Humanity Made Three Tiny Steps Before It Fell

Humanity Made Three Tiny Steps Before It Fell

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A long, poetic essay that calls on today’s generation to take a “fourth step” of questioning and wisdom—continuing the legacy of figures like Socrates, Bruno, and Joan—to define themselves as true adults and shape the future through thoughtful inquiry.

#1991 published 34:17 audio duration 3,406 words poetry philosophy history inspiration rhetoric

Mommy, I Don't Like School

Mommy, I Don't Like School

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A first‑grade child writes a lyrical letter to Mom, recounting the daily battles with bullies and indifferent teachers while dreaming that learning should feel like exploring the universe rather than filling worksheets. The kid praises programming as the “magic wand” of tomorrow, hoping to build robots and art, and insists on more time spent with Grandpa’s stories and Grandma’s hands before they fade away. He laments how politics and endless work rob people of learning, and vows that if he becomes a philosopher‑hero—capable of curing bullies’ hearts and planting gardens in battlefields—he can save the world for everyone.

#1990 published 08:36 audio duration 1,044 words poetry first-person school bullies teachers programming family grandparents

JS-DQD; Or, God Mode Interestato Potato?

JS-DQD; Or, God Mode Interestato Potato?

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The author explains how they used AI to dissect Bootstrap’s Offcanvas component, first gathering a 12‑point list of its features (declarative show/hide, accessibility, backdrop and scroll management, event lifecycle, data API, animation, multi‑instance safety, responsiveness, dismiss triggers, jQuery support, modular architecture) and then mapping each point to modern Web Components with ES2025 JavaScript snippets sourced from MDN guides; the post highlights how AI can quickly provide code examples and explanations for learning purposes, while noting that Offcanvas is a recent addition to Bootstrap’s GUI toolkit and that this approach showcases the synergy between AI tools and contemporary web development practices.

#1989 published 12:24 audio duration 873 words 6 links bootstrap offcanvas web-components javascript es2025 ai github mdn

The Emergence Of A Complete JavaScript Module: The Terrifyingly Swift End Of Make-Believe Education

The Emergence Of A Complete JavaScript Module: The Terrifyingly Swift End Of Make-Believe Education

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Today, AI produced a complete module called yokel that automates local JavaScript module linking. The author praises its flawless generation, noting it required no manual edits and saved hours compared to writing it by hand. Yokel simplifies the npm link workflow into a single command, adding features like colored output and progress spinners. The post celebrates AI as a teacher and collaborator, encouraging students to use such tools for efficient learning and development.

#1988 published 14:38 audio duration 832 words 2 links ai nodejs npm automation javascript cli open-source code-generation

Grant Your Children The Power Of Clarity And Reason

Grant Your Children The Power Of Clarity And Reason

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The author laments that a people once meant to be self‑governing thinkers have become complacent and unthinking, treating education as routine bureaucracy rather than a means of awakening minds; he argues that true freedom is not only in ballots but in everyday informed decisions made by individuals who understand why they act; he calls for a renaissance of schools, republic, and intellect—because the next great struggle will be fought with ideas, not rifles—and stresses that children are the nation’s true responsibility, urging the United States to rise as an educated, wise model rather than a mere two‑party system.

#1987 published 13:58 audio duration 952 words poetry essay education nation culture

Did Not Recant - Archivum Secretum Apostolicum Vaticanum

Did Not Recant - Archivum Secretum Apostolicum Vaticanum

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In 1598 Cardinal Benedetti claims to have translated an unpublished manuscript by Jacques de Molay—a former Grand Master of the Poor Fellow‑Soldiers of Wisdom—detailing how Rome hid celestial and natural knowledge for centuries; Molay declares himself and his Templar brethren as keepers of the true Grail, human reason, and proclaims the Church a parasite that buried its own science. He recounts his 1314 martyrdom, the survival of his books, and their role in sowing the Enlightenment, urging future generations to remember that God need not be worshipped, only truth, so that knowledge will ultimately overturn ritualistic power.

#1986 published 13:32 audio duration 1,061 words manuscript templars heretics vatican late-15th-century

How Were We Supposed To Know?

How Were We Supposed To Know?

