Infinite Blahs in a GitHub username: blog.travisfantina.com
","summary":"","url":"https://blog.travisfantina.com/2026/05/07/infinite-blahs-in-a-github.html","date_published":"2026-05-07T13:15:33+00:00","author":{"name":"Travis Fantina","url":"https://travisfantina.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F36%2F1707445.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"tfantina"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-05-07 13:15","date_timestamp":1778159733,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":true,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"89378689","content_html":"Donald don’t threaten us with a good time!
\n\n\nAsked late on Thursday whether he would consider pulling US troops out of Italy and Spain, Trump told reporters: “Probably …\"
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www.theguardian.com/us-news/2…
\n","summary":"","url":"https://blog.travisfantina.com/2026/05/01/donald-dont-threaten-us-with.html","date_published":"2026-05-01T11:57:43+00:00","author":{"name":"Travis Fantina","url":"https://travisfantina.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F36%2F1707445.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"tfantina"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-05-01 11:57","date_timestamp":1777636663,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"89234446","content_html":"Leaving Vercel: blog.travisfantina.com
","summary":"","url":"https://blog.travisfantina.com/2026/04/29/leaving-vercel.html","date_published":"2026-04-29T11:10:38+00:00","author":{"name":"Travis Fantina","url":"https://travisfantina.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F36%2F1707445.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"tfantina"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-04-29 11:10","date_timestamp":1777461038,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":true,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"88414367","content_html":"Updating some Backbone.js code… What a blast from the past, over the year’s I believe I’ve worked on three Backbone projects. It’s fun to dig into legacy hotness from 10 or 15 years back it allows you to judge the code with more clarity. The code today was pretty clever, the Backbone stuff I worked on a year...
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Args and Params: blog.travisfantina.com
","summary":"","url":"https://blog.travisfantina.com/2026/04/13/i-think-ive-always-used.html","date_published":"2026-04-13T20:24:58+00:00","author":{"name":"Travis Fantina","url":"https://travisfantina.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F36%2F1707445.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"tfantina"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-04-13 20:24","date_timestamp":1776111898,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":true,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"87830113","content_html":"Just read the term “React Engineer”, I know it’s cliche but I need to scream into the void on this: there is no such thing as a “React Engineer”; engineers are licensed professionals and highly regulated, slapping components together to “make the graphql look pretty” is not an engineering job.
\nI get that...
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\n loadtest -c 50 -n 1000000 --rps 10000 https://spammy_url.com\nThey generally don’t use beefy servers so it’s fairly easy to crash them at least for a few minutes. Thinking of creating background script to run this constantly for any spam texts I get,...
blog.travisfantina.com","summary":"","url":"https://blog.travisfantina.com/2026/03/24/whenever-i-get-a-spammy.html","date_published":"2026-03-24T17:40:20+00:00","author":{"name":"Travis Fantina","url":"https://travisfantina.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F36%2F1707445.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"tfantina"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-03-24 17:40","date_timestamp":1774374020,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"84949094","content_html":"I’m a firm believer that 40-60% of jobs in the modern world do not need to exist. AI is driving those jobs out of existence, unfortunately it is not doing so by creating a simpler more utilitarian world, instead it serves as a multiplier for that waste and will likely create even more layers of pointless...
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blog.travisfantina.com","summary":"","url":"https://blog.travisfantina.com/2026/02/24/im-a-firm-believer-that.html","date_published":"2026-02-24T20:13:38+00:00","author":{"name":"Travis Fantina","url":"https://travisfantina.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F36%2F1707445.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"tfantina"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-02-24 20:13","date_timestamp":1771964018,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"84852215","content_html":"Last week I added internationalization to an large B2B app I’ve been working with for the past 6 years. It’s pretty gratifying to see this app that dozens of employees and hundreds of customers use every day now in Italian, Spanish, German, Polish and Dutch!
\n","summary":"","url":"https://blog.travisfantina.com/2026/02/23/last-week-i-added-internationalization.html","date_published":"2026-02-23T14:15:11+00:00","author":{"name":"Travis Fantina","url":"https://travisfantina.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F36%2F1707445.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"tfantina"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-02-23 14:15","date_timestamp":1771856111,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"84435083","content_html":"@manton it’s nice to have the perpetual “redo” button with deploys but I think we’d all do better to code with the “only ship once” mindset. Leads to better code, less wasted resources and happier customers (I am by no means an expert in any of this).
\nI remember someone once making the contract between software architects and watch designers; when a watch is built there isn’t really any going back, if you have to take it back in six months or six years even then it’s sort of a failed product.
I was thinking of embedding Calendly directly on my website so people could schedule meetings with me but it drops 3 cookies and makes about 11 network requests on page load… That’s a hard pass.
\n","summary":"","url":"https://blog.travisfantina.com/2026/01/30/i-was-thinking-of-embedding.html","date_published":"2026-01-30T19:44:08+00:00","author":{"name":"Travis Fantina","url":"https://travisfantina.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F36%2F1707445.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"tfantina"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-01-30 19:44","date_timestamp":1769802248,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"83162869","content_html":"We’ve moved on from the “Israel has a right to defend themselves” phase to the “Israel has a right to develop beach front real estate” phase and still most world leaders are silent about this.
