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@AdamRackis
@lorenc_dan
It's a sham, man. All of it, just made up. There's no god here, no heresy, what is not prevented is permitted.
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GitHub is not a resume, and OSS should not be a hiring requirement.
But if you're on GitHub, I'm definitely gonna go see if you're an asshole to people in OSS projects.
It's a way to check if someone is definitely an asshole, or maybe an asshole.
An asshole bloom filter.
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Uncle Bob's "Clean Code" is the Strunk & White "Elements of Style" of software dev.
The less you understand the craft, the more helpful it seems. Once you understand the principles of the craft, you can clearly see it is toxic brain poison that can take decades to unlearn.
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Friends,
It's ok to write open source software when it's your job.
It's ok to write it for fun.
It's ok to do it for free.
It's ok to charge for it.
It's ok to license it liberally, or not.
It's ok to write proprietary software.
None of this ruins anything. It's great actually.
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8 years ago, I complained to
@GitHub
support about how they handled feedback. When I got shut down, I made the isaacs/github repo and started posting issues.
Eventually, others within the OSS community got involved there, and it became a de facto way to post GH feature requests.
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If coding doesn’t feel like a Faustian bargain with a vindictive cenobite demon of infinite complexity that you know will haunt you for the rest of your days and never be satisfied, a necessary evil to attain great ends, you have at least another level to master before calling yo
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@LouisatheLast
@scalzi
@Checkmite
@gm_wggames
I’ve has good results with demanding a consulting fee for continuing a discussion. My time is valuable, if you want me to continue, and you’re all about debate and the free market, you should be willing to pay for that value. (I’ve had no paying clients yet.)
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Don't sleep on
@remix_run
. I'm definitely still honeymooning a little bit, but the last time I saw something and had this level of "THIS is it, this is how to best do ${thing} in JavaScript", it was Node.js.
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This hot take ignores the simpler explanation: “technical” work is around 50-75% communication, not coding.
Average worker using RescueTime to measure productivity only got 12 hours of core week done per week. Rest was email, IM, chat, whatever.
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For Mother's Day today, never again use "a mom" as a tired generic sexist example of someone who is not tech savvy or competent
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Controversial opinion: the JS tooling ecosystem is good, actually, and a lot of the people who complain about it have no idea how good they have it.
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Developers who love and hate file systems, join me in this.
Every time I meet someone who works at Microsoft, and I mean just about *every* time, I bring up a specific and important point. One simple way Microsoft can improve their operating system.
Unix filesystem conventions.
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In OSS, saying "only the code matters" is just incompetence.
Software is by and for humans.
Empathy is a core developer skill.
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@ginnyhogan_
that's like assuming my parents "liked" each other just because they stayed married for 22 years
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@moorehn
I was in my 40s when I realized that "Dja do anything fun over the holidays? 😁" is an invitation to a financial dick-measuring contest.
Now I like to respond "yes" followed by an excruciatingly detailed account of what I did at home with my kid, or "no" followed by a period.
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@gldivittorio
If they're not going to phrase it actively, I always wonder, why not go all the way, and just straight up implicitly blame the victim? Have the courage of your convictions!
"New York City has seen a rise in face punching, which women are more likely to experience."
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Ryan Dahl
Name other scholars beside Oppenheimer who spent their later years running away from their early work
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This is what I'm on about.
"AI Safety" people have it all wrong. They're worried about skynet, when they should be worried about AI making it easier for douchebags to shit all over the information commons we've built over the last 30 years.
We pulled off an SEO heist that stole 3.6M total traffic from a competitor.
We got 489,509 traffic in October alone.
Here's how we did it:
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I've seen people talking about how hard it is to ship TypeScript modules that work with both CommonJS and ESM.
Indeed, it can be a dark art.
I made a thing that makes it very simple:
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Racism isn't always called "racism" openly. In Silicon Valley, the dominant racist political view is called "meritocracy".
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Slack is not documentation
GitHub is not a resumé
Hotdog is not a sandwich
Email is not a phone call
Twitter is not a message board
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Do you have code that does this?
try {
doSomething()
} catch {
return fallbackValue
}
Wasteful! Creates a whole Error object with a stack of call sites for no reason.
Do this instead:
catcher(() => doSomething(), fallbackValue)
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When I say "empathy is a core dev skill", I don't mean "be nice".
I mean "fully imagine being a person who DOESNT know how this shit works."
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But they're entirely fucking arbitrary, and out here in the real world of thoughtful and dedicated practitioners, we all know that what matters is trade-offs, priorities, and delivering a positive return on investment in pursuit of whatever unique goal we have.
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When you say "JavaScript isn't a real language", I hear, "I am threatened by tools I don't know how to use effectively"
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If we don't settle for an imperialist center-liberal, we'll get white supremacist fascism. Those are the options. It's not complicated.
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This is a great lesson for CEOs and product leaders at every level. When you have a user who's saying "I'm going to keep using your product, I mostly love it, but gahhh it's pissing me off in these specific ways", THAT IS GOLD.
