Troll harder.

I mean $_.

“We wanted it to work like Perl,” said someone who should have been killed on the spot.

Engineers don’t let engineers design interfaces.

I fondly remember having 8 GB of storage, because I could back up my hard drive on like two dollars worth of CD-Rs.

I feared no virus. Reinstalling XP was a monthly affair regardless.

“I never thought that words like product would ever leave my lips.”

See also the client camera movement guide:

GNU Autotools: yes.

Lodash provides modular methods for working with arrays, objects, strings, and more.

I dunno. If it makes everything Array-like act like a goddamn Array, I’m tempted to start using it.

‘What do you mean you can’t .map a Set? It’s iterable! Figure it out!’

The thing you want from jQuery was added to all browsers in 2018.

Or ship a browser to run a script.

It’s a mantra about teaching people and then expecting them to forget it. Doesn’t work. They’ll default to what they already know.

My freshman English teacher got married in October and I called her by her maiden name the entire year.

Like all programming mantras, it’s not universally true, but it’s annoyingly reliable. It reflects the shape of the human brain.

First learning is last learning.

Same reason we still do console.log("FUCK").

Everyone’s convinced their thing is special, but everyone else’s is a done deal.

Meanwhile the only task where current AI seems truly competitive is porn.

__MACOSX folders hither and yon.