async function tryOp<T>( op: () => T | Promise<T>, ): Promise<[T, null] | [null, Error]> { try { return [await op(), null]; } catch (error) { if (error instanceof Error) return [null, error]; throw error; } } const [res, networkError] = await tryOp(() => fetch(…)); if (networkError) { console.log(`Network error: ${networkError.message}`); process.exit(1); } if (!res.ok) { console.log(`Server error: ${res.statusCode}`); process.exit(1); } const [json, jsonError] = await tryOp(() => res.json()); if (jsonError) { console.log('Bad payload from server'); process.exit(1); } console.log(`Success: ${json.message}`); process.exit(0);

Read it! Use it! Love it! #JavaScript

Yes! been shouting about this from the hill top for years now!

A.K.A. dev.to

Code snippet: console.log(new Intl.NumberFormat('de-DE', { style: 'currency', currency: 'EUR' }).format(123456789)); // '123.456.789,00 €'

Here's a little party trick. Do you know that you can use `Intl` to format numbers with units and currencies? 😅

You're welcome. :)

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Teaching software engineering has officially FAILED!

If you notice most devs of a certain age say AI will help but not replace developers.

Meanwhile, younger devs seem to claim AI will eliminate developers.

There seems to be a fundamental misunderstanding of software engineering happening here.

Every software team will eventually face a heart-stopping mistake, whether it is a developer accidentally deleting live data during a migration or a junior ops engineer unplugging a production server to use a vacuum cleaner... 😬

I feel I need to put my gen AI on a PIP.

Ah so you are saying that the act of designing software is so insignificant it is the same as a boondoggle or menial labor?! We don’t need skilled engineers anymore? I wonder if other forms of engineering should be shamed as well.

That is neat. and only a few lines of code worth copy/pasting.

I used a proxy system to perform querySelector magic on prop. Super small but convenient: tritarget.org/cdn/simple-dom.js

The "Anyone can code" movement (2010s) coincided with a $2.4T technical debt crisis. By democratizing coding without emphasizing engineering fundamentals, we may have traded accessibility for quality. 40% of IT budgets now go to fixing rushed code. kagi.com/assistant/c2...

I feel differently. I’ll disagree with this. I don’t feel the supply chain should be fully responsible for such things and the runtimes should handle most of that. I also think our situation here is based on a restriction that I feel the industry should reevaluate and handle differently. IMHO.

It is almost as if we were to write and understand our own code; build skill/knowledge toolbelts; instead of relying on others to write every little function for us… 🤔

In light of the NPM supply chain attacks I like to highlight @tiddlywiki.bsky.social as a fantastic full featured wiki with ZERO dependencies!

Streams are epic! Thank you for making streaming compatible APIs for your libraries.

Yes, this has always been an issue. Many of the old forums (Usenet/IRC) would use moderators to help keep content on topic. But the forums that lack oversight go off the rails very quickly.

I know it isn’t popular anymore but I’ve had great success using PlantUML for diagrams both at work and on my personal blog.

Strange, FF doesn’t seem to do that on my Linux machine. I wonder why the wide variance in experiences.

Wikipedia Bans AI-Generated Content “In recent months, more and more administrative reports centered on LLM-related issues, and editors were being overwhelmed.”

after much deliberation and giving AI the benefit of the doubt, Wikipedia editors have had enough of AI slop. New policy bans LLM generated content, periodt www.404media.co/wikipedia-ba...

It would be nice if browser automatically load the WebAssembly modules, bind the native web APIs directly (without any JS glue code), and run the module.

We could write the code for web apps in any language and then compile it to a WASM.

hacks.mozilla.org/2026/02/maki...

#wasm #webdev #javascript

Safari is T H E W O R S T! Fsck Apple!

Tell that to the tech bros signing all our paychecks!

"Sunk costs."

Is they just MAGA harder, they'll get there. There's got to be a pony under so much bullshit.

Yes but RegExp are really good at parsing regular languages. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regular...

marcosmagueta.com/blog/the-los...
An absolutely perfect historical opinion. Well done.

Think AI can popularize generator functions? Or Explicit Resource Management?

... when the puriteens in the fandom get like this, I admit, I do have thoughts of "I have fursonas are older than you."

class … extends EventTarget {}
class … extends Event {}

Vastly underutilized #JavaScript event mechanics worth having in your tool belt.

Why Posting Your Kids Online Is More Risky Than You Think YouTube video by Creating Wealth

I’ve only been shouting this message at the top of the mountain for decades now. youtube.com/shorts/sURAR...

Blink.sh is the best iPad SSH client I’ve ever seen! So worth it!

For GUI I’ve been using jumpdesktop.com to connect to xrdp server and it works very well except it has an issue of stuck CMD keys after an Cmd-Tab (Apple issue I think).