These days the EU and its army of bureaucrats are the butt of many jokes about a continent that increasingly shuns innovation in favor of regulation*. While some of this criticism may be deserved, it’s also important to deliver praise where warranted. So, I’m happy to say thank God the EU is around to curb the excesses of American tech giants. Companies like Apple create great products that add value to our lives, but that doesn’t mean we should give them free rein to engage in anti-consumer pr...

Errors in TypeScript aren’t great. If you live and breathe the language, you might not get what I mean, so I’ll explain how errors are handled in TypeScript and compare this to a language I think does it better. In TypeScript much of your code can throw errors, but this is not explicit. Function return values make no reference to possible errors; there is instead an implicit understanding that one might be thrown. So you wrap the concerning code in a try block, and in the catch below you discri...