Alexander Richey

Thinking through the consequences of my belief that there isn't an afterlife... alexrichey.com/articles/2025-…

@GoVeMcl I could probably find some time to do that one of these days 🙂

@AlexanderRichey hey Alexander, thanks for your work on styled-react-modal. Do you have plans to support styled-components v6?

Enjoyed this article about music and the current cultural mood. I wonder if this pattern holds true globally? honest-broker.com/p/why-is-music…

This article reminds me of why I voted for Hillary back in 2016. A weak candidate in retrospect, she genuinely cares about America and its social fabric, unlike her opponents who prosper from its disintegration. theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

Interesting article by @jon_rauch about the need for structure and the limits of self-organization in politics. "The world of unstructured interpersonal exchange looks a lot like Twitter," he writes, "an epistemic version of Hobbes's state of nature." nationalaffairs.com/publications/d…

@hernansartorio Wildly impressive! Congrats @hernansartorio!

Launched! Introducing Pagy, the easiest way to build a website. AKA if Notion and Squarespace had a baby. This initial version is limited to one-page websites but multiple pages are coming soon. Try it out now at pagy.co.

I wrote this article as I started my road trip across the United States, already one year ago. alexrichey.com/articles/2022-…

Thanks @aquaVitae_AK and @vaskal08 for one of the best uses AI that I've seen so far—to remove sensationalism from the news. boringreport.org/app

@kohidave You also make your app less portable, and now to actually develop on it, you have to deploy to a dev environment on AWS—you can't just run it locally anymore in a nice little HTTP server that does it all. 5/5

@kohidave You can use AWS solutions to solve these problems, but then it becomes harder to tell what's going on, since you end up moving business logic into configuration, e.g., you move routing into an API Gateway config and now your actual app code doesn't do that anymore. 4/n

@kohidave The other option is to write code for Lambda from the start, but then you have to solve a bunch of problems on your own—routing, auth, etc. 3/n

@kohidave To deploy these kind of apps to Lambda, you need to, first, know to use API Gateway to make the Lambda function callable via HTTP, and, second, you need to write some code to adapt your existing code to the Lambda handler signature, which is kind of a pain. 2/n

@kohidave I have a take @kohidave! Many of the major application frameworks that many companies use are based on HTTP—Rails, Django, Express, Spring, etc. And they all have a nice dev experience where you run a little server locally. And great docs and tutorials made by the community. 1/n

Thinking a bit about intellectual humility: alexrichey.com/articles/2023-…

You can now deploy images from private ECR repositories to Lightsail Containers 🍰 aws.amazon.com/about-aws/what…

@nickfrenchnyc Ah, being out here in Seattle, I don't have my finger on the pulse of NYC politics. But I liked the idea of a philosopher like you in public office. 😀

@AlexanderRichey Not actually running...a dumb joke bc seems like everyone is throwing their hat in the ring for that district! But I appreciate the support ;)

Excited to announce that I'm running for NY-10

@tdinh_me I used my own project to save a bunch of these: linksort.com

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@DrTexx @jeremy_soller @andrewbadr was working on a similar project called @MixilyEvents, but it looks like its focus has changed to online events. I'd be interested to know if you find a solution 🙂

@jeremy_soller @AlexanderRichey do either of you wonderful lads have suggested alternatives to private FB events? Jeremy, I know you're crazy successful in OSS and value privacy. Alex, I saw you created convo(.)events, which sadly shut down. Any suggestions invaluable 🙏 :)

I added a cool new #network graph view on Linksort this weekend—it's a surprisingly fun way to rediscover old links and articles.