Jake Bailey
@jakebailey.dev
According to git blame, I wrote the TypeScript compiler, don't fact check that
Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft working on TypeScript
Underground gopher, finally revealed
https://jakebailey.dev/
https://github.com/jakebailey
arch btw
Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft working on TypeScript
Underground gopher, finally revealed
https://jakebailey.dev/
https://github.com/jakebailey
arch btw
Oh cool so Washington state legislators are trying to do bullshit age verification here too
app.leg.wa.gov/billsummary?...
Bipartisan! Great job team
Sent my initial angry comment
I just love the neverending battle against censorship to "keep our children safe" (literally the name of this bill)
app.leg.wa.gov/billsummary?...
Bipartisan! Great job team
Sent my initial angry comment
I just love the neverending battle against censorship to "keep our children safe" (literally the name of this bill)
HB 2112 Washington State Legislature
app.leg.wa.gov
January 11, 2026 at 7:35 PM
Oh cool so Washington state legislators are trying to do bullshit age verification here too
app.leg.wa.gov/billsummary?...
Bipartisan! Great job team
Sent my initial angry comment
I just love the neverending battle against censorship to "keep our children safe" (literally the name of this bill)
app.leg.wa.gov/billsummary?...
Bipartisan! Great job team
Sent my initial angry comment
I just love the neverending battle against censorship to "keep our children safe" (literally the name of this bill)
If you have a repro, an issue would be helpful!
January 10, 2026 at 10:25 PM
If you have a repro, an issue would be helpful!
Reposted by Jake Bailey
trynova.dev/blog/garbage...
Last Sunday I discovered that lifetimes on #Rustlang garbage collected handles should be contravariant on their lifetime parameter. This is an open research question, but I think this opens a path to meaningful lifetimes on self-referential structs.
Check it out!
Last Sunday I discovered that lifetimes on #Rustlang garbage collected handles should be contravariant on their lifetime parameter. This is an open research question, but I think this opens a path to meaningful lifetimes on self-referential structs.
Check it out!
January 9, 2026 at 9:09 PM
trynova.dev/blog/garbage...
Last Sunday I discovered that lifetimes on #Rustlang garbage collected handles should be contravariant on their lifetime parameter. This is an open research question, but I think this opens a path to meaningful lifetimes on self-referential structs.
Check it out!
Last Sunday I discovered that lifetimes on #Rustlang garbage collected handles should be contravariant on their lifetime parameter. This is an open research question, but I think this opens a path to meaningful lifetimes on self-referential structs.
Check it out!
Damn I couldn't even do that and so I've resoldered my mouse buttons twice already
January 7, 2026 at 6:07 PM
Damn I couldn't even do that and so I've resoldered my mouse buttons twice already
I promise when it sounds like the audience is silent they're actually laughing
January 7, 2026 at 2:51 AM
I promise when it sounds like the audience is silent they're actually laughing
My GopherCon talk was just posted!
GopherCon 2025: Porting the TypeScript Compiler to Go for a 10x Speedup V2 - Jake Bailey
YouTube video by Gopher Academy
youtu.be
January 7, 2026 at 2:50 AM
My GopherCon talk was just posted!
replace most meals with popcorn
January 6, 2026 at 3:13 AM
replace most meals with popcorn
Yay! Setting the font and size again in gsettings/dconf worked to fix my tab/URL bar font issues.
All I personally have left are how slow scrolling is in chromium browser, and that they get a close button (I'm tiling, I don't want that!).
That and probably hardware acceleration...
All I personally have left are how slow scrolling is in chromium browser, and that they get a close button (I'm tiling, I don't want that!).
That and probably hardware acceleration...
January 4, 2026 at 6:22 PM
Yay! Setting the font and size again in gsettings/dconf worked to fix my tab/URL bar font issues.
All I personally have left are how slow scrolling is in chromium browser, and that they get a close button (I'm tiling, I don't want that!).
That and probably hardware acceleration...
All I personally have left are how slow scrolling is in chromium browser, and that they get a close button (I'm tiling, I don't want that!).
That and probably hardware acceleration...
Great post, of course; you noted a couple of Wayland font issues I've been trying to solve myself (and have been working around by disabling Wayland for chromium-based browsers in the meantime)
Hope they work. Annoying how gtk sticks stuff in dconf/gsettings and not a file
Hope they work. Annoying how gtk sticks stuff in dconf/gsettings and not a file
January 4, 2026 at 4:45 PM
Great post, of course; you noted a couple of Wayland font issues I've been trying to solve myself (and have been working around by disabling Wayland for chromium-based browsers in the meantime)
Hope they work. Annoying how gtk sticks stuff in dconf/gsettings and not a file
Hope they work. Annoying how gtk sticks stuff in dconf/gsettings and not a file
If you're new to foot, I would try out Ctrl+Shift+O rather than manually copying links; it instead pairs each link on screen with a letter you can hit and then it'll open in the browser.
