Like Julia, this is basically me and git as well. I haven’t even bothered learning switch (and whatever the other new subcommand is) since it doesn’t actually address any issues I have with the tool at this point.

RE: https://social.jvns.ca/@b0rk/112418097233853819

North America is wierd when it comes to transportation. It’s important to remember when reading things about #urbanism and #mobility that American baselines about how things work are not the same as yours.

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/how-people-get-around-america-europe-asia/

I did this for the buttons on my standing desk, but the adhesive wasn’t that good and they fell off after not too long. In the end, I wound up leaving the desk in standing mode most of the time so I haven’t needed to figure out a more permanent solution anyway.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@danluu/112418095002975740

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I firmly feel that you should be able to snap a photo of a car parked in a bike lane and receive a city permit to install a bike rack in the middle of their driveway

@ratkins The Ultra looks so nice, feature-wise, but I don’t know if I can handle the chonk on my wrist.

@quizzicus Yup, and I rarely need either of those things, in which case I can just use Amazon.

@robdaemon That’s what I figure - it’s all random dropshipping brands either way.

I'm a "full stack developer", in that my stack is full and if you try to push any more tasks on me I'm gonna overflow it and start corrupting my own memory

Trying out ordering non-brand name items from Aliexpress, since I figure I may as well cut out the middleman (Amazon) that’s not actually providing any value.

Tried looking up the average height of one story of a building, in the current era of the internet.

I wonder if this is what having a stroke feels like.

Yikes, bailing on the platform you funded because they are worried about safety is quite the stand.
https://www.piratewires.com/p/interview-with-jack-dorsey-mike-solana

Culture is defined by what leaders reward and what they tolerate, not by what they claim to want: https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/8/24152137/xbox-hi-fi-rush-tango-gameworks-matt-booty

@ratkins I can’t wait to upgrade from my Series 5

A very cool high-level look at what it takes to build a semiconductor nowadays: https://www.construction-physics.com/p/how-to-build-a-20-billion-semiconductor

premature abstraction is as bad if not worse than premature optimization

@ratkins til that you can pinch on the watch - what the heck does it do?

Neat infographic on common PINs: https://informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/most-common-pin-codes/

Old news, but I'll never stop laughing about it 😃
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Promise#thenables

#Programming #JavaScript #FP #Math

Released my regex to JVM ByteCode compiler https://justinblank.com/experiments/needle.html.

Matplotlib was not the hardest part (that would be figuring out how to upload to maven central), but it was the most annoying part of getting a post published today. Forgive the crappy graphs.