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And it's only the
most successful partnership
which gets to go home

re: holidays 

if you live in a state where your institution still can claim copyright over your work even though you are doing it on your own time and on your own device and they aren’t paying you, i am sorry

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holidays 

happy “programming on your own device on your own time without your institution being able to claim copyright over your work because they aren’t paying you” day, to those who celebrate

re: f·b·i monitoring of activist movements 

they’re using this as evidence to debunk the conspiracy theory that jan 6th rioters were provoked by the f·b·i but uhhh it’s kind of concerning in its own right

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f·b·i monitoring of activist movements 

« Most of the federal informants who have emerged from criminal cases related to Jan. 6 were not tasked by their handlers with spying on right-wing subjects — let alone with seeking to entrap Trump supporters into storming the Capitol. They were mostly far-right figures who were recruited by the F.B.I. to report on their adversaries in the far-left antifa movement. »

design hot take 

masonry layouts are bad

javascript 

this is almost certainly a profoundly difficult-to-optimize way of doing this but i love giving browser manufacturers impossible problems to solve

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javascript 

const s = [,,,];
2 in s; // false

const d = dense(s);
2 in d; // true
d[2]; // undefined

s[2] = "value";
s[2]; // "value"
d[2]; // "value"

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javascript 

very close to getting `dense()´ to work (as a proxy not a copying function) but alas it is time for bed

javascript 

hoisted by invariants

pokémon 

eevee day has ended … but eevee night … has only begun !

orthography 

looping back around to adopting Å into english; blame satsuma

some words from my recent blogpost that i think the fediverse might relate to 

« I want to be a part of scenes which give a shit about the silly things I care about (romantic c·dramas, anime, Pokémon, Nintendo). I want that much more than I care about belonging to any “fandom” or “fanspace” in the vernacular sense. And I think that having those scenes can form the bedrock of culture, not only fan culture but also culture in a general sense, a culture which produces interesting content for an audience of like‐minded people, some of which may reference some person or corporation’s Intellectual Property but a lot of which probably won’t. Plenty of “original content” is produced by S·F·F fandom, furry fandom, ⁊·c, and the willingness of people to create unique works within those spaces as opposed to without I think is a testament to the fact that they have some·thing which other spaces lack.

I’ve made my own small efforts at building these sorts of scenes, with the Mastodon instance I moderate and the Discord server I run and the wiki I set up for my friends. I don’t think spaces like these are enough (I’d love a forum), but I think they are a start. We need bigger ones, tho᷎, ones that are big enough to host events or challenges or other sorts of community happenings, and big enough to where they can adequately serve the function of introducing one to new people and ideas. I’m very interested in the inflection point from “friends and family” to “community” and think that transition is the only kind of scale which matters. »

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javascript 

i like most of the contentious parts of javascript but even i don’t really get the point of [Symbol.species]

n·y·times; open·a·i 

« Until Friday, Mr. Altman was the chief executive of OpenAI, the dominant artificial intelligence company. He promised A.I. would usher in humanity’s first golden age even though it came from the same kind of inventors who thought there was a market for internet-connected toasters. » wow i was not expecting this shade

javascript 

re·implementing all the array methods to work on sparse arrays, because fuck the haters

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A small, community‐oriented Mastodon‐compatible Fediverse (GlitchSoc) instance managed as a joint venture between the cat and KIBI families.