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• A slighly better useState

  by bluepnume on 6/10/2025, 7:39 AM with 0 comments

• by bluepnume on 6/10/2025, 7:39 AM with comments

• by bluepnume on 6/10/2025, 7:39 AM with comments

• OneText (YC W23) Is Hiring a DevOps/DBA Lead Engineer

  by bluepnume on 6/7/2025, 5:00 PM with comments

• OneText (YC W23) Is Hiring a DevOps/DBA Lead Engineer

  by bluepnume on 5/2/2025, 9:00 PM with comments

• OneText (YC W23) is hiring a browser extension engineer

  by bluepnume on 3/8/2025, 9:00 PM with comments

• The shortest, strangest engineering interview I've ever done

  by bluepnume on 8/16/2024, 4:12 AM with 9 comments

• OneText (YC W23) is hiring a lead TypeScript/Node engineer

  by bluepnume on 8/10/2024, 5:00 PM with comments

• OneText (YC W23) Is Hiring a Lead UX Engineer

  by bluepnume on 5/31/2024, 5:00 PM with comments

• OneText (YC W23) Is Hiring a Lead UX Engineer

  by bluepnume on 4/29/2024, 9:01 PM with comments

• OneText (YC W23) Is Hiring a Lead Design/UX Engineer

  by bluepnume on 3/26/2024, 9:00 PM with comments

• OneText (YC W23) Is Hiring a Full-Stack JavaScript Engineer

  by bluepnume on 2/9/2023, 9:00 PM with comments

• OneText (YC W23) is hiring our first engineer

  by bluepnume on 1/24/2023, 12:00 PM with comments

• Nine terrible ways to use TypeScript enums, and one good way

  by bluepnume on 12/15/2022, 8:33 AM with 0 comments

• The only kind of test I write

  by bluepnume on 12/2/2022, 10:11 PM with 0 comments

• I’m interviewing a little differently this time round

  by bluepnume on 10/19/2022, 2:40 AM with 0 comments

• It’s not actually supposed to be difficult.

  by bluepnume on 10/8/2022, 2:48 AM with 0 comments

• DTC brands have a blind spot: vaulting

  by bluepnume on 9/12/2022, 7:02 PM with 0 comments

• Ask HN: Is it just a terrible time to raise?

  by bluepnume on 8/31/2022, 3:42 AM with 0 comments

• Subscriptions are out, refills are in

  by bluepnume on 8/25/2022, 6:32 PM with 237 comments

• You don't know jack about SMS

  by bluepnume on 8/5/2022, 10:48 PM with 6 comments

• Ask HN: Fundraise for a side-project, or go full-time first?

  by bluepnume on 2/15/2022, 9:56 PM with 4 comments

• The Magic of Serializing Functions

  by bluepnume on 9/19/2021, 2:30 AM with 0 comments

• Functional-Ish JavaScript

  by bluepnume on 7/10/2021, 11:45 PM with 0 comments

• Learning about Bitcoin by building it in JavaScript

  by bluepnume on 6/22/2021, 8:08 PM with 0 comments

• Fooled by Certainty: A short counter of Taleb's Bitcoin analysis

  by bluepnume on 6/21/2021, 8:28 AM with 1 comments

• You don’t need S2F to value Bitcoin

  by bluepnume on 6/16/2021, 10:08 AM with 0 comments

• Bitcoin: Cutting Through the Bullshit

  by bluepnume on 6/13/2021, 2:55 AM with 3 comments

• Building Bitcoin in JavaScript

  by bluepnume on 5/21/2021, 2:44 AM with 0 comments

• Why Bitcoin?

