They are artists, in the same way Subway employees are sandwich artists. (That’s probably rude to Subway workers.)

But When I’m Up (I Can’t Get Down).

What if I ate my YubiKey?

It cannot be paid for with money, only blood.

If you’re into sci-fi, I hope you’ve seen Babylon 5. The political storylines have never felt more relevant.

C and C++ ask the programmer to deal with things themselves that other more modern languages do for you in the language runtime Memory management would be the big one. It’s more to wrap your head around, but if you can do it, there’s potential for more performance. In my mind, it comes down to a trade off between development time versus CPU time, and CPU time is a lot cheaper these days.

Signed, a Java dev

It has been exposed to 336 hours of continuous unfiltered sunlight each lunar day for the past 40+ years. That’s can’t be good for the plastic. The poo is probably dedicated, but I don’t think it’d be fossilized, in the sense of biological material replaced with stone, I don’t think the moon is geologically active enough for that to happen.

It’s also something we left on the moon. Bags and bags of it, along with empty food containers and their moonwalking backpacks. It’s not like it’s worth it to haul it back to orbit.

Things to remember if you ever enter an obfuscated code competition.

Same. The mouse is always something I’m going to use on the desk next to the computer. I don’t understand the advantage of making it wireless, that’d just be one more battery for me to keep charged. Honestly, if I had a wireless mouse I’d probably just leave it plugged in to the charger as I use it. (And don’t get me started on Apple’s mouse charge port on the bottom.)

Technically more of an engineering / maker channel, but Xyla Foxlin is great. She does occasionally swear, but a 12 year old has probably heard those words before. Yeetmas, where she launches a Christmas tree rocket, would be a good place to start. (Not a Christmas tree themed rocket, a decorated pine tree on top rocket motor as long as your arm.)

“To” becomes “t0o,” but “too” is “t1o.”

this fits with my understanding of cybersecurity and why we don’t mix data with directions.

Didn’t we learn this lesson 60 years ago when phone phreakers used their blue boxes to make free phone calls?

JS minification can make debugging much harder.

Superset means all valid JavaScript is also valid Typescript. (At least, so long as you don’t have compiler setting on that requires all variables to have a type declared.)

It’s a superset of JavaScript. The big add is static typing, reducing the chance of runtime type errors. It compiles to vanilla JavaScript for distribution. Other new features include enums, interfaces, and generics for more type safety.

It’s da bomb

1xx - We’re still working on it

When it fails, it at least points you to the site where everyone asks for help.

“Can I get a sundae?”

“Sorry, the VM is broken.”