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‘Architects of AI’ named Time magazine’s 2025 person of the year | Flipboard

PBS News - The “Architects of AI” were named Time’s person of the year Thursday, with the magazine citing 2025 as when the potential of artif...

“Person of the Year is an annual issue of the American news magazine and website “Time” featuring a person, group, idea, or object that ‘for better or for worse ... has done the most to influence the events of the year’.”

Time Person of the Year - Wikipedia

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I enjoyed “Leviathan” on Netflix: It’s entertaining, has interesting world-building and avoids many tropes. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt32581507/

They should have called the body switch episode “Freaky Wednesday” (even though there is no “woe” in that title).

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)

#NodeJS #JavaScript

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

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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.