“It’s not a war crime unless it’s grown in the Geneva region of Switzerland, otherwise it’s just a sparkling atrocity.”

It provides no reliable remedy. Without knowing why this address won’t work, you can never be sure the next will work.

Lodash provides modular methods for working with arrays, objects, strings, and more.

I dunno. If it makes everything Array-like act like a goddamn Array, I’m tempted to start using it.

‘What do you mean you can’t .map a Set? It’s iterable! Figure it out!’

“By your logic” is never followed by your logic, but “This you?” never misses.

The thing you want from jQuery was added to all browsers in 2018.

Or ship a browser to run a script.

“For rats.”

Conservatism doesn’t mean right-wing. It’s reality as a team sport.

Reasoned argument is a learned behavior. This nonsense is humanity’s default.

They think that’s all you’re doing, because they think that’s all there is.

He puts up with some weird nonsense.

I lick my brain in silence.

It’s a mantra about teaching people and then expecting them to forget it. Doesn’t work. They’ll default to what they already know.

My freshman English teacher got married in October and I called her by her maiden name the entire year.

Like all programming mantras, it’s not universally true, but it’s annoyingly reliable. It reflects the shape of the human brain.

Elon Musk is African-American.

First learning is last learning.

Same reason we still do console.log("FUCK").

I still agree with most of what I’ve ever written online.

So either I was never a stupid asshole, or I’m still a stupid asshole.

Forums and blogs were not what people mean by “social media.” Lemmy is an evolution of forums.

Jason Scott: “You might not have a Facebook account, but Facebook has a you account.”

For Javascript it’s () => { }. Lamba functions! Because at least it’s more readable than Perl.

Reading a tab as however many spaces is trivial, and the point of tabs.

Reading however many spaces as a tab is a gross hack that has to be dialed-in for whatever standard the document chose.

Just use tabs in the first place. God damn. That’s what they’re for.

That sounds like tabs with extra steps.

Tabs, not spaces.

I don’t give a shit if your arguments perfectly align to the function. It’s only semantic indication. Use the goddamn special character that has its own dedicated key.