I also suggest using foot --server and then using footclient as the default terminal; slightly faster to open.
I also suggest using foot --server and then using footclient as the default terminal; slightly faster to open.
January 4, 2026 at 4:43 PM
If you're new to foot, I would try out Ctrl+Shift+O rather than manually copying links; it instead pairs each link on screen with a letter you can hit and then it'll open in the browser.
I also suggest using foot --server and then using footclient as the default terminal; slightly faster to open.
I also suggest using foot --server and then using footclient as the default terminal; slightly faster to open.
I don't want algorithms, I want chronologically sorted posts!! What did you say? How do you sort them? With a sorting algorit-
the "no algorithms" myth is alive and well 🙃
January 2, 2026 at 8:30 PM
I don't want algorithms, I want chronologically sorted posts!! What did you say? How do you sort them? With a sorting algorit-
No, this is not (yet?) possible
January 2, 2026 at 10:02 AM
No, this is not (yet?) possible
I use giscus.app and am very happy with it, though I recognize it does tie things to GitHub (which is fine for my kind of content)
giscus
A comments widget built on GitHub Discussions.
giscus.app
December 29, 2025 at 8:19 AM
I use giscus.app and am very happy with it, though I recognize it does tie things to GitHub (which is fine for my kind of content)
Faster, certainly, though I am not sure what "transparent" means in this context
December 28, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Faster, certainly, though I am not sure what "transparent" means in this context
Lmao at least this is a shared opinion
This is far south side stuff. Aurelio's has a stranglehold from 147th on down and has since I was a kid. Lord knows why, too much damn sugar in the sauce
December 28, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Lmao at least this is a shared opinion
It's a mood to learn the pope ate the same pizza I had growing up
Though, I personally found their sauce to be too sweet (which is saying a lot given I was a child)
Though, I personally found their sauce to be too sweet (which is saying a lot given I was a child)
Pope Leo canonically prefers Aurelio’s. www.tastingtable.com/1857955/pope...
The Chicago Pizza Place Honoring Pope Leo With His Own Menu Item - Tasting Table
Pope Leo was known to visit Aurelio's, a local pizzeria in Homewood, Illinois, near where he grew up. The chain is serving a "pope-erroni pizza" in his honor.
www.tastingtable.com
December 28, 2025 at 7:50 PM
It's a mood to learn the pope ate the same pizza I had growing up
Though, I personally found their sauce to be too sweet (which is saying a lot given I was a child)
Though, I personally found their sauce to be too sweet (which is saying a lot given I was a child)
User error, I wasn't logged in, shameful
December 28, 2025 at 5:16 PM
User error, I wasn't logged in, shameful
Well, that's embarrassing
December 28, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Well, that's embarrassing
agghhhhhh I'm not logged in on my phone
December 28, 2025 at 5:15 PM
agghhhhhh I'm not logged in on my phone
go-source doesn't have that, so it seems to me
I've seen people just add themselves to CC, which I never want to do (and also, anyone can remove anyone else from CC which is exciting)
I've seen people just add themselves to CC, which I never want to do (and also, anyone can remove anyone else from CC which is exciting)
December 28, 2025 at 5:10 PM
go-source doesn't have that, so it seems to me
I've seen people just add themselves to CC, which I never want to do (and also, anyone can remove anyone else from CC which is exciting)
I've seen people just add themselves to CC, which I never want to do (and also, anyone can remove anyone else from CC which is exciting)
Hm, I don't see a star on Go CL pages; I thought starring was an issues thing (I do that on the chromium tracker)
December 28, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Hm, I don't see a star on Go CL pages; I thought starring was an issues thing (I do that on the chromium tracker)
I think gerrit is superior to GitHub PRs (stacked PRs when?) but I really wish I could follow a CL without having to add myself to CC for the world to see
I love following issues and PRs
I love following issues and PRs
December 28, 2025 at 3:42 PM
I think gerrit is superior to GitHub PRs (stacked PRs when?) but I really wish I could follow a CL without having to add myself to CC for the world to see
I love following issues and PRs
I love following issues and PRs
My memory of the giant thread is poor so I can't remember a specific example, but I personally haven't had such problems in TS, even in codebases which don't opt to require parens even around single element argument lists.
December 27, 2025 at 10:40 PM
My memory of the giant thread is poor so I can't remember a specific example, but I personally haven't had such problems in TS, even in codebases which don't opt to require parens even around single element argument lists.