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Rob Palmer @robpalmer.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Axel is perhaps the most professional and diligent JS educating author. I remember when it felt like a new JS feature wasn't "done" until he had written the corresponding explainer article. You can thank him by buying his books 📚

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Oom Sveta @oom.technology · 01/01/2026

This is certainly a cause for concern

A screen shot of the man pages. It reads: "BUGS: Many people will be unhappy if you use this function."

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Oom Sveta @oom.technology · 30/12/2025

Just found out about Sleep Sort 💀

JavaScript code showing an array of numbers. Each number is passed to a setTimeout, which console.logs the number once the timer expires.

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Supper Mario Broth @mariobrothblog.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

In Diddy Kong Racing DS, the message when connection is lost during Download Play is "LOST ALL CHILDREN". The cartridge is internally called a "parent" and the downloaded instances its "children". While this would make sense to the developers, it has the potential to confuse or scare players.

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Oom Sveta @oom.technology · 22/09/2025

I've often heard that Netscape 3 couldn't handle self-closing tags when the closing slash directly followed the tag name, that's why people started adding a space before the slash (e.g., <br />). But I've never found any official source—documentation or a bug report

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Oom Sveta @oom.technology · 06/08/2025

I never paid attention to this before, but now it's going to haunt me for the rest of my life.

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Happycrumble ⭐ @rumwik.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

I'm off to a compassionate start! #art #rumthedonkey #comic

Digitally drawn three panel comic depicting Rum the Donkey interpreting the words "console.log" on a website called Javascript 4 Babies.

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danii (っ˕ -｡)ᶻ 𝗓 𐰁 @danii.fi · 12/07/2025

the javascript Date class is so advanced

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Oom Sveta @oom.technology · 14/07/2025

Last week, I was experimenting with void elements, and...what the heck is happening there?

div.innerHTML = "<br></br>";
div.innerHTML; // "<br><br>"

div.innerHTML = "<hr></hr>";
div.innerHTML; // "<hr>"

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Oom Sveta @oom.technology · 11/07/2025

Determining if a given HTML tag is a void element:

function isVoidElement(tag) {
return document.createElement(tag).outerHTML.length === tag.length + 2;
}

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Oom Sveta @oom.technology · 14/05/2025

Even though C23 enforces two's complement, it still leaves the bitwise right shift of a negative number implementation-defined 🤔

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Oom Sveta @oom.technology · 02/05/2025

Look at these nice ass German suited cards

German suited ace card. It's funny because there is "ASS ❤️" written in the middle of the card

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Gordon @gordon.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

DNS started as a text file on Jon’s computer. To register a new domain you would email Jon.

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Oom Sveta @oom.technology · 18/04/2025

Funnily enough, on my GNOME Debian, the ㎬ character is rendered as "GPA" (with a capital A), while I'm pretty sure it should be GPa. Could this be a small mistake of the Cantarell font?

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Kate @katef.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

every day i join zoom calls and talk about regexes

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Oom Sveta @oom.technology · 16/04/2025

Lately I've been digging into JS normalization issues, and I was wondering about the options we have to do case folding in JavaScript. For full case folding, it seems like str.toLowerCase().toUpperCase().toLowerCase() does the job? Can it really be that simple?

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Lev Parikian @levparikian.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

We’re rapidly reaching peak birdsong, as breeding season is in full swing and resident birds are being joined by migrants, so maybe now’s a good time to be reminded of the existence of the Swedish word ‘gökotta’ – getting up early to listen to birdsong.

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MDN Web Docs @developer.mozilla.org · 11/04/2025

🔔 New changes in default UA styles for <h1> in <section> <article> <nav> & <aside> • No implicit <h1> styles based on surroundings • A <h1> will always look like a <h1> • Lighthouse will flag missing font-size on <h1> in <section>s, etc Read more 👇 developer.mozilla.org/en-US/blog/...

