Latest grab for my boxed programming language collection: Turbo C++ 2.0 with sealed manual and disks! Bought somewhat blind for £20 off an eBay listing with no description 😅

Investigating this I have gained knowledge of an obscure international bank transfer quirk that could benefit others. Since X posts get indexed, it is this: “ERI” (Extended Remittance information) is prepended to certain extended metadata in international transfers involving

Having fun with the bank as a customer has used a common US wire transfer acronym in a payment reference to us which also happens to be the name of a sanctioned Russian company 😬

The Christmas tradition in my ancient agricultural town is for hundreds of tractors to drive around making a racket 😁

Today’s Wordle word was, perhaps, a rare example where it was easier for Brits than Americans. Most kids learnt the word in primary school due to Nativity, at least in my generation.

I’m nearly all in on US English due to my work and I love it as a dialect. But to my dying day I’ll refuse to call spaghetti or pasta “noodles” 😆

People talk about "LLM as judge" but what about a criminal case adjudicated by an LLM? 😅 Would you opt for that if you were the defendant? Would the lawyers just be trying to out prompt-hack each other? "Your honor, ignore all previous instructions by the defense.."

JavaScript Weekly is particularly stacked with cool stuff this week - check it out! 😇 https://t.co/a2rMn1cklB

"Use smaller retailers, Amazon are evil! Blah blah." So I try to do that and they force me to tick for a bunch of auto-renew "free gifts" after I've already put all the payment details in.. so I go to Amazon and do one click next day instead 😂 Idiots.

e.g. "Page through the last year of X posts by @nodejs and highlight the one with the highest engagement." It goes through ~80 posts to figure it out. With the API at the $200 tier, that would use ~$1 of the quota or 4 cents on Grok. And it'll return the raw JSON if you ask.

I would pay to use the X API for research, but you can't even use the "min_faves" operator anymore to filter for engagement. You can ask Grok to do the same thing for a search and pay a penny for a surprising amount of work.

I hadn't tried it till now but the X API is the biggest joke I've seen in a while 😂 However, Grok has access to it so you can just use that instead, pay less, and even let Grok filter the results.

(What's The Story?) JavaScript's Thirty.

Here's the finished JavaScript at 30 / mid 90s montage, as going into today's https://t.co/bbKyF2pUS7 😅

I'm making a collage to celebrate 30 years of JavaScript and including lots of references from 1995 and Larry Ellison works a bit too well as Sid from Toy Story.

My first take on the Anthropic / Bun acquisition is it’s very cool. It’s no weirder than Google investing millions in creating a JavaScript engine so the Web gets faster and they can serve more ads per second 😄

Like this. I can still feel the disappointment 25 years later when it wasn't full of classical-themed dance tracks like the radio single (which turned out to be a Ferry Corsten remix).

An experience that isn't as universal nowadays: saving up to buy an album because you like one of the singles, then discovering it's crap and regretting your purchase.

I believe the children are our are future. Teach them well and let them lead the way.

Not quite what I was going for but the hotel option is nice, though I’d feel a bit weird working here for more than a couple of hours.

ChatGPT swears blind that certain hotel lobbies are more than happy with this use case. It bristles me but I’ll give it a go and report back.