Uselessware - A brief history
summary
Positions uselessware as deliberately frivolous projects that teach real skills and provoke surprises: a Shakespeare-text parser that actually prints Hello World, text-align-centaur used on real sites, a boilerplate boilerplate repo that generates readme skeletons, an experimental goto.js that jumps around 292 times in examples, evil.js/css that changes Math and String behavior, thunderhub that auto-adds committers, and a zero-byte microframework claiming zero lines of code and 100% test coverage — each project shows what was built, the tools used, and whether it worked.
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chapters (14)
- 0:00Intro
- 1:18Why uselessware
- 2:08Fun with our code
- 2:50Shakespeare
- 4:37Websites
- 6:02B boilerplate
- 7:23Textaline Centaur
- 8:36Go to JS
- 9:46Evil JS
- 10:55Thunderhub
- 11:34VaporJS
- 12:20Challenge
- 12:50Special announcement
- 13:20Outro
