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Josh *The Open Source Magician* VanAllen

@joshvanallen.dev.bsky.social

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

153 Followers  |  146 Following  |  195 Posts  |  Joined: 09.06.2023  |  2.098

Latest posts by joshvanallen.dev on Bluesky

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

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

Do you feel like a real enterprise developer now?

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

that's not just human nature?

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

i'm hoping this turning into a Juri slackbot!

09.07.2025 13:52 โ€” 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 โ€” 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 โ€” 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 โ€” 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 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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two spider-man are standing next to each other in a cartoon . ALT: two spider-man are standing next to each other in a cartoon .

Great minds? Lol

17.06.2025 03:15 โ€” 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 โ€” 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 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

i recently saw a v8 project and it's a core biz app

29.05.2025 17:27 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

it's officially .NET. "dotnet" is the CLI tool and is likely folks use "Dotnet" to avoid link renderings or algorithem issues

23.05.2025 16:16 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Anyone else having issues getting to rxjs.dev?

21.05.2025 13:21 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

i made this joke as part of my "joining Nx" announcement haha but yes

16.05.2025 16:14 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

i think technically i'm classified as "Alumni Champion"

16.05.2025 02:08 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

if you give him some details, mind sharing them with me as well??

16.05.2025 02:00 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
A Nx terminal running a java-backend and showing in a side window

A Nx terminal running a java-backend and showing in a side window

After struggling to get Java working (blame me and blame java), I got it imported into a Nx workspace and running!

The Nx bit was actually the easy bit.

15.05.2025 21:58 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

this is why something like JSON-LD could be powerful

24.04.2025 19:05 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Javac I see .... Ooooo

19.04.2025 04:29 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

you should see my portable office setup

18.04.2025 21:12 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Taskmaster Series 19 Official Trailer
YouTube video by Taskmaster Taskmaster Series 19 Official Trailer

I'M SO EXCITED!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_2x...

16.04.2025 14:41 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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(1/3) Like many in the developer, cybersecurity, and open source communities, we were stunned by the news that MITREโ€™s funding for the CVE/CWE programs may expire as soon as tomorrow.

#mitre #cve #cybersecurity

16.04.2025 01:18 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 4    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Nx MCP Now Available for VS Code Copilot Learn how to enhance VS Code Copilot with Nx MCP integration, providing rich monorepo context for smarter AI assistance.

ICYMI, I wrote a quick blog post about the Nx MCP integration for @code.dev copilot.

But I'm mostly curios to know how you use coding assistants right now and for what tasks in particular?

nx.dev/blog/nx-mcp...

15.04.2025 14:52 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
The Secret to Making Copilot Actually Useful? Nx MCP.
Copilot now supports MCP, which unlocks some seriously powerful dev workflows. In this quick demo, I show how we wired up our Nx MCP server to work seamlessl... The Secret to Making Copilot Actually Useful? Nx MCP.

Last week @vscode.dev just rolled out MCP support with GitHub Copilot. We already wired it up.

Now it understands your entire workspace โ€” project graphs, generators, ownership, everything.

Enjoy, and don't forget to subscribe to our channel ๐Ÿง 
youtu.be/dRQq_B1HSLA

14.04.2025 20:09 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 14    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

Besides the anxiety of making sure I don't cause a dry socket, recovering just nicely after getting my wisdom teeth out! Weight lifting is on hold while I recover but still getting that protein in!

12.04.2025 19:37 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

๐Ÿ‘€

10.04.2025 21:07 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

vibe chaos...vibe greatness!

10.04.2025 15:32 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Vibe Exploring a Codebase
It is not always just about vibe coding, but in a larger codebase or one to which you're new, LLMs can also be useful to get to know where things are and how... Vibe Exploring a Codebase

Vibe exploring a codebase.
(Hint: helps with outdated/non-existent READMEs or CONTRIBUTING.md ๐Ÿ™„)

youtu.be/WUm61cDH8C8

09.04.2025 14:08 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

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