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Kate Sills

@katelynsills.com

My name is Kate Sills, and I'm running for Congress for my brother.

He's in the Navy & our military is being asked to kill civilians.

These are unlawful orders.

Now Trump has called for people like me, who are standing up for our military, to be hanged.

Can you help me?

www.katesills.com

Kate Sills for Congress (CA-05)

www.katesills.com

November 21, 2025 at 2:58 PM

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James Snell

@jasnell.me

Lots of details to figure out here but it's about time we had an optimized typed array concatenation in the language.

Rob Palmer @robpalmer.bsky.social · 4d

ECMAScript excitement 😉

Congrats to @jasnell.me on advancing Typed Array Concatenation to Stage 1 at TC39 today 🎉

It aims to improve the performance of this concat operation compared to userland libraries.

const enc = new TextEncoder();
const u8_1 = enc.encode('hello');
const u8_2 = enc.encode('world');
const u8_3 = Uint8Array.concat([u8_1, u8_2]);

November 18, 2025 at 6:59 PM

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Rob Palmer

@robpalmer.bsky.social

ECMAScript excitement 😉

Congrats to my coworker @ashley-c.bsky.social at TechAtBloomberg on advancing Await Dictionary to Stage 2.7 at TC39 today 🎉

Promise.all returns positional results as an array. Promise.allKeyed allows named results inside an object 👍

github.com/tc39/proposa...

const {
shape,
color,
mass,
} = await Promise.allKeyed({
shape: getShape(),
color: getColor(),
mass: getMass(),
});

November 18, 2025 at 6:33 AM

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Rob Palmer

@robpalmer.bsky.social

ECMAScript excitement 😉

Congrats to Michael Ficarra on advancing Joint Iteration to Stage 3 at TC39 today 🎉

It provides synchronized iteration over multiple iterators.

🔸 Iterator.zip vends an array per-iteration
🔸 Iterator.zipToObjects vends an object per-iteration

Iterator.zip([
[0, 1, 2],
[3, 4, 5],
]).toArray()

/*
Produces:
[
[0, 3],
[1, 4],
[2, 5],
]
*/

Iterator.zipKeyed({
a: [0, 1, 2],
b: [3, 4, 5, 6],
c: [7, 8, 9],
}).toArray()

/*
Produces:
[
{ a: 0, b: 3, c: 7 },
{ a: 1, b: 4, c: 8 },
{ a: 2, b: 5, c: 9 },
]
*/

November 18, 2025 at 5:50 AM

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Rob Palmer

@robpalmer.bsky.social

ECMAScript excitement 😉

Congrats to @michael.ficarra.me on advancing Iterator Sequencing to Stage 4 at TC39 today 🎉

let it = Iterator.concat(it1, it2, ...)

It helps you create an iterator by stitching together a sequence of iterators 👍

github.com/tc39/proposa...

let lows = Iterator.from([0, 1, 2, 3]);
let highs = Iterator.from([6, 7, 8, 9]);

let lowsAndHighs = function* () {
yield* lows;
yield* highs;
}();

Array.from(lowsAndHighs); // [0, 1, 2, 3, 6, 7, 8, 9]

November 18, 2025 at 5:24 AM

Kris 🧙‍♂️ Kowal

@kriskowal.com

I work with that guy. *slaps suspenders*

Rob Palmer @robpalmer.bsky.social · 4d

ECMAScript excitement 😉

Congrats to Richard Gibson on advancing JSON.parse source text access to Stage 4 at TC39 today 🎉

It grants reviver functions access to the input source text 👍

github.com/tc39/proposa...

GitHub - tc39/proposal-json-parse-with-source: Proposal for extending JSON.parse to expose input source text.

Proposal for extending JSON.parse to expose input source text. - tc39/proposal-json-parse-with-source

github.com

November 18, 2025 at 2:15 AM

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Rob Palmer

@robpalmer.bsky.social

ECMAScript excitement 😉

Congrats to Richard Gibson on advancing JSON.parse source text access to Stage 4 at TC39 today 🎉

It grants reviver functions access to the input source text 👍

github.com/tc39/proposa...

GitHub - tc39/proposal-json-parse-with-source: Proposal for extending JSON.parse to expose input source text.

Proposal for extending JSON.parse to expose input source text. - tc39/proposal-json-parse-with-source

github.com

November 18, 2025 at 2:09 AM

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Gretchen McCulloch

@gretchenmcc.bsky.social

One of these shapes is called boo-ba and one is kiki. Which is which?

A pumpkin carved with a rounded blobby shape and a sharp, spiky shape.

November 1, 2025 at 2:07 AM

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Tom Gauld

@tomgauld.bsky.social

A halloween cartoon for @newscientist.com

Image: three figures in protective suits watch from behind a screen as a child approaches a door-like mechanical structure in which stands a man. Between them is an amorphous glowing shape.