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JavaScript is good.
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Cases where you can sit down and focus singlemindedly on a fairly well-understood problem are the exception, not the norm. At npm, we call those “typing problems”, because the work is just typing.
Thinking problems are harder.
Talking problems are hardest.
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@kat_blaque
At least weekly, some poor woman comes to r/polyamory like, "my partner has 3 girlfriends, but pitched a fit about me being 'unethical' because I told him I want to date the guy from work", and *every time* it's this. She's bi and been dating women, he's toxic af.
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omg, big super nerdy TIL.
So, in ANSI color codes, the named colors are:
0 black
1 red
2 green
3 yellow
4 blue
5 magenta
6 cyan
7 white
It always annoyed me that they're not in spectral order.
But:
000 black
001 red
010 green
100 blue
101 magenta
110 cyan
111 white
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@DrMSnap
@arsonistIesbian
@iurichavesx
@puppetmotel
@Random_Factor
It's better if we all try to forget actual chuck norris entirely so in a few centuries some nerd can be like "did you know chuck norris was based on a real person?" and no one will believe them.
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What if most "10x developers" only seem 10x as productive as their colleagues because they bring down everyone around them?
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Kids today and their "console.log" debugging. Why, in my day, we would document.body.appendChild(document.createElement('p')).innerHTML='uphill in the snow both ways'
And we were grateful!
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Here's the conclusion of this thread, a TypeScript --import module loader with the full power of TSC's type checking, and (warm cache) performance as good as or better than "blazing fast" ts compilers written in Rust and Golang (which don't typecheck).
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@theleezajohnson
@CarissasNewLife
If you say yes there, they have a bunch of other questions they're supposed to ask, possibly involving a form 5150. (Do you have a plan? When will you do it? Have you acquired the necessary equipment? Put affairs in order? Etc)
People are just lazy and don't wanna do their jobs.
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Talent is a myth. Every skill is learnable. Start by learning compassion, communication, confidence and C. Watch out for liars & psychopaths
Hey friends. You have 140 characters to give a newbie advice about coding. What would you say? RT for reach. Let's help people.
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A reminder that evolution only cares about passing the unit test of “genes got passed on”, not the integration test of individual survival.
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When
@natfriedman
started as CEO, I'm told, on his first day, he asked about the isaacs/github/issues, and got some eyerolls from his new LT. He said, "Which of these issues can we close TODAY?"
He pushed a cultural shift towards caring about OSS needs in a real way.
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CS 207: Introduction to Not Being An Asshole Online
CS 307: Privilege and Team Dynamics
CS 407: Advanced Internet Empathy
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And instead of getting newcomers who are similarly thoughtful and ready to learn, with fresh ideas and curiosity, we get these insufferable twits who've gotten the lesson that the way to be impressive is to be the most mundanely pedantic scold in the room at all times.
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Angry. Spews terrible political ideas and obvious lies. Orange. Bragging about business skill that is mostly grift.
Trump is Hacker News.
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Every computer system is in a perpetual state of partial to total failure. At scale, something is always broken, often in ways that no one can every fully fix.
Please quote this tweet with a thing that everyone in your field knows and nobody in your industry talks about because it would lead to general chaos.
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Controversial opinion (that is actually obvious) about the move of some JS tools to Rust and/or Golang:
If you just cut out (skip, cache, parallelize, etc) the slow parts, it doesn't much matter how fast you do the fast parts, or what language you do them in.
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A huge body of research shows two things:
1 Women are as good at knowledge work as men are
2 Companies with more diversity perform better
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What's worse, they apparently have invented "shazam for video" and aren't sharing
Vizio TVs:
✅ stole your watching habits
✅ took your IP address
✅ tracked devices
✅ sold your identity to advertisers
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"Will bun completely replace node?"
Node hasn't even completely replaced Rhino. Perl still hasn't completely replaced cobol. Things don't get "completely replaced".
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I will die on the hill of “node point javascript”
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They can wait until 2020, in fact.
@SenWarren
#resist
The FBI Director testified
@realDonaldTrump
's campaign is under investigation for collusion w/ Russia. Lifetime court appointments can wait.
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This sort of approach sends the message that the basic practice of creation is a matter of learning, implementing, and most of all *enforcing* a set of rigid rules, which lead invariably to precision and correctness.
The authors present these rules as observed universal facts.
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It teaches junior devs that "being corrected" is a punishment, "being wrong" is a threat, and "showing someone up" is the way to get ahead. Constantly defensive, relitigating every decision, nitpicking everyone, never open to feedback, etc.
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It implicitly teaches newcomers to a craft that power in a craft comes from being the authority, and authority comes from knowing the rules better than anyone, and you can trust the rules because they came from an authority (who by definition knows the rules better than anyone).
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We call women "girls" to remove their power.
We call men "boys" to remove their culpability.
