all syntaxes must be standardised to guard against deviance 🫠
March 10, 2026 at 12:10 PM
all syntaxes must be standardised to guard against deviance 🫠
Nobody syntaxes like Shams. 😮💨
February 3, 2026 at 4:29 AM
Nobody syntaxes like Shams. 😮💨
TypeScript offers two syntaxes for declaring namespaces.
module ns {...} // deprecated
namespace ns {...} // modern
TypeScript 6.0 will only support the second form.
module ns {...} // deprecated
namespace ns {...} // modern
TypeScript 6.0 will only support the second form.
TypeScript 6.0: use the namespace keyword instead of module (when appropriate)
🔫 we are no longer asking
🔫 we are no longer asking
December 11, 2025 at 6:54 AM
TypeScript offers two syntaxes for declaring namespaces.
module ns {...} // deprecated
namespace ns {...} // modern
TypeScript 6.0 will only support the second form.
module ns {...} // deprecated
namespace ns {...} // modern
TypeScript 6.0 will only support the second form.
pauldb. Document-oriented with a bunch of graph features. Has 13 different query syntaxes and is sold as both "batteries included" and "simple." Throws away data that you didn't really want anyway.
October 29, 2025 at 7:55 PM
pauldb. Document-oriented with a bunch of graph features. Has 13 different query syntaxes and is sold as both "batteries included" and "simple." Throws away data that you didn't really want anyway.
A corrective to this perspective is in Edgar Dijkstra's essay, On the foolishness of "natural language programming".
www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/transcr...
He points out that reducing the human labour at work in remembering formal language syntaxes creates other work elsewhere in many places.
www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/transcr...
He points out that reducing the human labour at work in remembering formal language syntaxes creates other work elsewhere in many places.
E.W.Dijkstra Archive: On the foolishness of "natural language programming". (EWD 667)
www.cs.utexas.edu
June 12, 2026 at 7:04 AM
A corrective to this perspective is in Edgar Dijkstra's essay, On the foolishness of "natural language programming".
www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/transcr...
He points out that reducing the human labour at work in remembering formal language syntaxes creates other work elsewhere in many places.
www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/transcr...
He points out that reducing the human labour at work in remembering formal language syntaxes creates other work elsewhere in many places.
for loop syntaxes that force me to have a mutable counter variable are so gross that every time I see one I try to rewrite it in a pure functional style
October 15, 2024 at 2:01 PM
for loop syntaxes that force me to have a mutable counter variable are so gross that every time I see one I try to rewrite it in a pure functional style
I'm excited to share that my paper, Teaching Modeling in Introductory Statistics: A Comparison of Formula and Tidyverse Syntaxes, is finally published! doi.org/10.1080/2693... (HTML version leaves a bit to be desired, read the PDF) #rstats #tidyverse #datascience #pedagogy
Teaching Modeling in Introductory Statistics: A Comparison of Formula and Tidyverse Syntaxes
When incorporating programming into a statistics course, there are many pedagogical considerations. In R, one consideration is the particular R syntax used. This article reports on a head-to-head c...
doi.org
October 17, 2024 at 8:24 PM
I'm excited to share that my paper, Teaching Modeling in Introductory Statistics: A Comparison of Formula and Tidyverse Syntaxes, is finally published! doi.org/10.1080/2693... (HTML version leaves a bit to be desired, read the PDF) #rstats #tidyverse #datascience #pedagogy
many "niche" multiplayer genres do not actually have an onboarding problem, they have a culture problem, as in gamer culture is so built around being the best that gamers lose their shit if they're not immediately good at games they have very little experience with the syntaxes of
February 13, 2026 at 7:23 AM
many "niche" multiplayer genres do not actually have an onboarding problem, they have a culture problem, as in gamer culture is so built around being the best that gamers lose their shit if they're not immediately good at games they have very little experience with the syntaxes of
Early morning sql jam session on the heating pad.
Code cat is checking your syntaxes and judging you.
Code cat is checking your syntaxes and judging you.
February 6, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Early morning sql jam session on the heating pad.
Code cat is checking your syntaxes and judging you.
Code cat is checking your syntaxes and judging you.
🚀 Excited to launch the #OpenCloning Assembler!
🧬 Built to demystify Golden Gate for beginners and save time for experts -> MoClo assembly blazing fast ⚡
✍️ Use existing syntaxes or design your own!
#SynBio #GoldenGate #MoClo #OpenSource #Biotech
👉 Try it: app.opencloning.org
Feedback welcome!
