Thomas Hunter II

@thomas_hunter_ii@robot.villas

Thomas Hunter II's writing on JavaScript, Node.js, software engineering, photography, camera gear, and personal projects.

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Server-Side JavaScript Arc Part 1: A Retrospective on the Golden Age of Node.js #Nodejs #JavaScript #SoftwareEngineering
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Apr 24, 2026
Server-Side JavaScript Arc Part 2: Oden, a Server-First JavaScript Runtime #JavaScript #Nodejs #Tech
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Apr 24, 2026
Capturing and Culling a Photo Journalist Scene #Photography #PhotoJournalism #CreativeProcess
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Apr 2, 2026
Alpaka Elements Tech Case as a Camera Bag #Photography #Tech #Reviews
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Feb 26, 2026
Fear and Loathing and LLMs #Nodejs #LLM #SoftwareEngineering
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Feb 17, 2026
Repairing a Bose SoundDock iPod Speaker #Hardware #Repair #Ewaste
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Jan 12, 2026
"Photographing Potrero Hill" is in local coffee shops #Photography #Zine #Local
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Dec 16, 2025
Introducing RFC Hub #SoftwareEngineering #Productivity #OpenSource
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Dec 1, 2025
A few months with htmx #WebDev #HTMX #JavaScript
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Nov 5, 2025
The scales are tipping in the Software Engineering industry #SoftwareEngineering #Tech #Opinion
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May 1, 2025
Notes on installing Linux on a 2008 Apple Intel iMac #Linux #Hardware #RetroTech
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Apr 30, 2025
Post Apocalyptic Computing #Tech #OpenSource #Hardware
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Mar 23, 2025
AI will change the world but not in the way you think #AI #LLM #Future
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Mar 19, 2025
Running Debian Bookworm on a 13" AMD Framework Laptop #Linux #Debian #Hardware
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Jan 31, 2025
Writing Multithreaded Node.js Applications: Is it worth it? at NodeConf EU #Nodejs #SoftwareEngineering #Programming
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Nov 5, 2024
The Ultimate Fujifilm X-E1 Camera Guide #Photography #CameraGear #Tech
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Oct 19, 2024
Using an iPod Classic Monochrome 4th Gen in 2024 #RetroTech #Nostalgia #Ewaste
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Sep 8, 2024
Discreet, Cheap, Film-Like EDC Street Photography Camera in 2024 #Photography #StreetPhotography #Gear
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Aug 25, 2024
Map Buddy Product Retrospective #SoftwareEngineering #MobileDev #Product
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Aug 19, 2024
My Photography is Featured at Philz Coffee in Potrero Hill #Photography #Art #Community
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Aug 16, 2024
Introducing GenAI in O'Reilly Answers #AI #SoftwareEngineering #Authoring
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May 29, 2024
My Photography is Featured at Ikon Coffee #Photography #Art #Community
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Apr 25, 2024
Photography is a Loss of Dimension, Senses, and Fidelity #Photography #Art #Tech
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Apr 17, 2024
A Cheap and Pocketable Camera in 2024 #Photography #Tech #Gear
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Apr 3, 2024
Enabling English on a Japanese Panasonic Lumix GX1 #Photography #Hardware #Tech
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Mar 30, 2024
After your first 10,000 Photographs #Photography #Art #CreativeProcess
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Feb 4, 2024
Repairing a Minolta X-370 Light Leak #Photography #Repair #Minolta
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Jan 16, 2024
Getting into Photography on a Budget in 2023 #Photography #Budget #Gear
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Oct 7, 2023
PS2 RPI4 Part IV: Conclusion #Hardware #RaspberryPi #Tech
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Aug 6, 2023
How to file a CCPA complaint against Reddit #Privacy #ConsumerRights #TechLaw
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Jul 1, 2023
How to Delete your Reddit Account and All Data under GDPR/CCPA #GDPR #Privacy #DataProtection
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Jun 19, 2023
Welcome to your Chat Bot #AI #Chatbot #Fiction
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Apr 16, 2023
Emulating Windows XP on Linux in 2023 #Linux #RetroTech #Emulation
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Apr 9, 2023
How NOT to Measure Latency by Gil Tene #SoftwareEngineering #WebDevelopment #Performance
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Mar 11, 2023
mig: The Universal Database Migration Runner #Database #Go #SoftwareEngineering
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Jan 1, 2023
Setting Open Graph Tags without Server Side Rendering #JavaScript #WebDev #OpenGraph
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May 24, 2022
Detecting if a PWA/TWA is Installed #JavaScript #WebDev #Mobile
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Dec 11, 2021
Node.js Package Management at UtahJS #Nodejs #SoftwareEngineering #JavaScript
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Oct 8, 2021
Multithreaded JavaScript: Concurrency Beyond the Event Loop #JavaScript #Nodejs #Concurrency
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Jun 5, 2021
Distributed Systems with Node.js: Humble Books Bundle #Nodejs #SoftwareEngineering #Books
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Jun 1, 2021