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#1996: Beyond Learning Programming: You Have To Keep Up A Little Bit

  • javascript
  • rxjs
  • signals
  • reactive-programming

The post recounts the author’s journey learning RxJS by building a custom reactive signal system that uses .map, .filter, and .subscribe to transform values, then moving on to a new framework based on state, derived signals, and effects. They explain how an effect signal announces when it is read, listens automatically to changes without needing explicit combineLatest calls, and batches updates using a Set plus queueMicrotask so that UI updates happen only once after all dependent signals have changed. Derived signals are created from other signals in the same automatic‑subscription style, and the author reflects on how writing their own implementation deepened their understanding of JavaScript’s evolving reactive features.

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#1995: And This Is Where You Start...

  • poem
  • essay
  • philosophy
  • narrative
  • cognition
  • mind

In lyrical prose and poems, the author argues that real peace arises when each person truly owns their own mind, concluding with a bold Article 31 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights that grants “cognitive sovereignty” as an amendment to stop state and corporate manipulation of thought.

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#1994: From Wisdom

  • ai
  • deepfakes
  • education
  • philosophy
  • socrates
  • video
  • audio
  • narration

The post argues that ordinary humans—parents, teachers, and even some educators—are often inadequate at guiding children toward true wisdom, and proposes that artificial intelligence can fill this gap by delivering narrated books and videos of philosophers (from Socrates to modern thinkers) in a conversational, empathetic style. It claims that deep‑fake technology can bring these ancient voices into life‑like performances, allowing AI to provide “enabling wisdom” that is both engaging and contextually relevant for students, thereby restoring the roots of learning and making knowledge accessible through authentic narration rather than rote memorization.

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#1993: No More Homework, Mother!

  • poetry
  • javascript
  • mdn
  • html
  • css
  • nodejs
  • electron
  • dom
  • events
  • webdev
  • programming

The poem celebrates a bright kid’s enthusiasm for coding over traditional schoolwork, as he declares himself “the smartest kid in town.” He eagerly lists JavaScript fundamentals—syntax, data types (strings, booleans, numbers), control flow, callbacks, promises, and async/await—and then dives into functional array methods like map, filter, and reduce. He moves on to Node’s EventEmitter (and its once() method), HTML attributes, CSS selectors, the box model, Flexbox, Grid, and responsive design, before wrapping up with DOM manipulation, event handling, browser add‑ons, Node utilities, and Electron desktop apps, all while assuring his mother that homework is merely background noise to his growing programming passion.

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#1992: The Inventing Of A Product; Or, Growing Up In The Age of Artificial Intelligence

  • javascript
  • web-components
  • offcanvas
  • bootstrap
  • ai
  • html
  • css
  • documentation

The post outlines a vision for creating ultra‑lightweight UI libraries in JavaScript powered by AI: from simple accordion components built on the native `<details>` element to fully functional off‑canvas panels that can be positioned anywhere on the screen and reused as modal or console windows. It stresses minimal code, modern ES2025 syntax, and accessibility (e.g., screen‑reader support), while noting the benefits of dual licensing, community maintenance, and AI‑generated documentation. By leveraging AI for both coding and upkeep, developers can quickly prototype reusable web components—mirroring Bootstrap’s popularity yet delivering fewer lines of code—and ultimately build a portfolio that showcases mastery over modern UI patterns.

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#1991: Humanity Made Three Tiny Steps Before It Fell

  • poetry
  • philosophy
  • history
  • inspiration
  • rhetoric

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.

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#1990: Mommy, I Don't Like School

  • poetry
  • first-person
  • school
  • bullies
  • teachers
  • programming
  • family
  • grandparents

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.

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#1989: JS-DQD; Or, God Mode Interestato Potato?

  • bootstrap
  • offcanvas
  • web-components
  • javascript
  • es2025
  • ai
  • github
  • mdn

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.

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#1988: The Emergence Of A Complete JavaScript Module: The Terrifyingly Swift End Of Make-Believe Education

  • ai
  • nodejs
  • npm
  • automation
  • javascript
  • cli
  • open-source
  • code-generation

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.

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#1987: Grant Your Children The Power Of Clarity And Reason

  • poetry
  • essay
  • education
  • nation
  • culture

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.

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#1986: Did Not Recant - Archivum Secretum Apostolicum Vaticanum

  • manuscript
  • templars
  • heretics
  • vatican
  • late-15th-century

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.

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#1985: How Were We Supposed To Know?

  • poetry
  • education
  • school
  • children
  • teachers

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.

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#1984: Reactive Array Yikies!

  • javascript
  • reactive-programming
  • array
  • signal
  • rxjs

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.

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#1983: Intergalactic JavaScript

  • javascript
  • webdev
  • electron
  • virtual-fs
  • onscreen-keyboard
  • wiki
  • interdimensional-internet
  • generative-ai
  • pixel-art
  • simulation
  • time-dilation
  • terraform
  • milky-way
  • laniakea-supercluster

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.

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#1982: Color Mlue; Or The Reactive JavaScript Turtle

  • github
  • npm
  • node.js
  • install
  • mlue

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.

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#1981: High School: JavaScript Is The Way Out

  • 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

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.

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#1980: Holy Guacamole: Learn JavaScript Today!

  • ai
  • programming
  • javascript
  • electron
  • bootstrap
  • parsing
  • template-literals

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.

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#1979: Wild Wild Days; Or, The Spooky Paths Of Artificial Intelligence

  • ai
  • programming
  • application design
  • electron js
  • xml parser
  • json selector
  • code generation

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.

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#1978: World In Trouble: A Call To Young Philosophers

  • ai
  • narrated books
  • philosophy
  • education
  • storytelling
  • lecture format
  • creative writing
  • travel and adventure
  • abstract books

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.

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#1977: Focus On Results, Not Appearance Or Labels

  • 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

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.

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#1976: If by Rudyard Kipling: A Reading And A Call To Greatness

  • poetry
  • free-verse
  • acrostic

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.

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#1975: I Was There On The Balcony, But I Remembered My Soul Too Late

  • personal-essay
  • banking
  • finance
  • narrative
  • reflection
  • first-person
  • occupy

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.

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#1974: Library And Poverty; Or, Protecting Your World From Loss Of Wisdom And Brilliance

  • libraries
  • books
  • learning
  • philosophy

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.”

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#1973: The Quest For Wisdom: You Have A Great Responsibility

  • poetry
  • storytelling
  • personal-essay
  • philosophy
  • war
  • grandma
  • potatoes
  • education
  • life-lessons

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.