I don’t know how to fly a plane, although like any gamer I’ve played with flight simulators, so I speak from a position of profound ignorance. I do know from speaking to people who are pilots that the single most…
Warning: spoilers. Like most of my reviews, this is anything but timely. I just finished Shining Girls, an Apple TV+ show I would never have watched had it not gotten a strong recommendation from my girlfriend. Warning, this may get…
For the last few months I’ve been using a new would-be node.js replacement called bun. (Yes, it’s hard to google because bun is not a unique word.) As of writing, bun has just turned v0.5.0. It’s not ready for production,…
I had an extended chat recently with friend and former colleague on the subject of safely rendering outside HTML with javascript in it on a server (basically for purposes of screen capture) and how to prevent the code in the…
I was a huge fan of the Newton MP2000, which I bought as a replacement for a Newton MP120 I dropped and broke. The MP120 was essentially the MP100 with vastly improved handwriting recognition, but still a bit underpowered. The…
For a long time I’ve had a pretty cute Galaxy Generator (on this site) that randomly generates a galaxy and displays it using bound SVG elements. It’s pretty cool and in modern browsers on modern laptops, maxing out the star…
JavaScript has added a bunch of new stuff over the last several years whose purpose wasn’t immediately obvious to me, and Symbol was definitely one of those things. The basic idea is actually clearly expressed in the first paragraph of…
Custom Elements, a.k.a. web-components, are (in my opinion) the way reusable, composable components ought to work, but the process of implementing them has not received as much love and attention as the many methods of creating reusable, composable components that…
If you can’t beat em, join em? I wrote b8rjs after leaving Facebook during the hiatus between that and my next job. It was an attempt to distill everything I knew about front-end development into a small library, in part…
My latest foray into Web3 is a result of a Udemy course I decided to do on Web3 which centers on Ethereum. Thing is, Ethereum isn’t a good model for storage, so I paused and went looking at how web3…
In a recent episode of his excellent podcast Cautionary Tales, entitled “Frankenstein vs. the Volcano“, Tim Harford looks at the impact of the explosion of Mt. Tambora (which was far more powerful than Krakatoa) on the world in the immediate…