Any tips for consoling a four year old who is suddenly very very upset about the idea of death and dying?
We're making it clear he's got a long long long time to be alive yet, as have we, while trying to be real and not tell any fairy stories - but he's very young of course and can't imagine ever being sort of "done" and really really doesn't want to ever die 😭
(Please nothing about climate change etc. in this situation - I'm well aware I've brought a child into a period of change that sucks.)
@sarajw This maybe a stupid suggestion but is he less worried about dying and more worried about turning into a statue? Death can be quite a nebulous thing to get your head around but the idea of turning into a statue is more, um, concrete. And frightening.
@sarajw Wonder what Hachyderm would have to say about this given that the very first line of the instance profile reads "Hachyderm is a safe place", and the about pages has the paragraph "Our primary rule is Don't Be A Dick and all other rules are to capture common "whataboutisms" that we want to clearly state are included by Don't Be A Dick."
as myVar doesn't exist outside the try scope. So if you need to do a try catch, you have to use let - even if you actually want to use the variable as a const (not change it later)
@joelanman It really depends what myFunc is doing but here's a contrived example that fetches some data and displays it without requiring that additional variable. https://jsfiddle.net/vupmokc9/2/
@joelanman Maybe still separate out the API layer and use Promise.all or Promise.allSettled? https://jsfiddle.net/wenyfudk/2/. It would still log the error but you'd get any resolved data back.
@joelanman I guess it depends if you think your current method of note-taking is inadequate. I couldn't get on with Obsidian at all, or any note-taking app for that matter - they seem to just be another abstraction, another barrier for getting thoughts down quickly. I generally find having a folder and a set of markdown documents that I can access without having to go through booting up another app more easy for my workflow.
@joelanman Must be a nightmare to debug. The page is really janky to display anyway but open up devtools and (for me) it took the CSS 7 seconds to appear in the monitor, and then the page decided to not load, the dev tools froze, and then the browser.
We just watched the Muppets Treasure Island movie (it’s mostly good), and it apparently is Muppet canon that Miss Piggy fucked Tim Curry. Good for them.
If there was a name for a Frontend Developer who sits ideally in front-of-the-front-end while also advising Design with regards Accessibility concerns, maybe UX here and there, and the feasibility of actually implementing the design ideas in code...
What would that role be called?
I get that Design Systems and the people who build them sit in this space. But still, what is that role called? And what if I'm not actively the one in charge of the design system?
@sarajw I misread that at first as "a name for a Frontend Developer who sits idly in front-of-the-front-end" and nodded because we all know developers like that.
@joelanman When Vaughn gets the right straight role he's excellent. It's not everyone's cup of tea but he's extraordinary in (the very violent) Brawl in Cell Block 99.
"REMINDER: if you taking part in the #CeasefireNOW Palestine solidarity march in London today, 'blue bib' police liaison officers will try to start conversations with you to gather intelligence. You don't have to talk to them - so keep each other safe and ignore them"
@RickiTarr I think someone mentioned the wonderful 12 Monkeys but its origin came from Chris Marker's extraordinary "La Jetée", a time-travel film constructed from still photographs. "La Jetée" came out in '62. One of Marker's compatriots, Alan Resnais, also directed a time-travel film called "Je t'aime, je t'aime" which came out in '68 that some have said influenced "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind" which could also be considered a time-travel film.
"Leaked documents that made their way into Sunday's Observer showed how civil servants working under Gove's direction are looking to broaden the definition of "extremist" to anyone deemed to undermine the UK and UK institutions. The definition reads "Extremism is the promotion or advancement of any ideology which aims to overturn or undermine the UK’s system of parliamentary democracy, its institutions and values."
