There are reports coming in that Sir Tony Hoare has died. I got to meet him, and have dinner with him, when I was a freshman in college. I didn’t know anything about anything but he was nonetheless unfailingly kind and generous with his wisdom. Rest in peace.

People griping about software I write: rude, entitled, symptom of a world where unpleasantness is rewarded
Me griping about software other people write: radically honest, fair-minded, an exercise of belief that we can all do better

Is there a single API more poorly designed than JS's Date class? I can't think of anything more obtuse that I've encountered in my career thus far. This new Temporal API can't get here fast enough.

The nice thing about having a job again is that I am no longer unhappy every single second of the day. The downside is that now I have the room to process the emotions of having been laid off after seven years, with no severance, from my dream role.

Anyone know of people hiring engineers at SWE1 level? A good and capable friend of mine, early in his career, was let go. Leads appreciated.

Been writing TypeScript professionally for a couple months now and already I have helped a coworker diagnose a bug caused by implicit string->number conversion in the presence of math operators.

Can't believe that I'm paying for a search engine, but I can confirm what people say about Kagi--it's really good

I write TypeScript, and occasionally Rust, for a living now, and while those languages make me much happier than the Go I was writing for several years, there's one thing I really miss about it: the ability to include unit tests in a separate file, but in the same package namespace as an implementation, so you can test private functions without having to export them.

Would love to know what it's like to be one of the C++ committee's greybeards. Flying around to beautiful cities, conducting votes, explaining on podcasts why the results mean that better things aren't possible