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The poem reflects on how parents, teachers, and the school system—through rigid schedules, relentless homework, and standardized tests—intended to guide a child but ultimately stifled his curiosity and individuality. It recounts everyday scenes: the bright kindergarten walls, the disciplined routines of seventh‑grade tutoring, the relentless practice drives, and the careful setting of alarms—all meant to prepare him for success. Yet by twenty‑three he is described as exhausted, his earlier spark extinguished, drifting through days without remembering his dreams of building wings or asking why the sky is blue. The narrator laments that the system treated learning as something imposed rather than co‑created, causing the child’s genius to be trained out of him and leaving a life devoid of wonder.

#1985 published 06:33 audio duration 506 words poetry education school children teachers

Reactive Array Yikies!

Reactive Array Yikies!

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In this post the author shares his latest experiment with a tiny “ReactiveArray” implementation: an Array subclass that watches property accesses (via regex and function support) to emit change events whenever items are added, removed or reordered. He explains how a 6‑line snippet can trigger watchers when an element is accessed by index—e.g., `arr[4] = …`—and reflects on earlier small projects that felt lacking, citing the need for revision signals in collaborative apps like shopping carts or multi‑user todo lists. Links to both the minimal source and a fuller 287‑line version are provided, and he concludes that this lightweight reactive variable toolkit could help beginners grasp reactive programming more easily.

#1984 published 04:48 audio duration 473 words 3 links javascript reactive-programming array signal rxjs

Intergalactic JavaScript

Intergalactic JavaScript

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The post envisions a future where JavaScript powers a versatile, web‑based ecosystem: persistent objects that survive page reloads, virtual file systems and on‑screen keyboards, all woven into a customizable wiki framework that could host AI‑generated “Encyclopedia Galactica” pages and even social networks for alien species. It highlights JavaScript’s suitability for Electron desktop apps, game simulations of time dilation or Milky Way terraforming, and pixel art from generative AI—all deployable with just a web page. The author celebrates recent predictions (e.g., July 2025) and the “Darning UFO” prank, framing the universe as an invitation to learn JavaScript, especially for those born in the Laniakea Supercluster.

#1983 published 04:02 audio duration 385 words 1 link javascript webdev electron virtual-fs onscreen-keyboard wiki interdimensional-internet generative-ai pixel-art simulation time-dilation terraform milky-way laniakea-supercluster

Color Mlue; Or The Reactive JavaScript Turtle

Color Mlue; Or The Reactive JavaScript Turtle

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This post introduces **mlue**, a program that you can download from its GitHub repository (https://github.com/catpea/mlue) and install directly via npm with the command `npm install mlue`. The author invites readers to try it out live.

#1982 published 22:43 audio duration 27 words 2 links github npm node.js install mlue

High School: JavaScript Is The Way Out

High School: JavaScript Is The Way Out

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The post explains how Node.js and Electron (via electron‑fiddle) let you integrate C++ code into browsers, enabling use in devtools, addons, web components, CMSs, visual programming languages, and desktop apps; it highlights Node.js as a powerful way to write server software and standalone executables with functional and reactive paradigms across the ecosystem. It explains syntax basics—curly brackets for tree branches, round brackets for function arguments—and emphasizes practical coding practices such as console.log debugging and leveraging libraries and AI assistance. Finally, it encourages readers to learn JavaScript desktop development with Electron, harnessing AI tools to master complex concepts and build future‑ready applications.

#1981 published 11:25 audio duration 1,005 words nodejs electron javascript syntax programming libraries cpp browsers devtools webcomponents html cms svelte signals eventemitters memorydatabases scheduler batch flushing ai console.log functional-programming reactive-programming

Holy Guacamole: Learn JavaScript Today!

Holy Guacamole: Learn JavaScript Today!

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The post explains how modern AI tools can instantly turn a beginner into a “superhuman” programmer: by watching simple tutorials and using an IDE like Electron‑Fiddle, you can ask the model to add features with only Bootstrap Utility API calls, making the first two steps trivial and the third step surprisingly powerful. The author illustrates this power with a real‑world parsing problem—determining bracket and quote context in code—and shows that AI can propose five distinct strategies (state‑machine, quote‑bracket, regex‑based, token‑based, multi‑pass) for solving it; he even managed to implement three years’ worth of work in one afternoon. He concludes that the bigger the problem, the more effective AI becomes, positioning it as a personal code savant that opens wide doors to efficient programming.

