Hello! from Rick Cogley

Dec 3, 2024 ↓

Today we got a concerning piece of mail, an introduction to a “masseur” who does house calls. It had a power of attorney form, which screamed scam. Do people really stamp and return those!? I imagine the target is elderly folk, who might just do it. 😱

Dec 3, 2024 ↓

Struggled today with fetch in a Deno app. The rust lib Deno uses is extra strict about TLS security and would not connect to a REST API. Had to pull the json into a webhook app and fetch from that in Deno. A little detail here. 🤷‍♂️

Dec 4, 2024 ↓

Deno's fetch uses a rust library that won't connect to servers with older TLS or cipher suites, so I worked around it in Lume by pulling a json file using the venerable curl, then manipulating that as I needed. Details in this gist. ⛑️

Code snippet highlighting use of filter and map

Dec 5, 2024 ↓

Deno 2.1 lets you zip everything up into a single executable, which makes for easy and secure distribution (and far less user support). Ian Bull’s post demos this important feature. 🧁

Dec 5, 2024 ↓

If you code Typescript with Deno, which you should since its tooling makes life easy, you might take advantage of 'dvm' or Deno Version Manager. It allows you to install and track multiple deno versions, and easily switch between. 🤩

A terminal help screen for "dvm" (Deno Version Manager) displays usage instructions, options, subcommands, and examples for managing multiple active Deno versions.

Dec 6, 2024 ↓

Rawr? Not so sure about the Mozilla rebrand since the Moz://a is so very iconic and the new font (however advanced) just looks like a slab serif? See what it will look like on the JKR landing page for the redesign. 🦖

Dec 8, 2024 ↓

If you code in JavaScript like so many devs do, join me in signing Ryan Dahl's open letter to Oracle, to relinquish the JavaScript trademark. Please read and sign (with GitHub) here. 🧐📝

A webpage displays a message about a trademark issue with a list of names and icons showing supporters.

Dec 9, 2024 ↓

I for one am just glad I could find that one uuid I had forgot about, containing 'beefcade'. 😂

A webpage titled "Every UUID Dot Com" displays a list of UUIDs with one containing beefcade highlighted and some navigation elements.