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Microsoft’s TypeScript is the latest JavaScript infrastructure project to rewrite in Go or Rust for the sake of speed. Microsoft have opted for Go. It will be funny if Go’s biggest user group turns out to be TypeScript programmers.
(Via Michael Tsai - Blog - Rewriting the TypeScript Compiler in Go)
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Nolen Royalty (eieio) has created a web site for listing all UUIDs, in case you are having trouble remembering them all.
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Today I learned there are language tags ‘en-001’ and ‘en-150’ for World and European English. The former is a better default than ‘en’, which browsers still associate with American-specific conventions like month-day-year dates.
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In this video from the V&A, artist Colin Reid shows us how he makes dramatic kiln-cast glass sculptures, starting with an impression made from the rocky shores of west Scotland.
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Z85, a format for encoding arbitrary binary data as text, for transmission in text-based channels. In other words, like base64, except a bit more compact (using 5 characters to encode 4 bytes rather than 4 to encode 3).
(Via What’s New In Python 3.13)
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A database of European (EU and EEA) alternatives to the cloud services and SaaS essentials that mostly come from more well-known American companies. By Constantin Graf, a software developer in Vienna.
(Via Ian Betteridge (@ianb@well.com))
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People Hate the Idea of Car-Free Cities — Until They Live in One (Wired).
(Via https://kottke.org/24/04/0044232-people-hate-the-idea-of)
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Someone’s created a guessing game where you’re told whether your guess is alphabetically before or after the answer. Feels like a binary chop should be the way to go, but thinking of words equidistant between two other words is more confusing than doing the same thing with numbers …
(Via https://kottke.org/24/09/0045344-fun-little-word-game-alph)
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New blog post by me:
I was one of the guest observers at the election count on the evening of
4 July 2024 and it was interesting seeing the process in action in detail.