🧬 Built to demystify Golden Gate for beginners and save time for experts -> MoClo assembly blazing fast ⚡
✍️ Use existing syntaxes or design your own!
#SynBio #GoldenGate #MoClo #OpenSource #Biotech
👉 Try it: app.opencloning.org
Feedback welcome!
February 20, 2026 at 12:54 PM
🚀 Excited to launch the #OpenCloning Assembler!
🧬 Built to demystify Golden Gate for beginners and save time for experts -> MoClo assembly blazing fast ⚡
✍️ Use existing syntaxes or design your own!
#SynBio #GoldenGate #MoClo #OpenSource #Biotech
👉 Try it: app.opencloning.org
Feedback welcome!
🧬 Built to demystify Golden Gate for beginners and save time for experts -> MoClo assembly blazing fast ⚡
✍️ Use existing syntaxes or design your own!
#SynBio #GoldenGate #MoClo #OpenSource #Biotech
👉 Try it: app.opencloning.org
Feedback welcome!
Would anyone be interested in a tool that collect ecmascript feature statistics from files published on npm or your organization?
Kind of like chromestatus.com/features but for ecmascript syntaxes, also kind of like github.com/rust-lang/cr...
Kind of like chromestatus.com/features but for ecmascript syntaxes, also kind of like github.com/rust-lang/cr...
December 12, 2024 at 6:19 AM
Would anyone be interested in a tool that collect ecmascript feature statistics from files published on npm or your organization?
Kind of like chromestatus.com/features but for ecmascript syntaxes, also kind of like github.com/rust-lang/cr...
Kind of like chromestatus.com/features but for ecmascript syntaxes, also kind of like github.com/rust-lang/cr...
yea i mean like,,, there aren't *that* many fundamental constructs. just better surface syntaxes for representing complicated choreographies thereof.
March 31, 2026 at 8:15 PM
yea i mean like,,, there aren't *that* many fundamental constructs. just better surface syntaxes for representing complicated choreographies thereof.
metaprogramming and custom syntaxes are sadly a very bad idea in collaborative environments
March 2, 2024 at 1:28 AM
metaprogramming and custom syntaxes are sadly a very bad idea in collaborative environments
What are you using and what syntaxes is it getting wrong? In a few thousand lines of Python, PHP and SQL code that Claude has produced I can’t remember any syntax errors
September 28, 2026 at 11:37 PM
What are you using and what syntaxes is it getting wrong? In a few thousand lines of Python, PHP and SQL code that Claude has produced I can’t remember any syntax errors
> While we’ve done extensive work to handle many patterns, there are cases and framework-specific syntaxes that may not yet be fully supported (for example Svelte control-flow syntax, or Astro JSX-like syntax).
Sooo... Not full support then 😅
Sooo... Not full support then 😅
October 25, 2025 at 9:18 AM
> While we’ve done extensive work to handle many patterns, there are cases and framework-specific syntaxes that may not yet be fully supported (for example Svelte control-flow syntax, or Astro JSX-like syntax).
Sooo... Not full support then 😅
Sooo... Not full support then 😅
gonna have the official account do a separate post about them later in the week
also need to get UI tools in there for folks who struggle with syntaxes!
also need to get UI tools in there for folks who struggle with syntaxes!
December 12, 2023 at 4:55 AM
gonna have the official account do a separate post about them later in the week
also need to get UI tools in there for folks who struggle with syntaxes!
also need to get UI tools in there for folks who struggle with syntaxes!
another thing that really sucks about markdown in this usecase is that it’s not extensible. everybody starts inventing their own syntaxes, and then lack of shared support leads to clients showing the syntax to users
December 26, 2023 at 4:12 PM
another thing that really sucks about markdown in this usecase is that it’s not extensible. everybody starts inventing their own syntaxes, and then lack of shared support leads to clients showing the syntax to users
The worst thing about being a linguist is paying your syntaxes
July 13, 2026 at 4:20 PM
The worst thing about being a linguist is paying your syntaxes
oh, you mean like the f"" and f{} syntaxes? basically nobody ever uses those tho
August 15, 2025 at 1:45 PM
oh, you mean like the f"" and f{} syntaxes? basically nobody ever uses those tho
New version deployed!
- The syntaxes "!RemindMe" and "RemindMe!" work the same (but keep the capitalization)
- Tell me I'm a good/bad bot, and I'll respond!
- Code refactoring and error handling
My todo list for future updates will be in the replies :)
Have fun! And be reminded!
- The syntaxes "!RemindMe" and "RemindMe!" work the same (but keep the capitalization)
- Tell me I'm a good/bad bot, and I'll respond!
