Honestly, I'm getting bored of reading tech news lately. It feels like every single headline these days is AI this, AI that. And that's it. Nothing else seems to exist anymore. As if the entire tech industry has been reduced to neural networks.

What do tech publications even write about now? "ChatGPT solved some math problem!" "Anthropic's agent swarm hacked something!" And a hundred variations of the same story.

Where's the actual tech news? You know, the stuff we used to read back in the good old days? Golang 1.27 added generic methods, for example. And apparently nobody gives a shit anymore. A lot of Go developers have wanted this for ages. Generics were introduced in Go 1.18, but they didn't work with methods and now they do. That's a pretty damn cool change! Did you see it covered by tech news sites and bloggers anywhere near as much as the latest AI hype? Of course not.

Or take the webfrontend world. TypeScript 7 has been rewritten in Go, which is a huge deal. It makes TS-JS compilation significantly faster, and that's something that actually affects millions of developers. But somehow that cool story gets buried under yet another article about some NVIDIA chip nobody asked for or another pointless ChatGPT model update.

I miss when tech news was actually about technology, not just whatever AI company did something vaguely interesting this week.

Hi guys. Without further ado, here are my real build time measurements for the TS project.

TypeScript 5

time npm run build

real    0m2,936s
user    0m5,075s
sys     0m0,289s

TypeScript 7

npm run build

real    0m0,520s
user    0m1,940s
sys     0m0,335s

real time comparison: 2.936s vs 0.520s, so TS 7 is 5.64 times faster.
I like the 7th Typescript! 😎

I have to learn Spanish because my job involves communicating with people from Latin America. I'm learning mostly from a textbook, but sometimes I watch YouTube videos where people speak Simple Spanish.

Every textbook says that the pronoun *yo* is pronounced /ʝo/ (I copied from website, something like “yoh”)

But every now and then, I get recommended videos of people having conversations on the streets of Spain. And there, like every other person in Barcelona seems to pronounce the first sound more like a “j.” And none of the textbooks ever mention that....

Also, the textbooks never warn you how ridiculously fast people speak Spanish in real life. I can barely make out half the words.