Des 🐈 @deskitty@mastodon.social

Software dependencies: Not Even Once

Tab Stash 2.4 will contain:
- An entirely new caching subsystem for dealing with website icons and metadata
- Persistent memory of which tab groups are visible/collapsed
- Re-worked and expanded tests/testing infastructure
- A large number of squashed bugs (thanks to user bug reports and aforementioned testing improvements)

...and yet somehow the largest change, by far, is package-lock.json, because of course it is.

I hate the Internet

God f*king dammit, npm

A Silent Voice was a very good movie that made me cry. Recommended.

...no, I didn’t spend my entire day off writing code, why on Earth would you think that? >.>; <.<;

[narrator: “Actually, he did.”]

(My little baby WebExtension is up to ~6.5k lines of code, it’s getting so big!)

(And it’s got over 500 active users now AAAAAAA *hides*)

Made a ton of progress on the next Tab Stash release today, once I realized the two features I wanted to do could share a lot of the same code. ^^

Gonna run it for a bit on my own machine to make sure I’m not blowing anyone’s shit up, but there should be a new release with some oft-requested things soon~

Anyway, I started digging into Go because I'll very likely be taking a job soon that will require me to deal with it, and I wanted to have a more informed opinion than just "the language is bad because people are yelling about it on the Internet".

And now here I am, having written some toy Go programs, yelling about it on the Internet. :) But I can already see how a lot of things in Go are very very error-prone, and have better solutions in other languages. Soooo yeah.

Related: I like how the FAQ claims that Go does not have exceptions, and then goes on to describe Go's exception-handling mechanism (but only for "truly exceptional conditions"!).

https://golang.org/doc/faq#exceptions

Their whole "errors are values" post reads like Rob Pike is *trying really hard* to invent monads. https://blog.golang.org/errors-are-values

I’ve been reading/working through the Golang tour, and I feel like I’m in this weird alternate universe where Objective-C and Smalltalk won the language wars, and templates and functional programming had never been invented.

I figured out how to hack up the newtype pattern in #TypeScript:

`type NewType = OldType & {__random_variable_name_thats_never_used__: undefined};`

Then explicitly cast `old_value as NewType` to create newtype values.

Super useful for cases such as, "this thing is a string but actually it's a URL", and having the compiler actually enforce it. More on the newtype pattern here:

https://doc.rust-lang.org/1.0.0/style/features/types/newtype.html

If you had told me a year ago I would have been able to make anything open source that would get that many users, I would have laughed. Hard.

I've hit a milestone :O

Job titles at a corporation run by cats:

CEO = Chief Eating Officer
CTO = Chief Toy Officer
CMO = Chief Meowing Officer
CSO = Chief Sniffing Officer
CPO = Chief Petting Officer