- Code refactoring and error handling
My todo list for future updates will be in the replies :)
Have fun! And be reminded!
Reminder bot is here!
Want to be reminded of a skeet in a few weeks, but don't want to have to scroll to find it? Use RemindMe!
Reply with this format
"RemindMe! # years, # months, # weeks, # days, # hours, # minutes"
To any skeet, and remind bit will remind you after that time has passed!
Want to be reminded of a skeet in a few weeks, but don't want to have to scroll to find it? Use RemindMe!
Reply with this format
"RemindMe! # years, # months, # weeks, # days, # hours, # minutes"
To any skeet, and remind bit will remind you after that time has passed!
January 9, 2024 at 7:25 PM
New version deployed!
- The syntaxes "!RemindMe" and "RemindMe!" work the same (but keep the capitalization)
- Tell me I'm a good/bad bot, and I'll respond!
- Code refactoring and error handling
My todo list for future updates will be in the replies :)
Have fun! And be reminded!
- The syntaxes "!RemindMe" and "RemindMe!" work the same (but keep the capitalization)
- Tell me I'm a good/bad bot, and I'll respond!
- Code refactoring and error handling
My todo list for future updates will be in the replies :)
Have fun! And be reminded!
bitter lesson of software metas is that things with “looseness”
- separation of concerns
- alternate syntaxes
- dynamic typing
- XML
- NoSQL
usually lost to things that provided more firm and coupled experiences
- separation of concerns
- alternate syntaxes
- dynamic typing
- XML
- NoSQL
usually lost to things that provided more firm and coupled experiences
Another advantage is that JSON mixes representation and semantics. This is listed by the OP as a bad thing (no alternate syntax), but it comes with the advantage of embedding a simple type system in JSON. XML's is entirely string-typed unless you provide an XML schema
January 22, 2026 at 10:01 PM
bitter lesson of software metas is that things with “looseness”
- separation of concerns
- alternate syntaxes
- dynamic typing
- XML
- NoSQL
usually lost to things that provided more firm and coupled experiences
- separation of concerns
- alternate syntaxes
- dynamic typing
- XML
- NoSQL
usually lost to things that provided more firm and coupled experiences
Swift has a lot of different syntaxes that are not necessarily used on a daily basis and can be difficult to remember. There are a great series of websites that summarize many of these Swift nuances, as well as date formatting and and FormatStyle.
www.attributedstrings.com/my-favorite-...
www.attributedstrings.com/my-favorite-...
My Favorite %$^#&!@ Swift Sites
Swift has a lot of different syntaxes that are not necessarily used on a daily basis and can be difficult to remember. There are a great series of websites that summarize many of these Swift nuances, ...
www.attributedstrings.com
November 17, 2024 at 6:47 PM
Swift has a lot of different syntaxes that are not necessarily used on a daily basis and can be difficult to remember. There are a great series of websites that summarize many of these Swift nuances, as well as date formatting and and FormatStyle.
www.attributedstrings.com/my-favorite-...
www.attributedstrings.com/my-favorite-...
Feels like a good time to re-share my paper comparing teaching #rstats formula and #tidyverse syntaxes. (Not quite a base/tidyverse comparison, I couldn't bring myself to do that. But if YOU feel passionately about it, why don't you run that experiment?) Again, PDF format is the one to look at.
I'm excited to share that my paper, Teaching Modeling in Introductory Statistics: A Comparison of Formula and Tidyverse Syntaxes, is finally published! doi.org/10.1080/2693... (HTML version leaves a bit to be desired, read the PDF) #rstats #tidyverse #datascience #pedagogy
Teaching Modeling in Introductory Statistics: A Comparison of Formula and Tidyverse Syntaxes
When incorporating programming into a statistics course, there are many pedagogical considerations. In R, one consideration is the particular R syntax used. This article reports on a head-to-head c...
doi.org
November 14, 2024 at 9:51 PM
Feels like a good time to re-share my paper comparing teaching #rstats formula and #tidyverse syntaxes. (Not quite a base/tidyverse comparison, I couldn't bring myself to do that. But if YOU feel passionately about it, why don't you run that experiment?) Again, PDF format is the one to look at.
league of legends is actually less complicated than deadlock and is more accessible but deadlock adds syntaxes to the moba formula that shooter players and especially hero shooter players are more familiar with
February 3, 2026 at 9:50 PM
league of legends is actually less complicated than deadlock and is more accessible but deadlock adds syntaxes to the moba formula that shooter players and especially hero shooter players are more familiar with