if I have a compile-time known fixed array in TS, do I seriously need `as const satisfies readonly [Item, ...Item[]]`? It looks like without it, TS either forgets it’s Item[] or assumes the array could be empty. 🌴

Skeuomorphic designs like fizzy.do can feel overdone partly because today’s interfaces are so dull. The contrast is so stark that these UIs can seem like too much. And many “toyish” designs are usually not snappy or well-thought-through. Fizzy doesn’t seem to compromise there.

Another interesting Russian-speaking album. 1st was a concept record, an homage to Morrison, built around Zamoskvorechye, a Moscow district. Now it’s a one-man (drums + bass + sax) avant-rock thing. Unexpected and quite cool. music.apple.com/nl/album/fut... запах горбуши голову кружит

reading on the history of electronic music and rave culture and remembering how we used to combine parties with full-time work. meanwhile I stayed at my laptop a bit too long on Monday, slept ~3 hours less, and now I’m completely non-functioning and just waiting for the weekend to recover. lol

Hell yes. 🤘 youtu.be/PNmcF6eRE7w?si=LeVqT...

'Tis the season once again! Around this time of year, people who strung their Christmas lights the wrong way start wandering into hardware stores looking for what they later find out is often called a "suicide cable."

I’ll answer as a world-class professional caulking specialist with decades of precision silicone-finishing work for high-end bathrooms. Use your finger.

OCCII (Onafhankelijk Cultureel Centrum In It), an independent music venue in Amsterdam. Originally a tram depot, then a squat, now with a restored facade. Built in late 19th century by the guy who architected Paradiso and Melkweg (other famous music venues). Inspired by "Russian National Style"

trying out Apple Music instead of YouTube Music. Never used it seriously and no surprises it's schizophrenic. Apple Music > Home > Recently Played > an album. Click play and it plays (and shows) only 1 track which it added to your Library b/c you added it to a playlist while listening to this album.

well, I know it was just a matter of time when this day would come. I just had to restart macos to make it recognise my wired headphones

Woke up with a drum intro and a nice bass melody looping in my head. Pretty sure it's based on something I've heard before, but it feels original. Time to assemble a punk band, yolo. and heal that trauma of cringing at my own voice.

@zed.dev I see an RSS feed for blog updates, but release notes seem available only via email newsletter. Any chance of an RSS for those too?

Increasingly appreciate when apps don't force an urgent update upon releasing new features. It's some special level of, idk, respect an empathy. So rare these days

still not over the fact Den Helder — Nijmegen train reversing direction in Arnhem. such tricks should be illegal.

Well, the experiment of routing all my RSS feeds into an email client didn't work out. Back to a dedicated RSS reader. Giving inoreader a try this time, until @en.sitnik.ru releases his app

Just listened to Carbon Based Lifeforms – Live at Ozora 2024. Still remember how impressed I got when I first heard their Live at Ozora 2022. This one feels weaker in comparison. Though still a good listen overall.

when you learn that Mistral’s chatbot is called “Le Chat”

starting to get these annoying not loading comments screen in telegram channels more and more often. thought its smth to do with ~sharding or smth when I was seeing this in some russia-based channels. but now i see it in ~local as well, ugh.

Meanwhile, ChatGPT has completely started mixing up my chats with my wife’s. Total schizophrenia. Tried Claude for daily random questions and it’s really bad. Installed Grok for the first time and it feels faster and better in replies, lol

Unsure Calculator: calculate with numbers you're not sure about Pretty neat! https://filiph.github.io/unsure/

Probably need a meeting to "align on tab-title accuracy." Otherwise it’s clearly too hard a problem for modern web development

Castricum already doesn’t sound very Dutch, and then there’s a street called Sans Souci in it. s.v.p.

Cruise control is the most confusing thing in any car for me. Always overcomplicated for no real reason: redundant modes, weird layouts, different buttons in every brand. The worst I’ve seen is Citroën (maybe PSA-wide now) where the switch hides in the blind zone behind the steering wheel

never been to a resort where you just lay by the pool and do nothing. Ideally family-friendly but chill, no loud animations, discos, or drunk parties, and with decent food. How do you find such places for a winter trip?

