Jessica Sachs
@jess.sh
FOSS Necromancer at @herodevs. @faker_js, @cypress_io alum, @vuejs ecosystem.
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Just saw a screenshot of truth social for the first time. Their verified checkmark isn’t vertically centered and the level of incompetence it takes to do this in 2025 feels on brand.
The first Senators to actually do anything about the Trump admin
Richard Zussman@richardzussman.bsky.social · 2y agoNEW - Ottawa Senators fans booed the American national anthem at the beginning of tonight’s hockey game.
Has anybody else noticed that Apple‘s voice to text service has become absolutely awful over the last four weeks?
Labeling all future bad open source interactions as “the Dark Side of the FOSS”
Chat if we're cooked and our written languages die out, do you think future humans (or aliens) will be able to figure out what words map to emojis and gifs?
so this one demanded enough response that I ended up writing a little blog about it ... (sorry for the delay!) 👉 you can read it here: roe.dev/blog/zero-s... #ama roe.dev/ama
“[erasableSyntaxOnly] disables a bunch of features that I don't think should ever have been part of TypeScript.” www.totaltypescript.com/erasable-syn...
TypeScript 5.8 Ships --erasableSyntaxOnly To Disable Enums
TypeScript 5.8's new erasableSyntaxOnly flag enforces pure type annotations by disabling enums, namespaces, and parameter properties.
totaltypescript.com
posted some thoughts on making a profit from open source 💰💰💰 roe.dev/blog/zero-su...
Zero sum games
Open source is about mutual giving. So how does that square with commercial open source? Or building a for-profit product on top of an open-source project?
roe.dev
We had a great time at #SFRuby meetup yesterday! Thank you to our speakers @jasonswett.bsky.social Bart Agapinan @camertron.bsky.social and Alex Rodionov, Productboard for hosting and to everyone for joining! I’ll upload the recording soon.
Irina Nazarova@inazarova.bsky.social · 2y agoSF Ruby meetup with @jasonswett.bsky.social @camertron.bsky.social Bart Agapinan and Alex Rodionov at @productboard.bsky.social HQ is today! We'll talk about writing better tests, Ruby and Wasm, passkeys in Rails apps, and Bazel. lu.ma/goujxu3a 152 people are signed up, join us!
Adorable AI overlord snippet: new Date().toISOString().split('T')[0] // Today's date
The Chrome DevTools and I are stuck in the 9 Levels of Hell in MDN's Inferno
I don’t know why putting “and non-perishable items” on this sticker fills me with a sense of Wat
New randomized, controlled trial by the World Bank of students using GPT-4 as a tutor in Nigeria. Six weeks of after-school AI tutoring = 2 years of typical learning gains, outperforming 80% of other educational interventions. And it helped all students, especially girls who were initially behind.
that feeling when you finally get around to *seriously* digging into a close FOSS friends library or framework and realizing how God Tier they are. @tannerlinsley.com
Neighbor (in Texas) is blasting "All My Exes Live in Texas" and it's really not that funny, but I'm cracking up
Pouring one out for everyone using GitLab + in-house VCS and has to keep working. Happy Monday.
Oh. GitHub is down. Guess I'm gonna apply my Hotfix in the AWS Console's UI
a stewardess in a blue suit is holding a seat belt buckle up
ALT: a stewardess in a blue suit is holding a seat belt buckle up
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“Some poor lad writes a decorator” is the opener to most JavaScript jokes in the last 10 years
akzaisme@itsakza.bsky.social · 2y agoSome poor lad writes a decorator and deploys it with hope that the node will run it. Oops... We are not deno or bun. We are just pretending to be able to run typescript.
