I rarely understand 'this has been done before' as a critique in tech. Most of the time it is only true in a high level conceptual sense, where few things are truly new. Tech is cyclical. But details matter, and even an old idea arriving at a better time can succeed and be good.

'0.1 + 0.2 != 0.3? JavaScript doesn't know simple maths works!' It's obviously not JS's fault, it's how floats work and most languages do the same.

However, did you know that my colleague Jesse is working on a 'decimals' TC39 proposal to fix it?

If you couldn't make it, here's the slide deck I used tonight. Hopefully we'll have the recording soon too; a lot of excellent questions after!

molisani.us/links/queerjs-…

I don't think GOTO is a good comparison, but I've heard it before so I'm going to explain. GOTO has no backlink, so when looking locally at any any label/line if there is a GOTO in your program you have no idea how you got there or what the overall context/procedure is.

Node 22 looks amazing!

* Promise.withResolvers(), Set methods, Array.fromAsync(), and iteration helpers let me delete a lot of utility code.
* node --run is 6x faster than npm run?
* require(esm)
* globs

Wow 🤩

nodejs.org/en/blog/announ…

At QueerJS NYC, this Thursday at 6 PM, hosted by Edward Sharp at Reaktor:
- Alexandria Rohn “The Science of Effective Learning”
- Michael Molisani “Principles of CLI Apps”
- Shay Lewis and Kristen Hewell Garrett “Standard Signals in JavaScript?”

RSVP: queerjs.com/new-york-2024/

JavaScript’s lack of strict separation between “types” — a string can become an array, an array can become an Object, and a number can be “not a number” — gives objects radical freedom to transform and express themselves. you might say javascript *queers* types

So Daniel Ehrenberg said I could add one thing to the JavaScript spec if I showed him around the Spotify offices 🚀😈

Re: Signals: what would be great to have happen next -- and something I'm hoping to start soon™ (for Ember) is seeing what integration into a real framework is like, and testing performance, etc.

If you're a framework author, it would be fabulous to have similar explorations in

At QueerJS NYC, this Thursday at 6 PM, hosted by Edward Sharp at Reaktor:
- Alexandria Rohn “The Science of Effective Learning”
- Michael Molisani “Principles of CLI Apps”
- Shay Lewis and Kristen Hewell Garrett “Standard Signals in JavaScript?”

RSVP: queerjs.com/new-york-2024/

Want to help build out utilities for Signals?
Come join the #signal -utils channel in the TC39 Signals discord!

discord.gg/PwhghRNcNm

New blog post: Things I learned from organizing a hybrid unconference joyeecheung.github.io/blog/2024/04/2… - hopefully it helps other event organizing beginners like me!

Trying to gather a web developer signal - do y'all care about subresource integrity for dynamic imports?

TypeScript excitement 😉

Congrats to Titian Cernicova-Dragomir 💙💛 Tech At Bloomberg on landing --isolatedDeclarations in upstream TypeScript 🎉

It's the start of a journey to faster type-checking at scale 🔥

An epic collab between folk in TS, Bloomberg & Google 👍

github.com/microsoft/Type…

I can't believe how much Joyee is improving node for all of us. Other folks too, thanks to everyone involved! But her last big PRs are incredible. We've been sending DMs with Vova 🏳️‍🌈 💚 as if we're kids in a candy store. 'Did you see the PR she just sent?' 🥹

Woohoo, this just merged! This should make code caching more effective and lowers the barrier to adoption!

My JSON hot take: it's good enough, just leave it alone. The ecosystem is ossified and you can't change it anyway. Focus on JSON's replacement, something that could be implemented on the web platform, that solves more problems than just the lack of comments.

📜 A detailed overview of this month's Node Collab Summit by Joyee Cheung

ECMAScript excitement 😉

Congrats to Jatin Ramanathan Daniel Ehrenberg & Yehuda Katz on advancing the Signals proposal to Stage 1 today TC39 🎉

Thanks to proposal author Rob Eisenberg and the many other framework representatives who have contributed so far 👍

docs.google.com/presentation/d…