Eric McCarthy
@eric.mastodon.limulus.net.ap.brid.gy
Web-centric software engineer.
[bridged from https://mastodon.limulus.net/@eric on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/ ]
[bridged from https://mastodon.limulus.net/@eric on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/ ]
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November 28, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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Biden was a decent president but an AWFUL communicator at a time when our democracy desperately needed insight into how government worked. The biggest error of his administration, apart from inadequately fortifying our institutions, was not recognizing this weakness and finding ways to address it.
People don't know jackshit about anything. To them, Joe Biden sat around for 4 years doing nothing about the economy and kept hitting a "make shit more expensive" button just because he thought it was funny.
Utterly bizarre to describe climate change policy as some kind of radical-left albatross.
The IRA contained precisely the kind of 'kitchen table' programs everyone says Democrats should focus on — and they're popular!
The problem was that Americans *didn't know* what the IRA was or who passed it.
The IRA contained precisely the kind of 'kitchen table' programs everyone says Democrats should focus on — and they're popular!
The problem was that Americans *didn't know* what the IRA was or who passed it.
November 2, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Biden was a decent president but an AWFUL communicator at a time when our democracy desperately needed insight into how government worked. The biggest error of his administration, apart from inadequately fortifying our institutions, was not recognizing this weakness and finding ways to address it.
TIL: Type stripping in Node.js is on by default!
https://limulus.net/tils/nodejs/type-stripping/
#til #nodejs #typescript
https://limulus.net/tils/nodejs/type-stripping/
#til #nodejs #typescript
Node.js Now Has TypeScript Type Stripping On By Default
Today I learned that Node.js has turned on TypeScript type stripping — even in recent releases of v22! Time to start running TS directly in Node! There's a bit of a catch though: you gotta drop enums.
limulus.net
November 1, 2025 at 9:03 PM
TIL: Type stripping in Node.js is on by default!
https://limulus.net/tils/nodejs/type-stripping/
#til #nodejs #typescript
https://limulus.net/tils/nodejs/type-stripping/
#til #nodejs #typescript
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Kid3 is going to another city for a mock trial tournament with her college team this weekend. Just found out that the hotel they are using is housing an ICE team. She’s got her passport card, which establishes she’s a citizen (since adoption, by law). Hope that’s enough. Fuck ICE scum.
October 23, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Kid3 is going to another city for a mock trial tournament with her college team this weekend. Just found out that the hotel they are using is housing an ICE team. She’s got her passport card, which establishes she’s a citizen (since adoption, by law). Hope that’s enough. Fuck ICE scum.
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“Sure, he’s imprisoning and murdering people without trial. But why doesn’t he get credit for all the people he HASN’T murdered or imprisoned yet?”
October 19, 2025 at 9:17 PM
“Sure, he’s imprisoning and murdering people without trial. But why doesn’t he get credit for all the people he HASN’T murdered or imprisoned yet?”
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I have kind of thought the "No Kings" branding was a bit lame and centrist. It took me back to Hamilton. But that whole vibe makes it absolutely wilder to watch the right melt down over it.
October 16, 2025 at 2:47 PM
I have kind of thought the "No Kings" branding was a bit lame and centrist. It took me back to Hamilton. But that whole vibe makes it absolutely wilder to watch the right melt down over it.
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hey wanna see something kinda interesting? this was the entire fix to the iPhone Antennagate in 2010. 20 bytes.
(this is going to be a very long thread 🧵)
(this is going to be a very long thread 🧵)
October 7, 2025 at 12:43 AM
hey wanna see something kinda interesting? this was the entire fix to the iPhone Antennagate in 2010. 20 bytes.
(this is going to be a very long thread 🧵)
(this is going to be a very long thread 🧵)
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I have a new Techdirt post that went up on Friday, while the CDC was trying to illegally fire everyone...
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/10/10/i-want-a-new-drug-a-vaccine-even-and-a-functioning-fda-cdc-nih-etc/
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/10/10/i-want-a-new-drug-a-vaccine-even-and-a-functioning-fda-cdc-nih-etc/
I Want A New Drug. A Vaccine Even. And A Functioning FDA, CDC, NIH, Etc…
My cancer is back. This is disappointing but not unexpected; of the 2/3 of people who survive their first bout with ovarian cancer, 80% usually have it recur at some point. For me it was sooner than expected, and disheartening because, even if I beat it back this time, it will likely come back again […]
www.techdirt.com
October 13, 2025 at 1:19 PM
I have a new Techdirt post that went up on Friday, while the CDC was trying to illegally fire everyone...
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/10/10/i-want-a-new-drug-a-vaccine-even-and-a-functioning-fda-cdc-nih-etc/
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/10/10/i-want-a-new-drug-a-vaccine-even-and-a-functioning-fda-cdc-nih-etc/
TIL: There’s indeed a way to approximate having private WIP branches in public git repos.
