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It says "Reginald Scott Braithwaite-Lee" on my 🇨🇦 passport. You may know me from a book called "JavaScript Allongé" or from my work at companies like […] [bridged from https://social.bau-ha.us/@raganwald on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/ ]
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I'm in a hotel room in Québec, where Tesla’s sales have fallen 87% YoY. The TV is on with ordinary, mass-market morning television. Every. Single. Car. Ad. Is. For EVs. Lots of models and manufacturers to choose from, and EVs are fully normalized (it […] [Original post on social.bau-ha.us]

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“Prototypes in JavaScript are “just objects,” and since they are “just objects,” we can add, remove, or modify methods of the prototype by adding, removing, or modifying the functions bound to properties of the prototype.” —Prototypes are Objects (and why […] [Original post on functional.cafe]

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I was today years old when I learned that before I wrote CoffeeScript Ristretto, somebody wrote a blog post about implementing Conway's Game of Life in CoffeeScript, using a JS contract library called Ristretto. Well, that's a bingo on my card of things I […] [Original post on social.bau-ha.us]

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“CoffeeScript Ristretto (2014) is a book about programming with functions that uses the CoffeeScript programming language for the examples and exercises. “CoffeeScript Ristretto's primary focus is functions as first-class values and advanced topics built on […] [Original post on functional.cafe]

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It's worth remembering that Palm's Graffiti started as an app to make the Newton actually useable (I had an MP100; it's hadwriting recognition was utter dogshit). Palm then built the market for pocketable touchscreen devices (the Newton was extremely bulky) before multitouch replaced the stylus […]

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This is a MessagePad 100, the device that Apple shipped too early, and revisited with iPhone a decade later. It was widely ridiculed because you wrote on it with handwriting, but it didn't interpret what you wanted from what you wrote and how you wrote it […] [Original post on social.bau-ha.us]

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My work life absolutely improved when I incorporated a Copilot into my routine. #dogsofmastodon #dog #dogs

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Spring check done, with spins. My instructor “Golf Zulu” had me enter and then recover from a couple of the typical spins we’re taught to handle, then showed me something: Recover, pull up sharply, then enter another spin from near-vertical. The result was […] [Original post on social.bau-ha.us]

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The food court at CPT3 Rockton is rather basic, but it’ll do for breakfast. There is no in-flight service. @SOSAGlidingClub

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“There are two senses in which writing can be good: it can sound good, and the ideas can be right. It can have nice, flowing sentences, and it can draw correct conclusions about important things “It might seem as if these two kinds of good would be […] [Original post on social.bau-ha.us]

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“The command pattern was popularized by the 1994 book Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software. But it’s 2016. Why do we care? Why is it worth another look?” —The annotated presentation of “First-Class Commands, an unexpectedly fertile […] [Original post on functional.cafe]

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A Hawk in New Jersey Figured Out Traffic Signals and Used Them to Hunt https://www.zmescience.com/science/a-hawk-in-new-jersey-figured-out-traffic-signals-and-used-them-to-hunt/ An urban raptor learns to hunt with help from traffic signals and a mental map. Original paper here […]

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Via my son. The kids are alright. Also, help! I’ve fallen down laughing and I can’t get up! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQC29joihwU

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“'Pop cultures favour the visual aesthetic of the day... The programming pop culture favours specific code aesthetics based on the trends of the day.” —Programming is a Pop Culture, @baldur (2022) https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2022/programming-is-a-pop-culture/ I believe there are also […]

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The feels for a time and a place and a people and a culture. Blessed to have seen the Stylistics live at Ontario Place. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyD5tAGBP9U

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Leonard Austin Braithwaite, B. Comm, Harvard MBA, Osgoode Law Graduate, Order of Canada, Order of Ontario, Queen’s Counsel (1923 – 2012). A lawyer, WWII RCAF veteran, and the first black Canadian elected to a provincial legislature. These are the foreign […] [Original post on social.bau-ha.us]

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Online dating is a business where you advertise that you generate recurring revenue by helping your customers to no longer need your services. Something has to give, and it isn’t profit.

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Leonard Austin Braithwaite, B. Comm, Harvard MBA, Osgoode Law Graduate, Order of Canada, Order of Ontario, Queen’s Counsel (1923 – 2012). A lawyer, WWII RCAF veteran, and the first black Canadian elected to a provincial legislature. These are the foreign […] [Original post on social.bau-ha.us]

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“If you’re not hiring entry-level because ‘AI can do that,’ you’re the mark.” —@jasongorman

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Every day there’s exactly one good post in my LinkedIn feed. Today’s was easy to spot, it had this graphic:

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I know it’s a typo, but I feel like the phrase “Enginerring Organization” ought to be a professional term of art.

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It’s Frigga’s Day.

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@cj gets it.

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I miss you, Carsten. https://heycarsten.com

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TODO: Port “Why I Write Concept Software” from my abandoned ultra-minimalist blogging platform—a GitHub repo and its Markdown rendering—to my current blog, cleaning up dead links. https://github.com/raganwald-deprecated/homoiconic/blob/master/2010/09/concept.md#readme

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From my abandonware closet: `rewrite_rails`, syntactic meta-programming for Ruby on Rails programmers: https://github.com/raganwald-deprecated/rewrite_rails I gave a talk about this at RubyFringe in 2008. Of course, nobody wanted syntactic metaprogramming […] [Original post on social.bau-ha.us]

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