If you're tempted by Apple's podcast stats, beware, once you're locked in there, it's going to be hard to get out. Don't give up your independence for stats. "There is a difference between riding in the car and being stuffed in the trunk," said a wise man once.#As you may know I've been searching for a show to binge, settled on Travelers, and I pretty much hate it, in the middle of season 2. It's taking the place of watching Law & Order reruns, a show I can space out while reading on my iPad or thinking about stuff. But in my search for something to involve my mind, I stumbled across Martin Scorcese's documentary about the Grateful Dead. I got through the first episode, and loved it. And it ended on such a high note. It isn't about creating a massive work to be remembered by, Jerry totally saw through that. Anything you leave behind is bullshit. Just have fun, and you're achieving life's purpose. Made me wish Jerry were running the world instead of the orange blob sitting in the Oval.#
Twitter needs AI so that all mention of DJT's tweets can be (optionally) filtered out of a user's timeline. I have the president blocked, so I can't see his tweets. I would like to also block tweets about his tweets.#
I've always thought listening to users is a virtue. In that spirit, let me say as a JavaScript developer, who's been doing it pretty much every day for the last five years or so, I've mastered the callback way of writing apps in JS. Now, in the latest version of the language, there are a number of alternatives to this.#- One of the advantages of having a consensus platform like JS is that we all do things the same way. It works just like standards. Two ways of doing something is worse than one, no matter how much better the second way is. That's another way of stating Postel's Principle. In this case, I already have so much code written using callbacks, and my brain works in callbacks (a bigger hurdle), and I like callbacks. The only reason to use one of the other forms of async programming is that other devs are using them to document their ideas. There goes the consensus. #
- Agreement in tech is the most precious thing, and designers often devalue it. The more agreement there is the more leverage we have, and the faster we can move. Remove consensus and we actually take steps backward, which is all too common in software. It makes it difficult to do multi-year or even multi-decade projects. (Not a dream, I have projects I've been working on for multiple decades.)#
- Anyway...#
- I'm having a similar problem with let, but it's somewhat different. In this case let is how var should have always worked. It would make sense to replace var with let everywhere. But if I do that with search and replace, I know some things are going to break, and they're going to be hard to find. There's never going to be a good day to do that. And my brain still uses var. Also I think let should have been called local, to indicate what it does, instead of let which is just a H/T to Basic, as far as I can tell.#
- BTW, as an old Pascal programmer I am a big fan of const. That one is usable without any conundrums. #
- Anyway, just some feedback from a user of the language.#