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TypeScript is a psychology experiment designed to see if you can read "the JavaScript API you know and love, but with the safety of strong typing!" and get so distracted by how much you like strongly typed languages that you forget that you do not, in fact, neither know nor love the JavaScript API

1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️

As I’ve mentioned, the JavaScript for Everyone lesson on iterators was one of my favorites to write (frustrating as it was at times). Well, thanks to our friends over at @smashingmagazine.com, you can read that very lesson right now! www.smashingmagazine.com/2025/10/java...

After React Conf and Remix Jam, it’s clear the differences aren’t just technical, they’re about values. React accepts complexity as capability. Remix chooses simplicity as liberation. My take from Remix Jam → laconicwit.com/react-and-re...

The final StaffPlus NYC is done. Here's what stuck with me: understanding VP constraints, recognizing useful crises, questioning conventional wisdom, and why I now have a mentorship problem. #StaffPlus #LeadDevNYC laconicwit.com/the-last-sta...

Really disappointed to find out that Johnny Cash didn't actually shoot a man in Reno just to watch him die. I realize it makes a nice lyric but no matter your intentions it's irresponsible to be spreading misinformation in this current environment. He needs to take it down

[email protected] sharing the best kept secret of senior ICs. A weekly email to your boss is better than a hype document. #StaffPlus

Microservices have yielded simpler components but more complicated systems.

Today I discovered that my int-to-float handling code is IEEE-753.99993896484375 compliant.

Why yes, configuring @warp-drive.io did just get a lot easier. Glad you noticed!

(mf doom voice) he threw a sandwich cheese and salami, feds couldn't indict folded like origami, afraid of subway both the chain and the train, mayo salt and pepper shake your thang, grand jury shut em down twice, coca cola on the side no ice

Staff+ engineers aren’t promoted, they’re absorbed into the system. Here’s the canon of books, essays, and guides that help you survive it laconicwit.com/the-staff-ca...

Most of the time you’re using vi.mock, you probably shouldn’t be. It's too global, too brittle, and too easy to misuse. vi.spyOn is almost always the better choice. laconicwit.com/vi-mock-is-a...

i spent the last month or so exporting @glitch.com apps, trying new (& old) services to migrate my most precious projects to, and i streamed it all to bring awareness to the community & help them find their solutions in a crunch. here’s my list of post-glitch hosting options & links/dates to know 🎏

Slides from my InfoQ Dev Summit talk on Thinking Like a Detective: Solving Cloud Infrastructure Mysteries www.canva.com/design/DAGc9...

if the wheels had come off this thing any faster it'd be a Cybertruck

👀 👀 👀 @warp-drive.io (formerly #emberdata) version 5.5-alpha.21 is compatible with any framework that works with a signals concept. Even multiple on one page sharing data. Pluggable reactivity ftw. Official #svelte/#vue/#preact/#lit integrations coming soon. ✨🌌 github.com/emberjs/data...

~45% of US corn production is now used to make ethanol, mostly for mixing into gasoline. That's ~13% of all US crop land already used for energy production. Using some of the same land for solar panels would capture 50-100 times more energy per acre.

I just met with Mohsen Mahdawi where he’s being held in Vermont. He was detained when he showed up for his citizenship interview. He should be released so he can become a citizen.

I saw some poorly written unit tests and it motivated me to write down what I didn't like about them. laconicwit.com/dont-mock-yo...

ECMAScript excitement 😉 Safari 18.4 ships three new TC39 proposals 🎉 🔶 Iterator Helpers (Stage 4) 🔶 Error.isError (Stage 3) 🔶 Atomics.pause (Stage 3)

The CfP is also open, so you can already submit your talk idea to get feedback from us: emberfest.eu

People still: Look, we can't read history through a contemporary lens. There wasn't a consensus that slavery was wrong. Every 18th c. pamphlet: How can they do this? Are we SLAVES? In SLAVERY? The worst things you can be? Are they gonna put us IN CHAINS? Like in SLAVERY? Which is EVIL? Like SLAV-

The three hard problems in computer science: * naming * cache invalidation * finding a human at Google empowered to fix your problem

I wrote about some emerging categories of product features enabled by LLMs. laconicwit.com/llm-native-p...

"The best case is O(n), and the worst case is that someone checks why." And the funniest quip of 2024 lands before the curtain falls. via xkcd.com/3026/

I love Reddit cuz you can follow a Bigfoot subreddit where someone asks “Can Bigfoots get human diseases?” and responses range everywhere from “yes but they’re better off because they don’t get vaccinated” to “actually the plural of Bigfoot is Bigfeet” to “the Bigfoot i saw definitely had the flu.”

the blog post writeup of this is so good eieio.games/blog/writing...

Slides for my #CommitYourCode talk on debugging cloud infrastructure issues. www.canva.com/design/DAGW7...

THIS WEEK IS THE COMMIT YOUR CODE CONFERENCE! I wanted to make a tech conference that is accessible for everyone but also does good for the community! Instead of $700 tickets, they are $30! Here are just SOME of the talks from this 3 Track conference! Link to the agenda ⤵️

One of the risk factors mentioned in the Roblox S-1 is that the Lua programming language might become uncool. Have other companies mentioned the popularity of their programming languages as a risk factor?

Livewire is a fellow scholar of how.complexsystems.fail

Today in incentives: Google search update prioritizes results from Reddit. Media companies respond by investing more in sharing content on Reddit.

As of Chrome 131 you have more options to style `<details>` and `<summary>`. You can now use of the `display` property on these elements, and also use a `::details-content` pseudo-element to style the part that expands and collapses. developer.chrome.com/blog/styling...

Excited to speak at www.commityourcode.com in December. I just finished my slides and I have a whole detective schtick. Now I just need to figure out how to shave 3 minutes off of the runtime of my talk.

if www.bluesky.com signs up with their domain it would be the funniest thing ever