Posts by Sam Stephenson
Photo of an opera stage before the performance, curtains drawn, short and wide projection screen for captions hanging from above
that’s where they are at the opera! takes some getting used to (but good luck figuring out wtf they are saying without them)
function leftPad(str, len, c = " ") { let chars = str.split("") let length = 0 for (let char of chars) { length++ } if (length >= len) { return chars.join("") } let inner = leftPad(str, len - 1, c) let result = [c] for (let char of inner.split("")) { result.push(char) } return result.join("") }
you know what? yes. but in a way that actively resists tail-call optimization
Is that a challenge because I’m pretty sure I could do worse
block-rocking skeets??
Did the hotel manager graduate from business school with really good grades?
Just released: Brat v0.9.0, a parallel TAP testing harness for the POSIX shell. codeberg.org/sstephenson/...
I keep thinking about this one bsky.app/profile/slow...
lmao it looks like the banner you make when you first get home with Print Shop and your new ImageWriter
congrats!!
how's that boot tasting?
Straight from the horse’s mouth: bsky.app/profile/ruby...
oh yeah. I got a lot out of that post, none of which the author intended, lol
wow I had not made this connection yet!
[signing for another shipment of Toe Toner] copilot, please help me budget this. my family is dying
I’ve written some horrifying regexes, that one is pretty tame by comparison github.com/rbenv/rbenv-...
Oh hey
what a good boy 💔
ahh, okay - thanks for the pointer to Wadler’s Law, I’m not surprised I was missing some PLT context :)
either way, as a layperson, I think the post does an excellent job of showing how syntax informs semantics and is more than just a surface-level concern!
this was a fascinating read! although I don’t understand how someone could write such a post while claiming syntax is the “least interesting detail.” reminds me of how back-end web devs often dismiss HTML and CSS, or how tech workers in general feel about “soft skills”
[looking for my Hackers DVD] it’s in that place where I put that thing that time
youtu.be/15kWlTrpt5k?...
Out on the town having the time of my life with a bunch of friends. They're all just out of frame, laughing too.
incredible show, and (at least in my circles) queer canon
Speaking of shelves, I noticed a glaring omission in the Home Goods section
photo of outside calipers
skin tone chart from the family guy meme
Of COURSE intelligence is measurable, Thomas
how embarrassing for you
And when you point this out, Mini Me and the flying monkeys will call you a hater, accuse you of being ungrateful, and tell you about how full their plates are
my guess: Dear Leader did a ten-minute investigation and determined plain contenteditable to be “good enough” now.
Tfw you bought a sauna. Which one doesn’t matter. You barely know. You don’t even care. Model number? You couldn’t tell me. Maker? You’d pronounce it wrong