We're gunna program like it's 1999
summary
Argues the web’s mental model stays recognizably the same since 1999 while tooling and scale evolve: cites PHP and the LAMP stack, claims “over 80% of sites use PHP” and “30% run WordPress,” and traces concrete engineering moves — XHP and JSX for readable components, generators/async to replace brittle prepareable state machines, Flux → Redux → hooks for one‑way dataflow, and GraphQL plus DataLoader to fix n+1 batching — all built at Facebook to scale rich apps to billions and mostly succeed.
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chapters (11)
- 0:00Start
- 12:22Hard to modularize & reuse
- 13:18Build Interfaces with Code!
- 15:35Syntax error, not invalid runtime HTML
- 18:24Server-side app state
- 24:04Fetch & render pattern
- 25:23Preparable state machines
- 26:54Preparables led to bugs
- 27:14Generator Functions
- 30:06Chain of async steps
- 32:03React Suspense
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