Mike Li

đź‘‹ Hi my name is Mike Li. I love building things for/on the web. Currently enjoying building UI and fun projects using TypeScript and Rust.

I also love writing and sharing on orchardlab.dev/

I love trail running when I am not staring at screen.

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Currently working at Amazon as Sr SDE.

Mike Li boosted:
2025-06-10

Switching to Linux now looks like the least painful option.

#Apple #macOS #Tahoe #Gnome

Mike Li29decibel
2025-05-23

Always bet on pen, paper and files.

Mike Li29decibel
2025-05-16

I have the same computer !

Computational Public Space

Computational Public Space
Dynamicland
Mike Li29decibel
2025-05-12

When I feels down, running and working code can always cheer me up.

Mike Li29decibel
2025-04-20

LLM can not and should not replace books, but it’s so good to recommend books to learn related topics, opposite options, demystifying complex and hard to grasp concepts which makes some books less intimidating. In that regard it’s so similar to what internet did for us, to make knowledge more accessible, sparking our curiosity.

Mike Li29decibel
2025-04-06

I wish there is a privacy focused LLM in the cloud can be safely used.

security.apple.com/blog/privat

Mike Li29decibel
2025-04-05

People definitely have the “app fatigue”.

Parking payment sign without app
Mike Li29decibel
2025-03-28

Such a great read on design. Especially relevant today.

Good enough design.

Good enough design book cover
Mike Li29decibel
2025-03-28

I got a lot of great insights from the latest episode of Under the radar relay.fm/radar/315 #315: Self-Sufficient Apps

The beauty of “client heavy/simple/self-sufficient” software is not only freeing the indie developer from constantly baby siting the product, but also giving the customer the peace of mind that everything will keep working for a long time.

Thanks @marcoarment @_Davidsmith for the sharing!

Mike Li29decibel
2025-03-24

Next time using getsinglefile.com/ to save a single HTML page and put them into Apple Notes.

Which preserves a much better well rendered self contained page. Which can be easily opened on iOS and mac OS.

Love it!

Mike Li29decibel
2025-03-24

Do not lingering on the specific programming languages, focus on the systems.

Mike Li29decibel
2025-03-23

One thing I learned this year is to always think in systems, not in programming language or frameworks. That system will carry you further.

Mike Li29decibel
2025-03-23

I really love JavaScript (and its runtime ecosystem bun/node/deno), one of its curse is to easily think of problems as one off solution rather than a system. With the help of LLM, before diving into any detailed implementations, start with structure and modular design can leads to much better artifacts.

Mike Li29decibel
2025-03-15

Workflow > Tools

Mike Li29decibel
2025-03-10

@collin 100% this. I love the fact you can select arbitrary portion of the shapes in the cavas and using Cmd + c to copy as an image. But lacking elementary level keyboard support really kills me.

Mike Li29decibel
2025-03-09

I've always wanted a write-only mode of mastodon. So that I can just go posting something without any distractions of new posts from my timeline. Combining that plain text, I made this [mastodon-md](github.com/29decibel/mastodon-). All you need is to write something in the `queue.md` file. Then it will be posted (or manually bun run post).

Mike Li29decibel
2025-03-09

Plain text is the most beautiful thing. Now I am publishing a toot from queue.md.

Mike Li29decibel
2025-03-09

Download all your mastodon posts in one markdown file, including attachments.

github.com/29decibel/mastodon-

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kottke.orgkottke
2025-03-07

The Museum of All Things. “Every exhibit in the museum corresponds to a Wikipedia article. The walls of the exhibit are covered in images and text from the article, and hallways lead out to other exhibits based on the article’s links.” mayeclair.itch.io/museum-of-al

Mike Li29decibel
2025-03-06

Really appreciate Safari lets you exports all your data easily to plain files. Files lasts forever.

Safari Export Browsing Data to FileExport browsing data dialogExported safari data files

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Server: https://mastodon.social
Version: 2025.04
Repository: https://github.com/cyevgeniy/lmst