\n","summary":"","url":"https://blog.travisfantina.com/2026/01/29/weve-moved-on-from-the.html","date_published":"2026-01-29T20:21:56+00:00","author":{"name":"Travis Fantina","url":"https://travisfantina.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F36%2F1707445.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"tfantina"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-01-29 20:21","date_timestamp":1769718116,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"82722141","content_html":"Week in Review: blog.travisfantina.com
","summary":"","url":"https://blog.travisfantina.com/2026/01/23/week-in-review.html","date_published":"2026-01-23T21:31:38+00:00","author":{"name":"Travis Fantina","url":"https://travisfantina.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F36%2F1707445.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"tfantina"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-01-23 21:31","date_timestamp":1769203898,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":true,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"82686133","content_html":"Remember when the tech world solved racism by renaming master to main branch?
The ICC Must Issue An Arrest Warrant for Donald Trump: blog.travisfantina.com
","summary":"","url":"https://blog.travisfantina.com/2026/01/22/the-icc-must-issue-an.html","date_published":"2026-01-22T11:17:58+00:00","author":{"name":"Travis Fantina","url":"https://travisfantina.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F36%2F1707445.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"tfantina"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-01-22 11:17","date_timestamp":1769080678,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":true,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"82359586","content_html":"Finished reading: Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan 📚\n\nIt’s the first book I’ve read this year, so calling it “the best book I’ve read all year” would be true, but to lump this in with last year and the say the same may be true as well! Keegan’s voice is incredible, this book was pure poetry, effort... blog.travisfantina.com","summary":"","url":"https://blog.travisfantina.com/2026/01/18/finished-reading-small-things-like.html","date_published":"2026-01-19T02:39:35+00:00","author":{"name":"Travis Fantina","url":"https://travisfantina.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F36%2F1707445.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"tfantina"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-01-19 02:39","date_timestamp":1768790375,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"82238049","content_html":"Harvest Timers and Go! blog.travisfantina.com
","summary":"","url":"https://blog.travisfantina.com/2026/01/16/harvest-timers-and-go.html","date_published":"2026-01-17T03:16:52+00:00","author":{"name":"Travis Fantina","url":"https://travisfantina.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F36%2F1707445.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"tfantina"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-01-17 03:16","date_timestamp":1768619812,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":true,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"81917139","content_html":"I’ve tried to eliminate the weird echo chamber of HackerNews from my life as much as possible. Interesting to see from the most 1000 discussed books only ~50 were written by women. This is exactly the sort of reason I’ve moved on from the orange site.
\nkottke.org/26/01/004…
Week in Review: blog.travisfantina.com
","summary":"","url":"https://blog.travisfantina.com/2026/01/09/week-in-review.html","date_published":"2026-01-09T18:04:59+00:00","author":{"name":"Travis Fantina","url":"https://travisfantina.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F36%2F1707445.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"tfantina"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-01-09 18:04","date_timestamp":1767981899,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":true,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"81403167","content_html":"Pretty quiet on here over the holidays, partially due to illness and partially just wanting to be offline as much as possible.\nI’d still like to get some end of year wrap-ups together.
\n","summary":"","url":"https://blog.travisfantina.com/2026/01/05/pretty-quiet-on-here-over.html","date_published":"2026-01-05T17:21:19+00:00","author":{"name":"Travis Fantina","url":"https://travisfantina.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F36%2F1707445.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"tfantina"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-01-05 17:21","date_timestamp":1767633679,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"80809774","content_html":"Watching a bit of the 2009 adaptation of A Christmas Carol, which I haven’t seen before but its bad… like really bad. Wild to think that Pixar’s Up came out the same year.
\n","summary":"","url":"https://blog.travisfantina.com/2025/12/26/watching-a-bit-of-the.html","date_published":"2025-12-27T02:09:51+00:00","author":{"name":"Travis Fantina","url":"https://travisfantina.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F36%2F1707445.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"tfantina"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2025-12-27 02:09","date_timestamp":1766801391,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"80682289","content_html":"Things Become Other Things: blog.travisfantina.com
","summary":"","url":"https://blog.travisfantina.com/2025/12/24/things-become-other-things.html","date_published":"2025-12-24T18:13:00+00:00","author":{"name":"Travis Fantina","url":"https://travisfantina.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F36%2F1707445.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"tfantina"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2025-12-24 18:13","date_timestamp":1766599980,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":true,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"80577760","content_html":"The Road Back to You Do not read this book: blog.travisfantina.com
","summary":"","url":"https://blog.travisfantina.com/2025/12/22/the-road-back-to-you.html","date_published":"2025-12-23T02:50:33+00:00","author":{"name":"Travis Fantina","url":"https://travisfantina.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F36%2F1707445.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"tfantina"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2025-12-23 02:50","date_timestamp":1766458233,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":true,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"80360945","content_html":"Today I Learned ~D[2025-12-19]: blog.travisfantina.com
","summary":"","url":"https://blog.travisfantina.com/2025/12/19/today-i-learned-d.html","date_published":"2025-12-19T15:03:46+00:00","author":{"name":"Travis Fantina","url":"https://travisfantina.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F36%2F1707445.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"tfantina"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2025-12-19 15:03","date_timestamp":1766156626,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":true,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"76817460","content_html":"@manton so sorry to hear about this. Your work has meant a lot to me over the years. From longer posts to the single photos. My wife makes fun of me for getting so much joy out of the photos of iced coffee you post, the small mundane things in my RSS feed help me appreciate everything around me.
\n","url":"https://micro.blog/tfantina/76817460","date_published":"2025-10-28T15:35:53+00:00","author":{"name":"Travis Fantina","url":"https://travisfantina.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F36%2F1707445.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"tfantina"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2025-10-28 15:35","date_timestamp":1761665753,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}}]}