Shawn Martin

As I frequently discover to my chagrin, English has even less type safety than JavaScript.

Senility is real. I wonder if there's anyone who could have a "Come to Jesus" meeting with him to get him to retire early. I'm sure Pritzker could find somebody better to appoint. So disappointed that this is one of my senators. On the plus side I still have Duckworth.

We're also waiting for you to grow some balls. Pathetic.

Schultz was so much more lovable, though.

D.C. Follies must have been the US copy of the original. I remember it making me fall off the couch laughing. Looking forward to this.

Let’s talk about AI art.

theoatmeal.com/comics/ai_art

When small men begin to cast big shadows, it means the sun is about to set.

- Lin Yutang

Probably haven't heard of the Greatest Of All Time System Engineer either.

Wasm 3.0 Completed - WebAssembly WebAssembly (abbreviated Wasm) is a binary instruction format for a stack-based virtual machine. Wasm is designed as a portable compilation target for programming languages, enabling deployment on the...

The WebAssembly 3.0 spec is complete!

webassembly.org/news/2025-09...

This includes major features like GC, 64-bit memories, exceptions, and tail calls.

I don't think it's hypocrisy. Perhaps it's foresight.

The flat earther theories I've seen plot the earth as a circle with Antarctica at the edge. I think the simplest winner against this is: How do you explain southern hemisphere flight times?

It's seven years since we posted on Twitter about how kids kept coming into the library asking if we had any books about FORTNITE. We didn't back then, and we'd never heard of it so we tried asking what it was.

If you are asking purely theoretically: Trump is on Putin's side, but he's dumb. Vance is on Putin's side and he's smart.

It would also be nice if said UI didn't suck.

Email is Easy Everyone knows what an email address is, right?

Email addresses are very simple, and you will score highly in this quiz.

e-mail.wtf

Doesn't hold a candle to eastern European mayo, but it's easily the best available at grocery store near me. I wish I knew how to make better homemade.

This is a good one - so simple, but I'd never thought about it before.

Came here to say this and see several people beat me to it.

Me either and I was thinking, "if there were a way to sneak in a Matrix reference, this would be perfect."

This is exactly right. I just hope Ukraine can cobble together some kind of effective defense on their own and with what little help Europe can or does give.

This one’s for the penguins.

Those are all great ideas for a talk. Sorry.

The point stands, but is that correct Python? I only use Jython, and only when I have to, so I'm not confident, but to modify a global variable in a function you have to "global x" first? Otherwise you're just silently declaring a new local on the fly, which is "nice." And by nice I mean awful.

Did you have to give up coffee until you convince them?

I agree about the runtimes being different. There are many little differences between the languages themselves, but I think they pale in comparison to the differences among F#/OCaml and many other languages. Compare them to Rust, or JavaScript, or even Clojure - huge differences.

@paulbiggar.com wrote a blog post on this that I can't find at the moment. IIRC, there were (and probably still are) relatively small differences in the languages, but much larger differences in the tooling and ecosystems.

When you get used to a type-checking compiler and then have to pay attention again. 😅 I find this happening to me all too often. Anyway, congratulations!

Sure. What's it look like if you don't want to sign in to a Microsoft account?

I have a feeling that Microsoft will soon resolve this in Windows...

by making the default OS save dialog show cloud by default, too.