Rob Simmons
simrob.com
Rob Simmons
@simrob.com
boston, cats, computers? he/him

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The good stuff is at https://social.wub.site/@simrob
I’m assuming we’re in rule of threes joke territory and I am curious what the writers throw at is next
November 18, 2025 at 12:20 PM
“Convince white people that Boston is a structurally racial city with terrible cops” is the boss fight and I still haven’t beat the “convince white people that Asheville has espevially violent cops” miniboss
November 17, 2025 at 7:39 PM
It's pretty possible to do untrusted-contributer-no-review workflows in GitHub using things like CODEOWNERS carefully and effectively, but github classroom just doesn't seem to support this well.
November 17, 2025 at 3:04 PM
The ICE resistance in suburban Chicago has convinced me not all suburbs are created equal and that Illinois can have little a suburbs as a treat
November 16, 2025 at 2:00 PM
God thats bleak and basically emblematic of why I gave up on Atlanta.

I’ve perhaps grown past the “fuck everyone in red states” phase but when SPLOST failed I basically decided “Atlanta wants to choke in its own vomit for two generation, have at it I’ll never be back”
November 16, 2025 at 1:58 PM
clicked on the thread because your re-transition comment didn’t seem woke enough to be your most woke opinion but you got cooking downthread (laudatory)
November 15, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Huh! Wonder why I convinced myself that worked
November 13, 2025 at 6:48 PM
The absolute wild thing is that this vote won’t release any files! This is legislation; it still has to pass the senate and is subject to veto before it becomes law.

The intensity with which Johnson and the White House have fought this *almost certainly only symbolic* gesture is absolutely insane.
November 13, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Though maybe this is actually the primary GOP playbook for healthcare for a decade: make things so much dramatically worse so that Rick Perry’s plan is an improvement over the new status quo - but it hasn’t actually been executed at this scale.
November 12, 2025 at 6:22 PM
I do believe the most significant political move that Trump blindly stumbled upon in his second term was “create big problems and then solve them halfway and take credit for the solution” and I think a disciplined person (at least on the right but maybe also on left) could wield that scary well
November 12, 2025 at 6:19 PM
this makes sense but I’m kind of rooting for the standards bodies rejecting this route out of a pointless pettiness towards MSFT
November 12, 2025 at 6:14 PM
I agree - but the bar is gonna be what Node does now, and what the standards body can provide in some sense has to be not jsdoc not current TS but a secret third thing and this proposal hasn’t foguee that out yet imo
November 12, 2025 at 5:33 PM
I get this view, see my other replies. BUT with stable Node type stripping we’re now locked in to a de-facto-specifically-TS stripping spec outside of standards bodies.

Backing out of this is going to be difficult at the level of fixing ES Modules across browser/ts/node incompatible (non-)standards
November 12, 2025 at 12:48 PM
(I also think it doesn’t happen until you deal with JSX as well, which… yipes)
November 12, 2025 at 12:42 PM
That said, I think the committee’s apparent strong reluctance to put this in the standard makes a lot of sense. I‘d put the over/under at 2030 for something like this and I think it’ll look quite a bit different than this proposal or present-day TypeScript.
November 12, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Its so revolutionary to be able to do this in Node, and when 22 goes EOL in 2027 and there’s kind of no reason not to have your npm libraries contain .ts files only it gets *really* interesting.
November 12, 2025 at 12:39 PM