Álvaro Martínez

TUIs are cool but I genuinely wonder what accessibility folks think about them.

Is there a WCAG for terminal apps?
#a11y

Seriously considering regular 1:1s with my AI copilots / agents / whathaveyou 😅.

Which prompts just create busywork — for them and for me.

Which patterns should really become documentation or automation.

How clear (or not) my (always in draft) instructions actually are.

A 10x Faster TypeScript - TypeScript Embarking on a native port of the existing TypeScript compiler and toolset to achieve a 10x performance speed-up.

Today we're thrilled to announce our effort to port the TypeScript compiler and language service to native code, gaining a 10x speed boost in build times and editor responsiveness!

devblogs.microsoft.com/typescript/t...

I rarely do predictions but this is an easy enough one to make:

Big Tech will bring back onsite interviews for the final round of interviews, flying in candidates.

When you pay top of market, AND do hybrid work, in the age of invisible AI helpers, remote interviews are a risk

thanks for your service, Alfred 🫡

Slowly but steadily becoming a @raycast.com nerd

And boom, before you realize... it's not longer a "prototype" anymore 😆

Screen capture of a YouTube video "Playwright Assertions: avoid race conditions" translated by YouTube as "Afirmaciones del dramaturgo: ¡Evite las condiciones raciales [...]"

YouTube's title translations are too much

These are always good reads around Black Friday sales nonsense

the syntax, e.g. "func`value`" made me initially think it was some copilot hallucination - I had never seen it before 🤯

Template literals (Template strings) - JavaScript | MDN Template literals are literals delimited with backtick (`) characters, allowing for multi-line strings, string interpolation with embedded expressions, and special constructs called tagged templates.

TIL about js/ts tagged template literals 😯 developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/W...