Mr. Hands

/**
 * check if the current file uses TypeScript syntax
 */
function isTypeScript() {
    // @ts-ignore
    return (() => true)<0>(0)
}

Basically, every cool new thing (classes, anonymous functions, etc.) has to work in the existing featureset so that we don't break The Entire Fucking Internet. That is an insane requirement for a programming language, and somehow it works???

Or: How the left-pad incident happens

Last night, I was looking for a way to count words in my Markdown files, and I found this package called markdown-magic-wordcount. Looking closer, it's actually a plugin for markdown-magic, which does a whole suite of transformations on files written in Markdown.

Hmm, I figured, do I really want to pull in this whole dependency just for this one plugin? I'd better check out the source. And down the rabbit hole, I went.

Is that I can ponder at 5 PM

I wish my game had tooltips

And then Google

javascript tooltip library

And then install tippy.js with

npm install tippy.js

And then have freaking tooltips in my game before the end of my workday at 6 PM!