Vincent Tunru @vinnl@mastodon.social

If you look up regular expressions on MDN, it now includes an explicit example highlighting that \w does not actually match all alphanumeric characters in most languages.

Hopefully that will result in fewer people being told that their actual, real name is "not valid". #a11y

Some of the more conventional arguments are so easy to brush aside, because they're not about the actual problem.

"I don't mind if strangers look at me going to the bathroom without me knowing."

"A Facebook ad doesn't influence me."

"You can block ads."

Honestly I think this is my new favourite way to explain why I value privacy. It's concise, easily understandable, and emphasises how it's important even if it doesn't directly affect someone personally.

https://mastodon.social/@vinnl/105050987144006567

Anyone can bombard supporters of your favourite political party with articles and videos about how voting doesn't matter anyway, trying to persuade them to stay home for elections. All you need is money.

That's why targeted ads are harmful, and why privacy for everyone is important.

I also like the metaphor of technical debt for what it does not say. It is unwise to take on debt without a plan of when and how to pay it back, especially if it doesn't buy you anything in the meantime.

Likewise, technical debt is not a licence to take a shortcut to make an arbitrary deadline, thereby risking being held back when faced with an actual deadline.

I love the metaphor of technical debt: consciously opting to take the easy way out in the short term, explicitly accepting a more painful route down the road, because having a quick solution in the short term will give you the wiggle room to absorb the pain in the longer term.

Like taking out a loan so you can start a business, which allows you to pay it back with interest.

I've said it before, and I'll say it again: your commit history is not a chronological log of what you did.

Every time you press Ctrl+Z without committing beforehand, you erase some of your code history. And that's fine: it's not informative.

Your typo fix is not going to help anyone debug an issue later. Make your commit log useful. Rebase.

I only just now realised that Tinder is called "Tinder" because it's a matchmaking app.

That's brilliant.

@spritelyproject The website advertises an RSS feed at https://spritelyproject.org/rss-feed.rss, but I get a 404 there...

It's time syntax highlighting themes stopped de-emphasising comments. Especially when they're used in documentation.

Like and boost for a chance at getting frisked next time you're at the airport, or tag a friend who deserves a tax audit.

https://www.socialcooling.com

This looks great: property-based end-to-end testing.

Define some general conditions that should hold (e.g. the value of this input field should always be shown here), and it will perform arbitrary actions in your UI to see whether they break the condition (e.g. clicking this button replaces the displayed value by [object Object]).

https://quickstrom.io

The resemblance between this endangered animal and the browser named after it is uncanny.

I've been using git worktree a couple of times recently. I don't think I'll ever go back to stashing.

I have just been informed that apparently Web Replay is being developed as a separate product rather then as part of the Firefox DevTools: https://webreplay.io

Just found out that the Web Replay experiment of the Firefox DevTools was discontinued.

Such a shame; it really would have been a killer feature: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Projects/WebReplay