Colin Gray

This is so quintessentially American. Rather than DO something about school shootings, we punish children who joke about them. You don't think these kids are, I don't know, managing and expressing their fears!? www.propublica.org/article/soci...

Look at this from Bloomberg - no mention of ballooning to $35/month after the first month. I would've happily paid $2 for just this one article- I'm here for a date, not to get married.

I'm refusing to post on X anymore, which really hurts when I see something like this and want to say something: x.com/bmakr_/statu... Anyone who studied functional programming would know that *useState* violates the requirement of "same inputs, same outputs."

I am really heartened to see more articles lamenting the state of front end web frameworks. We could do so much better. infrequently.org/2024/11/if-n... mbrizic.com/blog/react-i... I'm putting my hat into the ring with an Elm-like language and runtime called "Extra" (colinta.com)

@infrequently.org I agree with almost everything in infrequently.org/2024/11/if-n..., but listing Airbnb as a react native poster child is disingenuous. They abandoned it in *2018*. I think you need a newer example. Airbnb has distanced themselves from that article (see "Update" below the fold).

being able to hear the wheels on the Sherman tanks squeal on account of no one there is some incredible footage. A+ comedy.

I just watched this video about China's high speed rail. youtu.be/belm4kDAHgM?... My current conclusion: it's already far too late for the United States to have any hope of being the next economic super power.

Capitalism, baby. It needs organizations like the FDA and FTC to keep it *at least somewhat* at bay... now? This shit is gonna run rampant. www.propublica.org/article/revl...

Drop Facebook if you haven't already. Is there a jailbreak option for my dusty ol' Quest 2? youtu.be/7ZzxxLqWKOE?...

@jwcartwright.bsky.social Old friend! I saw x.com/JW_Cartwrigh... and WOW! Congratulations, and I can't wait to watch.

I'm excited, humbled, and honored to be a part of this first cohort of new programmers!! www.linkedin.com/posts/chima-...

@martindba.bsky.social I'm curious about your take as someone more familiar with Oracle, because from the outside it looks terrible. bsky.app/profile/deno... (apologies in advance for sending a copy/pasted message, I'm hitting up a few random Oracle folks)

@thatjeffsmith.com I'm curious about your take as someone more familiar with Oracle, because from the outside it looks terrible. bsky.app/profile/deno... (apologies in advance for sending a copy/pasted message, I'm hitting up a few random Oracle folks)

@gvenzl.bsky.social I'm curious about your take as someone more familiar with Oracle, because from the outside it looks terrible. bsky.app/profile/deno... (apologies in advance for sending a copy/pasted message, I'm hitting up a few random Oracle folks)

“Chess isn't always competitive. Chess can also be beautiful.” ― Beth Harmon www.youtube.com/watch?v=wUsF...

I'll be honest I'm hit and miss on "The Reframe" (but I've stayed subscribed, so there's that), but when he hits me he hits hard. This hit this morning:

Video of a student in my town who wrote a political op-ed being grabbed off the street by government agents bsky.app/profile/pale...

A friend and I are making a new TTRPG, based on deck-builder mechanics! colinta.com/blog/an-idea... Lifting a lot of ideas from Gloomhaven and Slay the Spire... hopefully there's enough original content that this can still be called "our idea". 🤣

My stretch goal for Extra is to output WASM... wish me luck! github.com/colinta/extra

I'm starting to code in the open about "Extra", this felt like a great way to kick off my new blog: colinta.com/blog/making-... The next post will be about a few "throwaway" features that are awesome and every language should have. Eventually I'll talk about how it renders/updates.

So often I try to use some new amazing tool (today it's Cline + Claude 3.7) and within a few minutes my reaction is "this is cute, but I have work to do". The sweet spot for me is still the very narrow-focused "help me write this function + tests" tasks. Agentic? Not quite ready, imo.

I used tweetdelete to wipe out every tweet - bittersweet, but I've been wanting to do it for a while, glad to find a relatively easy way to get it done.

Amidst all the sad insane chaos, I forgot that NPR is also at dire risk. At least we can sign up to help out in small ways (consider donating to NPR!) protectmypublicmedia.org/join/

Me too! ohdoylerules.com/workflows/wh... Add to this list: I can't stop creating plugins so that the editor works exactly how I want it even though that just fyi ethers my lock-in but who cares you should WATCH ME (hands you my beer)

This sums up really well exactly how I feel about React. Pragmatic decision, but not a good or elegant one. Foot guns, forum noise, library quality, all bring down the highs. Elm and Elixir, I miss working in these daily SO MUCH. korban.net/posts/elm/20...

I always love getting Flat Earth jokes from @tory.thegray.co but this one is especially good www.instagram.com/reel/DDe57Vn...

@bsky.app I don't know what you did to the iOS keyboard but when I type "lol" I should be presented with the laugh emoji but I'm not and I don't like this. Not lol

My first rant on Bluesky - and it's such a worn out trope, I know: These damn headlights are too damn bright. (I really do agree with this!) www.reddit.com/r/fuckyourhe...

I'm here now! One thing I'm excited about: I finally found a designer to work with to build something interesting on colinta.com