@realjakebroe.bsky.social is on my Christmas tree this year. My thoughts are with Ukraine again this year as I hope they will again know the peace they have been deprived of these past long years. Thank you to Jake for not giving up the fight; I’m still with you Broe, keep defending the Truth 🎄

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New language spec in revision draft (link might break, but in case anyone cares that *technically* that’s for old dart- at time of writing, it still applies):
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(5) Simple syntax solution: make “inherited” a keyword ONLY when in front of “static” so you’d get “inherited static” and could then do the exact same syntax as any other instance member function - including just the signature to leave the definition up to the implementers.

(4) It is an incredibly stupid limitation that holds the language back. And to hide behind “well it’s confusing” - if true: dogwater reason. Normalize difficult things (especially when they’re not even hard). If untrue: just come out and say “it’s hard to support, we didn’t want to” 🤡

(3) At best, you can manually define the constructor on each subclass, then add the class manually to some sort of deserializer on the base class. But that is prone to errors unless you use code-gen, and even if you do that, the type checker won’t understand what you’re doing, as T != BaseClass.

(2) The obvious use-case for this is data models for serializable data, and therefore the base class will require all subclasses to define static constructor/factory methods for the creation of an instance member.

That use case is presently not possible in Dart.

(1) The Dart programming language’s “Language Specification” document’s reason for not supporting static method inheritance is insanely stupid:

“…has little utility… Experience shows that developers are confused by the idea of inherited methods that are not instance methods.”

Which developers? 🧐

So apparently Timothy Dexter and “A Pickle for the Knowing Ones” walked so a future Nobel Laureate could run; punctuation be damned I guess. (Credit: NYT & Sam O’Nella)

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Mission Accomplished 😴👍

Bed be lookin’ nice but… with the top of the hour so close, I’m so tempted to hang in there a few more minutes to get credit for the stand goal so it’s one more hour I don’t need to stand “tomorrow” after I’ve woken up 🤔

I was describing Alicia Vikander’s take on Laura Croft in Tomb Raider to someone yesterday and suddenly went “wait, actually, have you seen Tron: Legacy?”

… upon further research it appears I’m quite late to that connection 😂 Just gave me a chuckle.

Anyone ever realize that in Disney’s Tangled, Flynn Ryder also achieves his stated dream? “On an island that I own tanned and rested and alone surrounded by enormous piles of money”

… He marries the princess of a rich sunny island castle kingdom. He’s not “alone,” but that’s an upgrade. #Disney

Whenever I see sleazy attempt at driving FOMO, I chuckle to myself and think instead of FOUE - the Fear Of Unmet Expectations.

I have never in my life regretted skipping a “once in a lifetime [insert grift here].”

Just remembered that acronym today for no particular reason. #FOMO #FOUE

I’m a big fan of strategy/tactical board/card games and my favorite one ever (for some time now) has been Napoleon Returns 1815 by Worthington Games…

Too bad the thing is out of stock every time I check. Luckily my friend has it; it’s always my vote to play. Anyhow. Nothing deep here. Just whining

My sister’s sophomore grade’s idea of Secret Santa involved not only a name draft, but an included wishlist…
Back in my day you only got a name: part of the fun was then having a reason to talk to their friends (who may have been outside your group) for help, and having to super sleuth ideas. 🧐

That's not to say it's impossible to rise above a Tuesday, more that on Tuesdays: it's all on you to supply your own positivity 😂

I get a great kick out of the deluge of "Fuck Tuesday" snaps I get every week. Maybe it'll be a thing on here too... Here's to hoping! 😅

Tuesday is without a doubt the worst day of the week. Monday gets a bad rap. On Monday everyone's got the Mondays; there's a camaraderie there and you've still got the energy of the weekend.

By Tuesday, it's just another day and still pretty far from Friday... #FuckTuesday

Looking forward to these making a difference ✊