This post inspired me to schedule trying out COBOL for today's stream. I'm going to make a game in it, live in 1 hour and 45 minutes.

Respectfully, Theo - t3.gg may be the only one who can give it, but take it too. Never seen before in software dev.

Writing an entire talk in the Claude textarea is terrifying on the scale of MS Word 2003.

Link to the paper by the wonderful, late W. Cook & kind B. Oliveira. Biggest whitepill to OOP paradigm, ignore the haters, ask them: papers please.

The world is your oyster.

You think there is demand for an RTF editor in JS?

My next SSH client ASAP:

Proxies are so cool. We were talking about removing the need to use `createEffect` in 90% cases in Solid, and I was like "I think we can just proxy refs to avoid mounting effects". zulu went ahead and put a quick prototype together. playground.solidjs.com/anonymous/4577…

Hard times when MSFT lets go of east coast anna who worked in their sub-terrain DC.

dax jordwalke Sorry guys but this was peak UI design and I’m not listening to any arguments.

windows nightvale features a new aero flavor

Forever Open Source Even in Netscape 2 beta release cycle, early adopters were building SPAs using document.write and JS-set frame URLs.

Forever Open Source I never liked that name, but Mocha didn’t last long enough to see my so-called after the fact “DOM level 0”. LiveScript is historically accurate.

Was not able to figure out Ethernet in the VM. We ran TCP/IP over COM1 using pppd. We had around 11KB/s, 115K Baud. Not too bad since cookies are 2-4 KB

Forever Open Source My joke home page is still in the Wayback, indeed: x.com/BrendanEich/st…

BrendanEich Before we had transpilers, we had function toString, scope passing via eval-closure. Everyone hates window, but don’t credit closures for true private scope & easy module system. So I wrote one in JS 1.0

solid and react packages for opentui have been published it's very early still but they work! now we can all get started rewriting

Mikeal Rogers 'with' from ex-Borland people whining document.forms[0].elements[3].foo was too long + me caving. Alex Sexton Domenic Denicola Ben Clinkinbeard