John Flockton
@thegreatercurve.com
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software engineer @meta. working on mobile tooling. side interest in browsers and JS compilers.
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Dominic Gannaway
24 days ago
The TSRX team have listened to feedback and have made some important design changes to TSRX. Weβve removed the component keyword, and other parts that felt too magical and aligned TSRX more closely with JSX in how itβs consumed.
tsrx.dev/blog/simplif...
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Lilith Ferreyra-Carroll
11 months ago
Apparently the UK adult verification thing has basically banned blind people from half of the internet because they can't use the verification system π«£
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Reading about how different TV channels covered the first moon landing:
12 months ago
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Brilliant piece of UX from
@monzo.com
if you open the app whilst on the phone to a potential scammer:
about 1 year ago
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TypeScript
over 1 year ago
Today we're thrilled to announce our effort to port the TypeScript compiler and language service to native code, gaining a 10x speed boost in build times and editor responsiveness!
devblogs.microsoft.com/typescript/t...
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A 10x Faster TypeScript - TypeScript
Embarking on a native port of the existing TypeScript compiler and toolset to achieve a 10x performance speed-up.
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/typescript/typescript-native-port/
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So, what, I have to remember how to do my job?
over 1 year ago
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Me too Safari codebase, me too:
over 1 year ago
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Write short and efficient code. Otherwise, the GitHub UI completely freezes whenever a file is over 2000 lines long... it's clearly a feature, not a bug π .
over 1 year ago
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I would recommend Thank Goodness You're Here! by
@coalsupper.bsky.social
in the Steam sale. Still my favourite game of the year.
over 1 year ago
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Out of interest, apart from Quick.js does anyone know of any language interpreters which parse straight to bytecode, omitting the AST step?
over 1 year ago
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TIL, months are zero-indexed in the JavaScript Date class (but not years or days):
#javascript
#typescript
over 1 year ago
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Jim Pickard
over 1 year ago
absolute masterclass in calm, facts-based interviewing by
@vicderbyshire.bsky.social
add a skeleton here at some point
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Pro-tip: Semicolons are a viable alternative to tabs and spaces in JavaScript.
#javascript
over 1 year ago
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over 1 year ago
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TIL In JavaScript, assignment expressions can be nested in arrays.
#typescript
#javascript
#frontend
#react
over 1 year ago
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Love that BlueSky allows me to make my Following feed the default π€―
over 1 year ago
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Fun fact, in JavaScript `enum` has been a keyword since the language was formalized in 1997, even though they have yet to be implemented in the language. Additionally, if you use it as an identifier, you'll get a reserved word syntax error:
#javascript
#webdev
over 1 year ago
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I appreciate any social media platform that allows me to fuck with my DNS records
over 1 year ago
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