Sets are super useful for all sorts of stuff where you want the datatype to guarantee there is only one instance of a value in the collection. UI components where you are incrementally adding things to a selection is a great example.

It’s a completely standard feature in many stdlibs and has nothing to with turning JS into a database.

It may well be different in NL, I’m not going to argue with that. But ‘ontwikkelaar’ is literally a different word in a different language - no surprise that it may have different semantics to the closest word in English!

This is not true at all, except maybe in very specific places (e.g. some jurisdictions do not allow you to call yourself an engineer without a specific qualification).

Software Engineer and Developer are essentially interchangeable terms and largely a matter of taste.

It does seem like things are getting slowly better in the sense that, ten years ago, this post would probably end with them being completely ignored or receiving some kind of legal threat. But it would be much nicer if companies could just stop. leaking. personal. data.

I had no idea how much I needed a game to feature Richard Ayoade until I watched this trailer.

I wonder what happens to other Blue products like the Blue Bottle that don’t target the gaming market. Gone forever? Maybe it was just too painful to ruin their punny names.