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title: "the cheng lou pretext tweet"
description: "!https://x.com/_chenglou/status/2037713766205608234"
date: 2026-03-31
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      <img src="https://pbs.twimg.com/amplify_video_thumb/2037713657334042624/img/XfCSjcN7-iX8b_fJ.jpg" alt="Cheng Lou (@_chenglou) on X — My dear front-end developers (and anyone who’s interested in the future of interfaces):

I have crawled through depths of hell to bring you, for the foreseeable years, one of the more important foundational pieces of UI engineering (if not in implementation then certainly at" loading="lazy">
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I have crawled through depths of hell to bring you, for the foreseeable years, one of the more important f...</div>
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webdev twitter is blowing up with implementations of pretext text calculations.  The examples are absolutely fun and ridiculous.

![350a368f-0e6b-4375-98d6-6303961c0d6c.webp](https://dropper.waylonwalker.com/file/350a368f-0e6b-4375-98d6-6303961c0d6c.webp)