Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
The Good Parts vs all of JavaScript The Top 10 Things Wrong with JavaScript JavaScript has a reputation for being one of the worst programming languages in existence, and for good reasons! JavaScript is easy to learn and easy to use, except when it’s not. There are many “gotchas” that can trip you up. Below,…
I removed the section where I called out the creator of Babel by name. Honestly I overlooked the statement as a personal attack. I apologized to him publicly and hope to talk to him more in the future. — Drew PostCSS People actually use this thing. Can a library actually do shit out of the box anymore?…
Thanks for posting this. I was disappointed to see it disappear, but I can only imagine the kinds of abuse you had to put up with. Collectively, we spend a huge amount of time working with frameworks, or trying to understand code written using a framework we’ve never used. Your post helped me put together…
I’ve been using React.js for about 6 months now. In the grand scheme of things that’s not very long at all, but in the ever-churning world of JavaScript frameworks, that just about qualifies you as a bearded elder! I’ve helped out a few people lately with React starter tips, so I thought it would be…
All, I’ve decided to withdraw the CoC RFC. There are many reasons for it, but there are a few points I want to make. As to the content of the RFC, when I initially proposed it, I selected the Contributor Covenant due to it being a well adopted standard. Several people raised objections to…
Information company’s gauge of online buzz for TV shows expands beyond just Twitter to include the world’s biggest social network Soon, your Facebook friends won’t be the only ones paying attention to the TV show rants in your News Feed. Television ratings giant Nielsen is expanding how it measures social chatter around TV shows to include Facebook, expanding it…
Sam Shadwell and Chris Brown are junior computer science majors at Rice University. Last weekend, they participated in HackRice, a hackathon. Sam and Chris, together with Dan Korn and Cannon Lewis, spent the first day brainstorming, their first evening drunk-brainstorming, and then coded for a total of 20 hours. The end result? TrumpScript, a version…
Photo: Nasa By the end of February, Google will deploy at full scale its Accelerated Mobile Pages project by sending search results to amp-html pages. Because it integrates all monetization instruments —advertising, analytics and now subscription systems— Google’s AMP is likely to rally scores of publishers. Over 5000 developers registered to the Github repository of…
PressForward 3.8 Written by Amanda Regan, January 13th, 2016 Last week the PressForward team released PressForward 3.8. Our latest release includes numerous bug fixes and enhances the functionality of the Nominate This bookmarklet, user permissions, and OPML functionality. Notably, the functionality of the Send to Draft button, located in All Content, has been restored. Also included in our…
Microsoft officially abandoned old versions of Internet Explorer today, and developers are celebrating with memes and baked goods. The decision was likely made to encourage people to switch to Edge, Microsoft’s latest browser, which the company launched in November. Microsoft will continue to support Internet Explorer 11, but will not provide security updates or technical support for users of IE 8, 9…