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Josh *The Open Source Magician* VanAllen

@joshvanallen.dev

Your local open source magician! @nx.dev Developer Productivity Engineer. Previously @hero.dev and Capital One. Born and raised Pittsburgher. All posts are my own opinion. Calendly: https://calendly.com/nx-jva

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Latest posts by Josh *The Open Source Magician* VanAllen @joshvanallen.dev

Eat up big guy

06.03.2026 21:05 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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a computer screen that says ' i mes make mistakes shall he play a game ' ALT: a computer screen that says ' i mes make mistakes shall he play a game '
27.02.2026 04:19 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

introducing dropout 24/7!

now you can put dropout on just like you would live linear TV, sit back, and enjoy! next up: dropout in black-and-white; dropout radio; dropout vaudeville ๐ŸŽฉ

18.02.2026 19:56 ๐Ÿ‘ 542 ๐Ÿ” 48 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 39 ๐Ÿ“Œ 5

Personal view, I think all engineers should have to work retail sales early in their career. Mainly because it helps you understand how hard it is to build products for the masses. It forces you to have to have broad tailored views on what makes a product work.

13.01.2026 18:26 ๐Ÿ‘ 6 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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What makes Nx different? ๐Ÿค”

It's a build platform where the build system (not CI) owns performance.

Nx Creator @victorsavkin.bsky.social just released the definitive explanation of how it's fundamentally different from every other tool:

12.11.2025 18:04 ๐Ÿ‘ 6 ๐Ÿ” 4 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

almost as if.....removing ambiguity is a good thing haha

07.11.2025 20:48 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

i hope this becomes an article!

07.11.2025 01:10 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Been a stressful and emotionally draining day. A lot of processing. Feeling a bit better now but hopefully the morning doesn't bring the dread. Positive note, learning a ton about myself and the way I think! It's the greatest gift but also the greatest weakness

03.11.2025 03:55 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

the sugar rush will never go away lol

01.11.2025 03:10 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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@marktechson.com know anyone in search that can look into this bug? a legit bug and unsure where to report lol not there's a github repo i can report an issue

30.10.2025 23:34 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I was testing my memory today and....I don't remember most folks from my school years.

30.10.2025 01:28 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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๐Ÿ“ฃ Nx 22 is here! This release solidifies Nx as your go-to solution for polyglot monorepos. ๐Ÿ’ช

โ˜• Nx plugin for Maven
๐ŸŸช .NET support
๐Ÿ“– pnpm catalogs support
๐Ÿคฏ ...and a lot more!

23.10.2025 20:11 ๐Ÿ‘ 11 ๐Ÿ” 6 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
JSON-LD - JSON for Linked Data

IMO, json-ld.org is where it's at for all of this.

15.10.2025 19:14 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Screen grab of Penn and Teller Fools Us that shows Penn and Teller pulling apart a golden train with a person inside. Shows that there's nothing connecting the two sides now and the person is still alive. Youtube Gemini AI feature is incorrectly IDing this act as an impromptive magic act but it's truly a classic in magic.

Screen grab of Penn and Teller Fools Us that shows Penn and Teller pulling apart a golden train with a person inside. Shows that there's nothing connecting the two sides now and the person is still alive. Youtube Gemini AI feature is incorrectly IDing this act as an impromptive magic act but it's truly a classic in magic.

Goes to show you....even magic confuses AI

19.09.2025 23:18 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Did anyone else know that Dr. Pepper and Keurig is the same company?

25.08.2025 20:08 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Anyone still talking about NFTs?

17.08.2025 20:41 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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15.08.2025 22:50 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

this is the monologue i expected out of you! soooo excited for the adventures!!

03.08.2025 00:17 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Do you feel like a real enterprise developer now?

29.07.2025 23:01 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

what if i can swing a personal Nx license & Sirius membership?

29.07.2025 22:59 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

that's not just human nature?

11.07.2025 22:04 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

i'm hoping this turning into a Juri slackbot!

09.07.2025 13:52 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Cheers to another year on Earth!

26.06.2025 00:21 ๐Ÿ‘ 4 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Did a bit on the patio. Slowly shaping into a hang out spot

23.06.2025 01:51 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

doing more healthy adventures...the latest one is now I have a CPAP. Finally after years of thinking of having sleep apnea, I got it confirmed and last week I got the machine. So been sleeping with it for a week and not exactly feeling any different, except i'm getting more REM sleep and lower BPM

19.06.2025 21:57 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Enable Cursor to generate predictable project setups Learn how to combine Cursor AI with Nx generators for predictable library creation in monorepos, ensuring consistent structure across your codebase.

Aaaand another one for @egghead.io. Code generation is kinda what LLMs are good at, but there's this one thing they lack: predictability.

And that can be quite important if you're not just hacking alone on a project.

What's better: predictability + AI

egghead.io/enable-curs...

17.06.2025 13:54 ๐Ÿ‘ 4 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Great minds? Lol

17.06.2025 03:15 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Alright new car time! 2023 Hyundai Santa Fe Limited hybrid. Insanely happy to have a car from this decade and not for it to have a bullet hole in the hood

17.06.2025 02:33 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Because the vending machine at Carvana wasn't working properly, they let me keep my token. I bet it's some RFID/NFC embedded token. what would you do if you had token of this size?

10.06.2025 19:24 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0