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Snack Pack: Stop using AI for this

Published 4 months ago • 2 min read

A Tasty Treats NEWSLETTER for Web Developers

Issue #57:

  • Live(ish) from GitHub Universe: VS Code, GitHub, and Copilot updates worth tuning in for
  • CJ pokes around Apple’s leaked source code — and finds gold
  • A TypeScript dev big-brained regex with full type safety
  • Plus: The horse that just won’t quit

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​Clues By Sam

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Daily logic puzzle. Your goal is to figure out who is criminal and who is innocent.

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Every few months I run into an amazing WebGL Shaders demo that makes me want to get really good at shaders. This one is hooked up to finger sizing, which is really neat.

​ArkRegex

wes's plug

TypeScript Madman David Blass - the author of ArkType - has come out with a way to get fully type safe regexs. It’s a type-only package, that somehow gives you fully inferred type safety for regex matching.

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