> "With AI people can code in English instead of having to learn a programming language." > "Hmm, English is quite imprecise and the AI seem to interpret requests incorrectly. We need to refine this with a specification." > Congratulations you've re-invented the concept of a programming language.

Honest research questions: • Given that tabs for indent allow the reader of the code to choose their own preference for the indentation size why do most developers enforce spaces for indents? • Given the unix spec that lines must end with a new-line why do some editors by default remove them?

Anyone else notice the increase of “Look what I did with AI” content out there with zero “This is how I did it (with AI)” content available? I started asking “how does this code work?” and more often I get “I don’t know, AI did it.” WTF!

The tech for event-stream (SSE) is kinda of neat and easy to work with. Yet in my 20+ years developing front end #JavaScript applications I’ve never had the need/opportunity to use EventSource. Can anyone explain why that technology is there yet it is hardly ever used with FE development?

Use cases for a JavaScript pipe operator: 2ality.com/2022/01/pipe... // 1. Chaining various operations const regexOperators = ['*', '+', '[', ']'] .map(ch => escapeForRegExp(ch)) .join('') |> '[' + % + ']' |> new RegExp(%) ;

I’m honored that @kevinpowell.co invited me on to build a #webcomponent for him and have him implement it and talk about it. I had a great time and hope we can do it again in the future! youtu.be/qUhtlnL48yA?...

@zylinski.se Thank you! I’ve been shouting this into a void for 15 years! Thank you thank you!! zylinski.se/posts/know-w...

Screaming, then “I got toothpaste on my eyeball!” #OnlyParentsCanUnderstand

I wish there were more reasons to design custom WebStreams in typical browser based front end development (SPA). CRUD lacks the intellectual excitement these days. #JavaScript

Love this bit: “We should be careful both to avoid ‘optimising’ and accelerating the creation of legacy code and to mistake such pessimisation as productivity — especially if we’re doing so at the expense of joy, time and skill.” To repeat: “at the expense of joy, time and skill”. Hits home that!

TIL that Vim windows can switch to a local (window contained) argument list with :arglocal and switch back to the global list with :argglobal Finally I can use the args list to kind of bookmark buffers when my buffer list gets too large to manage in my short term memory. Arg lists are editable!

What he said: 💯 🎯

Why does every TV or Movie seem to be able to “crack the encryption”? Why even bring encryption into the plot if it was crackable?

Go take the State of JavaScript 2025 survey if you have a minute! survey.devographics.com/survey/state...

This perfectly encapsulates what the GOP position is on the shutdown.

Most companies have similar business needs for their software, but not all needs are met equally IE: Error handling. Critical for biz needs. Yet so many companies I've seen absolutely neglect it. Why? Not enough engineers focusing on that discipline Get good at that stuff and you'll be unstoppable

New #JavaScript blog post about compressing data and encoding it into Base64 using built-in Web APIs tritarget.org#Rethinking%2...

Don't [...spread] or .split() your strings! Use Intl.Segmenter API. Available in every JS runtime

For the curious, to do what "newExample" is doing WITHOUT the "using" keyword it would look like "oldExample". Have I got your attention about Explicit Resource Management in #JavaScript yet?

You might know `NaN` means “not a number,” and you might know that not-a-number `NaN` IS a number — but did you know that the not-a-number number `NaN` is not not-a-number? piccalil.li/blog/nan-the...

It is really annoying that you cannot destructure private class fields in #JavaScript

Dear Golang: omitempty is the worst idea EVER and I do not like you for it!

This is insane and I love it! 🤯

MDN is good stuff. If your framework doesn't work with anything on there, that's a bug.

This is absolutely crazy and I LOVE IT!!! 👏

Isn’t it fascinating how the industry jumps at tech like TailWind only to discover that upgrading is a heavy lift. Meanwhile upgrading CSS requires no lift at all.

We talk a lot about developer productivity, but not enough about developer focus. What practices have helped your teams stay effective without burning out under pressure to deliver faster?

Today I learned there is a subtle foot-gun when extending ReadableStream. #JavaScript

Today I learned all about EventSource in #JavaScript developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/W...

What aspect of @emberjs.com would pique your interest in learning more about it? What changes could be made to the framework to enhance its credibility within the #JavaScript community?

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How fast can you type JavaScript?

Today I Learned: everything.curl.dev/usingcurl/di...

Checking types with TypeScript using JavaScript and JSDoc is really nice but I have to wonder what could that look like if the comment-based syntax was not JSDoc? If we were to invent a different comment-based type syntax today, what would that look like?

I see a lot of FUD coming from the JavaScript trope of type coercion. The thing is in these tropes their comparison is non-sensical. You would not write code that blindly accepted both a string or an array for the same variable. And if you did, you’d be explicit with type narrowing. Why the FUD?

Me: I need to track mutations to objects — I know, I can use a Proxy! App code: The hell you will! — assertDeepEqual(…) #JavaScript

@emberjs.com How can we get the C-suites excited about Ember.JS? Dev experience is one thing but having leadership support could really jumpstart Ember into the limelight!

Is it ironic that the act of replicating human behavior—at least in the context of language—has driven the tech industry to reframe their world view around being «anti-human»? What should we do about that? #AI

Refactoring isn’t optional. I hear teams talk about "refactoring sprints" or treating it as a luxury. That’s completely backwards. 1/6

I really think the new Explicit Resource Management (ERM) added to #JavaScript is a game changer. I’m concerned it is not getting enough attention! developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/W...

"We use coding agents like junior developers". Cool. So you get the dual benefits of it being slower than an experienced developer to get a half-decent result *and* it never learns. Bargain!

It turns out this whole time that the Turing Test was the wrong way to think of it. Thinking a chatbot is alive is not a test of how good the chatbot is, but of your own ability to think of other human beings as real and complete people

Why does @github.com really want me to open everything in the GitHub app when the UI for the app is so much worse than the UI for the Web?

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I think the term “Explicit Resource Management” might confuse a lot of #JavaScript developers because the implementation is more about «scope mechanics» then it is about «resources» and this distinction can lead to over engineered debates. Focus on the consumption not the disposal.

Three video shorts about prioritization by me on the @modernswe.bsky.social Modern Software Engineering channel: www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRut... www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVAG... www.youtube.com/watch?v=go4r...

We are the music makers. We are the dreamers of dreams. I dream of a team where we can refactor without needing political justification. Where tests drive code design, assert correct behavior, and do not depend on implementation. We build the houses we live in; they need not to be a mess!

Why does it feel like so much of software development is a fight? It isn’t the tech or the aesthetics as far as I can tell. It has to be the social aspect. That means humans are the cause of the strife. Can we not have more introspection in our industry?

Ah, the infinite desire to achieve all without paying any. A great illusion and a greater escape. Pretend you're an artist. Pretend you're a writer. Pretend you're a musician. In the end, all you truly want is to imagine that you are. Skills matter cause they're hard to acquire