Some authors denigrate ideas they don’t like: “Doing [thing I don’t agree with] is like using leeches to cure diseases.” That makes them sound narrow-minded and wastes the time of the readers.

#Mastodon wish: In search results, show when an account was last active (a tiny activity graph would also be nice). There are now quite a few accounts who haven’t posted anything in 2025.

Much material on economics (e.g. how money is created) I’ve come across doesn’t explain well how things actually work. Any recommendations?

YouTube web app, “save to playlist” menu: Instead of checkboxes, there are now icon buttons (one click and menu disappears). That means I now have to go to the menu twice for two frequent actions of mine: • Adding a video to more than one playlist • Removing and re-adding a video to move it to the beginning of a playlist Additionally, the background remains clickable when the menu is open—which makes dismissing it harder and is unlike all GUIs I have ever used.

#TypeScript: This is a good preview of the changes ahead (especially tsgo):

GitHub

6.0 Deprecation Candidates · Issue #54500 · microsoft/TypeScript

We're planning the following set of deprecations for TypeScript 6.0. While TypeScript 6.0 will follow the same "soft deprecation" strategy as TypeS...

Which services let you deploy Node.js apps and use the `fs` API for long-term storage? Ideally, with a free plan for experimenting. • Render looks good:

Render

Persistent Disks

Attach high-performance SSDs to your services to preserve state across deploys.

• Cloudflare currently only supports fs for temporary files. But its KV store has as implemented enough API and there is good free plan.

How to you pronounce “nausea”?

Definition of NAUSEA

a stomach distress with distaste for food and an urge to vomit; extreme disgust… See the full definition