I love that the Boston cop slide never got fixed and now people just willingly go down it in tribute. It’s basically a national landmark at this point

There’s a benefit to devices with replaceable batteries. Found an old Garmin eTrex Legend HCx in my gadget graveyard box, put two AAs and it turned on like new. Now it’ll serve for my kid’s geocaching adventures! While a pile of other devices with dead non-replaceable batteries just sit there

Love geocaching, it’s been getting our kid hiking since 2022! Don’t mind paying for services, but web&mobile ux are so terrible. +the monopoly on trackable IDs, ugh. I end up just checking spots on the map without even logging. So now looking into Opencaching and GeoKrety — sound quite promising

Хорошо, что всё чаще говорят, что причин, почему земля плоская, гораздо больше, чем просто то, что это чуток сложно самому проверить. За всей этой конспирологией стоит куча психологических и социальных причин. Часто невозможно просто доказать обратное — всё сложнее, зачастую это просто симптомы.

#Autumn in Menouve valley 🧡 #WaterWednesday #Landscape #Alps #trees

Building Ikea furniture this weekend reminded me of two challenging life facts: * If it's not aligned, more force won't help. * If it's aligned, more force won't help. Take that, #996.

always a good idea to keep a hidden lego set (or some other diy surprise project) stashed for emergencies. Teachers get sick, no backup arranged, you still need to work. ROI guaranteed.

I think spreadsheets as a concept are brilliant. Can you imagine computers *without* them? They are simultaneously databases and user interfaces. Manipulation is direct: the input is the output. Reactive programming and no need to reason about outdated state or cache invalidation. Simply brilliant

Always avoided 6:30-type flights because of our daughter. But this time N. flew alone, and S. insisted we drive to the airport together. Even went to bed earlier to wake up in time. Then came back, caught a bit more sleep, and still made it to school on time. So now it’s the adult who’s struggling

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In my first two jobs we used XSLT as a templating engine producing XHTML. In fact, I joined the 2nd company specifically because I already had solid XSLT experience. Those were the days! That constant tension between two camps: declarative/functional apply-templates camp vs imperative for-eachs, lol

Planned to see caves in Belgium for the fall holidays. The caves were great, the weather wasn’t. That’s where a campervan proved itself: checked the forecast, chased the sun, and ended up hiking in Luxembourg the rest of the week. No b&b bookings, no rigid plans, so liberating, spontaneous and fun!

found a nice rss-to-email gateway rssby.email All works good, except for "feeds that have not been updated after 90 days will be automatically unsubscribed to reduce server load". Even their own blog only updates every few years, lol

chestnut season!

Christmas Lights Diarrhea no more! Finally, I have not just a theme I use, but also an article to point to whenever someone sees my screen and says my syntax highlighting looks broken. Thanks, @tonsky.me !

oh fuck, Gmail's Gemini started to return some of its system prompt with intermediate prompts when asked to refine a message. You know that "My persona is Gemini Advanced, and I am an AI assistant. I should respond in a helpful, professional, and collaborative tone..."

After weeks of reading Dutch parties’ programs, they all seem to fall into one of these: — We’ll live better, at the expense of those we won’t let in. — We’ll live better, thanks to those we’ll let in, but who can’t vote anyway. — We’ll live better, at the expense of someone else, not you.

looks like @comaps.app fixed the bug with map labels in a wrong language and then regressed back. 😞

In Google Chat, these “Google Drive messaged you” notifications are so weird and actually lame. You know who left that comment you’re so eager to tell me about and it’s not Google Drive.

one-man Overcast by @marcoarment.bsky.social managed to support old iOS, while rolling out iOS 26 style changes. While Telegram could not, broke all UI and forced to upgrade :/

Keep thinking Telegram would be much better if it stayed just for messaging: chats and groups. No public channels, stories, comments, and all that stuff. Maybe minimal personal updates like stories could’ve been ok but once that door opens, it’s hard to stop the slide :/

Nothing makes your day like finding out the broken kitchen boiler was just a stuck thermostat which you can just reset, and not that you need to replace the whole thing which would’ve meant somehow pulling it out from under the cabinets (nearly impossible). Victory!

If you live in NL and can vote but still not sure what those weird 2–3 letter party abbreviations mean, go do your homework and vote on Oct 29.

We are alarmed by reports that Germany is on the verge of a catastrophic about-face, reversing its longstanding and principled opposition to the EU’s Chat Control proposal which, if passed, could spell the end of the right to privacy in Europe. signal.org/blog/pdfs/ge...

The EU is once again trying to push a dangerous legislative proposal that undermines encrypted communication and obliterates our rights to private conversations. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

TIL “remigration”. (deportation)