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Mac Long

@maclong.dev

Software Engineer, Skateboarder, Photo/Filmographer & Musician https://maclong.dev | https://tangled.org/maclong.dev

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Mac LongJul 30, 2026

Building this site with Astro

Content collections, a Cloudflare Worker that's also an AT Protocol PDS, and why the identity layer turned out to be the hard part.

astrocloudflare

Mac LongJun 25, 2026

Building Swift CLI tools and libraries

What building a zero-runtime view compiler and a reverse proxy in Swift taught me about shipping command-line tools.

swiftconcurrency

Mac LongMay 14, 2026

Type-safe frontends with Next.js and Tailwind

Patterns that hold up across a dozen Next.js apps — typed data flow, component boundaries, and where to stop abstracting.

reacttypescript