I really like this song. Gets me in the mood to party. Reminds me of 90s pop-techno/europop. The 90s aesthetic is coming back in fashion.

Spotify

Wild Eyes

Ashbury Heights, Madil Hardis · Wild Eyes · Song · 2020

Congrats to the French for beating the All Blacks in the opening match. Definitely contenders for the title. #rugby

I have a half baked idea in my head, but I think there's something to it. Writing code and working as a programmer for almost 20 years, has rewired my brain. I have certain habits of mind that can irritate and annoy my wife. I can't help but point out logical inconsistencies if I find them in something I see or hear. I tend to consider multiple possible scenarios and outcomes, or all the different iterations of something. I can get bogged down in the details of a story. I like puns and wordgames and seeing words used in novel ways. These are all traits that programming selects for, and strengthens. I guess everyone's brain gets rewired by what they do. It's just kinda strange to realize the extent of it sometimes when I reflect on my behavior.

"Be your own boss" on the billboards here. But only for the women. #slay #girlboss

Chefs are so last century. The future is now old man. We have food influencers. Get with the times.

I had to go to Düsseldorf today. Some really nice Art Deco (I think) buildings here. I love architectural styles from the turn of the previous century (e.g. also Art Nouveau).

A while back I read an interview with the mathematician Conway where he said something that I regularly think of. To be a great mathematician, you have to be comfortable with something not being finished, not knowing when it'll be finished or whether it'll ever be finished (by you). You might work on a proof for years, not knowing whether you'll actually solve it. Whenever I have anxiety around some unfinished project at work, I think of this quote. I'm not a mathematician, but we can all learn to accept ambiguity and incompleteness. I'm fact, the mathematician Gödel, showed that every conceivable mathematical framework is incomplete, because it contains unprovable statements.

Quite a while back, I read about how the #Svelte devs used JSDoc type hints together with the #TypeScript compiler to add types to Svelte while keeping the actual code #JavaScript. I've decided to do the same with the #XMPP library Strophe.js

GitHub

GitHub - strophe/strophejs: Strophe.js is an XMPP library for JavaScript

Strophe.js is an XMPP library for JavaScript. Contribute to strophe/strophejs development by creating an account on GitHub.

Strophe now contains type declaration files generated from the JSDoc type hints (not yet released). My experience is a bit mixed. Writing JSDoc types is more verbose and feels a bit more clunky than writing TypeScript. But on the other hand, you avoid introducing a compilation step and the code itself doesn't have to change much. For relatively small libraries like Strophe it's worth considering.

Any #neovim or #vim fans here? Took me a while, but I've finally gotten comfortable with using the :terminal feature from Neovim. Being able to use vim keybindings to search terminal output and to copy it into a vim buffer is a game changer. Bonus, now I don't ever need to leave vim!