  by bluepnume on 3/31/2021, 4:51 AM with 0 comments

• Writing Regex in JSX, without releasing Zalgo

  by bluepnume on 8/7/2020, 5:50 PM with 0 comments

• JavaScript tree shaking, like a pro

  by bluepnume on 1/19/2020, 10:56 PM with 0 comments

• Iframes are just terrible. Here’s how they could be better

  by bluepnume on 8/18/2019, 7:50 PM with 0 comments

• Functional-ish JavaScript

  by bluepnume on 5/15/2019, 6:14 PM with 0 comments

• Google Chrome’s Portals: like iframes, but better, and worse

  by bluepnume on 5/9/2019, 3:50 AM with 0 comments

• Building a React-esque component using vanilla JavaScript

  by bluepnume on 1/20/2019, 7:58 AM with 0 comments

• Intentionally unleashing Zalgo in the browser, with synchronous Promises

  by bluepnume on 11/23/2017, 1:45 AM with 0 comments

• Hacking Chrome’s Payment Request Api into PayPal’s Iframe Buttons

  by bluepnume on 10/28/2017, 10:52 PM with 0 comments

• Introducing PayPal’s open-source cross-domain JavaScript suite

  by bluepnume on 10/15/2017, 11:14 PM with 18 comments

• Reinventing cross-origin requests, without CORS

  by bluepnume on 9/6/2017, 1:06 AM with 0 comments

• by bluepnume on 9/5/2017, 12:16 AM with comments

• Safari’s new tracking rules, and enabling cross-domain data storage

  by bluepnume on 8/30/2017, 3:49 AM with 0 comments

• Intentionally unleashing Zalgo with promises

  by bluepnume on 6/15/2017, 6:14 AM with 0 comments

• [Talk] Building Cross-Domain React Components at PayPal

  by bluepnume on 5/31/2017, 10:46 PM with 0 comments

• Ask HN: Who is hiring interns? (May 2017)

  by bluepnume on 5/7/2017, 10:26 PM with 1 comments

• Introducing support for cross-domain Glimmer components, with xcomponent

  by bluepnume on 4/6/2017, 4:44 PM with 0 comments

• Turn your web-app into a cross-domain component with five lines of code

  by bluepnume on 3/27/2017, 8:36 AM with 1 comments

• Creating a cross-domain React component, with xcomponent

  by bluepnume on 3/20/2017, 3:16 AM with 0 comments

• Less is more: reducing thousands of PayPal buttons to one iframe with xcomponent

  by bluepnume on 3/17/2017, 1:47 AM with 0 comments

• Even with async/await, raw promises are still key to optimal concurrent js

  by bluepnume on 3/4/2017, 11:52 PM with 0 comments

• Introducing xcomponent – cross-domain, React-like components using iframes

  by bluepnume on 3/4/2017, 11:50 PM with 0 comments

• Introducing grumbler –an opinionated JavaScript module template

  by bluepnume on 1/18/2017, 5:32 AM with 0 comments

• How we solved the problem of cross-domain web components, at PayPal

  by bluepnume on 11/28/2016, 12:47 AM with 1 comments

• Introducing post-robot – smart cross-domain messaging, from PayPal

  by bluepnume on 9/30/2016, 5:33 PM with 0 comments

• [Talk] Building PayPal into Cross-Domain Web Components

  by bluepnume on 9/7/2016, 3:57 AM with 0 comments

• Open Source JavaScript Offerings from the PayPal Checkout Team

  by bluepnume on 6/1/2016, 5:20 PM with 0 comments

• Understand promises before you start using async/await in JavaScript

  by bluepnume on 1/19/2016, 6:43 AM with 0 comments

• Async JavaScript is much more fun when you memoize

  by bluepnume on 1/19/2016, 5:02 AM with 0 comments

• Sane Angular apps are tricky, but not impossible. Lessons learned from PayPal

  by bluepnume on 9/26/2015, 4:07 AM with 0 comments

• PayPal releases Kraken, Node.js framework

  by bluepnume on 11/23/2013, 4:04 AM with 24 comments

• PayPal releases Node.js framework, Kraken

  by bluepnume on 11/16/2013, 10:58 PM with 2 comments

• I'm Not Dead [on progressive enhancement]

  by bluepnume on 9/3/2013, 7:31 PM with 0 comments