Niko Heikkilä @nikoheikkila@mastodon.technology

Yikes

Did you ever notice that JavaScript lets you use floating-point values as array indexes, and it'll store them and retrieve them?

They don't get iterated over, though, because that's actually setting a property named for the string conversion of the floating-point number.

> a = [1,2,3]
[ 1, 2, 3 ]
> a[2.5] = "ba"
'ba'
> a
[ 1, 2, 3, '2.5': 'ba' ]
> a[2.5]
'ba'
> a.forEach((x) => console.log(x));
1
2
3

I wrote a blog post about @Eunomia!

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2020/08/why-eunomia-builds-on-mastodon/

For the “marketing images that look like shitposting” series:

Oh thanks #Google #Spreadsheet #autocomplete

#COVID19

Rust for DOS, anyone?
https://github.com/o8vm/rust_dos

so around a century ago, there was a comic strip called The Outbursts of Everett True, where the titular character saw people being rude jackasses and decided to deal with this harshly and folks a lot of these still hold up perfectly in modern times

but i am delighted to announce

somebody's found the comics about mask-wearing

and They're Good, Folks

(uncaptioned, feel free to help out with descriptions here, i'd appreciate it)

if i had to see this, so do you all, etc

Snap dragons are very pretty, but when the flowers die, their seed pods turn into creepy little skulls! 💀💀💀

The latest Synology NAS with cat-6 networking

The admin don’t like it

Lock the taskbar, lock the taskbar

"There’s Now an Even Worse Anti-Encryption Bill Than EARN IT"

https://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/blog/2020/06/there%E2%80%99s-now-even-worse-anti-encryption-bill-earn-it-doesn%E2%80%99t-make-earn-it-bill-ok

Get your IT business out of the US. This needs to have an impact on the economy.

Why Go’s Error Handling is Awesome https://rauljordan.com/2020/07/06/why-go-error-handling-is-awesome.html