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i mean virgin america was great. but now they’re all terrible coke doesn’t care about me, but Pepsi is undrinkable swill - loyalty is based on how you feel, not how much they care (which is zero)

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Jordan Harband @jordan.har.band · 02/10/2026

it’s both. my kids love modern brussels - and they would have hated 80s brussels just like i did.

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Rob Palmer @robpalmer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

ECMAScript excitement 😉 This week @tc39.es advanced these proposals 🎉 4️⃣ Dynamic Code Brand Checks 4️⃣ Iterator Chunking/Includes/Join 3️⃣ Thenable Curtailment 2️⃣.7️⃣ default in export * from "mod" 2️⃣.7️⃣ export defer 2️⃣.7️⃣ JSON.parse options 2️⃣ BigInt from Exponential 2️⃣ Composites 1️⃣ Pulling in AbortController

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Jordan Harband @jordan.har.band · 02/10/2026

interesting! I’ve handled it so far by maximizing what’s in shared actions/workflows, but there’s still manually copied boilerplate files involved.

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Jordan Harband @jordan.har.band · 02/10/2026

Some pics from the Giants/Swallows game tonight (that’s a sake juice box)

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Jordan Harband @jordan.har.band · 02/10/2026

just had a really cool experience on a Tokyo train - i saw two women using JSL, and i used some ASL to communicate with them, plus some google translate. they were kind and appreciative!

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Jordan Harband @jordan.har.band · 29/09/2026

but it’s open source, it’s free already

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harbor.ist @harbor.ist · 29/09/2026

Two new CVEs published today (as well as the fixed releases for them): `shell-quote`: www.cve.org/CVERecord?id... `pbkdf2`: www.cve.org/CVERecord?id...

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Jordan Harband @jordan.har.band · 27/09/2026

i wish I’d discovered both scuba diving and Japan in my 20s rather than in my 40s. the last two decades would have been quite different.

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Jordan Harband @jordan.har.band · 27/09/2026

bold of you to speak on a subject you’ve never dared to explore, though

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Jordan Harband @jordan.har.band · 27/09/2026

every week, this is the next chapter of a horror story. i love it, never stop

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Jordan Harband @jordan.har.band · 27/09/2026

so upset it was all a dream

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

AP Stylebook warns against anthropomorphizing AI systems: “Avoid language that gives them human characteristics… Instead, explain what a system does, how well it performs, who built it and who could be affected by it.”

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Artificial intelligence systems do not think, feel, want or understand. Avoid language that gives them human characteristics. This is called anthropomorphizing, when we ascribe human traits, emotions or behaviors to non-human things, such as animals or inanimate objects.
Instead, explain what a system does, how well it performs, who built it and who could be affected by it.

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Jordan Harband @jordan.har.band · 24/09/2026

Thinking is an active process that leads to understanding (not the only such process, ofc). So yes, you can do either without the other. Understanding conceptually requires correctness, but in practice is a label often assigned without correctness. (pls assume ~60% confidence for all this)

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Jordan Harband @jordan.har.band · 24/09/2026

thinking doesn’t require consciousness or sapience imo, but understanding does. I just think it’s so clearly not understanding, where thinking is more debatable

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Jordan Harband @jordan.har.band · 24/09/2026

mostly. “understanding” is debatable depending on whether that requires consciousness or not (yes if not, no if yes), but imo “thinking” only applies if my calculator thinks (eg, if the definition is so broad as to be useless)

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Jordan Harband @jordan.har.band · 24/09/2026

I’m very familiar with greenfield ma but have no idea what this controversy is. Link?

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Jordan Harband @jordan.har.band · 24/09/2026

I agree, but that doesnt mean LLMs are in any way thinking, understanding, or sentient

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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

It’s very simple. A reality TV host became dictator because he turned down a role for Sharknado 4 and that’s why the king of outer space, who cheats at Diablo, got to kill Africa. Now the economy is controlled by a sex cult that has something to do with Harry Potter fanfic because of robots.

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Demigirlboss @demigirlboss.win · 18/09/2026

DO SOMETHING YOU LOVE AND YOU'LL NEVER WORK A DAY IN YOUR LIFE. COROLLARY. DO SOMETHING YOU LOVE AND YOU NEVER TAKE DAYS OFF EITHER. THIS IS A POST ABOUT BEING AN ENGINEER.

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bryan english @bengl.dev · 19/09/2026

Joel Spolsky, 2002

The law of leaky abstractions means that whenever somebody comes up with a wizzy new code-generation tool that is supposed to make us all ever-so-efficient, you hear a lot of people saying “learn how to do it manually first, then use the wizzy tool to save time.” Code generation tools which pretend to abstract out something, like all abstractions, leak, and the only way to deal with the leaks competently is to learn about how the abstractions work and what they are abstracting. So the abstractions save us time working, but they don’t save us time learning.

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Jordan Harband @jordan.har.band · 26/08/2026

Oh, right. The daybed. The daybed for Kuzco, the daybed chosen especially to relax Kuzco, Kuzco’s daybed. That daybed?

Sign for “Daybed 7” that says “Cronk Party”

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Jordan Harband @jordan.har.band · 14/08/2026

Your friendly reminder that a thing developed in isolation, absent sufficient stakeholders, has to be insanely, extremely, staggeringly good to be able to outweigh the aforementioned badness. (spoiler alert: it probably isn’t)

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Jordan Harband @jordan.har.band · 30/07/2026

I’m not telling you that at all. I’m saying that those two proposals’ status have virtually nothing to do with the way TC39 operates.

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Jordan Harband @jordan.har.band · 30/07/2026

I did, and neither of those supposed counters applies ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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Jordan Harband @jordan.har.band · 30/07/2026

I’m not engaging in that argument, I’m just pointing out that those two proposals fail to strengthen yours.

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Jordan Harband @jordan.har.band · 30/07/2026

signals hasn’t come back since its first presentation - that’s on the champions, not the committee. decorators is waiting for implementations, which is on the browsers, not the committee. these are strange examples to cherry pick when far better ones exist to make your case.

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Jordan Harband @jordan.har.band · 15/07/2026

bring back the labeler and i stg i'll make one

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Jordan Harband @jordan.har.band · 15/07/2026

i'm madder that it's gone tho

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Jordan Harband @jordan.har.band · 12/07/2026

lol why would Glendale Community College have any info about me whatsoever??? I've never attended, applied, lived near it, or been to Glendale. this is the most confusing @haveibeenpwned.com email i've gotten yet

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npm @npmjs.com · 08/07/2026

npm v12 is now generally available. npm install now makes install scripts, Git, and remote-URL dependencies opt-in by default. We're also retiring npm 2FA-bypass GAT: no account management (early Aug 2026), no direct publishing (~Jan 2027). More info at github.blog/changelog/20...

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npm install-time security and GAT bypass2fa deprecation - GitHub Changelog

npm v12 is now generally available and tagged latest. This major release turns on the install-time security defaults we announced in June, and it’s also where we begin a deprecation…

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Jordan Harband @jordan.har.band · 06/07/2026

can someone please tell *every bank* that if a "secure messaging system" goes to my email address, then it's basically not possible for it to be more secure than my email account itself?

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Jordan Harband @jordan.har.band · 04/07/2026

would love to grab a copy of that :-)

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

Aesop: I TOLD YOU

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Jordan Harband @jordan.har.band · 03/07/2026

please be student patient driver

bumper sticker trying to say “please be patient, student driver”

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