Lots of good new stuff in TypeScript 6.0!

Oh what could that be in the short list for the New York Festivals 2026 Radio Awards award for fiction audio book, could it be There Is No Antimemetics Division by me, qntm, narrated by Rebecca Calder?

It's important to separate the money you send to the artist from the artist

[decommissions the UK's last paperclip minimiser]

There's not really a lot of bromine or barium in Breaking Bad

AAH YOU KNOW WHAT THIS MEANS

What's a good wine pairing for a Big Mac

Did you know? The year 2025 is evenly divisible by 5, the last time in history that this will ever happen! Wait what

The year is 10 CE. The novelty New Year monocle has just debuted

Perhaps the revelation of Banksy's identity will end that mildly unfunny running gag in the Spider-Verse movies

There's a good joke about non-constructive proofs

DLSS 6 replaces you with a different gamer who isn't irked about DLSS 6

Thinking of setting up a mailing list. What software would folks recommend? I'm guessing a few hundred people would be on it, so probably too many people to realistically mail all at once manually

DLSS 6 just replaces the game with a different game it thinks you should be playing instead

There is

Ah shit. An absolute titan. My favourite story about Hoare: he needed a sorting algorithm while working as a student in Russia the fifties, so he quickly wrote something that seemed to do the job. It’s now called Quicksort and it’s so elegant and powerful it’s still taught and used today.

For the purposes of computing, we always need to approximate π. In JavaScript, `Math.PI` is the nearest 64-bit floating point number to the true value of π. My proposal is that for consistency and symmetry we should introduce `BigInt.PI`

Of course in the UK we celebrate Pi Day on the third of Duodecimber

Mathematicians love today, 2026-03-14, because 2,026 minus 3 minus 14 is 2,007 which is of course the largest prime number

Cokes Zero

One of the first things I noticed in Pluribus is that in the scenario depicted in the show, art is dead (cont.)

In the Mario universe are positrons called walectrons

Vaguely insulted that (to my knowledge) I have not yet been considered influential or cool enough to be impersonated in this way

Cheque's in the mail

Wouldn't it be great if there were autonomous robots which were deliberately designed to be impossible to reprogram or turn off "Robots which did what?" [turning on the first 10,000] Did what what

Okay so let's say I have two fixed strings, A and B, and I can append small amounts of arbitrary junk data to the end of both strings. I want to engineer it so that A + junk and B + different junk have the same MD5 hash How computationally feasible is it to figure out what junk to add?

No I didn't say you were the GOAT, I said you were the Goht, the Masked Mechanical Monster which serves as the boss of the Snowhead Temple in The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask. It's roughly equivalent

When's International Women's Day, that's what I'd like to know

GenAI can generate pretty much photorealistic images but that doesn't make it a camera

Move the clock forward one hour in the middle of the day, and back one hour in the middle of the night, every day and night, through the whole of winter

In the original Deus Ex, when you're buying stuff from someone, the prices are baked right into the dialogue. If they decided to change those prices for balance purposes, multiple lines would need re-recording I'm guessing they didn't do that too often!

The interesting thing about seasonal clock movement is that some people have such strong opinions about what "7:35am" or "4pm" means that it's easier to move EVERY CLOCK IN YOUR REGION than shed those cultural associations or reschedule your working day

I wholly support this

"Agh so I got this cute clock and almost immediately a piece has fallen off the front of it" Second hand? "No, it's brand new"

Twisted Pokémon Fire Starter

Edge case: Frankenstein's monster earns a doctorate

I can overlook millimetres per year, but what utter anarchy of a unit is inches per megasecond

On a scale of 1 to 10 how much do you hate it when a scale runs from 1 to 10 Me, I'm at the exact middle point on this scale. 5.5 out of 10

Dropping into random PR discussions on the public GitHub and commenting "lgtm" with a 👍

Last few days for this! apologies for the spam

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The earliest Simpsons media gave Bart Simpson a birth year of 1979

The basic problem is that the spinning Earth is 1. not a particularly accurate clock 2. the most important clock, ever

help help help

Here is my leap second simulator! I have been wanting to build this for a long time

FROM THE PEOPLE WHO BROUGHT YOU "IRREGARDLESS"

Spent all of last year reading Discworld and if you haven't read the Tiffany Aching series, totally do. Oh and 'There is no Antimimetics division' by @qntm.org is WILD 🤯

Using the optional chaining operator in JavaScript code can be a code smell. const username = account?.name What do you mean you aren't sure if `account` is an object or not? Be sure! *What do you mean you want to continue execution even if it's missing?*

I was wondering when Google started using its proposed 24-hour leap second smear. It turns out it was actually proposed in 2017 and, as we have not had a leap second since then, it has actually never been used

OK but what if I needed more range than that. For reasons