Learning to Love JavaScript
summary
Argues that JavaScript’s quirks make sense given the web’s social and historical constraints and that its ubiquity is a feature not a bug, citing 67.8% of respondents from Stack Overflow 2019. Describes concrete engineering work: an Electron-based browser adding peer-to-peer publishing, live-editing deployments on Beaker Browser and Glitch, HTTPS spread via Let’s Encrypt, growing numeric support for math, and grassroots projects — posture-tracking camera apps, Wikipedia games, pet web rings — all built with JS and running in browsers today.
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chapters (41)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:00No QA
- 1:59You should walk away
- 3:00Observability talk
- 3:42About Tara
- 4:15Identity
- 4:39Hobbies
- 5:03Software Engineering
- 6:09Glitch
- 6:37What is Glitch
- 7:33Browser
- 10:24The Web
- 12:16Humanitys Shared Language
- 13:02Open Web
- 13:55Decentralized
- 14:33Web is Shared
- 15:03Expectations
- 16:31Arguments
- 18:11Statistics
- 19:12Problems
- 20:05Constraints
- 20:54A thought experiment
- 22:40The principle of least power
- 23:38Jeff Atwood
- 24:25Why should you unionize
- 24:50The Web is a Mess
- 25:13It Doesnt All Suck
- 25:43Better Math
- 26:44Lets Encrypt
- 28:21SpiderMan
- 28:51Posture
- 29:28Cat Ring
- 29:48Random Pet Website
- 30:06Wikipedia Game
- 30:36The Undertaker
- 31:16Cat Reviews
- 31:28Criticism
- 31:46Get Involved
- 32:24One World One Language
- 33:49PG
- 34:00Female nipples
