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Kris 🧙‍♂️ Kowal @kriskowal.com · Aug 6
Achievement unlocked: the irresponsible impulse-buy two-day shipping button for Basic Binary Board Book button activated. www.amazon.com/dp/B0F9VCF3TN
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Steven ⬢ @styfle.dev · 13h
esbuild implemented import bytes proposal 🎉

github.com/evanw/esbuil...
Release v0.25.11 · evanw/esbuild
Add support for with { type: 'bytes' } imports (#4292) The import bytes proposal has reached stage 2.7 in the TC39 process, which means that although it isn't quite recommended for implementation, ...
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Sarah Drasner @sarahedo.bsky.social · 9d
💥 did a small drawing explaining the JS execution model including the event loop. I hope it’s helpful to folks. Debugging is always easier when the underlying implementations are understood.
Drawing explaining the JS execution model and event loop
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Kris 🧙‍♂️ Kowal @kriskowal.com · 2d
In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

"Off by one"
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Gretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcc.bsky.social · 2d
In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

"I'm correcting your grammar"
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Stephen McGann @stephenmcgann.uk · 3d
No fee, I'm afraid.
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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 3d
Robert De Niro: “Now we have a would-be king — King Donald the First. Fuck that. I’m Robert De Niro and I’m asking you to stand up and be counted in the nationwide No Kings protest on October 18th”

👉👉 nokings.org
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Kris 🧙‍♂️ Kowal @kriskowal.com · 6d
I believe in you.
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Kris 🧙‍♂️ Kowal @kriskowal.com · 6d
Me too! kriskowal.com/shon
SHON (SHell Object Notation)
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E = mily² @emily.news · 7d
just took damage on realizing that the generation of people who will not understand this joke from Star Trek IV are already alive
three men are standing in front of a computer and one of them says " hello computer "
Alt: three men are standing in front of a computer and one of them says "hello computer" (it's that scene from Star Trek IV where Scotty does this. it's funny because he's an engineer and he doesn't know how to use a computer because you're not supposed to talk to computers but he doesn't know that.)
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Kris 🧙‍♂️ Kowal @kriskowal.com · 12d
We might be obliged to leave some glory for Erlang.
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Kris 🧙‍♂️ Kowal @kriskowal.com · 12d
Around 2008, I ran an event called “War of the Worlds 2” on the Site of Erstwhile Enjoyment, which I pitched at a BarCampLA, and that got the attention of one the writers on Hanna Montana, who immediately quit his job to run “Trans-media Fiction Events”. Anyhow, I think it was around that time.
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Kris 🧙‍♂️ Kowal @kriskowal.com · 12d
I’m not sure how many times I’ve done a Uint1Array, but it’s been more than once. One of the interesting things is byte alignment, where u1a.bitLength * 8 !== b.byteLength or if u1a.bitOffset isn’t aligned, for that matter. Meanwhile, Uint2Array is handy for genomes.
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Scary Mary Branscombe @marypcbuk.bsky.social · 12d
there's a great quote from Ursula Le Guin about books at the point of reading becoming a collaboration between the author and the reader like music is between the composer and the musician; the story is created somewhere in the middle even though it's all written down already
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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 14d
We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.
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Kris 🧙‍♂️ Kowal @kriskowal.com · 14d
Squee. Bringing new meaning to “character development”. I’m going to be anxious until I find out what happens to U-psilon, who could never do enough, and X, who has had a rough journey.
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Linguistic Discovery @linguisticdiscovery.com · 14d
Where did we get the letters of the alphabet from?

And why does English use them so strangely?

Here’s an excerpt from the new book, “Why Q needs U: A history of our letters and how we use them”, which takes you on a linguistic odyssey through the history of the alphabet:
Where does the alphabet come from? And why does English use it so strangely?
A new book takes us on a linguistic odyssey through the history of the alphabet
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TC39 @tc39.es · 18d
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Ben Allen
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@jasnell.me
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@nicr.dev
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TC39 @tc39.es · 18d
ECMAScript Excitement 🎉

This week, at its 110th meeting, TC39 advanced these proposals:

3️⃣ Non-extensible applies to Private
2️⃣.7️⃣ Import Bytes
2️⃣.7️⃣ Iterator Chunking
2️⃣ Native Promise Predicate
1️⃣ Array.prototype.pushAll
1️⃣ Native Promise Adoption
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Lea Verou, PhD @lea.verou.me · 19d
Neurodivergent conditions are only disabilities because we live in a world not designed for us. Easy to imagine a flipped narrative in a world run by neurodivergents,eg “Patient insists others decode hidden meanings behind their words and compulsively makes eye contact for excessive amounts of time“
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Lea Verou, PhD @lea.verou.me · 19d
AuDHD (Autism + ADHD together) in particular bring a host of superpowers when it comes to entrepreneurship & innovation, and many of the greats are speculated to have been AuDHD by today’s diagnostic criteria: Leonardo da Vinci, Newton, Einstein, Tesla to name a few.
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Lea Verou, PhD @lea.verou.me · 19d
Second, neurodivergence is simply a different way that some brains are wired, and comes with strengths and weaknesses. Many (most?) great innovations of our time came from brilliant neurodivergents who happened to hyperfocus on the right thing.
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Lea Verou, PhD @lea.verou.me · 19d
First, neurodivergent conditions have a very strong genetic component and are highly hereditary. It’s just as unlikely a medication could give you autism as it would be to give you green eyes.
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Lea Verou, PhD @lea.verou.me · 19d
The recent commotion around Tylenol and autism reminded me how many neurotypicals are so uninformed about neurodivergence they think neurodivergent conditions (autism, ADHD, OCD etc) are some sort of plague that you can catch if you’re not careful enough.
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Kris 🧙‍♂️ Kowal @kriskowal.com · 19d
Or: if society were to demand that software engineers be certified by our professional organization, could we revoke licenses for using React?
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Kris 🧙‍♂️ Kowal @kriskowal.com · 19d
They should have sent a “poet”.
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Rob Palmer @robpalmer.bsky.social · 20d
ECMAScript excitement 😉

This week TC39 advanced these proposals 🎉

3️⃣ Non-extensible applies to Private
2️⃣.7️⃣ Import Bytes
2️⃣.7️⃣ Iterator Chunking
2️⃣ Native Promise Predicate
1️⃣ Array.prototype.pushAll
1️⃣ Native Promise Adoption
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Kris 🧙‍♂️ Kowal @kriskowal.com · 21d
The Cheese Wiz and the Sand Witch strike again.
A witch of the desert.
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