The next great Lincoln Project ad. Learn their names. Every time they had a choice between America and Trump, they chose Trump. #
San Quentin has exploded with Covid. "1,300 prisoners and 184 staff having tested positive for the coronavirus as of July 7."#
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.#
You know that big letter that was posted on Harper's yesterday that caused such a brouhaha. Here's the summary. Just because you're offended, doesn't mean you're right. #
NakedJen works in a place where people must wear a mask, so she gives out a lot of masks every day. She's going to make custom masks that have a message. That's the first part of this story. Second part, we both started a campaign called #savemylife, where we promote stories and ideas that save people's lives in this age where lives have all of a sudden become cheap, something our government is promoting (the cheapness, not the saving). So Jen has designed a mask that has the #savemylife message on it, which is kind of heavy, and to balance that she put a giddy little smiley on it, to make it more Jen-like. I said I want one, but maybe I want mine to have a picture of MLK instead of the smiley. And then I would probably change the tag to #blacklivesmatter. This is something that I, a white man, would wear with pride. But there's a problem. The purpose of my wearing a mask is to save your life, not mine, in case I'm infected and am shedding. I feel contradicitons like this have to be resolved. Or do they?#Yesterday, I was at a store, did my shopping, but when I took the mask off in the car one of the straps broke. I went back to the store and asked if they had an extra. They gave me one, with a smile. No reason that mask shouldn't have had a message on it.#
I read a tweet yesterday that showed what the author thought was a cool feature, labels in JavaScript. Labels are 1/2 of goto statements, which we know are harmful to readability and maintainability. #- I'm pretty sure when I try to grok someone's code that uses this feature, it'll be hard to figure out how it works.#
- I've been developing software for a long time. The functionality for users is always at the top of my mind. Getting software rock solid and ideally not requiring any maintenence, that's what I'm aiming for. #
- I'm never thinking about how I can use some new cool feature in the language. I want my code to be as boring and predictable as possible. To look exactly like what it does. Sometimes I get there. #
- I'm using software that I wrote 30 years ago right now, as I write this. That's pretty good for standing the test of time. #
- Anyway, I'm thinking the right thing to do for JavaScript is to define a profile, a subset of the language, which if you stick to it, will enhance maintainability and readability, and therefore is more likely to work. #
- An example, right now I can think of three syntaxes for defining a function. The profile would allow one. #
- function hello () {return ("hello")}#
- const hello = function () {return ("hello")}#
- const hello = () => {return ("hello")}#
- I would like to see all example code stick to the profile. Of course once there was one such profile, there would be N. But at least simplifying the language would be up for discussion.#
- What would I call my profile? #
- Something like Really Simple JavaScript. 😄#