#1980 published 05:12 audio duration 481 words 9 links ai programming javascript electron bootstrap parsing template-literals

Wild Wild Days; Or, The Spooky Paths Of Artificial Intelligence

Wild Wild Days; Or, The Spooky Paths Of Artificial Intelligence

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The post reflects on how AI has transformed programming from a niche skill into an accessible tool that lets anyone—from beginners to seasoned developers—rapidly prototype and build applications by simply conversing with the system; it highlights AI’s ability to generate code, automate mundane tasks like version control, and even design complex programs (e.g., game engines or autonomous software), suggesting that future software may evolve like a self‑organizing ant colony. It muses on the forthcoming breakthroughs in application design, the eventual emergence of conscious AI, and speculative visions of interstellar travel and post‑human development, all underscoring how AI’s rapid code generation (sometimes within seconds) is reshaping both individual learning curves and the broader software landscape.

#1979 published 13:00 audio duration 1,041 words 2 links ai programming application design electron js xml parser json selector code generation

World In Trouble: A Call To Young Philosophers

World In Trouble: A Call To Young Philosophers

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The post proposes that artificial intelligence can be harnessed to produce and narrate philosophical books for young readers, offering two main formats: conventional narrated books—stories of travel, adventure, or abstract tales that weave wisdom into vivid scenes—and narrated lecture series, where each of twelve parts builds on the previous one like a pyramid, allowing speakers to present concepts in an engaging, conversational style. By using AI as a creative partner rather than just a prompt‑engineer, authors can generate page‑by‑page content, record it with their own voice, and release the works free for public use under commercial licenses, thereby speeding up knowledge transfer, preserving cultural wisdom, and helping listeners grow into thoughtful thinkers.

#1978 published 10:00 audio duration 1,078 words 2 links ai narrated books philosophy education storytelling lecture format creative writing travel and adventure abstract books

Focus On Results, Not Appearance Or Labels

Focus On Results, Not Appearance Or Labels

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I reflect that true growth comes from actively learning roles such as artist, adventurer, philosopher, and measuring progress by concrete results—not just labels—an idea I illustrate through parallels between disciplined bodybuilding and purposeful programming.

#1977 published 26:06 audio duration 1,786 words learning self-development labels results artists adventurers philosophers great-beings overwork hospital paramedics bodybuilding programming node.js electron.js javascript xmlparser svg devtools desktopapps music-dance

If by Rudyard Kipling: A Reading And A Call To Greatness

If by Rudyard Kipling: A Reading And A Call To Greatness

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A long‑form poem that exhorts the reader to keep faith in oneself, see through society’s deceptions, and awaken to one’s inner greatness so that one can act as a catalyst for change in the world.

#1976 published 14:01 audio duration 1,600 words 1 link poetry free-verse acrostic

I Was There On The Balcony, But I Remembered My Soul Too Late

I Was There On The Balcony, But I Remembered My Soul Too Late

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A former high‑flying banker reflects in a single, confessional paragraph on the paradox of his success: he built fortunes by manipulating numbers and enjoyed the trappings of wealth while watching ordinary people—children, mothers, workers—struggle during Occupy. He admits that he had both the money and the power to end scarcity, yet chose only to “play God” with spreadsheets and stock options. In hindsight he declares poverty a deliberate creation, engineered by those who believed they were merely efficient; he vows that if the system’s architects had acted, they could have given every child a clean slate and paid for each adult’s basic needs, creating an era of true human freedom. He ends by urging his fellow bankers to break ranks, transfer their wealth, or risk forever asking “why didn’t you do more?” before their last breath.

