James Lex

Building at @CSN_NAIA. Husband, father, and nerd. Appreciator of well-engineered systems and designs.

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Cursor Design incoming

[Ryo Lu @ryolu_]

Cursor is hiring design engineers.

looking for people with taste, systems thinking, and deep care for fast, polished experiences – especially folks excited to build the tools that help designers, engineers, and agents ship quality code.

know someone? tag them or DM me 📧

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@trq212 @bbishdotdev Naming and garbage collection am I right?

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@emmettshine Possible the best article I’ve ever read on this platform. Thank you for sharing. 🫡

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“Make sure you leave room for that original thinking downstream, or you risk shipping something correct that nobody remembers.”

[Emmett @emmettshine]

https://t.co/8WQIPRC93q

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@JohnONolan @karrisaarinen @linear For a second, I thought you were saying the document editor was built with ghost

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It's 2026 how are keyboard shortcuts turned off by default in Gmail?

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@mattvanswol @jonfavs This might be your best one, top 3 performance at least

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@ErinJConnors @Shpigford Blocked for AI slop 🤖

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@aquarius_beth @grantmcauley @Reds Yessss we need the vests

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@thsottiaux Friends and power users on X.

I treat benchmarks like I treat the Billboard 100: it’s heavily manipulated, but provides some idea of popularity and quality.

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@MelloFelicia1 Happily married people are rarely posting on the internet.

There’s an obvious takeaway from this.

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@jh3yy @benhylak That or a toilet bowl view 😅🫣

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@RocketLeague @RLEsports Man I hope there’s still a lil something for Italy even though we didn’t make it 😢 🇮🇹

Imagine rocket league in the colosseum

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@aloukissas @nichochar Alex, suggestions on content for your young ones? Everyone says to limit screen time but doesn’t share what content they do let them watch. I have a private Jellyfin server setup and loaded it up with old shows: Mr Rogers Neighborhood, Magic School Bus, etc

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Occam's razor in full effect

[Tibo @thsottiaux]

@giordanorandone @OpenAI Nah. The only thing that caught us off guard was a bug we discovered last minute. And we decided to not ship the said bug.

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@jh3yy @benhylak This is a GOATED tweet 🤣

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@jh3yy @GergelyOrosz Nah this couldn’t be it, too simple

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@ZFingerhut14747 @geekedout__ @maddada Oh it’s possible. But you can run into extremely weird bugs and issues running Sequoia on M5 since Apple does little (if any?) QA on backwards OS compatibility

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@geekedout__ @maddada If you buy a new MacBook or have to use a new MacBook for work, you have no choice

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@MaddJournalist Why do fans deserve better when they continue to watch and gamble on it? Serious question.

The NBA and its fans are getting the exact product they’ve carefully and incrementally engineered.