Sida Chen @joshcena.com · 28/02/2026It is year 2026 and Copilot still refuses to be half as decent as real LLMs at generating text 000
Sida Chen @joshcena.com · 02/02/2026Midwit move: "Lagrange interpolation" "floored polynomial" yada yada Try instead: search it on OEIS In this case the obvious correct answer is 31, for the maximal number of regions formed by joining n points around a circle. Anyone past elementary school should know that by heart 000
Sida Chen @joshcena.com · 05/04/2025The HTML spec keeps on giving html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/pa... 010
Sida Chen @joshcena.com · 25/03/2025Canny machine-translates post content (written by user) to the browser's preferred language, but the UI labels remain in English—has to be the funniest l10n strategy 020
Sida Chen @joshcena.com · 31/01/2025I don't remember if this is my first time (maybe Docusaurus 2 too?), but it's good to be involved in a news that stayed in HN#1 for so long! (Interestingly, exactly 10 out of the 300+ comments ever mentioned or linked MDN.) 030
Sida Chen @joshcena.com · 21/01/2025The Temporal docs are now live on MDN! After watching it evolve for ~5 years I finally sat down and wrote docs for it—one of the biggest additions to the JS docs area ever. 3459
Sida Chen @joshcena.com · 17/12/2024We don't show enough appreciation for what a piece of art parser generators are. They are the ultimate forms of software design. Here I'm taking one second to appreciate this epic error message that LALRPOP produces. 021
