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Evan Mercer

@evanmercerdevJoined August 2026

Indie maker building Twitter Viewer in my spare time.

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EMEvan Mercerevanmercer.hashnode.dev12h ago · 3 min read

The states nobody designs for in a "paste a link, get a file" tool

A "paste a link, get a file" tool looks trivial from the outside — one input, one button, one result. I've found the opposite is true: the harder a tool is to describe, the more the UX rides entirely

EMEvan Mercerevanmercer.hashnode.devAug 14 · 7 min read

After Nitter: what's left of third-party X front-ends

If you go looking for a working Nitter instance today, you get a confusing answer. Some are gone. Some show you a bot check. A couple work perfectly well. And the flagship instance returns HTTP 200 wi

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