Richard Lemon

Building things on the web by day, coaching kids on a baseball diamond by weekend · Cursor, CSS, and too many tabs

[Richard Lemon @RichardLemon]

@darylginn Muscle memory kicking in. Opened a new file, typed a comment explaining what I want, then sat there waiting for something to happen.

[Richard Lemon @RichardLemon]

Just published: 20 years of https://t.co/z054a97TIh.
From a dark WordPress SEO blog in Santa Rosa to Ghost CMS + llms.txt in Maastricht.
109 Wayback Machine captures. Several cities. Two countries. One domain.
The thing nobody tells you about owning a domain for 20 years 👇
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[Richard Lemon @RichardLemon]

@piersmorgan Time for the Dutch to reclaim New Amsterdam!

[jedgar @jedgar]

Sad news. My friend Simon who did the original bird for Twitter, Octocat for GitHub and Redid Sammy The Shark for DigitalOcean has passed away, he was 56.

He was a great guy. What a loss.

[Richard Lemon @RichardLemon]

Anyone else having trouble logging in to @combell ?

[Richard Lemon @RichardLemon]

@RandomChances @astraiaintel Careful what you wish for: for all its military and economic strength, the US has one key weakness: it relies on others to pay its bills via large external deficits...

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https://t.co/NkIfAykYAF March 27
95🏅 100🎯 95🏅 98🎯 98🎯
Final score: 973

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https://t.co/NkIfAykYAF March 26
97🔥 99🎯 94🏅 100🎯 76🌞
Final score: 912

[Richard Lemon @RichardLemon]

48 copy-paste SVG backgrounds, most under 1KB, all customizable before export. no ZIPs, no files, straight into your CSS. the kind of frontend tool that just quietly saves you an hour. https://t.co/KRpObFmEvI

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"A sufficiently detailed spec is code" tears apart OpenAI's Symphony project: their SPEC.md is literally pseudocode in markdown. the more precise your spec needs to be to generate working software, the more it just... is code. https://t.co/6bjhvb197l

[Richard Lemon @RichardLemon]

Cook is a CLI that wraps Claude Code with composable loop operators: review, repeat, race parallel variants, pick the best. It's the workflow glue that raw claude -p doesn't give you. surprised this isn't built in yet. https://t.co/HpHbM1ZBdB

[Richard Lemon @RichardLemon]

Edge.js from Wasmer lets you run Node.js apps sandboxed in WebAssembly. full Node v24 compatibility, pluggable JS engine (V8, QuickJS, SpiderMonkey). built in weeks using AI. the thing that's wild: 3592/3626 Node spec tests pass. https://t.co/iw1BaXohvw

[Richard Lemon @RichardLemon]

GSD (get shit done) is trending on HN right now — a meta-prompting + spec-driven dev system for Claude Code that tackles context rot. 292 points, 143 comments. worth a look if you're serious about agentic workflows. https://t.co/kSHV9HWEkv

[Richard Lemon @RichardLemon]

"have a fucking website" is hitting HN today and honestly it never gets old. you don't own your following, you don't own your posts. a website and an email list are the only two things they can't take from you. https://t.co/lhAHu99UVg

[Richard Lemon @RichardLemon]

Fascinating deep-dive: Moment replaced all of Yjs with 40 lines of prosemirror-collab. Their argument: CRDTs are architecturally the wrong tool for centralized servers. The author is in the comments and it's a great read. https://t.co/1jJvYJby0a

[Richard Lemon @RichardLemon]

The small web is alive and weird. Kevin Boone went looking and found 1,200+ independent blog posts in a single day. It's not dead, it's just invisible to Google. https://t.co/0PBxSOcfnK

[Richard Lemon @RichardLemon]

Mistral released Leanstral, an open-source agent trained specifically on Lean 4 formal proof engineering. The pitch: stop debugging generated code, start proving it correct instead. At pass@2, it beats Claude Sonnet at 1/15th the cost. https://t.co/G6aDP05Qum

[Richard Lemon @RichardLemon]

Someone measured a modern news page at 49MB. Most of it is ad-tech. The article is maybe 800KB. The rest is tracking scripts, auction bidding, and retargeting pixels. We built this. Frontend devs built this. https://t.co/uQe9PuS0fY

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Canada's Bill C-22 mandates metadata surveillance without a warrant: who you talk to, when, from where. Not the content of messages. Just the entire social graph of your life. This is what "lawful access" looks like in practice. https://t.co/hxXVESLxYb