Close to 100m impressions in the last 3 months lol. Getting better at the viral tweet thing

Source: x.com/t3dotgg/status/1827472711511314881

My cure for being bad at JavaScript

Source: x.com/TheJackForge/status/1827391684738756993

How I plan on spending my weekend.

1. Work on a new Vanilla JavaScript project

2. Realize I’ve forgotten a lot about JavaScript

3. Start relearning it for the 17th time

4. Give up and build a website with @WixStudio instead

What are you working on?

Source: x.com/TheJackForge/status/1827382451565687001

Getting ruby to work is a gigantic pain. I think the whole Ruby module management system went off the rails a long, long, time ago. (No pun intended.)

Source: x.com/unclebobmartin/status/1827387566372409822

This is fun!…

Where does punctuation come from?! https://youtu.be/k9Re5otW-v0?si=uMZJFtA2h2N8SnRo… via @YouTube

Source: x.com/unclebobmartin/status/1827434722571534733

Two decades ago, I posted that the strangler fig plant was an interesting metaphor for the gradual replacement of a legacy system. I haven't used the metaphor since, but many others did. I've rewritten the post focusing on how to make it succeed

Source: x.com/martinfowler/status/1826657733724307534

And in multiple states no less

Source: x.com/Valuable/status/1827425564321575345

Learning to code in an interactive way is much more fun.

That's why I've created a list of interactive learning tools for you.

In this list, you will find tools for learning CSS, JavaScript, TypeScript, React, Python, Git, SQL, Regex, and more.

Link in the comment.

Source: x.com/denicmarko/status/1826566748650246300

Tip: If you must have a backlog (you don't, but there we are), then I think it's essential to put an expiration date on all backlog items so they'll be removed *automatically* when the date arrives. Something like 30 days is more than enough.

Source: x.com/allenholub/status/1826635914220851201

y'all are great - thanks!

Lots asking for the codebase - I've got it here with some notes on where the find the TCP printer connection bits

https://github.com/wesbos/thermal-printer…

Source: x.com/wesbos/status/1826628469985526128

I need some B roll for the JavaScript receipt printer. Send me some photos and messages. http://Local.wesbos.com

Source: x.com/wesbos/status/1826624174514897192

What is happening at Sonos is hard to believe.

The company released a new app that is a big regression in reliability, usability and functionality vs the old one.

Sales are falling thanks to the new app.

There is no quick fix.

They want to re-release the old app... but cannot

Source: x.com/GergelyOrosz/status/1826603863387815983

"Good Morning , I'm Dr. Elon Musk ...we are in the Tesla Parking lot and is early 4:20 am"

(parody of Elon Musk showcasing Cybertruck to Donald Trump)

Source: x.com/nfkmobile/status/1826601518398603275

Parallel Reality by @MisAppSci is still the wildest tech demo I’ve experienced - they can show personalized content without glasses. (Each pixel sends a different color to each person)

Excited for their first implementation in a sports stadium at @intuitdome in LA!

Video via @takmiyata

Source: x.com/yoheinakajima/status/1826325404782825640

Source: x.com/t3dotgg/status/1826594783454003643

Is it time to move on? New video up now

Source: x.com/t3dotgg/status/1826594713467846760

Neutrons in isolation are unstable. They will energetically decay, becoming a proton, electron, and an anti-electron-neutrino with a half-life of about 10 minutes. This is called ß-decay.

This reaction is reversible through a process known as electron capture. If a proton and an electron are forced into near proximity, they can combine to form a neutron, emitting a normal electron-neutrino.

In the collapsing iron core of a high mass star, in the last microsecond before it blows itself to kingdom come as a type 2 supernova, the electrons and protons within the iron are forced together and undergo this inverse ß-decay becoming neutrons and emitting an overwhelming barrage of neutrinos.

The newly formed neutrons rapidly sort themselves out into energy shells. Neutrons are fermions. Identical fermions cannot co-exist together in the same system. Thus the neutrons in the collapsed core separate into a vast number of different energy shells. Low energy neutrons are deeper in, higher energy neutrons are farther out. There is no way for the higher energy neutrons to lose energy since all the lower shells are full.

All those neutrons are in a constant state of vibration and collision. Higher energy neutrons vibrate and collide faster than lower energy neutrons. All that vibration and collision creates an outward pressure that holds back the inward crush of gravity. So the object, now only a few miles in diameter, settles into a stable state called degenerate matter.

This object is often called a neutron star; and the degenerate matter within it is sometimes referred to as neutronium. A teaspoon of neutronium would weigh several billion tons.

Much of the angular momentum of the original star remains within the neutron star. However, since the radius has shrunk by three or four orders of magnitude, the angular velocity has increased by a corresponding factor. These objects can spin at thousands of RPM. Moreover, much of the original star's magnetic field is trapped within the neutron star, and has likewise been compressed by several orders of magnitude. Thus, the neutron star is a very powerful spinning magnet.

When you spin a magnet you create an electric field. The electric field across a newly formed neutron star is enormous. That field accelerates vast numbers of charged particles to stream outwards from the magnetic poles. However, the powerful magnetic field lines force those particles to move in a spirals as they stream outwards. When charged particles move in spirals they induce electromagnetic waves -- light. And those light waves travel in straight beams emitted from the magnetic poles of the neutron star.

Those beams of light carry away some the rotational energy of the Neutron star. This creates a drag on its rotation. But given that the star contains a solar mass of neutronium spinning at thousands of RPM, it has plenty of kinetic energy to spare and so the reduction in rotational velocity is very gradual.

If the magnetic poles of the neutron star are not perfectly in line with its spin axis, then those beams of light swing around through space like a lighthouse beacon. If they happen to be in line with the Earth, we see the object emitting pulses of light as the beams pass by. We call these pulsating stars Pulsars.

Source: x.com/unclebobmartin/status/1826630340355440902

Actually I was reading the book "A Poison Like No Other: How Microplastics Corrupted Our Planet and Our Bodies" just last week.

I didn't realize the extent to which plastics have come to permeate and mess with our entire environment. It's not just about the polymer granules of the plastic, which is problematic by itself when during their breakdown they get small enough to make their way everywhere, including inside our organs, brains, etc.

It's about the ~thousands of exotic chemicals that get mixed into the plastics to tune them: plasticizers (to make them more flexible/durable), stabilizers (to help them resist heat, light), flame retardants, colorants, fillers, antioxidants, UV stabilizers, antistatic agents, lubricants, biocides, etc etc. These chemicals leach from the plastics over time (by default, but especially when you e.g. when you microwave your food). The vast majority of these chemicals have never been evaluated for safety.

There's many other fun facts in the book. We already knew "recycling" of plastic is basically fiction. It also turns out that e.g. when you see "biodegradable" on your plastic, that doesn't mean in normal natural conditions - they only degrade via specific processing plants that are equipped to degrade them.

Toxic, indestructible, synthetic molecules are mixing through the organic environments and the food chain and quite likely poisoning the environment and us.

It definitely feels like we've allowed the convenience of plastics to get way ahead of our understanding of their global effects and that there are some major unpriced externalities in the industry.

Source: x.com/karpathy/status/1826372336213524715

Men really do think with their balls, huh

Source: x.com/marktenenholtz/status/1826362716379824312

Wait I remember Twitter fired most their ads team on the takeover (like all other teams) and I was saying that’s a stupid idea (because ads bring the revenue and why would you cut your *profit center*?)

The ads I lately see seem to be an admission that it was indeed a bad choice

Source: x.com/GergelyOrosz/status/1826337040268448190