#til #git #github
https://limulus.net/tils/git/private-branches-in-public-repos/
#til #git #github
https://limulus.net/tils/git/private-branches-in-public-repos/
Private Branches in Public Repos
Today I learned that you can approximate the ability to have private branches in a public GitHub repo by creating a private “fork” and making use of multiple remotes.
limulus.net
October 11, 2025 at 10:03 PM
TIL: There’s indeed a way to approximate having private WIP branches in public git repos.
#til #git #github
https://limulus.net/tils/git/private-branches-in-public-repos/
#til #git #github
https://limulus.net/tils/git/private-branches-in-public-repos/
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Doing comms work for billionaires slowly melting their brains must be quite a job.
October 11, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Doing comms work for billionaires slowly melting their brains must be quite a job.
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1. Anti-trans outrage is losing its bite.
Last week, Elon Musk led a mass boycott campaign to get trans characters removed from shows on the platform.
Major conservatives joined in.
Now, we have the result: the boycott was a fizzle, and Netflix stock is up.
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Last week, Elon Musk led a mass boycott campaign to get trans characters removed from shows on the platform.
Major conservatives joined in.
Now, we have the result: the boycott was a fizzle, and Netflix stock is up.
Subscribe to support my journalism.
Netflix Stock Up As Elon Musk's Anti-Trans Boycott Fails To Materialize
Last week, conservatives tried to cancel Netflix to force the carrier to remove transgender characters.
www.erininthemorning.com
October 9, 2025 at 5:03 PM
1. Anti-trans outrage is losing its bite.
Last week, Elon Musk led a mass boycott campaign to get trans characters removed from shows on the platform.
Major conservatives joined in.
Now, we have the result: the boycott was a fizzle, and Netflix stock is up.
Subscribe to support my journalism.
Last week, Elon Musk led a mass boycott campaign to get trans characters removed from shows on the platform.
Major conservatives joined in.
Now, we have the result: the boycott was a fizzle, and Netflix stock is up.
Subscribe to support my journalism.
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Literally last week every MAGA idiot around was insisting, loudly, how terrible it was that the Biden admin pressured YouTube to remove COVID misinfo, even as YouTube said it ignored the pressure. Those same folks will either be silent or cheer this on:
This was done at the direction of Pam Bondi. The US government is now dictating what apps you can have on your phone.
The underlying threat here is if Apple didn't comply, they'd slap billions in tariffs on Apple products.
The underlying threat here is if Apple didn't comply, they'd slap billions in tariffs on Apple products.
October 3, 2025 at 3:46 AM
Literally last week every MAGA idiot around was insisting, loudly, how terrible it was that the Biden admin pressured YouTube to remove COVID misinfo, even as YouTube said it ignored the pressure. Those same folks will either be silent or cheer this on:
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Ironically, the only people who actually seem to be “celebrating” Charlie Kirk’s death are MAGA zealots who can barely contain their giddiness at the prospect of waving his corpse around as a pretext to crack down on liberal civil society groups that had nothing to do with the murder.
September 18, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Ironically, the only people who actually seem to be “celebrating” Charlie Kirk’s death are MAGA zealots who can barely contain their giddiness at the prospect of waving his corpse around as a pretext to crack down on liberal civil society groups that had nothing to do with the murder.
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A grim reminder: these people will never be satisfied. There’s no point at which they will say “we’ve won, let’s enjoy life.” They will always be looking for someone else to punish, to revile, to dehumanize. They’re empty without that.
September 18, 2025 at 3:04 AM
A grim reminder: these people will never be satisfied. There’s no point at which they will say “we’ve won, let’s enjoy life.” They will always be looking for someone else to punish, to revile, to dehumanize. They’re empty without that.
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ABC, which capitulated to Trump months ago by paying him millions to "settle" his ridiculous libel lawsuit, should be seen for what it has become: a national media company that does right-wing bidding.
The Hungary-izing of American media is accelerating […]
The Hungary-izing of American media is accelerating […]
Original post on mastodon.social
mastodon.social
September 18, 2025 at 1:44 AM
ABC, which capitulated to Trump months ago by paying him millions to "settle" his ridiculous libel lawsuit, should be seen for what it has become: a national media company that does right-wing bidding.
The Hungary-izing of American media is accelerating […]
The Hungary-izing of American media is accelerating […]
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Always essential reading, Josh Marshall nails it again in his comment on the transcendentally hypocritical, vicious, and downright un-American -- right-wing attacks on free speech and people's jobs in the wake of Kirk's murder.
Joe McCarthy is grinning in his grave […]
Joe McCarthy is grinning in his grave […]
Original post on mastodon.social
mastodon.social
September 15, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Always essential reading, Josh Marshall nails it again in his comment on the transcendentally hypocritical, vicious, and downright un-American -- right-wing attacks on free speech and people's jobs in the wake of Kirk's murder.
