A compliment from a respected former colleague made it all worthwhile! "I learned more from you than anyone else at the company. Thanks for leveling up my TypeScript knowledge and pairing on some really fun code". I'm paying this forward. Have you filled someone's bucket today?

So glad Google calendar assigns a default date and time on creating a new appointment! Saves me several clicks, saves UI design complexity like button activation logic and only creates the potential of storing completely the wrong appointment 100% of the time.

Unbelievable! ...and a great testament to Tamsin's community spirit.

Very disappointed The New York Times Spelling bee game has never heard of oobleck. I'm sure it's a word!

As a former search software engineer, I recognise the need for query relaxation, but this is query incontinence Glassdoor .

Hey, Amazon Alexa thanks for the informative email. It will really help me use my christmas present...

A really exciting prospect shared via LinkedIn messaging, trying to reply and...exactly the moment one on't cross beams gone owt askew on't treddle...

If you suffer as we do - kids with totally different holiday dates over a county border - you'll know it's crazy that the English government doesn't decide term dates for all state schools (allowing Independent schools to align). Sign to stop the insanity! petition.parliament.uk/petitions/6328…

Jira is shit

Ran across this ChatGPT Shade from Stackoverflow meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/4218… I don't think the LLMs are taking over our jobs anytime soon.

Anyone else experiencing recent versions of Lerna polluting their repo with unwanted Nx behaviours? Given up on Lerna now. It's become impossible to achieve fundamental things without Nx interfering. Nx embrace-extend-extinguish marketing strategy is destructive to the ecosystem.

I just released the alpha of nevermore watchable.dev/api/modules/_w…

I just published an article on Medium. The story of finding and fixing a fundamental bug in Javascript's Promise.race: medium.com/p/28e5c5a6032c

I just published a new article "Handling quota limits and server failures in Typescript" A 6 minute read at medium.com/@cefn/handling…

Simple rule for javascript. If you return the same thing as the accumulator every time, don't use Array#reduce(...). Use a for loop. Simpler, more performant, more readable.