this is completely unfeasible and a huge waste of everyone's time

[Jorchava @georgiechava]

@js13kGames

[Elliot Nelson 🦈 @7tonshark]

My big complaint about NextJS: why isn't there a server-side "startup hook"? Whenever I want to do important stuff at startup before standalone server (let's say, grab secrets manager, maybe run database migrations, etc.), I need to make lame pre-startup or wrapper scripts.