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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Eugen Rochko
2 months ago
"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
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Lilith Ferreyra-Carroll
3 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 🫣
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Reading about how different TV channels covered the first moon landing:
4 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:
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TypeScript
8 months 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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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
9 months ago
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So, what, I have to remember how to do my job?
10 months ago
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Me too Safari codebase, me too:
10 months 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 😅.
11 months 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.
11 months 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?
11 months ago
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TIL, months are zero-indexed in the JavaScript Date class (but not years or days):
#javascript
#typescript
11 months ago
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Jim Pickard
11 months 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
11 months ago
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Freshly delivered
12 months ago
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TIL In JavaScript, assignment expressions can be nested in arrays.
#typescript
#javascript
#frontend
#react
12 months ago
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Love that BlueSky allows me to make my Following feed the default 🤯
12 months 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
12 months ago
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I appreciate any social media platform that allows me to fuck with my DNS records
12 months ago
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