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❯ node dateformat.js
The date: 2023-08-29T23:30:01.758Z
Formatted array: [
  { type: 'month', value: '8' },
  { type: 'literal', value: '/' },
  { type: 'day', value: '29' },
  { type: 'literal', value: '/' },
  { type: 'year', value: '2023' },
  { type: 'literal', value: ', ' },
  { type: 'timeZoneName', value: 'MDT' }

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Gone

by 'R Sync

Lyric parody of Gone by 'N Sync

Inspired by this tweet

There's a thousand things that I could run
To restore my $HOME

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The Branch Not Merged

Apologies to Robert Frost

Original: The Road Not Taken

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Two loads diverged in a red failed build
and sorry I could not debug both

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Generative Shrek Art in Slack

A colleague took a Shrek image, sliced it into 100 emojis, and put it in our Slack. You can easily tile it.

So, I wrote a super gross terse piece of JS to generate new ... images ... of Shrek using this random art.

Here is that gross bit of art.

If you'd like to see an example, look at the screenshot in this tweet.

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// Based on inspiration from some conversation in WeAllJS
// See wealljs.org for more info on the community!

// This is assuming a plain JS object which is why it's not using for-of, since
// plain objects aren't iterable
function objectPromiseAll(baseObject) {
  return Promise.all(Object.values(baseObject)).then((resolvedValues) => {
    const resolvedObject = {};

    Object.keys(baseObject).forEach((key, index) => {

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Thanks to a wonderful tip from @brianloveswords I've started using osascript alongside say to help me notice when long-running jobs are done.

You can also put a sound with the notification, which is cool, and I wanted a quick way to test every sound on the system, so I ran this:

for f in /System/Library/Sounds/*.aiff
do
file=$(basename -s .aiff $f)
osascript -e "display notification \"$file\" with title \"$file\" sound name \"$file\""
sleep 1

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Xfinity Modal Garbage

This month (November 2017) I exceeded my bandwidth cap with Xfinity. They started injecting this garbage in a TON of my insecure requests.

Another good argument for HTTPS everywhere: It would stop vendors from injecting garbage like this into requests.

June 27, 2018

They're doing it again. https://twitter.com/brianarn/status/1012099526713270272

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(function () {
  var focusedElement;

  setInterval(function () {
    if (focusedElement !== document.activeElement) {
      focusedElement = document.activeElement;
      console.log('Focused element changed:', focusedElement);
    }
  }, 50);
})();

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I hear no princess in the night
But Link hears all her whispers of defenestration
He’s coming in, paraglider flight
The sheikah slate reflects the past that guides him toward salvation
Got stopped by an old man along the way
Hoping to find some long forgotten tech or ancient memories
He turned to me as if to say, “Hurry boy, she’s waiting there for you"

It's gonna take a lot to clean up all that evil goo
There's nothing in a hundred years or more that they could do

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function topLevel() {
 {
  {
    {
       {
            {
                    {
                                 {
                                                      // Pretty
                                 }