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Yes, good point! Further underscoring the fetishistic nature of efficiency as highest value ;-)

I love the references to Jacques Ellul's ideas, which I think are interesting to reflect on in an AI age. It helps make clear that what is fundamentally at stake in much technologi…

RIP Mikeal. Will always fondly remember our random philosophy/religion chats at tech conferences.

I found myself frustrated with Node’s child_process library. Some great primitives but a lot of boilerplate to do simple tasks like return a Promise when a subprocess is known to h…

My brother (SF) and I (Vancouver) have some epic indie alt/rock/pop tunes! https://splendourhyaline.bandcamp.com/album/present-future

Thanks for your thoughts. The point of my article wasn't to deny that there are any counterexamples to my overarching theme. No argument involving society is going to be free of co…

Nice! Interested in adding the contra approach to https://github.com/jlipps/async-showcase ?

I'm surprised there's yet another JS implementation of the webdriver protocol. I wonder what was lacking in the existing frameworks from the author's perspective? disclaimer: I wor…

You could wrap the whole thing in a try-catch and catch the first error to occur. In my experience, running this with Mocha, errors are handled automatically by it()