So, I'm putting it out there: I'm hoping someone might be able to point me toward open opportunities. My tech experience is primarily in docs and front-end, but I also have a background in healthcare if that sparks any ideas. I'm genuinely flexible on roles right now, so any leads are appreciated

It takes 26 yottabytes of RAM to typecheck a union of Safe Integers

Have I peaked as a developer? My power is too great

The tracing crate is so beautiful. With just an instrument annotation, I can attach the video id if it exists to all the events for DB calls and HTTP requests throughout the life of my endpoint

This must be a new record for fixing CI! I ran postgres in tests and it only took 4 attempts to get everything to work!

I spent 30 minutes wondering why my records weren't being saved in the database 🙃 Hint: the syntax is all correct and the query runs fine

Why are there so many teaser YouTube shorts that don’t link to the main video or show up in search results And the worst part is they just cut off after a minute since they are just a shortened version…

I made a quiz about the JS Date parser is. It's very easy and you will score very high. jsdate.wtf

I missed "on" from Haskell in TypeScript and it was pretty straightforward to implement! Unfortunately both "fn" and "fn2" need passed at the same time for good inference, but I'm satisfied either way 😀

`reading-flow` is exciting for accessibility! I remember for the longest time styling and DOM ordering would be decoupled, so you couldn't just `flex-direction: row-reverse` without a disconnect between visual and machine readable orderings It's Chrome only for now developer.mozilla.or...

Kent C Dodd’s testing JavaScript course is absolutely amazing He teaches about the inner workings of tools, a lot of customizations for great dev experience, and many great exercises to get practice in 100% recommend it—I’ve been blown away by just how good it is the entire time I’ve been doing it

Introduction to competitive programming in Haskell https://lobste.rs/s/ibk13a ##haskell

Fun fact, chrome limits the max URL length to 2MB chromium.googlesourc...

Ever wanted to add numbers on the type level? No? Just me? Well if you're interested, check out my talk or blog version of TypeScript Type Level Addition! jacobasper.com/blog/type-le... www.youtube.com/watch?v=DjcC...

as const satisfies is my best friend

Does anyone know of any services that still support AtomPub? I thought of Wordpress, but that support is long gone it seems I’m not planning on using it, just wondering if it’s still used in the wild in 2025

who up there writing their blog? i want to see yalls blogs! criteria: - you wrote at least a post in 2025 - it doesn't force a paywall so we can actually read it

It’s so cool to read relatively old books and see how much has changed A few things things that used to be normal, but aren’t today: DKIM didn’t exist HTTP was more popular than HTTPS XML was the preferred serialization language for web MD5 used to be a reasonable encryption algorithm

let-chains are being stabilized?? let’s go! rust was good when i started using it and it just keeps getting better and better so fast. github.com/rust-lang/ru...

Worm

Tailwind 4.1 added mask utilities 😌 Goodbye square brackets!

Did a codewars in COBOL to see what all the fuss was about. I'm sure I could simplify this if I dug more into it My review after writing an extremely simple program is that it's odd by modern standards. It's interesting to have so much control over datatypes via pictures

Moo moo as a playable character is something I didn’t know I needed

It will never stop making me laugh when I hear "slurping" in programming contexts

How do y'all feel about the chatbot integrations in firefox? On a first glance it was a little odd, but it's been very nice. Sometimes it gets confused about what page I'm on, but that's to be expected with experimental features right?

Learn bash the hard way part 4 is in 30 minutes. Get ready to learn about advanced bash! youtube.com/live/d3B...

Cheesey Garlic bred time!

Wrote some terrible code to get multiple grammar errors working together! Now you can be notified of sticky lines. Sticky words hold sentences together but can make them tough to get through Some examples are "so", "the", "that", "a" I'm thinking about user configurable thresholds eventually!

Wrote an SVG by hand since I couldn't find any tools that worked well. Now I have a very nice squiggly boy under my errors! The top is the browser default and the below is mine What do y'all use to edit SVGs, since random websites are not it ha

There are real errors coming from a real server now! I started with checking if the first word on a line was capitalized You may notice that the underline doesn't show up under the g, and that's because underlines on Firefox just do that for some reason, so text decorations aren't viable here

Learn bash the hard way part 3 is at 4:30 Eastern. Get ready to learn about loops and subshells! youtube.com/live/Ouy...

I use IIFEs all the time when working on legacy code, so I wondered if they had many use cases in the modern era. It turns out, most use cases have been overshadowed by new features! jacobasper.com/blog/...

Decided an API to mark spans as errors and added a custom context menu! Next I'll be onto making an API to send some errors over. I'm gonna go with Haskell because why not!

Does anyone have any favorite WYSIWYG editors? Accessibility is a bonus!

Turns out buttons aren't the best way to go about interactive grammar errors. Tab indexes give content its own context which causes issues when editing I ended up going with a native approach—aria-invalid! This has spelling and grammar errors built in. I'll add additional info in a context menu!

Making a (hopefully) accessible text editor! I've been frustrated by text editors that refuse to let screen readers read anything or hide the errors themselves

Garlic bread with chese let’s go

Learn Bash The Hard Way Book Club is on Saturday the 8th at 4:30 Eastern. We'll be going over Part one up to the Loops in part 2! Come with questions! youtube.com/live/n7w...

I just hit over 100 words per minute on a typing test! It's on a subset of letters, but still an exciting milestone!

Learn Bash The Hard Way book club is at 4:30 Eastern March 1st We'll be having a quicker stream to get us started and test out streaming settings. Feel free to get started, but no reading is required this time around! youtube.com/live/TWa...

Pros and Cons of using haskell for a webserver—platform as a services don't support it, but that means I need to get some Docker reps in!

I just finished a codewars that was type level addition in TypeScript. It was fun until I had to do all kinds of shenanigans to get around the recursion limit www.codewars.com/kat... 1/3

I'm going to get back into typing practice. I can type around 80 words a minute when the words come from my brain. I did 76 lessons today, but there's no way I can do that consistently I've gotten pretty good at e, n, i, and a, but the l and r are still giving me trouble

Here's a dive into JavaScript (rabbit) holes I decided to speedrun a blog, and got this one done in 3 hours! jacobasper.com/blog/...

Cool because of the slushy machine?

Frozen lemonade time!

I purchased a margarita maker and I have too much power I made many sour slushies with Fanta and lemon juice and I cannot go back I must try all of the flavor combinations now!

Today I learned about git sparse-checkout! I've always wondered how to checkout only part of a humongous repo!

My issues with TypeScript telling me NodeLists aren't iterable was due to missing DOM.Iterable lib Fun times 😅

Vim always makes working with any language with tags so nice. I just wrote some XML and was like "wait, I could probably copy the tag and its contents with 'yat' like in HTML," and I indeed could!