Lead developer at @Neighbourh00die, managing the STF project. Contributor to @pouchdb. Also at @albaherrerias@mastodon.social. Tweets in English y español
Happy PouchDB 9.0.0 — this is a major release, with tons of improvements, especially around performance and stability — read all about it here: pouchdb.com/2024/05/24/pouch…
PouchDB 8.0.1 is now available. This is a bugfix release fixing a regression introduced by the first batch of ES6 rewrites: pouchdb.com/2023/02/09/pouch…
Twitter is closing its doors to hobby bots like this one. They tell us a week before this happens.
There's been a lot of measured, well-mannered commentary from other makers of Twitter bots. I thought I'd share my uncensored thoughts instead.
Fuck this.
1/?
ALT ## binary numbers are hard to read
1101010111011001 1101010111001001
it's hard to tell if these are different!
Also, binary numbers are too long: the number 4,000,000,000 is this in binary: 11101110011010110010100000000000
## decimal has problems too
11010101 = 213
11000101 = 197
These are easier to read, but 213 and 197 look COMPLETELY different, even though the binary numbers only differ by 1 bit.
This is bad if you're trying to think
about the binary representation.
## hexadecimal makes binary data more readable
Every hexadecimal digit represents 4 bits. So 1 byte (8 bits) is 2 digits.
1101 0101 1100 0101
d 5 c 5
* 11010101 = d5
* 11000101 = c5
it's much easier to
see the similarities!
## there are 16 hex digits
* decimal binary hex
* 0000 0 0
* 0001 1 1
* (truncated)
## `0x` means it's hex
person 1: "the ASCII code for space is 0x20"
person 2: "that starts with `0x`, so it means 32 and not 20!"
## things hexadecimal is used for
* color codes! (eg 0xFF00FF)
Dos cosas positivas: me han agradecido que el libro fuera fácil de conseguir (por lo visto siempre pido libros "raros" que hay que mandar a pedir) y, después de enseñarles el vídeo de El comidista, me han pedido que les pase el libro 🥰
Will this ridiculous period of human history ever be over? Will we ever be able to let go of the notion that personal cars are an absolute necessity & move on? Will we ever build cities accordingly?