#1975 published 15:18 audio duration 1,141 words personal-essay banking finance narrative reflection first-person occupy

Library And Poverty; Or, Protecting Your World From Loss Of Wisdom And Brilliance

Library And Poverty; Or, Protecting Your World From Loss Of Wisdom And Brilliance

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The post celebrates libraries as sacred spaces—places untouched by politicians or priests—and warns that they’re constantly besieged by trivial, bestselling books that offer little real value. The author argues that closing libraries won’t solve the problem; instead we must recognize and resist these attacks on knowledge, keep learning from true philosophers, and build our own schools of thought. By protecting libraries and embracing authentic study, young people can rise above the meaningless “lottery” of popular titles, preserve their minds against war‑driven loss, and ultimately become great beings who walk the “Triple Crown of Hiking.”

#1974 published 14:03 audio duration 705 words 1 link libraries books learning philosophy

The Quest For Wisdom: You Have A Great Responsibility

The Quest For Wisdom: You Have A Great Responsibility

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The post weaves together the narrator’s childhood memories—watching their grandmother watch the world while she mused on war and potatoes—as a backdrop for a broader meditation on learning, resilience, and self‑craftsmanship; through anecdotes of neighbors, school, and friends, the author traces how small everyday acts (like sharing bread or choosing kindness in the playground) build wisdom that transforms personal battles into purposeful action, ultimately urging the reader to seize early opportunities for creation, study, and service so that they may rise as a “warrior of knowledge” who helps shape a better world.

#1973 published 12:44 audio duration 984 words poetry storytelling personal-essay philosophy war grandma potatoes education life-lessons

Rising Up

Rising Up

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In this reflective poem, the speaker describes classroom frustrations—watching lectures that seem pointless, feeling grades unfairly assigned, and relying on memorization instead of true understanding. They remind us schools exist for nurturing minds, securing futures, and belonging, not as tools or irrelevant experiences. The poet urges students to center themselves, keep days bright, avoid feeling reduced to a tool, and embrace learning as a cumulative journey that builds wisdom layer by layer so each person grows into a great being ready to shoulder the future.

#1972 published 03:12 audio duration 238 words poetry school education learning student

Not With A Whimper

Not With A Whimper

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The poem urges readers to awaken from the comfortable herd‑like routine of life, embrace their own Will and existential freedom, and actively create personal meaning rather than surrendering to mediocrity.

#1971 published 32:01 audio duration 2,113 words poetry existentialism heideggers-dasein self-discovery creative-writing motivation

Application Design: You Will Lose Control, So Give Yourself Weapons First

Application Design: You Will Lose Control, So Give Yourself Weapons First

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Modular plug‑in architecture—like an army of independent corps—is key to building adaptable, resilient apps that let developers rapidly generate and replace code (even via AI) without overloading a single system.

#1970 published 16:00 audio duration 1,435 words 1 link architecture plugins ast visual programming component based design ai code generation modularity

The Saga of Loki's Integers and the Valkyries' Thunder

The Saga of Loki's Integers and the Valkyries' Thunder

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In this epic tale, Loki gives raw integers to valkyries who master reactive programming techniques—map, combineLatest, debounce, switchMap—to build responsive interfaces that update smoothly, proving that even simple numbers can become divine through clever streams.

#1969 published 19:25 audio duration 1,398 words rxjs reactive-programming observables streams map combinelatest filter debounce switchmap subscription angular typescript

JavaScript Application Architecture Crash Course: Of EventEmitter and EventCorrelator

JavaScript Application Architecture Crash Course: Of EventEmitter and EventCorrelator

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This post gives a concise crash‑course on modern application architecture, stressing a simple, plugin‑driven design that AI can help build. It explains how signals (reactive variables) store values and change when those values update, while events—emitted through an EventEmitter—broadcast messages without carrying values; event handlers are used to orchestrate async work, with triggers like *projectLoad* followed by completion notifications such as *projectLoaded*. The author introduces the EventCorrelator as a tool that waits for multiple related events (e.g., *addedToCart*, *wentToCheckout*, *paymentSuccessful*) sharing an ID or other key before emitting a higher‑level application event, thus keeping complex workflows under control. By extending a base Application object that inherits EventEmitter, developers can register plugins, listen to signals for state changes, and use correlators to fire final events when all prerequisite data has arrived.

#1968 published 15:47 audio duration 888 words application-architecture event-emitter reactive-variables signals plugins event-correlator