Caption: Scientists at the institute of halloween studies have succeeded in creating "The treak": a quantum state that is simultaneously trick and treat. It is stable for a millionth of a second before decaying into a half-hearted prank and a mediocre candy bar.

October 31, 2025 at 11:27 AM

Kris 🧙‍♂️ Kowal

@kriskowal.com

Yes, and I want you to know that “process substitution” exists and believes in you. You can compel a program to use another program’s input or output for *any* argument that program treats as a filename.

diff <(sort foo) <(sort baz)

paste <(seq $(wc -l < names.txt)) names.txt

You can do anything!

October 29, 2025 at 7:38 PM

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joe m

@ch00beh.bsky.social

Big news! Today I am proud to launch my FIRST table top role playing game on itch!! I look forward to hearing about your monsters 👹

ch00beh.itch.io/menagerie-es...

Menagerie Esoterica by ch00beh

What is more fearsome than the monsters of our own making?

ch00beh.itch.io

October 23, 2025 at 1:07 PM

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Ivan Reese

@spiralganglion.com

🫠 automerge.org

The new Automerge website is live!!

The biggest (smallest) surprise? How fun it was to build the demo!

Automerge is so robust, it withstood all our weird ideas — like using physics-driven particles to literally push changes between docs — and it just worked. Perfectly. Every time.

The automerge home page, featuring an interactive demo. Two devices synchronize their data by streaming particles back and forth.

October 16, 2025 at 9:41 PM

Kris 🧙‍♂️ Kowal

@kriskowal.com

One time, I boarded BART and was greeted by the top of a man’s head, which was buried in a shattered Android screen. The man in question was wearing a dtrace T-shirt. So, I said to the top of his head, “You must be @bcantrill.bsky.social”, and lo, he was.

October 17, 2025 at 4:57 PM

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Malte Ubl

@industrialempathy.com

We're celebrating the life of Mikeal, creator of request, forker and reuniter of Node.js, renaissance and family man on November 12.

We received a very generous donation and are now able to make this event completely free.

Looking forward to see all of you! an-event-mikeal-would-have-liked.com

An Event Mikeal Would Have Liked

Memorial charity event celebrating Mikeal Rogers' life - November 12, 2025

an-event-mikeal-would-have-liked.com

October 17, 2025 at 3:12 PM

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Stein Makes Games - Wishlist Dig Dig Boom

@steinmakesgames.bsky.social

There's really only two file formats

Calvin and Hobbes comic. Dad explains there's only two types of file formats: .txt and .zip

#programming #software #softwareengineering

October 15, 2025 at 8:53 AM

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Steven ⬢

@styfle.dev

esbuild implemented import bytes proposal 🎉

github.com/evanw/esbuil...

Release v0.25.11 · evanw/esbuild

Add support for with { type: 'bytes' } imports (#4292) The import bytes proposal has reached stage 2.7 in the TC39 process, which means that although it isn't quite recommended for implementation, ...

github.com

October 15, 2025 at 2:22 AM

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Sarah Drasner

@sarahedo.bsky.social

💥 did a small drawing explaining the JS execution model including the event loop. I hope it’s helpful to folks. Debugging is always easier when the underlying implementations are understood.

Drawing explaining the JS execution model and event loop

October 6, 2025 at 12:23 PM

Kris 🧙‍♂️ Kowal

@kriskowal.com

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

"Off by one"

Gretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcc.bsky.social · Oct 12

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

"I'm correcting your grammar"

Stephen McGann @stephenmcgann.uk · Oct 12

No fee, I'm afraid.

October 13, 2025 at 3:24 AM

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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸

@gtconway.bsky.social

Robert De Niro: “Now we have a would-be king — King Donald the First. Fuck that. I’m Robert De Niro and I’m asking you to stand up and be counted in the nationwide No Kings protest on October 18th”

👉👉 nokings.org

October 11, 2025 at 9:21 PM

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E = mily²

@emily.news

just took damage on realizing that the generation of people who will not understand this joke from Star Trek IV are already alive

three men are standing in front of a computer and one of them says " hello computer "

Alt: three men are standing in front of a computer and one of them says "hello computer" (it's that scene from Star Trek IV where Scotty does this. it's funny because he's an engineer and he doesn't know how to use a computer because you're not supposed to talk to computers but he doesn't know that.)

media.tenor.com

October 8, 2025 at 4:50 AM

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Mary Branscombe

@marypcbuk.bsky.social

there's a great quote from Ursula Le Guin about books at the point of reading becoming a collaboration between the author and the reader like music is between the composer and the musician; the story is created somewhere in the middle even though it's all written down already

October 2, 2025 at 5:40 PM

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Merriam-Webster

@merriam-webster.com

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

October 1, 2025 at 2:38 PM

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Linguistic Discovery

@linguisticdiscovery.com

Where did we get the letters of the alphabet from?

And why does English use them so strangely?

Here’s an excerpt from the new book, “Why Q needs U: A history of our letters and how we use them”, which takes you on a linguistic odyssey through the history of the alphabet: