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Samual @samual.uk · 15/09/2026

I'm also looking for work, DM me

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Samual @samual.uk · 11/09/2026

I got made redundant this week. I'm a very passionate web developer. I got very used to wearing many hats from being fullstack, to sys-admin, to technical lead. DM me

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Samual @samual.uk · 27/08/2026

> It's not a conspiracy. It's something worse, because there's no one to argue with. did AI write this post?

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Samual @samual.uk · 21/08/2026

> Protobuf finally has LSP support. You're welcome. protols already existed and works great. another LSP is cool but no need to pretend to be the first github.com/coder3101/pr...

github.com

GitHub - coder3101/protols: Language Server for protocol buffers

Language Server for protocol buffers. Contribute to coder3101/protols development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Samual @samual.uk · 20/08/2026

I agree but the response to this I've heard is that this style of union auto-flattens when rust tagged unions don't. for me this flattening is harmless or convenient but not everyone agrees

Samual @samual.uk · 08/08/2026

I didn't say write methods inside the factory either. methods aren't tree-shakable

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Samual @samual.uk · 08/08/2026

classes encourage people to write methods which aren't tree-shakable

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Samual @samual.uk · 25/07/2026

why is this written in such a patronising way?

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Samual @samual.uk · 22/07/2026

does JavaScript have syntax errors for misreferencing variables? you usually find out the hard way at runtime with a `ReferenceError`

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Samual @samual.uk · 12/07/2026

thought you might have been talking this post pure-systems.org/posts/2026-0... but I don't see that sentiment or at least not that directly

pure-systems.org

Functional Programmers need to take a look at Zig.

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Samual @samual.uk · 16/06/2026

when abouts and where?

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Samual @samual.uk · 30/04/2026

I'm not the only one! I have all the EOL dates in my calendar and get excited when I see them approaching

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Samual @samual.uk · 24/04/2026

that is very cool!

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Samual @samual.uk · 02/04/2026

diff, specifically diffChars

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Samual @samual.uk · 22/03/2026

oh like babel-plugin-transform-regex? that sounds like a fun project

Samual @samual.uk · 10/03/2026

I'm still waiting for the JSDoc compiler to support non null assertions

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Samual @samual.uk · 10/03/2026

this is a very good article, thank you for writing this

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Samual @samual.uk · 07/03/2026

I'm interested in what tree-shakeable methods could look like

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Samual @samual.uk · 25/02/2026

example of something cool you can make with it: samualtnorman.github.io/solid-syntax...

samualtnorman.github.io

Solid App

Samual @samual.uk · 19/02/2026

why are you being belligerent? I don't think he can just "get over it", "get over it" in what sense?

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Samual @samual.uk · 17/02/2026

I know you mean *as a library* but why do you think this?

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Samual @samual.uk · 17/02/2026

the nice thing about using a ponyfill is that when you inevitably make a breaking change and update the Node version requirements, you can easily later update your code from the ponyflll to just using the bulitins. you don't need to migrate from some library that had its own specific API to builtins

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Samual @samual.uk · 16/02/2026

hm I'm not sure about that, what's your reasoning? even though we do this in the browser, my reasoning we don't do this in Node.js is because if my package says it supports Node.js ^20, it should actually support Node.js ^20 without any asterisks

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Samual @samual.uk · 16/02/2026

ponyfills don't modify any builtins. that's what separates them from polyfills. they're just libraries that happen to implement the interface of a proposal or builtin

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Samual @samual.uk · 16/02/2026

how about ponyfills?

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Samual @samual.uk · 24/01/2026

why not just this? let postfix = { ...article_postfix, a_head: "a head" }

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Samual @samual.uk · 02/12/2025

I'd really like a language that fills a similar role to WASM text format but has a much frendlier syntax than S-expressions. maybe it could be slightly higher level

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Samual @samual.uk · 19/11/2025

what does TPAC stand for?

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Samual @samual.uk · 06/10/2025

it's the classic "Doctor who did this thing" not "Doctor Who did this thing"

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Samual @samual.uk · 26/09/2025

I personally prefer UnoCSS over Tailwind

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Samual @samual.uk · 25/09/2025

Blue Eye Samurai

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I'm not a reply guy. if you don't want strangers replying to your posts, limit your replies to people you follow. sorry I misinterpreted your post and jumped to conclusions and sorry I was condescending about it

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sorry it's not my intention to be condescending

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what was the correct way I was supposed to interpret > Remember when people implemented whole ass React apps just to be like "look, we can fade between fake changing the URL of the page"

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…API has been baseline since 2015 so the specific thing you are talking about is not really representative of React apps or any SPAs

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I didn't say that for fun. what I meant to say is that I think you are being reductive. people don't make SPAs for an animation between pages. people make SPAs because it leads to a better user experience. obviously a bad implementation of an SPA will lead to a bad user experience but the history…

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animation is not the reason SPAs exist

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oh that's cool, what are the requirements? Nix and Rust?

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what does being a teammate entail?

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is* something* I hate that you can't edit posts

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in the case where `key` ins a literal type, it could narrow `m` to somethink like `(typeof m) & MapHas<"someKey">` which `.get()` could detect and not return `| undefined`. this is a limited usecase though