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Default styles for h1 elements are changing | MDN Blog

Browsers are starting to roll out changes in default UA styles for nested section headings. This post describes the incoming changes, how to identify if it's an issue on your websites, and hints for conformant and better-structured pages.

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Oom Sveta @oom.technology · 10/04/2025

#TIL that they call Stephaton the guy who gave Jesus a sponge soaked in vinegar at the Crucifixon. And also that the toilet brush of the Romans is called Xylospongium

Screen shot of Wikipedia:

Stephaton, or Steven, is the name given in medieval Christian traditions to the Roman soldier or bystander, unnamed in the Bible, who offered Jesus a sponge soaked in vinegar wine at the Crucifixion. In later depictions of the Crucifixion, Stephaton is frequently portrayed with Longinus, the soldier who pierced Jesus' side with a spear.

It is not to be confused with a Xylospongium, a sponge that is soaked in vinegar attached to a stick the Romans used after defecating.

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Wikipédia en français @wikipediafr.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Le saviez-vous ? En 2003, une particule cosmique a faussé les élections législatives de Schaerbeek 🧐. #LeSaviezVous #DidYouKnow

Capture d'écran de l'article Wikipédia intitulé « Perturbation par une particule isolée ». L'article explique le phénomène de perturbation par une particule isolée (PPI), où une seule particule ionisante impacte un composant microélectronique sensible, entraînant un changement d'état temporaire. Le texte est accompagné de diagrammes et illustrations techniques décrivant les causes et effets de ce phénomène.

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dade @0xda.de · 05/04/2025

If you're interested in progressive enhancement web design at all, you may have encountered situations where you only want to render something when JS is enabled. Maybe a button to control a menu, or a theme switcher icon. Well I wrote about how I solved that problem today. 0xda.de/blog/2025/04...

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Hiding elements that require JavaScript without JavaScript

I’ve tried my best to make sure that this site works great (or at least reasonably well) even without JavaScript, but when JavaScript isn’t available, it can be a little clunky to hide things that do ...

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Oom Sveta @oom.technology · 04/04/2025

What the heck Dutch speakers

Screenshot from Wikipedia. It says:

"Swaffelen (or zwaffelen) means to hit one's partially erect penis—often repeatedly—against an object or another person's body. Swaffelen was named the word of the year in the Netherlands and Belgium in 2008."

The part about it being the word of the year is highlighted

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Suave Morbida @maitre-poulard.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Dans les archives du premier avril, on a un certain Oliver Bickar qui en 1974 qui a mis le feu à des milliers de pneus qu'il amenait depuis 4 ans dans le cratère du mont Edgecumbe en Alaska pour faire croire aux habitants de la ville de Sitka que le volcan etait en éruption

La fausse éruption du mont Edgecumb le premier avril 1974

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Oom Sveta @oom.technology · 27/03/2025

I totally agree. Or at least I used to. Recent facts I came across while re-reading parts of @rcs.bsky.social's "Effective C" - the book that reminds you that the "C" in "C Programming Language" stands for "Cthulhu" - made me revise my mental model a little bit

Front cover of "Effective C", featuring a man in a diving suit reading a book, sitting on the shoulder of a Cthulhu-like creature

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Oom Sveta @oom.technology · 26/03/2025

#TIL l'expression « et des ratons laveurs », ajoutée ironiquement à la fin d'une énumération dont le contenu hétéroclite semble improbable. L'expression est issue du poème « Inventaire » de Jacques Prévert, écrit en 1957

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Oom Sveta @oom.technology · 26/03/2025

This will come in handy! Did you know that Danish traditionally uses a period instead of a colon in its time notation?

new Intl.DurationFormat("da", { style: "digital", hoursDisplay: "auto" }).format({ minutes: 12, seconds: 00 }); // "12.00"

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Tietra 🐇🌸 @tietrabun.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

This is real There was a recent scandal in the Pokemon hobby where vintage cards that were supposed to be from the '90s, worth thousands of dollars, were found to have Tracking Dots that revealed they were printed in 2024 Even had the printer's serial number www.elitefourum.com/t/many-of-th...