Joe McCarthy is grinning in his grave […]
Joe McCarthy is grinning in his grave […]
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The actual audience for these performances was not the aforementioned undergrads, but right wing donors whose grandkids no longer speak to them. The product he sold wasn’t persuasion but the vicarious fantasy of schooling the whippersnappers.
September 12, 2025 at 3:22 PM
The actual audience for these performances was not the aforementioned undergrads, but right wing donors whose grandkids no longer speak to them. The product he sold wasn’t persuasion but the vicarious fantasy of schooling the whippersnappers.
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You have to wonder how much time they would have wasted combing the country for a purple-haired nonbinary socialist if the suspect hadn't turned himself in.
September 12, 2025 at 2:49 PM
You have to wonder how much time they would have wasted combing the country for a purple-haired nonbinary socialist if the suspect hadn't turned himself in.
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Political violence disproportionately hurts people with less power, not people with more power. Political violence will disproportionately hurt people of color and women and LGBTQ people. It’s not fair, but that’s the way it works. Celebrating political violence means at best indifference to that.
Political violence is bad. It usually begets more political violence.
Celebrating political violence is bad. It usually encourages more political violence, against various targets.
Campus shootings are bad. They make everyone on campus less safe.
It's bad that what I wrote here is controversial.
Celebrating political violence is bad. It usually encourages more political violence, against various targets.
Campus shootings are bad. They make everyone on campus less safe.
It's bad that what I wrote here is controversial.
September 10, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Political violence disproportionately hurts people with less power, not people with more power. Political violence will disproportionately hurt people of color and women and LGBTQ people. It’s not fair, but that’s the way it works. Celebrating political violence means at best indifference to that.
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For everyone saying political violence has no place in this country…
Remember two Democratic legislators were shot in Minnesota just this year.
And America shrugged and moved on.
Remember two Democratic legislators were shot in Minnesota just this year.
And America shrugged and moved on.
September 10, 2025 at 8:53 PM
For everyone saying political violence has no place in this country…
Remember two Democratic legislators were shot in Minnesota just this year.
And America shrugged and moved on.
Remember two Democratic legislators were shot in Minnesota just this year.
And America shrugged and moved on.
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And approval is only that high because the poll questions bend over backward to be “fair” to Trump. Which means including the ludicrous pretext that the aim is “fighting crime” and omittiny the fact that the deployment is overwhelmingly opposed by the local populations.
Perceptions of the popularity of anything Trump does are extremely warped among the chattering classes. A lot of people seem to have convinced themselves that deploying troops to American cities is hugely popular. It has like 58% disapproval!
It's incredibly weird that folks have convinced themselves that the Covid vaccines - which had an ~82^% take up rate - were unpopular.
September 8, 2025 at 11:17 PM
And approval is only that high because the poll questions bend over backward to be “fair” to Trump. Which means including the ludicrous pretext that the aim is “fighting crime” and omittiny the fact that the deployment is overwhelmingly opposed by the local populations.
Got the updated COVID vaccine today, here in Arizona where a prescription is required by the major pharmacies if you are under 65. Getting the prescription from a telemedicine NP was easy enough, but Walgreens still wanted reasoning for it beyond having a valid prescription. I was able to give […]
Original post on mastodon.limulus.net
mastodon.limulus.net
September 8, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Got the updated COVID vaccine today, here in Arizona where a prescription is required by the major pharmacies if you are under 65. Getting the prescription from a telemedicine NP was easy enough, but Walgreens still wanted reasoning for it beyond having a valid prescription. I was able to give […]
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All kidding about this nonsense answer aside: The regime is asserting the power to murder without trial a boat full of people suspected of drug trafficking, who easily could have been intercepted and arrested instead. That is unconscionable and horrifying even assuming everyone aboard was guilty.
Q: On the Venezuela vessel strike, what legal authority were you guys working under?
JD VANCE: The legal authority is there are people who are bringing -- literal terrorists -- who are bringing deadly drugs into our country
JD VANCE: The legal authority is there are people who are bringing -- literal terrorists -- who are bringing deadly drugs into our country
September 3, 2025 at 10:09 PM
All kidding about this nonsense answer aside: The regime is asserting the power to murder without trial a boat full of people suspected of drug trafficking, who easily could have been intercepted and arrested instead. That is unconscionable and horrifying even assuming everyone aboard was guilty.
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Just for the record, Trump can’t do this. The Constitution is very clear that the “times, places, and manner“ of elections for federal office are determined by individual states (though can be altered by Congress).
The president simply has no role in US […]
[Original post on federate.social]
The president simply has no role in US […]
[Original post on federate.social]
August 31, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Just for the record, Trump can’t do this. The Constitution is very clear that the “times, places, and manner“ of elections for federal office are determined by individual states (though can be altered by Congress).
The president simply has no role in US […]
[Original post on federate.social]
The president simply has no role in US […]
[Original post on federate.social]