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OSS maintainers: What is the minimum amount of money that someone could guarantee you on a monthly basis that would justify quitting your job and doing OSS full time?
(RT for reach, please)
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A lot of people at GitHub knew me from Node.js and npm, but so many people when I introduced myself, were like "omg, you're THE isaacs? From the issues repo??"
I'd gone from troll to folk hero without doing anything different, because GitHub changed.
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The culmination of this is a comprehensive feedback system at
Go check it out.
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I saw a license plate the other day "TAR XVF" and all I could think was that they didn't specify a valid filename and it is still bugging me
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This is what's wrong with blacklists.
“
@thegrugq
: Hackers gonna hack.
http://t.co/BY558VA3RM”
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Call me old fashioned, but I just think fascists and theocrats should not have one moment's respite or peace anywhere at all in a reasonable society. Never stop shouting at them and their families & friends any time they show their faces in public. Chase them back to the shadows.
expand your imagination beyond legislative & carceral solutions. i'm not talking about violence. we all have, and have always had, the power of soft consequences. if a senator's wife is too anxious about public humiliation to go to her country club luncheon, that's good, actually
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@DrMSnap
@arsonistIesbian
@iurichavesx
@puppetmotel
@Random_Factor
Oh you're confusing "chuck norris" the meme with "chuck norris" the actual person
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@RadioMcLean
@AITA_reddit
Many Indian people are native English speakers. Indian English is just as valid as Australian or any other dialect.
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If you are not a white dude and have things to say about JavaScript testing, please submit a talk to Assert(js)
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It's me!
Holy crap! Vlt — the new JavaScript package manager — just announced Isaac Schlueter is on the team.
Isaac is the creator of npm.
So now we have the guy who made Node working on JSR, and the guy who made npm working on vlt.
exciting times
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npm has served 3 million quick security scans, and 187k full audits
`npm audit fix` is available in prerelease form, default in 6.1 starting next week
We're making OSS JavaScript more secure. This team rocks, and we've got more cool stuff coming soon!
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@SpannersReady
@polly
@matt_levine
@TheStalwart
No. The Oxford comma is a hotdog and condiments. Clearly.
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To those calling this racism/sexism:
A) fuck you, block me
B) I *gaurantee* white dudes will be speaking there, DON'T PANIC
C) you're wrong
If you are not a white dude and have things to say about JavaScript testing, please submit a talk to Assert(js)
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I think SF should legalize housing
Here's your regular reminder that new apartments are illegal in 76% of the city (via )
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Check this out:
`node --import=tsimp/import hello.ts` will run a "hello, world" typescript program in 128ms*, with full type checking.
This is , a TS importer using a persistent daemon
(* if the daemon is already running. if not, it's like 750ms startup)
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"Will it be considered a social faux pas if I infodump about this right now, or may I proceed with your consent?"
ND vocabulary differences
Phrase: "Do you need me to explain this?"
When most people say it: "Do you SERIOUSLY need me to explain this?"
When autistics & other NDs say it: "Please this is my favourite thing in the world, I am SO GOOD at explaining it, PLEASE say yes" 🙏
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@Grrfolk
@FeedTheWriter
@tomryanauthor
Or when the teacher shouts the homework assignment after the bell, over the noise of everyone leaving
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I know "Layered Semantic Markup" is like 2 decades out of date as the new hotness now, but IMO it's still the best way to build websites. Build something workable in plain old HTML with form posts and stuff. Add JS to improve functionality. Add CSS to make it stylish and pretty.
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Today the Node.js and JS Foundations announced an intent to merge.
tl;dr – This is a good thing. I’m psyched.
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"Reverse racism" = one has learned a rule, but not the reason for it. A child claiming it's unfair that daddy gets to drive and they don't.
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Where do scientologist elves keep their teacups?
In the Elrond Cupboard
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Goodbye, GitHub
(just changing jobs, still gonna be *using* GitHub a ton ;)
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When you hear a child screaming on an airplane, take a moment to appreciate that it's one of those rare and beautiful chances to witness someone boldly and truthfully expressing a feeling we all share, that air travel is terrible. Listen to it. Let it speak for your own heart.
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"I regret that I cannot accept your apology at this time. It lacks all 3 of the fundamental properties of an apology: there is no understanding of the harm caused, no accountability taken for causing it, and no actions to remediate in the present or prevent harm in the future."
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If meninists, MRAs, and MGTOWs gave any fucks at all about legitimate “men’s issues”, they’d be feminists.
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I say this as a homeowner in Oakland: please fucking ruin my "investment". I can afford it. Renters can't. Build more housing.
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Most of them should have been hanged for war crimes and genocide.
How many ex-Presidents merited indictment? (For bona fide crimes, not "I really hate what they did so they should be thrown in jail for it" like the hysteria over W)
Reality is overwhelming majority of our Presidents have been law-abiding ppl
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The weirdest part of making vegan cheese is definitely milking the vegans
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