The first line of context for me in any AI interaction that allows presets is "do not kiss my ass"

From a friend treating me as his board gaming guinea pig: "The next one I want you to try out is Dice Throne, which is basically 'what if Magic but also Yahtzee'"

We're a month into 2026 and its still not clear after googling, stack overflowing and asking AI how to do asynchronous teardown in React.

We're soon going to need 3x more stalls in every public restroom due to the average TTP rising over 600% in the smartphone era.

Wow. A bug I reported in Mocha JS over ten years ago just got fixed github.com/mochajs/moc...

I now check email about once a week

A "Brady" of online meetings

My children listen often in wonderment when I share tales from the before times when, implausible as it may seem to their modern sensibilities, humans were capable of defecating without a phone.

Structured Concurrency in a nutshell: What happens in scope, stays in scope.

The greatest of all time way to enjoy Fritos is sip by sip from coffee mug

It's only a matter of time before someone creates a "TypeShit" programming language.

OTEL metrics tooling and visualizations: 🤯 OTEL Node APIs 🤔

If you wanted to produce a 3D walk through of a re-imagined space, what product would you use? AI or otherwise?

30 years in and I haven't had the need to understand memory alignment and padding thus far, but that's changing with recent forays into wasm-land. This was a very decent treatment medium.com/@haadimdwor...

dagger.io is cool.

AI is quickly ruining bullet point lists for me. Does anybody else find themselves involuntarily tuning out whenever they encounter one?

Pronouncing Gen AI like Forrest Gump says Jenny

Tractor sprinklers, why use anything else? www.acehardware.com/departments...

Exciting times! We've just released the second beta of Effection 4.0 and most of the work now is in updating documentation.

A commonly proposed alternative to structured concurrency in JavaScript is "why not use async/await + AbortController" But strangely enough, nobody actually ever does this in practice 🤔 Here's why it's not a real solution frontside.com/blog/2025-0...

As sciatica sufferers around the globe will tell you: sitting truly is the new smoking.

Structured Concurrency is not about cancellation, it is about composition. Of course, cancellation is required for the clean composition of concurrent tasks, but cancellation is more of an implementation detail than a core feature.

Yes I'm geeking out downspout filters, and no I won't apologize

How 'bout that 0.75% tip option on the payment terminal?

A cardinal sin for developers of which we're all guilty: "I don't understand the problem, so I will blame the problem on the thing that I don't understand." Resist the urge and be curious!

The Aliens movie from 1986 is such a freaking masterpiece. Watch it.

I am consistently impressed with moss and its ability to grow roofs, rocks, driveways, and pretty much everywhere

Keyboard driven IDEs train you to be fast on the draw with your test suites like a old west gunslinger. Don't underestimate the power.

If TypeScript had branded "mapped" types as "reduced" types, I would've caught on faster—they transform a type union's N members into ONE key:value object type.

Sometimes I drink Topo Chico just to see if I can still feel

If dolls are a stand-in analogy for purchasing power, then the actual argument is "Why do you need $20 when you can have $2?"

Dunno if folks are panic-buying or what, but definitely noticed today during our weekly grocery shopping at the HEB that an abnormal amount of the products we purchase on the regular are completely out of stock.

Explicit resource management is just so heartbreakingly lame, and it is sad that Microsoft used their position as the controller of TypeScript to railroad it into the language.

Surprise — we’re turning 20 later this year. We've impacted millions of users and 300K+ developers—from startups to enterprises to OSS. We never chased the spotlight, just the hardest problems— and after 20 years, boy, do we have stories. 😅 Follow along at #Frontside20

Thank you, Ember-concurrency for VanillaJS! Also, it leads me to this thought provoking article: frontside.com/blog/2023-12...

Fun rules, and programming should be fun above all else. Dart wasn't fun for me, and so I quit it after about 8 months. A pattern of inadvertent complexity in the name of simplicity is why. github.com/dart-lang/sd...

#FreeJavaScript update: Oracle has just filed more on their motion to dismiss the Fraud claim. Here's a summary of where the case stands: deno.com/blog/deno-v-...

Pigskin was one of the greatest video games ever made.

All the best visualizations (like this one) are so unique, and yet instantly familiar.

Thanks so much for having me on! I could talk about structured concurrency until the cows come home, but glad we got to cover a range of topics as well.

What is structural programming? How can utilize structured concurrency? Find out all about it from @cowboyd.bsky.social on our latest episode! creators.spotify.com/pod/show/dev... www.youtube.com/watch?v=vped...

Martin Sústrik, creator of ZeroMQ, coined the term structured concurrency. The post proposing it is fairly fantastic: 250bpm.com/blog:71/. We have a @devtools.fm episode coming out soon w/ the author of a structured concurrency library for JS called effection that's really worth checking out.

Think I'm starting to finally get my brain inside the language server protocol.

I wish folks would purchase Best Buy stock just to move him into the No. 1 spot

Going back to async/await code after you've been using structured concurrency for enough time is like Will Farrell putting on the FecoVision glasses in SNL www.tiktok.com/@huggyattack...

I love the fact that the steak emoji (per most renderings) is a porterhouse 🥩 Without question, this is the greatest steak there is. I have had two in my life, and if you have not had one in yours, then you are in grave danger of having mislived.

Given their ubiquity, language servers are still one of the most opaque technologies out there.

This is an absolute triumph www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mCs...

It is probably time to begin the process of setting your hair on fire now rather than later.

What is your favorite way to distribute statically linked binary CLIs so that it has maximum reach? I.e. homebrew, apt, GitHub actions, etc? Are there any helpers for this, or is it just a one-off in each case?