Hello, friends! After 10(!) years of #AdventOfCode, I've made some changes to preserve my sanity: there will be 12 days of puzzles each December (still starting Dec 1) and there is no longer a global leaderboard. Read more:
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Published the first release of my first #ziglang project: an aws #lambda runtime for zig!
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Revisiting what every dev should know about Unicode 20 years later tonsky.me/blog/unicode/

The cutest little crabs 🦀 https://www.livescience.com/animals/crustaceans/pom-pom-crab-the-crustacean-that-uses-anemones-as-boxing-gloves

I should probably give zig a shot. I dig this concise testing notation https://ziglang.org/documentation/master/std/src/std/fmt.zig.html

Did something change recently with paste handlers in vscode because I hate it? Every paste is delayed but a ridiculous amount of time

An idea that keeps bouncing around in my head is what it would look like to extend @atproto.com to support a code artifact publishing and hosting system via a new nsid lexicon. Something like artifactory but more like “attafact” - an atprotocol federated artifact host🤔

Wishful thinking. A str processor that validates a gql query against a schema https://openjdk.org/jeps/430

At some point I received this publication through my dev network . I can appreciate k8s but it’s not for me. My 3 year old pronounces it “poo-bernetes”. At least we are on the same page

If aliens intercepted our social feeds to assess the state of web technology they might surmise were still only just figuring out how to best map a request path to a fn (the mythical minimal web framework) and how click a button and see a counter incr (most fe web framework demos)

https://docs.oracle.com/javase/specs/jvms/se20/html/jvms-4.html#jvms-4.1-200-B.2 this is going to be a pain for anyone trying to enjoy some luxury in #java lately. You can no longer separate an upgrade of your runtime from your build if you opt to leverage preview features

https://cr.openjdk.org/~vklang/Gatherers.html gathering the streams

@pfrazee.com any plans for Home Screen quick actions on iOS?

@pfrazee.com I made a cute simpler icon for Bluesky that I think looks pretty decent 🥺 all I really want is for you or anyone on the dev team to see it cuz I think a design like it would look really good for something like iOS 👉👈

Programming language agnostic feature request: a compiler error that included the hint, “did you mean flatMap instead of map?”

It would have me days of my life if I added up all the time I’ve spend arriving at that conclusion.

Hey everyone! 👋

We're excited to announce our next Bluesky NYC Technical Workshop happening this weekend! 🗽☁️

Join us as we explore, discuss, and test out the Federation functionality for the AT Protocol, via the newly released "developer sandbox". 🧑‍🔬

🗓️ June 25
📍 Meetup HQ
🕐 1pm-3pm EST

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If you’re a programmer and a dad who reads books to your kids just try and unsee this