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Software developer, tinkerer, enthusiast. Currently slinging bits at Stripe. For my media reviews, see: @david.reviews. Blog & more: https://xavd.id
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The Caltrain app needs a disclaimer if there's a Giants home game when you're checking the timetables. I always forget to do it myself and am always surprised when I get on a totally packed 11:30am train

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Lyft first: driver is listening to an audiobook. Little odd, but NBD. Come to realize it's not a full book, it's the first 5 minutes of _many_ audiobooks (presumably a continuous stream of free previews). This... is much worse.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Our friends over at Thinky are hosting their first "Direct"! It'll feature tons of puzzle game announcements, trailers, demo releases, and more. Be sure to tune in!

submitted 18 days ago • 1 comment

This is an interesting thread about culverts and flood damage!

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

Work post! I'm running a survey of #Stripe users who handle events (webhooks) from Stripe. We're working on the SDK+Webhook experience and we'd love to get some feedback! forms.gle/sqoMbCoxe5wy...

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

If anyone is looking for something to watch over the Easter weekend, check out the video on youtube that I watched a few years ago. Can't remember what it was called but it was very informative and made a lot of thought-provoking points. Hopefully it's still on there.

submitted 51 days ago • 25 comments

I'm not sure how I missed this, but Streetlight Manifesto has NEW ALBUM coming out this summer!! July 24th!! I don't know what to do with my hands!! #music #ska

submitted 57 days ago • 1 comment

Truly fascinating line in a job description I was sent recently.

submitted 65 days ago • 2 comments

I pushed an update to my review site today that improves the review card layout on mobile! Those cards were the very first things I designed for the site. I wanted them to have a nice, clean layout. For code simplicity, I went with a single layout that shrunk gracefully, but suboptimally. 1/5

submitted 68 days ago • 1 comment

This was such a fun event! Awesome getting to meet folks.

submitted 77 days ago • 0 comments

PEOPLE OF BLUESKY! Ahhhhhh, it smells good here. Behold a trailer for season 2 of Poker Face! It’s gonna be a good one. May 8th on the almighty Peacock!

submitted 87 days ago • 462 comments

Had the recent honor of answering some pressing whale questions with @drthinglearner.bsky.social of the kids' podcast Moment of Um! I love a good hypothetical journey. Listen here for a chill break from whichever of the current Things is on your mind. www.momentofum.org/episode/2025...

submitted 88 days ago • 1 comment

As our #England / #Scotland trip draws to a close, it's been fun to look back at the culture shock moments. 1/

submitted 92 days ago • 1 comment

Jet lag is so wild. Flew east. Slelpt a little on the overnight flight event though that felt like napping from 11pm-2am. Landed, powered through the day. Passed out at 10pm, WIDE awake at 4am, tired again for alarm at 9am. None of these correlate to home times well. Anyway, hello London!

submitted 99 days ago • 0 comments

"Why do you use an ad-blocker?" Because I don't hate myself?

submitted 109 days ago • 0 comments

The more I use Bluesky, the more I think it's a mistake to make the clients handle all of the message formatting (instead of the server). It means you have a ton of control over post presentation, but it also means every client produces different output. It's wildly frustrating.

submitted 114 days ago • 1 comment

I got a chance to play a bunch of the @thinkygames.com awards nominees! They're each very cool in their own way. I wrote up some quick impressions:

submitted 118 days ago • 1 comment

My dude @xavd.id keeps meticulous records of the media he consumes and picks his favorite things to talk about at the end of every year (nine years running)! We do not share all of these opinions but many of them are good anyways. If you're interested: xavd.id/blog/post/fa...

submitted 122 days ago • 0 comments

When you think about it, Venmo is just a social network where it costs money to post.

submitted 127 days ago • 0 comments

@nick.scialli.me loved the blog post about govsky! Very cool project and a good level of technical detail. I also love running my projects as cheaply as possible. I run all of david.reviews on a free netlify account and Airtable.

submitted 128 days ago • 1 comment