Tim Severien @timsev@mastodon.social

Random thought: theoretically #typescript increases codebase performance. Type checking in functions is fairly common in vanilla JS, but could mean a value is validated several times when passed through several functions. With #typescript, you don’t have to.

I do like JavaScript, but some proposals make me want to gauge out my eyes. I should look into WebAssembly.

So I went to cnet.com. What a piece of garbage.

- Got a cookie notification
- Got two newsletter pop-ups
- Video of another article started playing with sound
- 30MB loaded after 3 minutes
- Loads of cookies and other storage, a lot of third parties
- Ads everywhere

It also tells me my password needs to be at least 6 characters long, regardless whether I type in 8 or 40 characters. I think that's a side-effect of the internal error.

RT @janpaul@twitter.com
This is AWESOME!

Several hobbies are starting to come together and I can’t be happier about it. I’m reviving my blog by redesigning it and that involves some creative coding.

“Why Love Generative Art?” Jason Bailey explains the beauty of generative art and gives a brief tour of it’s history.
https://www.artnome.com/news/2018/8/8/why-love-generative-art

RT @gumnos@twitter.com
@sebmck@twitter.com Unicode even gives us
℃ 'DEGREE CELSIUS' (U+2103)
℉ 'DEGREE FAHRENHEIT' (U+2109)
for a single semantic unit-identifier.
So, dear non-unit users,

This is why sites that don’t rely on JS are most robust.
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"Google may start disabling Javascript on 2G connections in Chrome when Data Saver is switched on". https://www.androidpolice.com/2018/08/23/chrome-android-may-start-disabling-javascript-2g-connections/
https://twitter.com/poshaughnessy/status/1033118467162099713

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