"Sideloading" is the rentseeker word for "being able to run software of your choosing on a computing device you purchased". There is no reasonable case for an operating system developer having a say over what programs you run on your hardware. #android #google

Apparently the UK adult verification thing has basically banned blind people from half of the internet because they can't use the verification system 🫣

Reading about how different TV channels covered the first moon landing:

Brilliant piece of UX from @monzo.com if you open the app whilst on the phone to a potential scammer:

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...

The pretentious history of front end job titles: 2010: Web Developer 2015: Front End Developer 2020: Front End Engineer >2025: Member of Technical Staff: Front End

So, what, I have to remember how to do my job?

Me too Safari codebase, me too:

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 😅.

I would recommend Thank Goodness You're Here! by @coalsupper.bsky.social in the Steam sale. Still my favourite game of the year.

Out of interest, apart from Quick.js does anyone know of any language interpreters which parse straight to bytecode, omitting the AST step?

TIL, months are zero-indexed in the JavaScript Date class (but not years or days): #javascript #typescript

absolute masterclass in calm, facts-based interviewing by @vicderbyshire.bsky.social

Pro-tip: Semicolons are a viable alternative to tabs and spaces in JavaScript. #javascript

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TIL In JavaScript, assignment expressions can be nested in arrays. #typescript #javascript #frontend #react

Love that BlueSky allows me to make my Following feed the default 🤯

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

I appreciate any social media platform that allows me to fuck with my DNS records