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Chris Thoburn

Chris Thoburn

@runspired.com

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📍Oakland, CA, North Mexico Husband |🦮parent | ⛰️Trail Runner | OSS Software Engineer working on @emberjs.com and @warp-drive.io 👨🏼‍💻Senior Staff Engineer at AuditBoard, Ex @linkedin.com IsleOfCode

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Chris Thoburn @runspired.com · 12h

TBH I think TC39 needs to go. As a model it feels like it’s failed, something like PHP or Rust’s governance would be better.

Chris Thoburn @runspired.com · 12h

the language just needs to follow suite with other languages and build tooling, types and linting in.

Chris Thoburn @runspired.com · 12h

Defaults matter and I’m just tired of needing to fix this rule to use the language normally in every project.

Chris Thoburn @runspired.com · 12h

In the process they also named the rule so confusingly that folks think it’s defending them from dangling promises - it is not. So they are miseducating folks in the process.

Chris Thoburn @runspired.com · 12h

Oh and their reasoning involves the newly spec’d Promise.try being also bad so can’t wait for them to also lint against that because why not.

Chris Thoburn @runspired.com · 12h

And the maintainers think this is desirable and don’t wonder at all why everyone hates the project and the language and want to burn it all down 🤷‍♂️

Chris Thoburn @runspired.com · 12h

Typescript Eslint has a default rule that prevents no bugs and has nothing to do with types but amounts to “we think you shouldn’t create async APIs so we’re going ban use of async and make you write out a bunch of extra promise code”

Chris Thoburn @runspired.com · 20h

Yes this applies to a lot of large projects. It's a turn off and makes me both want to use them less and makes me never want to contribute. Which is literally the intended effect. Issue templates and discussions exist primarily to pipe contributors to dev/null

Chris Thoburn @runspired.com · 20h

If your "OSS" project uses Github issue templates and Github discussions I just presume you are closed contribution, stubbornly opinionated and don't fix bugs.

Chris Thoburn @runspired.com · 2d

Among the more interesting developments is that MLB has decided the World Series brand is too weak and that small market trail races have a better brand property they should try to latch onto.

A yahoo sports headline for the World Series that calls it the “Fall Classic” instead.

Chris Thoburn @runspired.com · 2d

“Don’t use much/any JS” and “the web is the best open App Store” are incompatible pick-one opinions both of which are only believed by people who want to be able to tell you what a bad job you’ve done regardless of what you build and how you built it and how successful it is.

Chris Thoburn @runspired.com · 2d

I refuse to use every observability SDK out there for roughly these reasons (and a few more) and have taken to reverse engineering their APIs to do it better

Chris Thoburn @runspired.com · 2d

Can’t help but think Trump is withdrawing from Europe in order to help Putin and Netanyahu continue their wars

Chris Thoburn @runspired.com · 4d

There should be a rule where if a game hits 18+ innings in the playoffs it counts as 2+ games for each multiple of 9 it reaches.

Chris Thoburn @runspired.com · 5d

Ever notice how everyone is always winning their fantasy league?

Chris Thoburn @runspired.com · 6d

This is brilliant

Mark Malstrom @malstrom.me · 6d

Crank is a framework I want to use very soon. Utilizing (async) generators as a first-class component primitive is brilliant.

The Just JavaScript framework. Crank is a JavaScript / TypeScript library where you write components with functions, promises and generators.

Chris Thoburn @runspired.com · 8d

And/or maybe you’ve got a decent train of satellites around the clock at your lat/lon

Chris Thoburn @runspired.com · 8d

Basically everyone I know is experiencing bad latency, intermittent speeds / service. That’s if it works at all. Seems more often than not it just doesn’t work.

Chris Thoburn @runspired.com · 8d

Also note: only starlink flights are getting blocked by security tools. The older system seems to be still allowed.

Chris Thoburn @runspired.com · 8d

Even stationary on the ground I’ve yet to hear of someone having a reliably good experience with starlink. Is the whole premise just flawed and is spacex value going to tank like Tesla’s?

Chris Thoburn @runspired.com · 8d

Two things I’ve noticed since United rolled out starlink.

1 - security tools block using United WiFi
2 - the WiFi is horrendously slow and unstable

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Coffee III: Saison of the Witch @unlox.bsky.social · 8d

“oh so you think the east wing being demolished is worse than-“ it’s a synecdoche, man. a visual metaphor. there’s a reason the aliens in Independence Day don’t aim a huge laser at SNAP benefits

Chris Thoburn @runspired.com · 8d

Hot take - they aren’t failing.

Joe Kassabian @jkass99.bsky.social · 9d

New ICE recruiting methods have resulted in half of this group of absolute winners failing AN OPEN BOOK TEST

Chris Thoburn @runspired.com · 9d

Permanent Daylight Savings Time is the only way to go

Chris Thoburn @runspired.com · 9d

Much rather kids walk to school in the dawn than walk home in the dark.