Web app technique I’m considering: decks/ flash-cards.md flash-cards.json App stores state in JSON file: • Pro: Syncing state between devices via file system • Con: User must select directory first (via OS), deck second (via app). Why? So that the app can write a sibling file to the directory.
Upcoming Node.js feature: Package import specifiers (*) can start with #/
GitHub
module: allow subpath imports that start with `#/` by hybrist · Pull Request #60864 · nodejs/node
It's a common ecosystem pattern to map a source root directory to @/ but it requires special tooling support. This turns #/* into a more realistic ...
 "imports": { "#/*": "./*" } Why is this useful? Gives you more naming options. Previous solution (e.g.): "#root/*" (*)
Modules ES6 • Exploring JavaScript (ES2025 Edition)
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Tiny UI detail in Visual Studio Code: If you select matches via Command-D (Windows: Control-D) then selecting doesn’t stop at the last match, it wraps around and stops where everything started. That makes a big difference because you see the initial context while making changes.
20 years ago today (1995-12-04): “Netscape and Sun announce JavaScript, the open, cross-platform object scripting language for enterprise networks and the internet”
Press Release
 #JavaScript
RE:
Fosstodon
TypeScript (@TypeScript@fosstodon.org)
We've got some updates on TypeScript 7! The new native port - can type-check any project - supports --build and --incremental - has rich editor fe...
 It’s amazing how quickly the Go version of TypeScript was created. The key “trick” of the TS team was to port, not to rewrite:
A closer look at the details behind the Go port of the TypeScript compiler
Today’s announcement by Microsoft: [...] we’ve begun work on a native port of the TypeScript compiler and tools. The native implementation will...
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JavaScript—matching at a given index inside a string (useful for parsing/tokenizing): • .startsWith(), .endsWith():
Strings • Exploring JavaScript (ES2025 Edition)
 • .indexOf(), .lastIndexOf():
Strings • Exploring JavaScript (ES2025 Edition)
 • RegExp /y and /g with .lastIndex:
Regular expressions (RegExp) • Exploring JavaScript (ES2025 Edition)
Random foldable phone idea: Make the outer display e-ink.
I’m surprised that this is legal: “our AI Biden avatar gives you speeches, interviews, analysis, and viral moments”
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social.growyourown.services
Fedi.Tips (@FediTips@social.growyourown.services)
If you see a post you want to share but you want to add a Content Warning (CW), it is now very easy to do this: 1. Go to the post you want to shar...
 #Mastodon: I like that you stay within your server’s web app if you click on a quoted post. Combined with all replies being fetched on demand, it means that you almost never have to visit other servers.
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