OMG! Firefox Nightly 🔥 just got time travel debugging. Best birthday present ever! 🎂 🦊 Here are all the deets. Can't wait to hear what you think! gist.github.com/jasonLaster/1e…

WebRender’s origin story in a tweet: Glenn Watson joins Mozilla and says he doesn’t understand why browser painting works like it does, but assumes there must be a good reason for it. One year later or so, he decides there isn’t a good reason.

The only abstractions that really matter are those that give exponential benefits by changing the game. The danger of small-ball abstractions is they obscure the big picture of what your program is doing and prevent the big wins.

Stoked to announce what I've been working on during my first 2 months Wasmer ! 😃🎉 Wasmer-JS, a set of open-source, installable packages for running WASI modules in Node and the browser! 📦 Built with node-wasi, Comlink, wasm-pack, and xterm.js! 💪🏾 medium.com/wasmer/wasmer-…

An image of earth every ten minutes nytimes.com/interactive/20… by Derek Watkins pic.x.com/kAe9rLXilM

@giant_niggler All you really need is text objects, f/t motions, %, ., and ctrl-i/o

@giant_niggler Yes along with i/a I/A o/O but less than you'd expect. I use ctrl-[ and I know others map something like jk for it.

Just found out there's a new Flyweb video posted: dropbox.com/s/hn4hk3mn6ra0… Best idea out of Mozilla in a while.

@giant_niggler Fairly large shift compared to 5 years ago but for internal apps, I strongly agree. What's your current RPC preference?

@giant_niggler The biggest one is that first invocation of lambda starts up an instance. Bad experience from APIGateway, jitter under load.

Video of Jack Moffitt talk about Servo is already published. More to come in the next weeks. Enjoy! 🎥 youtube.com/watch?list=PL4…

@giant_niggler On JS enthusiasm: Sizeable FP enthusiast subset, recent lang improvements (ES6/Flow/TS), and vdom is most FP UI env

If you're interested in compile-to-js langs, check out Fable: lucasmreis.github.io/blog/from-elm-… F# has gotten more attractive for webdev this year

For our 1.0 release, we're proud to announce the availability of the new #InfernoJS website infernojs.org

Best essay on frontend development I've read in months: medium.com/seek-blog/a-un…

The RequestGuard pattern in Rocket is a pattern you should know about. youtube.com/watch?v=QS8mrb…

Specifically, its on-demand nature allows moving more expensive app invariants (e.g. db conn, user lookup) from handler into "middleware"

The Equifax ex-CEO throwing an unnamed technician under the bus for the Equifax breach is positively maddening. Some thoughts:

Microservices, for when your in-process methods have too little latency. x.com/davecheney/sta…

cake.co/conversations/… Cake is a new discussion forum/platform I'm trying to help get off the ground. I've had a number of people tell me I should start blogging and this launch is what kicked me into motion. I do have invites.