funny dev dump

2024-12-23

advanced-substation-alpha.ass

.ass is a subtitle file format, text blocks associated with timestamps in a video. Contain meta and stylistic data too.

whose uncle is that

… and why was i browsing vscode extensions on my phone at 8:30 am?

it's giving boston with the amnt of tea wikipedia has spilled

ffighting

caca labs

I have a side project that is a brew formula visualizer and clicked on a random one, the illustrious caca labs

altylsyl

plugin stupor

volar

heroku hell

"track-record"… scathing

heroku

bechdel test extension

I downloaded a random app "highland2" and under tools it has gender analysis where it sees how many female / male characters were talking to each other.

beep

disgusting brute

comment

enormity

enormous

blushing

from an article about name JS mangling

blush

npm install verizon

A common joke template for my coworkers and is to say "npm install some-not-tech-word" eg npm install gertrude/doritos/verizon. And literally every time I've searched it afterwards, it's a package. Try it. This was obvs to make backlinks to improve SEO for some scam. Wonder how quickly npm can deal with that? It's been up for 4 days lol.

verizonnpm

I hadn't realized I had a separate item here called /node_modules/death, which was a package I saw when browsing:

deathnode

here's a test from it:

// the irony of spawn
var spawn = require('win-spawn')

describe('death', function() {
  describe('default behavior', function() {
    it('should catch SIGINT, SIGTERM, and SIGQUIT and return 3', function(done) {

Aha it's looking for the death of a process… aren't humans but processes of God? jk… unless?

I also discovered this one organically:

npmlazy

And learned this factoid from description:

Passing an object reference to a function is about 2000-3000 times faster than serializing an object and passing it as a string. Concatenating 2 strings before passing to a function is about 30% slower than passing 2 separate strings.

gatsby oopsie

I was writing a post about SSGs and was poking around Gatsby's landing pages and saw a lil ole [markdown](mistake)

gatsbymd

svelte strawman

Citing that one React talk where the guy was saying "the virtual DOM is fast, the DOM is slow" (…) they give a code example about why virtual DOMs are… slow and their component name is funny:

altylsyl

the title of this post lol

me've

meve

readability cope

Was browsing the source code of safari's reader mode and found this comment by a disgruntled mozilla eng

function Readability(doc, options) {
  // In some older versions, people passed a URI as the first argument. Cope:

  if (options && options.documentElement) {
    doc = options;
    options = arguments\[2];
  } else if (!doc || !doc.documentElement) {
    throw new Error("First argument to Readability constructor should be a document object.");
  }
  options = options || {};

bizarre flag

Maybe this is just some convention that I've never heard of but…

altylsyl

enjoy NaN

altylsyl

neural network talk to transformer

some truly darksided results for my name apparently

altylsyl

talk to transformer

Built by Adam King (@AdamDanielKing) as an easier way to play with OpenAI's new machine learning model. In February, OpenAI unveiled a language model called GPT-2 that generates coherent paragraphs of text one word at a time.

This site runs the full-sized GPT-2 model, called 1558M. Before November 1, OpenAI had only released three smaller, less coherent versions of the model.

While GPT-2 was only trained to predict the next word in a text, it surprisingly learned basic competence in some tasks like translating between languages and answering questions. That's without ever being told that it would be evaluated on those tasks. To learn more, read OpenAI's blog post or follow me on Twitter.