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A few friends in the #DevRel / #Community space have reached out lately (it's tough out there right now :\), and there have been some common themes. A blog post turned into an ebook-length chunk of thing 😂 so here's Part 0: The Setup: webchick.tech/no-one-gives-a…

This is a love letter to @temporalio. Not because of the product (which powers a big chunk of @Macroscope's infrastructure and we love), but because of a tiny purple tardigrade. A few months ago I spoke at Temporal’s Replay conference in SF. Afterwards, I grabbed a swag bag on the way out. Inside was a plush tardigrade. I’m embarrassed to say I didn’t know what a tardigrade even was before this. Though it was mythical? Wtf does it even have to do with Temporal. I still don’t know. That plush somehow became my almost-2-year-old son’s most prized possession. He carries it everywhere. Sleeps with it. Calls it “tar-da-grade,” which is remarkable considering that’s about 25% of his vocabulary. A few months later, disaster struck. One of our dogs chewed the tardigrade to pieces. Our son was devastated. “Where’s tardigrade?” “He’s… at the doctor.” I tried superglue surgery before realizing maybe glue fumes and toddler bedtime weren’t an ideal combination. I searched everywhere online but couldn’t find another one. So Sunday night I sent a slightly ridiculous message to our Temporal AE, Zac Bischoff, asking if there was any chance he could help a desperate dad. The next day, not one but TWO replacement tardigrades showed up at my office. Durable execution ftw. Thank you Zac, and thank you Temporal. You made a 2yo happy (albeit somewhat oblivious) and a father even happier.

@kayvz @temporalio @Macroscope AW I LOVE THIS SO MUCH! Thank you so much for sharing! 😍 You can read more about the "why" behind our mascot in the blog post about sending Ziggy into space. 😎 temporal.io/blog/temporal-…

#hope2026 (hey, it’s bleak out there rn, doing my best.)

Oh ok, so this actually happened today (well, “weird unexplained health crap” and the “identifying ‘the vitamin’” part, we shall see on the rest) Hey kids, get your iron and b12 levels tested! 😅

@rebane2001 @zelimir__ This was a fantastic read! Thanks so much for catching us all up on what CSS is capable of these days.

@zelimir__ everyone who makes this joke should be forced to read my blog post lyra.horse/blog/2025/08/y…

i built an entire x86 CPU emulator in CSS (no javascript) you can write programs in C, compile them to x86 machine code with GCC, and run them inside CSS

@summeryue0 @petergyang Soooo many people in here suggesting alternative instructions when you clearly lay out that the problem was email volume -> compaction -> DESTROYING the instructions, not the instructions themselves lol… sigh, the internet is exhausting. 😫 Thank you for sharing your story. 🙏

@petergyang I said “Check this inbox too and suggest what you would archive or delete, don’t action until I tell you to.” This has been working well for my toy inbox, but my real inbox was too huge and triggered compaction. During the compaction, it lost my original instruction 🤦‍♀️

Nothing humbles you like telling your OpenClaw “confirm before acting” and watching it speedrun deleting your inbox. I couldn’t stop it from my phone. I had to RUN to my Mac mini like I was defusing a bomb.

#hope2026 (even if from an unlikely source 😉)