Parker Davis

Thank you for one year!

Update: the folks who were sailing along the southern coast of Australia birding and using RainCrow last week are now headed to Africa! So cool to see.

introduce yourself with ten bands you've seen live - Bill Frisell - Of Montreal - Sunn O))) - Lightning Bolt - Colin Stetson - Sufjan Stevens - Refused - Horse Lords - Tatsuya Nakatani - Ensemble Signal

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For anyone else who feels conflicted about AI and afraid to talk about it: I wrote this for you. Obviously these are just my opinions, but I hope this helps at least one person. annies-brain.offprint.app/a/3ml6zdf5f5...

this song by @wendyeyes.bsky.social rips: wendyeisenberg.bandcamp.com/track/old-my...

I’d like you to know that 100 times a day, Monday through Friday, I am singing Refused - Bruitist Pome #5 in my head. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UjQ... Why, you ask? Google Calendar notification sound. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_N_0...

📣 NEW! I’ve just released the BIGGEST and perhaps most creative project I’ve ever worked on! “Searching for Birds” searchingforbirds.visualcinnamon.com 🐤 A project, an article, an exploration that dives into the data that connects humans with birds, by looking at how we search for birds.

This video rips www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtQ9...

Temporal is the Date system we always wanted in JavaScript. It's extremely close to being available so Mat Marquis thought it would be a good idea to explain exactly what is better about this new JavaScript date system. piccalil.li/blog/date-is...

you’re right! it feels mostly awful to Go Online™, these days. the internet in a sad state, for reason after reason after reason. but there is a way to fix it; to trade the voidful howling for a quiet & joyful song. here’s how to win the war for the soul of the internet, and build the Web We Want.

Saw a Short-tailed Hawk, Fulvous Whistling-Duck, *and* just now: heard Goose puking under the couch but when we went to clean it up, there was no puke. Good day!

A couple of weeks ago at @perfnow.nl I gave a talk called "Fine-grained everything". It's about @svelte.dev (obviously), and the new frontiers of framework-land, but it's also about some stubborn misconceptions in web performance circles Gift link: conffab.com/presentation...

Do you teach #rstats? Do your students complain about how lame and old-fashioned dplyr is? Don't worry: I have the solution for you: github.com/hadley/genzp.... genzplyr is dplyr, but bussin fr fr no cap.

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In case this somehow missed your feeds a couple months ago, Listers is worth a watch! 🪶 parkerdavis.dev/blog/2025-10...

Malleable software: Restoring user agency in a world of locked-down apps www.inkandswitch.com/essay/mallea...

This is what the web is for. If you ever ask yourself, "why did all those people in the 1990s stop watching TV and start typing things on the open web?" this is why. Utterly niche shit that could only exist in a free, collaborative space without ads. rickiheicklen.com/unparalleled...

@posit.co Maybe I'm missing it, but there ought to be an RSS feed for the posit blog!

Shout out to the Quiet Posters feed. Tends to be where I find the most value on here. bsky.app/profile/did:...

Go ahead and make Gmail easier to read. parkerdavis.dev/blog/2025-02...

I know 2025 is in full swing, but I finally posted a look back at 2024 in my little corner of the world. parkerdavis.dev/blog/2024-ye...

this wren wants to remind you that Deno permission flags have shorthands! deno.com/blog/v1.46#s...

Pleased to have completed Day 6 part 1 of #AdventOfCode. Instead of doing part 2, I figured out how to animate the guard walk in the terminal. fun!

Day 4 of #AdventOfCode was a doozy. Diagonals...nested for loops... phew github.com/parkerdavis1... #typescript #javascript #deno #d3

Successfully wrote some off-the-dome regex today. github.com/parkerdavis1... #AdventOfCode #typescript #javascript #deno #regex

Getting @deno.land dialed in for #AdventOfCode. Learning and appreciating some of the standard library functions, especially in the collections module. My solution: github.com/parkerdavis1...

Post bird art

I just completed "Historian Hysteria" - Day 1 - Advent of Code 2024 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2024/day/1 My solution using #deno github.com/parkerdavis1...

Participating in Advent of Code 🎄? Use Deno and win some exclusive prizes 🎁️ 👀️ deno.com/blog/advent-...

If you see this you have to post a picture from your phone but don't explain it

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New post about birds, music, and cognition. How do birds hear melody? 🪶 parkerdavis.dev/blog/2024-03...

HTMZ, a low power tool for HTML parkerdavis.dev/blog/htmz/

Hi Bluesky, I’m interested in coding, birds, music, and sound. To show you I’m serious, here’s a mallard 🪶