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The TC39 Temporal proposal is coming along. It’s meant to replace JavaScript’s date API:
https://www.igalia.com/2026/03/13/Temporal-Reaches-Stage-4.html
Jason Williams’ talk about this at State of the Browser is now online:

Temporal Reaches Stage 4 | Igalia
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In an all-hands meeting, Fidji Simo told OpenAI staff not to be distracted by "side quests" and said Anthropic's success should serve as a "wake-up call" (Berber Jin/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/openai-chatgpt

Examples of creative data visualizations, mostly ggplot: #ggplot #dataviz

GitHub - tashapiro/tanya-data-viz: Personal data visualization side projects.
Personal data visualization side projects. Contribute to tashapiro/tanya-data-viz development by creating an account on GitHub.

When you are a Swift godot user, every day is xmas!
https://forums.swift.org/t/pitch-emscripten-target-support-for-swift/85310

[Pitch] Emscripten Target Support for Swift
Swift already runs in the browser today. Using the WASI target with JavaScriptKit and browser-side WASI polyfills, the community has built projects ranging from ElementaryUI (a SwiftUI-inspired web framework) to real-time graphics with WebGPU. The WebAssembly vision document noted that "browser-specific use cases remain to be addressed in a separate document." This pitch proposes adding the Emscripten target (wasm32-unknown-emscripten) to the Swift toolchain, complementing the existing WASI ta…

Today marks 19 years since the very first _public_ commit of my old #Toxiclibs code library collection, which for many years were one of the largest and most important side-projects related to Java & Processing.org.
Altogether, toxiclibs consisted of ~360 different "building blocks for computational design" and was used as teaching tool in related fields in many universitie…

Is anyone an iOS or Mac app developer? I could use a little help. Nothing big just small side projects

Oh, speaking of cool projects by my colleagues, one of the teachers in my school is getting ready to put her Kickstarter live on her project. They are a very very small studio, making a horse game around local history. If you could give them a #boost
#horse

RE: https://mastodon.social/@xjki/116035203137010517
Alternative reality: Cambrian explosion of the tech people that got laid off ‘22-‘24 getting past the very real shock & crisis of losing their job, and starting companies & side projects to out-comp…

With the boom in AI side projects, I would have expected the number of packages created from 2025 to now to be a bit higher. Especially when you consider that #dotnet solutions have package sprawl (e.g., 1 solution has 20 packages).

New Cowboys 2026 NFL mock draft gift wraps defensive stars for Dallas https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/draft/new-dallas-cowboys-2026-nfl-mock-draft-gift-wraps-defensive-stars

The key takeaways from the early part of the #chardet thread (I didn't read beyond the ~30 first comments, I have my limits).
1. People there love cosplaying lawyers. Except when the other side also starts cosplaying lawyers, in which case they suddenly divert to suggesting asking professional lawyers.
2. Almost nobody there is concerned with ethics or morality.
3. There's a lot of GPL haters there. Like, they seem the kind of people who don't really care about licensing at all, just used MIT in their projects because it was cool and they heard something about license incompatibility and now bash at everything that's (L)GPL.
4. People don't get that LLMs are statistical models and can't build anything from the ground up. All they can do is remix, which implies they use existing code for inspiration.
5. The maintainer who did the rewrite is a total asshole, and is perfectly aware of it.
Honestly, I'm truly waiting for the subsidizing to end and companies start charging obscene amounts for the use of LLMs. Of course, the reality is that we're totally fucked. We have a lot of projects that adapted a lot of #slop, and people who are being increasingly addicted to this shit. The moment they can't afford it, we'd be left with lots of broken code nobody wants to maintain.
And I definitely don't want to put my effort into packaging crap if its maintainers don't even bother trying.
#AI #LLM #NoAI #NoLLM