David Whitney

Absolutely, the worst of them were never our people *anyway*.

TypeScript 6.0 RC is out 🎉

🔶 Temporal
🔶 Map#getOrInsert
🔶 RegExp.escape
🔶 #/ prefix for Package Imports

New defaults!
🔶 --target=ES2025
🔶 "use strict"
🔷 --strict

Deprecations!
🗑️ baseUrl, outFile
🗑️ import assertions
🗑️ `module` namespaces
🗑️ module: amd
🗑️ moduleResolution: node
🗑️ target: ES5

Andrew Tate working on that Spec Ops: The Line sequel we didn't realise was coming.

Yeah, probably need to optimise the end-game effects ;)

Been ill in bed for two days, but just about got the energy to give a glow-up to my silly Vampire Survivors X Conways Game of Life rip-off. It now... also rips off geometry wars!

gameofdeath.dejw.co.uk

(I'm experimenting with some game engine stuff for another, more real, thing :) )

I literally cannot believe @npmjs.bsky.social haven't disabled post-install hooks yet by default. I honestly don't give a crap if it's a breaking change. It's obviously rotting the supply chain.

GitHub / Microsoft / whichever two people have been left carrying the npm cli tooling need to jfdi.

Cancelled my gippity sub because of the military thing. Drop in the ocean, but hey, do what we can.

Money on that it's just going to be "task manager for AI agents" and the rest is marketing.

Ok I'm going to put in endgame just for you ;)

Hahaha yeah there are a couple of game breaking combos ;)

Impossible to not over-commit to the bit.

Crammed a low rent Vampire Survivors clone into Conway's Game of Life because it amused me.

May I present - Conway's Game of Death.

gameofdeath.dejw.co.uk

"I think you're describing a datacentre"

I think that's the "disconnected" mode hedge.

Microsoft hedging against the US government with this one.

Correlation is not causation etc

Obviously.

But that extends to the leadership who court them ("technology").

If technology valued the arts, lots of things would have been very different.

Ship has probably sailed though.

I think it just reflects the last decade and a halfs presiding narrative of "all these humanaties degrees suck, go learn to code!" which has been stated time and time again, whilst systematically devaluing the kind of works that comes from that field.

As well as.

You'd think people would google it?

No strong opinions about the xbox thing tbh, though very funny watching everyone talk about the new head as an "AI person" when.... CoreAI was just the renamed DevDiv et al with a bad name.

The Fever Mask YouTube video by At the Gates - Topic

New At The Gates single absolute goes. RIP Tompa.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvlf...

The irony crossed my mind for sure.

But I would never abridge my feelings. How dare ;)

Everyone has to meet the moment.

Reconciling that "solving programming" is a good outcome for "tech", at the same time it being at it's core extractavist technology that levels the last tool of social mobility we had that swings the power back to the billionaire class has been one of the most disorienting moments of my career.

Things that save lives can't be vibes.

I don't say this to be glib. I've said time and again I don't mind the tools, but there are categories of software that need a different level of assurance.

Maybe it's the new "systems programming has to be reliable", or "stable core", or "hand-crafted Italian leather".

Maybe the next movement we need is something akin to "Reliable Computing".

The tools are here to stay, but a standard around "Human Designed" software. Vetted, reviewed, edited, cleaned up. Software that offers high standards of reliability and operability with externalised, executable specs.

Solved the job that was perhaps the last vehicle for social mobility left in the world :/