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Oracle has taken the JavaScript trademark hostage. It is time to #FreeJavaScript. ➡️ javascript.tm ⬅️
Help us spread the word — it's time to #FreeJavaScript. javascript.tm
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Michael Ficarra retweeted
On Monday 10th June at 18:00 there is a joint @helsinkijs + @TC39 free community event at @SwarmiaHQ in Helsinki 🎉 There will be talks by delegates and plenty of time to speak to them informally. Sign up here: meetabit.com/events/helsinki…
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this was my proposal 😁 (with help from others of course)
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Please please please let this be the catalyst that finally causes @Oracle to sue, lose, and officially relinquish the trademark once and for all. 🙏
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At #IDPolicyForum now, @jgrantindc discusses the release of "Better Identity at 5 Years: A Report Card and New Path Forward." Read more here: centerforcybersecuritypolicy…
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Michael Ficarra retweeted
Some common questions and answers about the development of JavaScript: github.com/tc39/faq/ Feel free to suggest more!
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I asked ChatGPT for a recipe for boiling water.
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I swing wildly between this and "I hate everything about computers" almost daily.
I fucking love coding
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The iterator helpers proposal (tc39.es/proposal-iterator-he…) is stage 3, the tests are complete, and it'll be landing in a browser near you very soon. What additional helpers would you like to see us pursue in follow-up proposals? Poll to follow.
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Reply with other suggestions.
33% chunks/windows
23% Iterator.concat(a, b, ..)
34% zip/zipWith/zipLongest
11% tap
189 votes • Final results
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Michael Ficarra retweeted
Cars with big blind spots are still earning high safety ratings that overlook pedestrian & cyclist safety. @USDOT: let's prioritize pedestrian protection & driver visibility in the new car safety ratings to protect all who share roads with cars. raskin.house.gov/2023/5/rep-…
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Michael Ficarra retweeted
At @ShopifyEng, @saulecabrera, Jeff Charles and I are working on Javy, a tool to compile JS to WebAssembly. We are using it to bring JS to Shopify Functions, but kept Javy itself as a generic JS-to-Wasm tool! Curious how it works? Here’s a tech deep-dive: shopify.engineering/javascri…
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Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo #OpenAI #ChatGPT #DALLE
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Iterator helpers has just advanced to Stage 3 in @TC39 🎉 The proposal will add methods like .map and .filter to iterators and async iterators, just like the prototype methods that exist on arrays. github.com/tc39/proposal-ite… Thanks @smooshMap and everyone else who worked on this!
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So many terrible, unmaintainable software architectures are a result of someone going "I wish I didn't have to pass this parameter around all over the place".
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Michael Ficarra retweeted
> "Rather than creating a new legal and regulatory framework that legitimises crypto, we should simply let it burn." YES 👏👏👏 ft.com/content/ac058ede-80cb…
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Yesterday at @F5 Technology Day, we brought in a bunch of WebAssembly speakers (@bytecodeallies @profianinc @SuborbitalDev @fermyontech) and I am so excited about the space again!
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Okay so what is everyone using as a combined SMS / encrypted messaging app now that @signalapp has killed itself?
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