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Espen Hovlandsdal 🦋 @espen.codes

@espen_codes
Principal engineer @sanity_io. he/him. I code open source software and pet dogs.
Berkeley, CA
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    Espen Hovlandsdal 🦋 @espen.codes
    @espen_codes
    Feb 2
    You project either dies in obscurity or lives long enough to become a bun API
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    Jarred Sumner
    Bun
    @jarredsumner
    Jan 29
    `Bun.markdown.react` server-side renders markdown with React 13x faster than the popular `react-markdown` npm package
    ❯ oha -c 20 -z 5s http://localhost:56979/react-markdown
Summary:
  Success rate: 100.00%
  Total:        5000.9534 ms
  Slowest:      34.8463 ms
  Fastest:      3.0190 ms
  Average:      10.0801 ms
  Requests/sec: 1985.8213

  Total data:   13.36 MiB
  Size/request: 1.38 KiB
  Size/sec:     2.67 MiB

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❯ oha -c 20 -z 5s http://localhost:56979/bun-markdown
Summary:
  Success rate: 100.00%
  Total:        5000.6327 ms
  Slowest:      5.4321 ms
  Fastest:      0.0736 ms
  Average:      0.7531 ms
  Requests/sec: 26529.8426

  Total data:   203.17 MiB
  Size/request: 1.57 KiB
  Size/sec:     40.63 MiB

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    Espen Hovlandsdal 🦋 @espen.codes
    @espen_codes
    Dec 5, 2024
    Happy React 19 day! `[email protected]` is now `latest` on npm! npmjs.com/package/react
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    Espen Hovlandsdal 🦋 @espen.codes
    @espen_codes
    Nov 16, 2024
    🦋
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    Espen Hovlandsdal 🦋 @espen.codes
    @espen_codes
    Nov 16, 2024
    Thank you for getting it started, it’s still powering a lot of stuff I’ve built over the years! To anyone out there using, would love to have you try the new version! `eventsource@next`!
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    Aslak Hellesøy
    @aslak_hellesoy
    Nov 15, 2024
    13 years ago I published the Eventsource npm module: npmjs.com/package/events…. It's still hugely popular and has 5M downloads/week. I handed it over to @espen_codes 7 years ago and today he announced a full modernised ESM/TS rewrite. You can safely use this now - my code is GONE
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    Espen Hovlandsdal 🦋 @espen.codes
    @espen_codes
    Nov 12, 2024
    @thanks_dev you gotta get on that 🦋 train :)

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