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Charles Lowell

@cowboyd

Secretary of State

 Austin, TX
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Joined February 2007
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After nearly 20 years, I'm leaving X. This site used to make tech seem impossibly light and fun. Now it's just another crappy Snapchat/Insta clone just somehow more exhausting. I need joy in my life and this is not it. I'll be over here: bsky.app/profile/cogentdude.…
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Frontside Software@thefrontsideFeb 18
You call `controller.abort()` and it returns immediately, but did everything actually shutdown? The gap between "I asked it to stop" and "it actually stopped" is where leaks hide. frontside.com/effection/blog…
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Have Aasimov's stories of robo-psychology ever been more relevant?
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Frontside Software@thefrontsideFeb 9
Kotlin, Swift, Python 3.11, and Java 21 all ship it, and Go has libraries to implement it. This is why JavaScript needs Structured Concurrency frontside.com/effection/blog…
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The first line of context for me in any AI interaction that allows presets is "do not kiss my ass"
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From a friend treating me as his board gaming guinea pig: "The next one I want you to try out is Dice Throne, which is basically 'what if Magic but also Yahtzee'"
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My son is participating in a hit-a-thon on Feb 26th to raise money for the Texans Homeschool Baseball. He will hit 10 feet for every dollar that he raises. The Texans are not-for-profit and your donation will support austin area youth get a chance to play app.verticalraise.com/fundra…
Click here to support Niilo Lowell and the Texans HIT A THON Fundraiser

Click here to support Niilo Lowell and the Texans HIT A THON Fundraiser

Please support our 2026 Hit-A-Thon! For every $1 raised, a player must hit the ball 10 feet! Each Texan has been challenged to raise $200, which means they will be hitting until they've at least...

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We're a month into 2026 and its still not clear after googling, stack overflowing and asking AI how to do asynchronous teardown in React.
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We're soon going to need 3x more stalls in every public restroom due to the average TTP rising over 600% in the smartphone era.
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Wow. A bug I reported in Mocha JS over ten years ago just got fixed github.com/mochajs/mocha/iss…
🐛 Bug: Hook failures change the shape of the test suite · Issue #1955 · mochajs/mocha

🐛 Bug: Hook failures change the shape of the test suite · Issue #1955 · mochajs/mocha

If a beforeEach hook fails, then all subsequent tests in a suite and all sub-suites are not run. For example: // hook-test.js describe("outer context", function() { beforeEach(function() ...

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I now check email about once a week
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A "Brady" of online meetings
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My children listen often in wonderment when I share tales from the before times when, implausible as it may seem to their modern sensibilities, humans were capable of defecating without a phone.
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Structured Concurrency in a nutshell: What happens in scope, stays in scope.
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Taras Mankovski@tarasm19 Nov 2025
I’m excited to share: Freestyle Testing — a place where I will share what @cowboyd and I learned about building shift-test harnesses that developers actually love. freestyletesting.org/introdu… #testing #shiftleft
Rethinking Test Harness Design

Rethinking Test Harness Design

Break free of rigid testing categories. Freestyle Testing invites engineers to design more creative, flexible, and expressive test harnesses.

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The greatest of all time way to enjoy Fritos is sip by sip from coffee mug
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It's only a matter of time before someone creates a "TypeShit" programming language.
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OTEL metrics tooling and visualizations: 🤯 OTEL Node APIs 🤔
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If you wanted to produce a 3D walk through of a re-imagined space, what product would you use? AI or otherwise?
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30 years in and I haven't had the need to understand memory alignment and padding thus far, but that's changing with recent forays into wasm-land. This was a very decent treatment medium.com/@haadimdwork/c-st…
C Struct Padding And Alignment

C Struct Padding And Alignment

1.1 Introduction

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