Rob Allen

Think of all the tokens saved!

MUGS!

EVERYWHERE!!!!

Complete calamity!

Fight it. You've got this. I believe in you.

The white pages of the phone book is that list. Anyone with money to part of this club had an unlisted number.

Truth

Starfleet Academy Is… Actually Good? (Spoiler-Free Review) YouTube video by Jessie Gender After Dark

Crap. Now I have expectations.
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It's not okay. Stop that shit @wegmansofficial.bsky.social

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Every time I open a link on my phone
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It's amazing to me how much of being a person is learned behavior. It's clear that it's learned just from the sheer number of folks who haven't learned it.

This is a slippery slope. Next, your dog will open handle-style latches.

I recently dog-sat a labradoodle that could open pocket doors.

They don't even need thumbs!

For a moment, just a moment, I was upset that job applications are asking applicants for their sexual orientation. Wait, why is it their business???

Then I reminded myself that don't ask, don't tell didn't work. So we're going to track it and measure it to ensure there is no adverse impact.

Good

I'll drink to that

Dear Amazon. You know my video viewing habits. You know how many books I consume and in which genres. AT NO POINT HAVE I EVER SIGNALED DESIRE TO KNOW SPORTS SCORES OR GAME TIMES. Thank you.

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Happy vibes inbound

See @johnresig.com ( johnresig.com) for more on JS. He's forgotten more than I ever knew.

The HTML5 standard added `type=number` in 2019. Just 6 years ago. It's had browser acceptance for less than that.

So for JS's 30-year history, it only had strings that were sometimes numbers and was built to be easy to work with numbers pretending to be strings.

The why is that it is built for taking HTML `<input type="text">` strings and doing things with them. That's its main job. Sometimes that'll be a number like `<label>How many houses did you buy this month?</label><input name="numHouses" type="text">` Yes, there is a `number` type. Now. There wasn't.

Second, comparing JS to Python is like comparing a potato to an egg. Why is potato.roast() ok, but egg.roast() isn't?

2 things: JS uses context to convert strings to integers implicitly. It doesn't always read the room correctly. So "" could be an empty string. It could also be 0. Because JavaScript.

A hammer does a bad job with screws. A screwdriver does a bad job with nails. They are purpose-built tools for specific needs. Learn the tools for the jobs you need.

JS has flaws and quirks. So does C++. So does C#, Java, Ruby, Go, Rust, Basic, Visual Basic, Lisp, Haskell, Cobol, Kermit, Fortran, SQL, HTML, CSS, XML, UML...

All tools make decisions on where to be awesome, where to be marginal, and where it's ok to suck. They're meant for different things.

I miss Kathy Sierra's voice in tech and hate that it's been made so difficult for her. She's correct on sooooooo many things and is a powerful educator.

It was promoted to the point of incompetence

Said more simply, it's the wrong tool for the job.

This is a core value of the language as designed. It fits the original model that JS was built for (which is lightweight user interaction with DOM objects). It was not built for the heavy apps we currently bend it into shape for.

This package is indicative of rounding a peg to fit a square hole.

Google AI search result for “was 2010 fifteen years ago?” returning: “No, 2010 was 14 years ago, not 15 years ago. The current year is 2025, and to find the number of years ago 2010 was, you subtract 2010 from 2025, which equals 14. Current Year: 2025 Past Year: 2010 Years Ago: 2025 - 2010 = 14 years”

Good news about the cutting-edge AI tools from the $3-trillion-dollar company.

Parallels between Trump and AI are endless. Both overpromise, underdeliver. They put people out of jobs. They lie and steal constantly. They think they know way more than they do. Both backed by techbro billionaires. Neither are any fucking good at their job. And everywhere you turn, there they are.

IRS asks for public input on free tax filing options to inform congressional report | Internal Revenue Service IR-2025-85, Aug. 21, 2025 — The IRS invites the public to participate in an anonymous feedback survey on tax preparation and filing options, which will run through Sept. 5, 2025.

The IRS wants Americans to weigh in on Direct File, the agency's free tax filing program.

We already know Direct File has been widely popular and successful.

The program could save Americans billions annually between filing fees and time costs.
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"Power [...] is the ability to ignore the referee and keep scoring"

Yes.

I hereby nominate Mekka to the Nobel community for his outstanding contributions to peace on the Internet. Biggly