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Oom Sveta @oom.technology · 25/03/2025

Wikipedia's list of "inaptonyms" (i.e., personal names that are particularly unfit for their owner) is wild

List of inaptonyms from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aptronym#Inaptonyms

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Oom Sveta @oom.technology · 10/03/2025

Considering it's an Indian restaurant, this is still unexpectedly relevant

Screenshot from the website of a restaurant. It says "NaN" and then in the next line "OUR EXPERIENCE".

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Mathis Hammel-Brylinski @mathishammel.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

THREAD : TikTok a mis en place 8 protections pour éviter de fuiter 750GB de données par jour sur leur appli. Je vais vous détailler comment contourner chacune de ces sécurités, et pourquoi j'ai besoin des données de plusieurs millions de créateurs de contenus.

Un dashboard Grafana en feu qui récolte 755GB de données par jour sur TikTok

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Oom Sveta @oom.technology · 28/02/2025

If you think JavaScript developers go too far by using the language for everything, wait until you hear about TypeScript developers

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Oom Sveta @oom.technology · 25/02/2025

Fell in love with ESLint's AST selectors. So declarative and powerful! Having this out of the box in Deno is huge. I used to test my selectors at eslint.org/play/ by adding them to the no-restricted-syntax rule. I wonder if there is an easier way to do this?

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Oom Sveta @oom.technology · 25/02/2025

Endless Q&A with ChatGPT is the new getting lost in Wikipedia

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Nicholas C. Zakas @humanwhocodes.com · 25/02/2025

Some people enjoy online debating. If you’re like me and you don’t, it’s okay to draw a line and be done with the conversation. You don’t owe people a tidy resolution to a conversation you’re finished with.

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Oom Sveta @oom.technology · 25/02/2025

#TIL about the existence of /bin/dash, aka Debian Almquist Shell. So apparently Debian & Ubuntu have their own shell, designed to be as lightweight as possible, implementing POSIX but nothing more. The reduced overhead they get is truly valuable for init scripts

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Oom Sveta @oom.technology · 19/02/2025

I've always been a little bit curious about the amount of cursed knowledge one would learn by writing a linter for an equally cursed language. I've always had a craving for that kind of detail

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depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

please read to the end of the paragraph

The Pick Operating System, also known as the Pick System or simply Pick,[1] is a demand-paged, multi-user, virtual memory, time-sharing computer operating system based around a MultiValue database. Pick is used primarily for business data processing. It is named after one of its developers, Dick Pick

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Aloakirby @aloakirby.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

J'ai réussi RTA sans aucun cheat mon nouveau trick favoris je suis trop heureux ! Mais ca sauve pas de temps car c'est trop lent je suis trop triste FFfffffffffff bsky.app/profile/aloa...

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danterexe.bsky.social @danterexe.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

"Deception" Acrylics on canvas 2025

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Alice Averlong 🏳️‍⚧️ @alice.averlong.com · 16/02/2025

This symbol only exists because of a 2007 Unicode misinterpretation of a 15th century Old Church Slavonic manuscript in which the author decided that the O in "many-eyed seraphim" needed to reflect the many eyes of the seraphim. This is a glitch angel.

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Oom Sveta @oom.technology · 17/02/2025

Creatively enough, the 'yes' 🙂‍↕️ and 'no' 🙂‍↔️ emoji are implemented as ZWJ sequences: 🙂 + ↔️ for 'no' and 🙂 + ↕️ for 'yes'

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Oom Sveta @oom.technology · 14/02/2025

#TIL that there is a subtle difference between (unsigned char)*s and *(unsigned char*)s Casting to unsigned applies a well-defined conversion, ensuring consistency across systems, matching what you'd get from reinterpreting the bits in a two's complement representation of negative numbers... 1/3

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