Two Days Ago
It’s 2024. How’s it going, JavaScript?
Published on in Programming
This video is from a great channel, which published a lot of great videos a while back. They covered pretty much everything already, but circled back to JavaScript for 2024.
Some choice quotes from the video.
“We push on save.”
“2024 is the year of the serverlesslessness.”
“They say that every year, but this year they’re out of VC funding.”
“Don’t write this down, next week all of this is gonna change.”
This guy just keeps knocking it out of the park. Pretty much everything he mentioned... [More]
The Cosmic Call
Published on in Fun
The article Try it and see by Mark Dominus (The Universe of Discourse) discusses the graphic below, which is part of the “Cosmic Call”, a message to extraterrestrials.
The author says that he told his 11-year-old niece,
““I bet you could figure it out if you tried.” She didn’t believe me and she didn’t want to try. It seemed insurmountable.”
I sent this to a few people in my family.
Hint #1
After a little while, I provided some context. The Cosmic Call is:
“In 1999, two Canadian astrophysicists, Stéphane Dumas and Yvan Dutil,... [More]”
6 days Ago
Links and Notes for April 12th, 2024
Published on in Notes
Below are links to articles, highlighted passages[1], and occasional annotations[2] for the week ending on the date in the title, enriching the raw data from Instapaper Likes and Twitter. They are intentionally succinct, else they’d be articles and probably end up in the gigantic backlog of unpublished drafts. YMMV.