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I'm only disappointed there wasn't a "Composites are value-able" slide 😅

Tremendous! For reasons I can't fully articulate, the === makes me very happy. So aesthetically pleasing. Well done @ashley-c.bsky.social !

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Rob Palmer @robpalmer.bsky.social · 22h

ECMAScript excitement 😉 Congrats to @ashley-c.bsky.social from TechAtBloomberg on advancing the Composites proposal to Stage 2 at @tc39.es today 🎉 Composites are objects that are compared by value instead of identity. They are an evolution of Record & Tuple proposal.

const pos1 = Composite({ x: 1, y: 4 });
const pos2 = Composite({ x: 1, y: 4 });
pos1 === pos2; // true

const positions = new Set(); // the standard ES Set
positions.add(pos1);
positions.has(pos2); // true

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John Reilly @johnnyreilly.com · 28/09/2026

I've been a little slow in publishing this, but this the story of me going from surgery back into the next stage of my treatment. Being fixed isn't jolly, but it's going as well as I could hope. And I do hope. johnnyreilly.github.io/reillys-on-t...

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Going on a Bear Hunt | Reillys on Tour

The lung surgery has gone well! What's next? Well, I'm not baked yet - it's time to do something I've done before. It won't be fun. This is part of my recovery diaries.

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John Reilly @johnnyreilly.com · 27/09/2026

I only started on S1 last week. It's really good!!!! I have already got to S2 and I am *gripped*

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John Reilly @johnnyreilly.com · 27/09/2026

Rosewater/lavender etc are flavours enjoyed over here, but they're niche more than common. I had a some of that ilk at Petersham Nurseries recently. Typical is more like chocolate/lemon drizzle/carrot cake/bakewell/coffee and walnut/pistachio.

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John Reilly @johnnyreilly.com · 24/09/2026

It depends when I wake up, but yes the photo is usually taken each morning around 6am. It's got to that point in the year when I start to get used to walking in darkness, which isn't as pretty

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John Reilly @johnnyreilly.com · 24/09/2026

We have lost the morning light

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John Reilly @johnnyreilly.com · 20/09/2026

Does being equine make them a neigh-bour 😉

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John Reilly @johnnyreilly.com · 15/09/2026

I've had two months off for surgery, but tomorrow I begin chemotherapy again. I'm nervous. But far less nervous than last time when it was a terrifying unknown. Now it's just a grim known. It's for a purpose and it's not forever

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John Reilly @johnnyreilly.com · 14/09/2026

I love this. And it feels like a physical illustration of OSS. So I love it more

A box containing books with writing on it saying "take a book, leave a book"

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John Reilly @johnnyreilly.com · 13/09/2026

I'd watch or listen to almost anything Matthew Sweet does

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John Reilly @johnnyreilly.com · 13/09/2026

They've just deferred importing this feature 😉

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John Reilly @johnnyreilly.com · 12/09/2026

So glad to hear the nerve pain is gone! Hope you fix up after the surgery very soon indeed. I'm three weeks post op and nearly there I'd say

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John Reilly @johnnyreilly.com · 10/09/2026

And I appreciate the deckchair in the background. We had one like that when I was growing up

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John Reilly @johnnyreilly.com · 09/09/2026

Just been signed off by the lung surgeon following my operation. I've recovered well and fast. I'll be starting round 2 of chemotherapy soon. The surgeon says he hopes to never see me again, unless we bump into each other on Richmond Hill for ice cream 🍨

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Jake Gold @jacob.gold · 08/09/2026

If you use AI less than I do, you just don’t get it. If you use AI more than I do, you’ve fucking lost it. The optimal amount of AI is exactly how much I currently use.

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John Reilly @johnnyreilly.com · 08/09/2026

Walking in the rain for the first time in months!

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John Reilly @johnnyreilly.com · 06/09/2026

I'm not sure! People do come down and do maintenance on their boats, so it could well have. One of my boys took the picture, threw it at AI and then showed me a video of paddle steamer docking at the ferry terminal. Finally AI shows it's value!

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Andrew Branch @andrewbran.ch · 15/08/2026

If you’re not stalking TypeScript PRs, you might be surprised how much you can do with the API in nightlies (and even in 7.0 stable), so here’s a tiny demo that I think hits some of the highlights. 🧵

A package.json in VS Code after npm installing typescript@next

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John Reilly @johnnyreilly.com · 04/09/2026

Lovely to have ts-loader's benchmark harness get a shout out on @typescript.fm - feel free to steal the code! For those curious the performance with the 7.1 APIs is comparable with the 6.x APIs. Before shipping things will likely improve further! github.com/TypeStrong/t...

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Support TypeScript 7.1 API by Copilot · Pull Request #1704 · TypeStrong/ts-loader

Copilot didn't write this - I did! The below can also be found in the CHANGELOG.md. This is a ground-up rewrite of ts-loader's compilation engine. Instead of driving TypeScript's classi...

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John Reilly @johnnyreilly.com · 01/09/2026

As part of the migration of ts-loader to TypeScript 7.1, performance is likely to change. I've no handle yet on how much, but with Claude and Copilots help (well Claude really, Copilot wasn't very helpful) I've put together a benchmark harness to run on each PR! github.com/TypeStrong/t...

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feat: add benchmark test harness for comparing ts-loader build performance by johnnyreilly · Pull Request #1706 · TypeStrong/ts-loader

Generates a synthetic project and times cold builds and incremental rebuilds (low- vs. high-fan-out file touches, under both transpileOnly modes) to compare one ts-loader checkout's speed again...

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