With apologies to Dr. Seuss.

RT @starsandrobots: Literally an order of monks using Italian-made stone carving CNC machines to more efficiently carve beautiful cathedral….

RT @JohnONolan: Some personal news: I’m thrilled (and admittedly, somewhat surprised) to announce that as of Friday, @substack is now offic….

Something that both “intro to programming” materials and chatgpt thoughleading gets wrong is misunderstanding what is hard about programming. People think that coming up with a code snippet is the hard part. It’s just… not. It only feels that way when you’re still a beginner.

RT @fakedansavage: So, if we're not safe in there. behind closed doors. where they say they want us. we have no choice but to fight t….

RT @zinyando: I have limited availability for #emberjs contract work. If you need an extra pair of hands for your project just DM me 🙂.

Ported my alt (@eaf4_somerville) to mastodon last week and it has been surprisingly active there, so I'm dusting off @ef4@toot.cafe as the replacement for this twitter account.

RT @PleaseBeGneiss:

You can follow anybody on any server. The only exception is that your server can block other servers, which is the appropriate response when a server is full of abusive dipshits.

The real answer is pick a server run by admins you trust.

It seems very dumb that mastodon explains itself as “pick a server based on your interests” because (1) that’s not relevant to how mastodon really works and (2) it immediately turns people off because who wants to lock in one topic?.

You want to demonstrate skill? Use that hour to fix a bug in a realistic, long-lived codebase.

This kind of scenarios actively selects for the opposite of the skills you really want in your teammates, which is the ability to write code that someone can come back to months later and be productive with again.

RT @starsandrobots: But why.

RT @chriskrycho: Just released Glint 0.9.5, which finishes up the full suite of support for `--build` by adding `--build --watch`. I believ….

Ah yes, "beach life" in the Anthropocene.

Maybe this is old news, but I hadn't seen it yet: at the US border, Global Entry can now be entirely facial-recognition driven. Used to require fingerprints.

RT @reshmasaujani: I woke up this morning to a news alert that our @GirlsWhoCode middle-grade book series was banned by some school distric….

The other half of that is `export { foo as "foo-123" }`. Should you do this? No. Should your babel plugin blow up if somebody else does this? Also no.

Like, did you know that ES exports don't have to have names that are valid identifiers? `import { "foo-123" as foo } from 'bar'` is legal.

When people ask what's the point of typescript, I think the perfect example is writing a babel plugin. It's *so* much easier to do correctly with TS, because the types teach you about the possible shapes of the AST you might encounter.