Lokesh Dhakar

@lokesh

Current: InsideOutLibrary.com, @internetarchive Prev: @square, @weebly, @getaround. Open source projects: Lightbox and Color Thief

San Francisco, CA

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Lokesh Dhakar
@lokesh
Oct 2
I built a way to unearth the images hidden in old books. Check it out: insideoutlibrary.com Searches 1.4 million images, all public-domain. Strange diagrams, forgotten inventions, and other visual curiosities.
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Lokesh Dhakar
@lokesh
Jul 10
tempting culture-slop.myshopify.com
Lokesh Dhakar
@lokesh
Jun 1
Oof, my account was part of this hack: instagram.com/lokesh Once they compromised my account, they changed the username and then set the profile age to under 13 to suspend the account. Locked me out entirely. Meta/IG folks, help appreciated.
André
@oracles
Jun 1
Today Instagram had this massive exploit where hackers were just stealing rare handles left and right. Hundreds of accounts gone. People losing handles they’ve owned since 2010, some worth hundreds of thousands. I own a few rare ones so I was actually stressed watching this
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Lokesh Dhakar
@lokesh
May 6
Enjoyed the incredibly detailed step-by-step, with all the missteps along the way, write-up by Alex Harri on his ASCII renderer. alexharri.com/blog/ascii-ren…
Lokesh Dhakar
@lokesh
Apr 13
I wrote the original Lightbox script in 2006! It's been a while. Lightbox3 is a complete rewrite. Still just one HTML attribute to get started, but the interactions are entirely different: spring physics, pinch-to-zoom, swipe-to-dismiss, fluid morph transitions.
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